Changing the screen quality of documents

You can change the way a document appears on screen by altering the screen quality setting. You can also change the dithering pattern. For more details, see Changing the screen dithering.

The Set View Quality slider.

Outline. On this setting, no solid colors shown - only outlines even for bitmaps and objects with no outline color). If the Quality slider is moved to a fraction above outline bitmaps are shown in full.

Simple. On this setting, graduated fills are shown in flat color, anti-aliasing is not used and lines are all shown one pixel wide.

Normal. On this setting all detail is shown, but anti-aliasing is not used.

Anti-aliased. On this quality setting all edges are anti-aliased to reduce on-screen jaggies and graduated fills are shown with 256 steps.

To change the quality setting

1. Drag the Set View Quality slider on the control bars.

Tips

You can also change the Quality setting using the Quality submenu on the Window menu or by right-clicking on the document page to open the pop-up menu.

If you want to edit in outlines but see still bitmaps, drag the quality slider so it is a tiny amount to the right of the outline setting.

The Quality setting defines how bitmaps are exported as well as how they appear on the screen. See Creating bitmaps.

You can control the anti-aliasing of the steps in blends individually, see Anti-aliasing steps in blends.