Say you've made an illustration on an A4 sized artboard, but your illustration is a lot smaller and you want to get rid of the excess white paper. That can easily be solved.
In the example below the black stroke is the A4 paper.

1. Draw a rectangle on top of the illustration. This will be your new page size. Make sure the rectangle is selected.




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