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Illustrator logo has extra empty space around it. How can I remove?

I was given a logo in the form of an Adobe Illustrator (.ai) file. I have Illustrator CS5 and I can open the file but the logo itself is centered and has a bunch of empty space around all sides. When I save for web as jpeg or png the space is preserved there as well. I don't know Illustrator very well but I would like to know how to remove the extra spacing. I hope this makes sense to an Illustrator guru.

Thank you!

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Colleen Kayter

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greddin

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Thank you for the help Colleen. When I use the selection tool and drag a marquee around my logo it puts the thin blue border around the entire edges of the artboard. Option 2 doesn't shrink it down either. I'm not sure how the created my logo, but it's like a written signature of my name. Thanks again.

greddin

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I don't know if this has anything to do with my issue but when I open the Illustrator file given to me, I always get a warning saying the file was generated by a newer version of Illustrator and that some data loss may occur. It opens the file and I can do stuff with it but just wanted to mention it.

Thanks.

Colleen Kayter

You say this is a signature? Is it a scanned jpg of your signature, embedded in illustrator? If so, you might select and export it as a jpg, then crop it using Paint or a photo editor. I know older versions of AI didn't have a raster image cropping tool.