How can I get illustrator to automatically clip the artboard to the vectorized objects size?

Question

I just exported a shape from photoshop as a path and then filled it in illustrator. I now want to save the shape as an svg, or eps but I don't want to save all the excess whitespace around the object. I want it to be cropped to the dimensions of the object and not the artboard. How can I do this in Adobe Illustrator cs6?

Answer 1

Hi, Go to "Document setup" on the top right then a window will appear click on "artboards" then go to the top left and click on the drop down menu it will probably say "custom" then click "fit to artwork bounds"