jessejump - 5:14 pm on Jul 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

This was taken from Google groups;

By default, Save for Web uses the "bounding box" of the document, which for text includes the maximum ascender and descender heights of the font. (Select it with the black area tool and View>Show Bounding Box turned on, and the rectangle you see is what gets saved by default.)

There are several things you can do to modify this. One is to outline your text. (Text>Create Outlines).

A more general way which will be good to know about for other purposes is to change the Crop Area. Draw a rectangle of your desired dimensions for the graphic, select it, and use the Object>Crop Area>Make command. The Crop Area rectangle sets the area to be exported by Save for Web, Save as EPS, etc. This is useful for when you want to export an area that is either larger or smaller than the bounding box of all the art in the document.