![]() ![]() Understanding how to work with artboards is a fundamental skill that all Illustrator users should master. Having multiple artboards in one document allows you to maintain and edit multiple projects and different page sizes together for consistency and ease. Although they all sit on the same canvas, they act individually and they can be printed and exported as distinct items. ai format is the entire document.Illustrator uses artboards, which are similar to pages in InDesign, for layout. I would suggest to Adobe that the default for ALL alternate file format saves and exports that the Default be Artboard not the entire document space. If Adobes solution is, without pop up notification, that unchecking the PDF preference for edit ability then they have created a problem.įor years in previous versions of Illustrator one was presented with the option to save as or Save as a copy a PDF either the entire document space or just the artboard. Once a customer sees they can no longer choose from the Save As or Save a Copy with artboard only check box for a PDF they get the output into the PDF of everything in the document space. Unchecking the PDF preference to save with illustrator edit ability is an option that should not be the only way to create a PDF from the artwork only from the artboard. The point is Illustrator no longer presents the option to use the artboard only for a single artboard. I guess that adding at least one more Artboard in a document (any size) is a workaround that works. The warning is that only Artboard 1 will be saved to PDF and if you want only Artboard 2 to be saved to PDF then 2 (for Artboard 2) must be inputted. Workflow-wise this means every document that you now want to make a PDF save of only 1 artboard has to have 2 Artboards in the document for the Use Artboard option to be available and one has to choose Range and change the value to 1. However the solution is to have at least 2 artboards in a Illustrator file and when Saving As to a PDF (where the Use Artboards is auto checked) Choose Range and delete 1- 2 and put 1 in and Save. ![]() Which means I have to delete one of these images from the PDF file. I have copied my Business Card Artboard by Option dragging the original artboard and now I have 2 images and when I choose Save As PDF I have 2 PDFs in a document of the same image. In essence Adobe has broken creating a PDF of only the art on a single artboard and now I would have to have 2 or more artboards in a document file for extracting only the art to two or more PDF Files. In Photoshop Content Aware is kind of broken too If you have solution on how to save just Artboard Content to PDF (while preserving assets in the original. I am not very happy with Illustrator CC 19 and am considering dropping my subscription to the Creative Cloud because of this and similar issues of changes to workflows in Photoshop CC 19 and will most likely return to using the CS6 versions of Adobe Software since I own them and they are not on a subscription that keeps breaking workflows and waisting time and annually costing ~$720 per year (3 years equals ~ $2,160 which is more than what I paid for my CS6 equivalent to the CC versions). Loss of efficiency and the Crop Tool does not auto snap to the Artboard. ![]() ai file and choose Save As or As a Copy to a PDF Use the CROP tool to only select the content on the ARTBOARD (exclude everything else) and save this to a. Create the Image in the Artboard and have other assets OUTSIDE of the Artboard that I could substitute later and this file gets Saved as a. Choose Save As and choose PDF and click on the box to use ONLY THE ARTBOARD (not all the other stuff).Īfter Illustrator 19 here is my workflow ġ. Create the Image in the Artboard and have other assets OUTSIDE of the Artboard that I could substitute later and I would SAVE the COMPLETE document to a. What I have to do is CROP out everything else in the documents workspace and loose all the assets that where in the documents workspace (they would then be gone and I could not do substitutions etc from the AI (Illustrator file).īefore Illustrator 19 here is my workflow ġ. I work on a Artboard in the documents workspace and I cannot choose to save ONLY the Artboard content to PDF. I would choose Save As and choose PDF and check the box to save ONLY the Artboard image. Previous workspaces in Illustrator had placeholder space for additional stuff and worked like a scrapbook around the Artboard or Artboards I had active for that documents workspace. In previous versions of Illustrator I could work on a project and have an Artboard that had additional content around it and when I choose to Save the Artboard Image ONLY I could check the use Artboard box and the PDF would be created for only the content ON THE ARTBOARD not the additional stuff around the work I wanted to use either for Print or the Web. ![]()
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