I love using Export for Screens because it can speed things up in a lot of ways. I really dislike that I have to manually enter the file name if I want my files to have nice, descriptive names.

Because this is missing I'm saving with a Export As.

Add a checkbox to allow the current file name to be used as the prefix in the export for screens dialogue, similar to the functionality in InDesign.

Currently you need to manually copy/paste the filename into the prefix box.

Also if the prefix box could be made larger that would be great - it only has room for approx. 10 characters at the moment, and naming conventions mean that our filenames are often much longer than that.

Cheers!

Double yes for this, many times have I pasted in a prefix on a previous job with the filename and forgot to change it on a different project so the output files have the wron prefix on checkbox for current filename would be amazing!

It should indeed be possible to exporting artboards without the filename prefix.

So, I am using Illustrator 25.0 on a Mac 10.15.7 and when I want to export artboards through export for screen menu, the output file only contains the artboard name. The file name is missing (as prefix).

The process is:
1. I create a document.
2. Draw a rectangle (or anything) in artboard named 'rectangle'.
3. Save it anywhere as 'test.ai'
4. Export the artboard using export for screen as a JPG, with default settings — Ai won't show any file name.
5. The exported file is named rectangle.jpg instead of test-rectangle.jpg

In older versions the exported artboard used to have automatically the file name. Any solution or help?

Thanks!

I agree! As well as displaying the exported file size like the traditional save for web feature.

Oh, yes, yes, yes. While ordinary 'Export' keeps filename, E-f-S doesn't and I have to manually secopy-paste it or change afterwards with extermnal tool for all files.

When using Export for Screens, I want to insert the variable to append AI file name, so I do not have manually type file name for each canvas exported when creating icons or illustrations

Yes, I'd want to retain the prefix field but with the additional option to prefix with the filename.

But really it would be more useful to overhaul it entirely and have a single field which accepted tokens for the various elements to be included in the output filename. This would also allow for underscores, dashes, spaces or some other preferred delimiter.

Just came here today about to add this and nice to see it here.

Could I clarify, the prefix field should still be available to use and would prefix the filename should that option be checked. Also, to remain consistent with the regular File > Export naming convention output, the use of underscores between [filename]_[artboard name]. [ext] would be preferred.

Thanks!

YES. Especially when processing 250 illustrator files with different file names that need to remain in the exported file names. Having to copy/paste the file name into the prefix box is highly time consuming and invites errors (which is bad when you're exporting files for web that need to have exactly the same file name in order to simply replace the files without having to edit your code).

Please please please add this feature!