Allow to change color & width of border / edges for artboards (all and active)
Sometimes when I am using black colour I cant see properly my artboard size so I have work with the guides instead of using the change artboard colour option so it gets annoying. If there were an artboard frame colour option it would be easier to compare my design w.r.t. the artboard
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Mayur Ravidas Naik
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The team decided to revert the current look of the active artboard border (2 px black) to the way it used to look previously (1 px black) — many found it to be distracting.
This change will affect General, Beta, and Prerelease builds. No update is required, this flag will be toggled automatically, presumably in few hours.
The change is not final, and the team is considering making it better.
Watch this place for updates on the development.
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Ryan
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Please make this happen. Working with black art is miserable. You cant see the art board boundaries. I'm constantly making the art opacity 50-75 to ensure its correct and then putting back to 100%. Note: the bleed line is red and easily visible. Do that with the art board line. Please.
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Ryan
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Please make this happen. Working with black art is miserable. You cant see the art board boundaries. I'm constantly making the art opacity 50-75 to ensure its correct and then putting back to 100%. Note: the bleed line is red and easily visible. Do that with the art board line. Please.
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Cem Sayar
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It's important when you have a black background you dont see if you typed over the board. I could see it here as my arrow was yellow. Positioning of the textbox keeping it away from the end of paper surprise.
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Artturi Mäntysaari commented
This so much. I just printed 3 meters wide logo wall and have to print it probably again. The main reason was because I failed to see the borders of the artboard in Illustrator because of the black background that hides the artboard borders.
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Anonymous
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Yes, we need this. How about smart artboard frames, that change colour to contrast with large objects on the artboard?
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Chris Patterson
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Simple. Set the selected artboard stroke to difference mode and allow it to always be on top. That way it will show up when a different color background is used (like black). Or better yet, allow us to assign an artboard edge color (per document).
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Niko commented
Selected artboard border indication border color & width
When managing multiple artboards 20+
Its hard to know wich one is selected.
I use this for copy / paste elements when working on google banners or ad sets. -
This should be re-addrressed, I agree. Slight darkening of the artboard's edge is not enough to notice.
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Philippe Bard
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When we work on multiple artboards, it will be good to recognize the artboard who is used when I select a object or I click on a artboard and to active it.
So when I select all elements in my document, with the keyboard shorcut, all of the objects of my active artboard will be selected. Or if I select an object every where, the artboard containing this object will be activated automatically.
often, i select all objects on my first arboard but he's not active and when I paste in place in an other artboard of an other document, he's not placed at the good place !!! I must double click on the artboard to be sure that he's active. -
Anonymous
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Please figure out a way to better display the artboard boundary when the current artboard has black art. Instead of making the current art board border black, make it invert whatever the colors of the art are.
