Using a character other than underscore for appending artboard names when exporting files.
Right now when exporting artboards from an .ai file, illustrator names the file with the original filename and the artboard name, separated by an underscore. I would prefer a dash, as the underscore isn't recognized as a non-word character when double-clicking to select text. Giving the user the able to select the prefix character would solve this problem.
Troy Lissoway
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Greg Schoenbaechler
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Completely agree! It's strange because if you don't name the artboard and export it it'll export it as File-01.jpg, but if you name the artboard then it'll be exported as File_artboard-name.jpg. I would understand if it used underscores in both cases, but it doesn't. It makes no sense that exporting it in the exact same way winds up with different characters following the name of the file. I want to see it changed to where you can choose the character you can use, or at least change it to where it's a hyphen/dash in both cases.
As mentioned above, the underscore isn't recognized as a non-word character. In my case, I want it changed because hyphens separate the words when a web crawler scans a site and it's good for the SEO for crawlers to recognize that. Web crawlers can't read underscores.