Improved Artboard management
For a long time I have been creating presentations in Adobe InDesign, however I have recently moved to creating presentations in Illustrator because of the greater flexibility with page layout.
In Illustrator you’re able to create a presentation for example 5x5 1920x1080, zoom out and see all the artboards. This is really good to zoom out and see everything at a glance.
The issues comes when you want to add and manage artboards. If I select the second artboard and add an artboard, it places it at the end of the presentation or the current row, in order to set this straight I have to manually go to rearrange and click this.
During the process of a precession I will be adding and removing pages constantly and frequently. The process of having to constantly manually add one by clicking a button and then having to rearrange them is quiet time consuming overall.
So the request is this:
1 - If I select a page in my document, can you add a shortcut to quickly ‘add a new artboard’.
2 - When that artboard is added, can it be added directly in it’s intended place where requested so you do not have to go to rearrange artboards each time.
3 - Alternatively can there be a shortcut for ‘Rearrange artboards’ to save time.
Thank you
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1 and 3 — yes. We all need to be able to assign a hotkey to any command in Illustrator.
2 — it’s not that easy.
Artboards in Illustrator are more than pages. While some use them as pages and expect the same functionality InDesign has, they are also viewports, a way to isolate parts of the artwork. It is used widely by cartographers, in advertisement, in explorations...
Take a look at the image. Where should Ai add an artboard, if I have the third one active? They all have different sizes, locations, they are placed inside one another... No Sensei could guess where to put one, there is not way to rearrange these even, because they share same artwork (not shown).However, this is a problem we have. When artboards are used as pages, a way to insert one between existing, or swap two, or even move several artboards is complicated, and the team should provide methods to solve these, from the box.
Let’s discuss it here.
