New artboard adjustable spacing
When the New Artboard button in Control panel is clicked, an artboard is created next to the current one. The spacing between these is not tweakable (unless you choose to create more than 1 artboard, to get the field with the spacing active, tweak it, and then change the number to 1 again).
I work in metric units, on 10×10 millimeters grid. The space between artboards’ edges is 7.056mm. Yeah, I know, it’s 20 points, sure, but why should I care about points when units are millimeters? Why can’t I use a value that makes sense to me?
Furthermore, it is dangerously close to 7 and looks like an integer until you check it.
Please, allow to set a spacing manually in Artboard Options or elsewhere — and KEEP the value, per document, per document profile, per workspace, per settings set, any reliable way. You have a lot of work to do with default values...
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
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김수현 commented
The ability to change the spacing of the artboard when you add it (setting).
The gap is too narrow when adding a site to an existing document, not when creating a new document.
I want to add an art board with a wide gap from the beginning.
I'm lazy to keep organizing artboards. -
Oh, Lewis, I see. Having a fix is good, but a value in UI is better, don’t you think? :)
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Lewis Tsalis
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A workaround until Adobe give us an easier way to adjust artboard gaps.
Open the "Adobe Illustrator Prefs" file in a text editing app. The AI prefs doc is located here on a Mac:
Users > yourname > Library > Preferences > Adobe Illustrator 25 Settings > en_USSearch for the following string:
/isArtboardLayoutLeftToRight 1
/artboardLayout 0
/artboardRowsOrCols 1
/artboardSpacing 20.0
/numArtboards 1Replace the 20.0 on the artboardSpacing line with your preferred value. Unit is in px. If you work in another unit of measurement, convert to px first. Save as a plain text doc. And of course, make a copy of the original prefs before you make your edits. Good luck.
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カワココ
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アートボードを追加/複製する際、自動的に現在のアートボードに右側に同じ大きさのアートボードが追加/複製されますが、コントロールできないのが不便です。
Photoshopと同じように上下左右好きな位置に追加/複製できるように機能の追加をお願いします。
さらにたとえば＋optionキーなどで座標とサイズ指定で追加できるとより良いです。 -
Lewis Tsalis
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When I duplicate an artboard with artwork extending the bounds of the artboard, the duplicated artboard with its artwork overlaps the original artboard. Currently new artboards are offset 20 pixels. Can we have that 20 pixels increased, or better yet, when we create or duplicate an artboard, can AI go into artboard editing mode so we can move the artboards around without it moving the artwork from the original artboard. Clip demonstrates the problem.