Allow customized names for exported artboards
Allow me to customize the name of artboards that are exported or saved as.
OR, change the automatic naming to include the artboard number at the front of the file name so they will be in the same order as they are in the document when sorted alphabetically.
Here is how I would use this feature:
We use Illustrator to create client presentations. Artboards are named according to their content. Often saving/exporting as a PDF from Ai results in a file that's too large to email.
So I export each artboard as a PNG. The naming convention for these files is FileName_ArtboardName.png.
Then I import the PNGs to Acrobat. Then rearrange the pages in Acrobat to the correct order.
My workaround is to rename the artboards before export with the artboard number at the beginning of the artboard name, then the PNGs are in the correct order in Finder, and when imported into Acrobat.
Adding the artboard to the artboard name has to be done manually, which if you have more than a few artboards gets tedious. And if you change the order of the artboards, you have to manually change the number in the artboard names.
I envision it as a preference pane, similar to how Lightroom Classic handles file names for export. Or it could be an option when exporting.
Dina Dembicki
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Dina Dembicki
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Thank you, Egor. I will try it out! You'd think after 15 years of using Ai that I would know this. ;)
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Dina, you can do it today.
In Export for Screens full dialog, in Prefix field, type this:
#AN_FN_
where
#AN — artboard name
FN — file name (notice it has no #, for some odd reason)
and _ are just _ :)With the file name 'test' and two artboards 'Apples' and 'Pears' it would give you files like these:
1_test_Apples.png
2_test_Pears.pngDoes it work for you? Please comment back
