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  1. Allow legacy behavior for "Rearrange Artboards"

    While I'm sure some people welcome Illustrator's new features for rearranging the artboards, I have found it to be finicky and weird. There should be an option that defaults to the center of the work area, like it used to do automatically. This new behavior, of having to select where the artboards go just complicates a once simple process.

    72 votes
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    Starting with Beta 29.8.0.5 the Rearrange dialog got a separate dedicated feature, currently called 'Align Manually'.

    With it disabled, artboards get positioned instantly in the center of the canvas, as it behaved previously.

    When this is enabled, you will enter the positioning mode after pressing OK — to allow rearranging only some artboards, to address this request.

    With more than 1 artboard selected (but not all), the mode gets enabled automatically (and becomes locked).

    At the moment Snap to Grid is not respected in both modes, and no snapping to pixel grid occurs in this new manual mode — but works in the automatic mode.

    Please test the this and comment back!

  2. Rearrange only Selected artboards

    Currently I can only "Rearrange All Artboards".

    But I just selected only some artboards in my document and I want to rearrange only selected items. For example, increase spacing between them.

    44 votes
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    Based on the feedback provided here, starting with Beta 29.8.0.5 this feature is available as an option inside of the Rearrange dialog, currently called 'Align Manually'.

    When this is enabled, you will enter the positioning mode after pressing OK.

    With it disabled, artboards get positioned instantly in the center of the canvas, as it behaved previously.

    With more than 1 artboard selected (but not all), the mode gets enabled automatically (and becomes locked).

    At the moment Snap to Grid is not respected in both modes, and no snapping to pixel grid occurs in this new manual mode.

    Please test the this and comment back!

  3. Make option for new artboards to track their names based on existing artboards

    Create 2 artboards.
    Delete second one.
    Create new artboard—the name will be 'Artboard 3'.

    This is very-very inconvenient most of the times.
    Make it behave as Layers behave both in PS and AI!
    New artboard should check the stack and increment it's name properly.

    37 votes
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  4. Paste on selected Artboards

    The user should be able to paste on selected artboards. Currently we have to paste on all of them or one of them. With the advent of many more artboards, the user has to spend a lot of time pasting on each artboard.

    32 votes
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    The latest Beta Build 29.5.35 now allows to Paste on Selected Artboards.

    1. Copy the artwork from the source artboard.

    2. Open the Artboards panel or select the Artboard tool. Then, select the target artboards.

    3. Go to the Edit menu and select a paste option (Paste in Place, Paste in Front, or Paste in Back) to position the artwork as needed. Alternatively, right-click the selected Artboard to access the paste options directly.

    Shortcuts are also available.

    Try it please and share your feedback!

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