In my line of work, we often time work in one single Illustrator file that has one basemap then multiple layers with each showing a specific thing separate from the other layers. However this gets tedious when exporting files where you have to select the layers you want, export as it's own name, deselect those layers and select the next batch of layers, export those under their own name, deselect those layers etc.

What would be great is if Illustrator had the ability to have something like a Master Layer that can bring in a basemap Illustrator file to have in the back of multiple files so I can just export normally with the ability of the Master Layer updating when you make changes to the linked file.

Otherwise, an option to choose what layers to export as what would be great too. Perhaps there's an Add Export Option in a window where you can select which layers to export and what the file format and name should be and a + button next to it to add another export option and when you're done, clicking the Export All button at the bottom

First, the workspace is Too **** small at this point, especially when working in pixels. And someone out there assumes 72dpi still. Stop it!

I'm creating 4K artboards to explore some ideas. I create 2 of them. And it won't let me create a 3rd without rearranging. Who's idea was That!?!?

The first thing you should do is just move the stinkin' workspace. What's with all the room on the left? Look, if you only work left to right, why are you always trying to center the artboards in the workspace? You'll never use the space above or to the left? Come on people, this isn't rocket science. Just figure out how much space you'd like as a buffer (user selected please) and start the first artboard in near the upper left.

And once you start creating artboards, if you just leave things as the default , once you've got your 4 artboards that fit horizontally (because that's as many 4k boards that you can fit in the workspace) then when I create another one, automatically drop it below artboard1. Don't tell me to rearrange. And I'd actually like a buffer all the way around my artboards, because I may have some items that fall off the artboard. So I may only want to allow 3 artboards wide, and drop the next ones.

Artboards aren't Just for pages. Some of us use them so we can see design exploration all in one document. The useability here sucks.

If some software engineer sees this, they shouldn't even be waiting for votes. It's clearly an oversight and it should be fixed. Do the right thing. Just fix it.

Hi guys! I have a feature request. Usually the rule of thumb is if you can hotkey it or select it from a menu then you can build it into an action. There's one exception I've found.

Illustrator will respond to using the Page Up and Page Down keys on your keyboard to navigate your artboards. BUT it ignores these commands if you're recording an action.

We could make some really robust and powerful actions if we could program actions to navigate through the artboards. Please please please add this?

PS it would also be amazing if variables could navigate artboards too. So you could direct it that with each data set it would know to move to the next artboard to deposit the next data set. But... even just having that artboard navigation mentioned above could be rigged to enable this.

It would be a fantastic feature to be able to save different 'layer themes' and be able to toggle between them. A layer theme would control which layers are visible and not visible.

EG: You have a file set up with 20 layers. Theme A has layers 1, 2, 5, 19, 20 visible. Toggle to Theme B it has layers 1, 3, 9, 15, 18 visible. The user can create a new theme from whatever the status of the layer panel is, then can quickly toggle between these different layer visibility settings. The layer themes can have custom names set by the user. This would save time immensely by containing potentially different print or export layouts within the same file. These could be linked to the export window allowing for a single export of the same artboard with different art. HUGE time saving and cuts down on the requirement for multiple files .