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An error occurred while saving the comment Hmm... All sizes showed under Print Document Profile have to have the same Color Mode, as these are based on the same file.
But we can create our own Document Profiles to allow this. Each one is just a file in folder Ai references when it creates a new document.
On Mac these live here: MacOS <user>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator <version>/<locale>/New Document Profiles/
Create a copy of one, open it, make changes you need (including adding presets you need). Sadly, it won’t show up in the top row if you are using the modern File New UI — that’s one of the main reasons I don’t like it — but it should be there in legacy File New or in More Settings dialog (basically the legacy File New). -
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Beta 29.8.0.43 now supports snapping when rearranging selected artboards: Smart Guides, Snap to Grid, Snap to Pixel.
Please try to update and test it.
An error occurred while saving the comment Snapping is here!
Needs thorough testing.
Notice, especially when using Snap to Pixel, that if your artboards sizes are not integer, this rearrangement would snap only the first one to the grid, while others would respect the chosen gap. Feels honest, but perhaps some would expect each one to be placed on a grid, to avoid extra pixel added when the size gets rounded (please take a look at this old bug report: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/30992416)We do have 'Align selected art to pixel grid button', and it works for artboards, but it also changes the sizes of them, making them fully snap.
What do you all think about it?An error occurred while saving the comment Viviane, in Creative Cloud desktop application navigate to Apps, pick Beta category at the top, find 'Illustrator (Beta)' and install it. Be warned — .ai files would start to open with it, as the latest one installed. It should not alter any other settings of the main build.
An error occurred while saving the comment I love the statement, a workaround is not the same a function...
This report is similar to that request:
"Align Artboards to nearest pixel" or "Rearrange selected artboards" to avoid extra pixel on export.
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/44429721...but not enough to be merged, I think.
An error occurred while saving the comment It won’t be needed if the main problem gets fixed:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/37694659
Please vote there.However, I like the feature as a separate thing.
There are several script solutions to pin objects and their points to the grid, but nothing specifically for artboards. Voted!AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks for the feedback. I’m closing it then for now.
Please leave another comment if anything changes.An error occurred while saving the comment Can’t replicate it with 29.6.1 on Windows 10...
The progress bar indeed says it processes each artboard, but in the end I get the only file with chosen artboard as pages in it.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I can reproduce this problem in Beta.
White objects become invisible with the simulated color paper with CPU Preview.
Please share some specs about you OS and hardware, as well as the details about GPU going disable — when it happens, how often, etc., so the team can try to look into it.An error occurred while saving the comment This makes sense... the team has made some changes recently, and these are for the good (I hope) — we can now assign background colors to artboards (in Beta for now), so in most cases we won’t need to simulate color paper (since it has a totally different purpose — partially explaining why whites become invisible...) — here’s the request you can watch and leave comments within: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31386253
Perhaps some prep work already got pushed into 29.7... however, I should inform the team.
Thanks!An error occurred while saving the comment Please share some screenshots.
Do you mean you start seeing transparency grid instead of white?
Does this effect stay when you toggle CPU Preview?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Praneet, there is a faster method — using Recolor. Take a look at the GIF attached.
You don’t have to create solid swatches first, you can tweak one in the dialog.
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1. Draw a stroke with the brush and select it.
2. Change the opacity of it as you want it to be
3. Open Appearance panel
4. In the panel’s flyout menu, disable New Art Has Basic Appearance option — this would make each new object created to inherit all the appearance settings (including the opacity set).
An error occurred while saving the comment Actually, after reading this once again, I think there is a way to do exactly what you need.
1. Draw a stroke with the brush and select it.
2. Change the opacity of it as you want it to be
3. Open Appearance panel
4. In the panel’s flyout menu, disable New Art Has Basic Appearance option — this would make each new object created to inherit all the appearance settings (including the opacity you set, which is considered to be a part of 'complex appearance').The recipe is 6 years late, I know :) but perhaps it can still serve you.
An error occurred while saving the comment To affect an opacity of a layer, you should open Layers panel and target the layer by clicking a small round marker next to its name. Then set the opacity you want in Transparency panel — it will be applied to the layer itself.
That is not very intuitive at first, but becomes very clear after you get it.
But still there is a room to improvement.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Rurik, did you mean 'artboards' when you request it, or 'layers'?
I can imagine how numbering of artboards works, but not layers — please share more about this.An error occurred while saving the comment I have a working although a bit tedious way to number an existing set of artboards. They won’t update themselves, as one can expect from auto-numbers, but it’s simple enough to repeat, if all numbers have the same appearance.
1. Create a '1' text and place it in a position you want your numbers to occupy on the first artboard.
2. Group it and isolate the selection. Now you have your text in isolation mode and nothing else would be selected in next steps.
3. Select All and Ungroup it. Now that temporary group used to be able to isolate a text object is gone.
4. Cut the text
5. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V (Windows) or Edit > Paste on All Artboards. Now we have 1-s at every artboard.
6. Select all
7. Run the attached script (rename it from .txt to .jsx). It takes the first text object in the selection and increment the next one by 1 for the whole range.
Now you have all your artboards numbered. You can now group the objects to easily access them later.
It can be automated with an action. A workaround, but a working one!
Please comment back if it works for you.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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The issue no longer happens in the latest Beta build
An error occurred while saving the comment OK, another question then... does this happen with CPU Preview?
And again, if you have 29.6.1 installed — does it happen there?An error occurred while saving the comment Chris, what about other methods to zoom in? Opt+wheel? Just the wheel, when 'Zoom with Mouse Wheel' option is enabled in Preferences > General? The actual separate Zoom tool, picked from the toolbar (Z)?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Not good. For some reason the canvas doesn’t get updated in the Preview mode it seems.
I have several questions!
1. Does it work in CPU Preview mode?
2. Would you tell this happens with clip groups only?
3. Can you reproduce it from scratch in a new file?
4. Can you share this file, or the copy of it with enough stuff removed to still get it reproducible? -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Karen, that is exactly why there is no eyedropper icon anymore — because that was not the eyedropper :)
The manual (https://helpx.adobe.com/ru/illustrator/how-to/recolor-artwork.html) states:
'Experiment fearlessly — you can always get back to where you started by clicking the eyedropper icon.'So it’s been Reset all the time, but with the confusing icon.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I see what’s going on here.
I tested the ES one with a document with a single artboard (it still is affected).
I commented out the line 27 (app.executeMenuCommand("pasteFront");), to handle pasting myself — when Paste in Front was used, I got copies at both artboards.
And then it clicked me... I picked Artboard tool and I see both artboards selected. Even though the second artboard is now active, the script never told Ai to deselect the first one — and Ai now allows Paste operations at all selected artboards, following this request: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32146360
But AFAIK there is no method in scripting to select or deselect artboards, it was never a thing we needed to care about...
So this IS a problem!I’ll try to find out what is the state of things.
Thanks for the report and the patience.An error occurred while saving the comment Yes, sure, please.
UserVoice won’t allow them to get attached as .js or .jsx due to the security reasons, but try renaming these into .txt or something else.An error occurred while saving the comment Nope, can’t make this happen with 29.6.1.
I start with two artboards in a new document, add some shapes to each one.
I select objects within the Artboard 1 (both manually, with a marquee, or Select > All on Active Artboard command), and Copy them.
I pick Artboard tool and create a new artboard, with the same size as the Artboard 1. It gets the name 'Artboard 3' — because I already have 2 of them.
I make sure it’s active and Paste in Front — it works and the copied objects land in the same relative position, above all other objects in the current Layer 1.How does it look for you?
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An error occurred while saving the comment When I need to add colors used on canvas as global swatches, I select the artwork, press New Swatch Group button at the bottom of the Swatches panel, and tick 'Convert Process to Global' option.
The name is confusing a bit, since it can be read as if the process colors were opposed to global ones... while these are not spot colors.
The method works, and the only downside is that it would add duplicates for already existed global colors — and these are immune to be found automatically with what Ai offers form the box.The question though 'who needs non-global colors at all' is an interesting one :)
Again, I’m personally strictly against killing non-global as a thing. I’m pro to having an option to have global swatches as a default choice... but not enabled by default.To answer — I don’t like having all the used colors in my panel. I want to keep only those colors there I care about and need to control.
I often use random colors on canvas I don’t care about. If I later choose to care about one, it becomes tricky, because Select Same commands are useless for both Fill and Stroke and can’t handle complex appearances.
The Recolor dialog doesn’t allow to convert a found color into a global swatch (there is a request about it — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/40961173), it can’t actually change global colors (http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/43795632), and Find/Replace Color (InD style) doesn’t exist (http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46591144). So many problems...
So I use different ways to solve it when it comes, including Magic Wand and scripts (specifically this one — https://github.com/creold/illustrator-scripts/blob/master/md/Select.md#selectbyswatches)Hmm, it’s still not an answer, right? :)
I don’t have another though!AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment I still don’t get how do you create swatches.
If you drag (you say you drag) colored objects into Swatches, a pattern swatch is created... not swatches.And no, making global swatches by default is not what is to be a universally desired method :) I agree there should be an option to toggle this, but please don’t think that everyone wants to create global swatches by default. I personally prefer globals, that’s true :)
The idea about a 'global switch for globals' is a good idea! Perhaps a script can be made to do that until the team makes one...
An error occurred while saving the comment If you press Ctrl+Alt+Shift new while clicking the New Swatch button in the Swatches panel, Ai will create the swatch as a global swatch, with no dialogue asked. Also, if you just click the New button, the 'global' option is set by default — if you set it before, it’s sticky.
Ctrl+Alt will create a spot with no dialogue, and Alt does the same for a regular swatch.
A hotkey, however, if you assign one, calls a dialogue, there is no way to silently create a global swatch with one hotkey only, you have to hit Enter immediately after.How do you create a swatch?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Lennert, I’m a bit confused.
Expand Appearance would have worked only if you applied Round Corners as a live effect, via Effect > Stylize > Round Corners (or through the 'fx' button in Appearance).
But the image shows you apply rounded corners as a parametric transformation to the live shape, which is your star — either from the Transform panel, Control or Properties — all three provide these controls.But your guess is correct nonetheless.
In 2024 Ai converted the star into a full-fledged Live Shape you can customize after the creation — and this is why Ai tries to keep the radii you provided, even with the object gets sheared.
To force it stop doing this (since you want these to be sheared), you need to tell Ai you want this star to be treated as a path.
There are two fast ways to do it:
1. Object > Shape > Expand Shape would force Ai to drop the additional info it keep about the star, making it a mere path
2. Pathfinder > Unite would do the same, outlining the the only object you have selected with the path, ripping the live state off
After this you should be able to shear it as before Live Shape Star happened (it was requested here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32360224).The same behavior happens with live Polygon — but not rectangles! these do get immediately expanded when sheared, just like ellipses.
In fact, sheared Stars and Polygons are weird — we can change the radii, but not the side count, it immediately rebuild the shape without the shear angle applied! This should be its own bug report.
So I can’t treat my own answer as a full solution :)
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An error occurred while saving the comment Ben, there is one (almost), even though it might be even more confusing to teach.
It’s the Object > Flatten Transparency dialog.
Drag the slider to Vector 100, to avoid rasterization as much as possible (make sense for raster-based effects).
Check Convert All Text to Outlines (if you wish to).
Check Convert All Strokes Outlines (this should work as Expand).
Your patterns won’t be flattened — this would require Expand > Fill, and then using Pathfinder Crop (for each object) and Merge (if you want to fuse objects of single color)...But.
When I teach, I tell people about contacting the printing shop in the very first place, asking them for a specific preset they use, and following the guidelines provided when exporting a PDF :)
There’s usually no need to MANUALLY do these things with Outline, Expand, Expand Appearance(unless you are know what you are doing) — using a PDF preset handles it.
Outlining fonts... this is controversial. Adobe sees outlining as a VERY obsolete practice... I remember this discussion specifically — https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/subset-fonts/m-p/9361431 — but Dov Isaacs was saying the same things all over the Web (along with 'Ai is not a general PDF editor'). It’s been a long time since then. Today, if a printing shop needs outlines (killing hinting and making the process slower), they can most surely do it themselves, better than any student (unless the staff is unqualified).If you still need a silver bullet... I’d advise using actions. There are custom tailored scripts I remember of. This would certainly require understanding how Outline, Expand-s, and Expand Appearance work.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I see some logic behind both variants. Someone could 'sculpt' the text with invisible paths... at the same time, no-fill-no-stroke works just as fine :)
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An error occurred while saving the comment Picassa, do you mean Ai on iPad (since you said 'on tablet') or the desktop app?
If you try to use Save As instead of Save, and pick a different folder and/or name — does it help?
If not — does it help to copy and paste the artwork in a new document and then save? (you can try to tick 'Paste Remembers Layers' option in the Layers panel’s flyout menu to keep the structure, if it’s spanned more than on one top layer).
Please comment back.
Does it work better with the previous build for you, like 29.5.1, or Beta (you can install it from CCD)?