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  1. Allow legacy behavior for "Rearrange Artboards"

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    62 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » Documents and Artboards  ·  Admin →
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    Completed (Comments Open)  ·  AdminKoustav Saha (Product Manager, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    Starting with Beta 29.7.1 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).


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    Tiago Marti Porto commented  · 

    I just installed the beta version and can confirm that the previous behavior is back and working fine, aligning correctly the artboards to the pixel grid. The toggle to manually align makes it work like the new (and faulty) behavior, that tends to make illustrator crash.

    I personally have adjusted to the new behavior and found a simple solution to make it pixel perfect again, for that, you have to activate the rulers and drag from the top left corner to make the top left corner of the first artboard "0,0" values, that makes all the other artboards pixel perfect too. Selecting only a few artboards before rearranging lets me align only those, and that is very useful, but it is imperative to have it align with the pixel grid, because if you align only some of the artboards that solution becomes useless, the new ones dont align to the grid, and making that "hack" makes pixel perfect the last ones but breaks the others. It baffles me that pixel perfect aligning is not the default behavior.

    I like having these 2 options, sometimes the old behavior doesn't let me make a certain layout of artboards saying there's not enough space even when there's plenty, with this new behavior that is gone, however, the lack of pixel perfect aligning and the tendency to crash Illustrator makes the new behavior not as reliable as the old one.

    I find the new addition of the "+" buttons to generate new artboards (similar to photoshop's behavior) really useful!

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    Tiago Marti Porto commented  · 

    I'm going to take fragments of comments of other users who communicated the problem with this feature much more clearly than I could have ever said it: The artboards don't snap to pixel, leaving artboards with decimal values in X and Y. The easiest way to align artboards to the pixelgrid (to avoid additional pixels on image export) was to use rearrange artboards, it automatically aligned them. I don't mind the extra steps because of the added function to only rearange selected artboards, a function that COULD be useful, but not at this point, precisely beacuse of the fractional pixel values problem. I see why this option is here and it could potentially be very useful, but it either needs MUCH more granular control (snap to pixel, etc.), OR an option to use the original behavior.

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