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An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment “Export for Screens” doesn't work as intended. Even if you select the PDFs individually, they may appear to be separate when exported, but if you open them in Illustrator, all the other artboards are there.
It’s really important that exporting to individual PDFs works properly, just as the new feature for exporting to individual .ai artboards does. This is crucial when creating multiple print files at once.
Thank you Egor, I’m very familiar with that checkbox.
When you uncheck “Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities,” it does indeed remove the other artboards, but it also drastically alters the file’s structure. The bleed is incorporated into the artboard dimensions, and several elements end up hidden or grouped in unusual ways, which makes the file much harder to edit later on.
In production, it’s not uncommon for a printer to ask us for adjustments after the file has been sent (color, font, dimensions, etc.). With a file saved this way, these corrections often become tedious and may even require redoing part of the layout rather than simply correcting the affected element.
My goal isn’t for the AI to clean up the files, but rather for this option to work correctly from the start. I find it surprising that Illustrator doesn’t simply allow you to export a single artboard cleanly, without altering the rest of the document, especially since it’s a widely used software for print production.
For this reason, we still prefer to save each artboard separately and manually rather than use this option, which often complicates print files.