Basic questions about the artboard in illustrator
frankie (41 points) | Fri, 2006-06-09 14:06How does the artboard work in illustrator? I don't have a printer available to me right now and I'm curious of a couple things.
1.When you go to print, regardless of what may be overlapping on the artboard, will only the regions within the artboard print?
2.Is there any way to set up the artboard so the area around it does not show overlapping objects?
Thanks
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1. In your Illustrator print settings there is an option under 'Setup' to crop the print to the: Artboard, Artwork Bounding Box (basically everything in the file) or a specified 'Crop Area'.
2. I'm not sure, but you can just mask out everything by making a box the size of the artboard and putting it at the top, selecting all and then doing a CMD+7 to crop it.
Wow, I haven't posted here in such a long time. Printing at the labs now though so I figured I would help you out.
thanks, cleared up some questions
I had CS3 and now have CS4 and a new computer. My previous files were tiled for printing/pages purposes and now this whole "converting to Artboards" is screwing it all up.. and if anything eliminates my tiling. Not to mention it prompts me with opening each file asking me to convert my file to Artboards. Whats going on? Is there an off/on button?!
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Have a question to any one out there in the universe. Done a good days work on a job in Ai CS4, saved and closed it - However when I re-opened the file again there was nothing on the artboard or surounds - completely blank! The layers are all there (nothing on them) but when I tried to delete one it gave me a message there's data on this layer - nothing's visible. Is there something I can do to retrieve this work?
It could be hidden. I'm on an older version where the keyboard command is Command-3 to reveal all. Try that. The other thing you can try is wire frame preview - if everything is colored white or none you wouldn't see it. Another possible problem is you deleted a mask, but let a loose node that's screwing things up. As you can see - there are quite a few possibilities (more that I can't think of right off the top of my head too, I'm sure).
So far as that suggestion in the second post about "cropping" (or masking) everything off the artboard... Yes that will work, but keep in mind that your imagesetter (printer) still has to account for everything in the file - so you could be looking at longer print times (and possible choking) by hiding art as opposed to deleting it.