Illustrator Artboard Question

Submitted by Flub-Dub on Wed, 2005-11-30 11:11.

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I recently switched from the sinking ship of Freehand to Illustrator.
And I wonder is it possible to add several pages (artboards) into the same document?
If not, how can I make a multiple page PDF directly from Illustrator?

Many thnx

Plugin option

Submitted by Jammo on Wed, 2005-11-30 12:24.

There used to be a way to do it with page tiling , but I use a plugin for multipage illustrator cs documents.

The plugin is only for CS , or there is plugin v1 for earlier versions .. no cs2 yet :)

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thank you

Submitted by Flub-Dub on Wed, 2005-11-30 12:55.

this is helpfull.
but as i see on the link, you still need to use distiller for multipage PDF.
that kinda sucks.
where's that damned request a feature page...

Found it in Illustrator CS2

Submitted by Flub-Dub on Wed, 2005-11-30 13:08.

but anyway, seems complicated

Choose File > Print, and set the media size to the size you want the PDF pages to be.

Select Setup on the left side of the Print dialog box. Set the following options, and click Done:
For Crop Artwork To, select Artboard.
For Tiling, select Tile Full Pages or Tile Imageable Areas.

Set up the artboard so that it is big enough to display all pages, and choose View > Show Page Tiling. (See About page tiling.)

Lay out the artwork for each page within the page tiling boundaries on the artboard.

Save the file in Adobe PDF format.

In the Save Adobe PDF dialog box, select Save Multi-Page PDF From Page Tiles.
Set additional PDF options, and click Save PDF.

ok great :-)

Submitted by Jammo on Wed, 2005-11-30 13:09.

Cheers for the tip, im still on cs so i'll keep to the plugin :)

Thanks for the tip, this is

Submitted by ndesign on Wed, 2005-11-30 18:49.

Thanks for the tip, this is quite useful. But for multipage design, I would suggest to design in InDesign simply because it is easier to manager plus InDesign has the similar tools like Illustrator anyway.

nick
ndesign-studio.com

Crop Area

Submitted by el_reverend on Mon, 2008-05-05 17:53.

While Illustrator CS (and other versions) make it a little difficult there is another way.

Draw a rectangle with the exact dimensions as the art-board and while still selected make the rectangle the crop area (Object>Crop Area>Make).
When exporting it will create the PDF to those dimensions.

A little selector like in the print dialog box would be nice though.