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Chris G
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‎Jun 12, 2024
11:31 AM
Sorry, I thought I did give that information. OS is Sonoma 14.4.1 Illustrator version is 2024 v28.5 Folder location is Macintosh HD/Users/mephisto/Desktop/untitled folder I have the .aia file but I am unable to upload it here. How would you like for me to get it to you? Please let me know if you need anything else. Please let me know if you need anything else.
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‎Jun 12, 2024
11:02 AM
I don't know how best to describe what is going on so I'm just going to go step by step and show the results to try to get some kind of explaination as to why this is happening. For the sake of simplifying this example, I'm using names such as ORIGINAL FILE, ACTION SAVE FILE, and MANUAL SAVE FILE to help differentiate the files. ORIGINAL FILE is created. This file has several different artboards within it and I only need to save one of the artboards to a different location. To help streamline this, I created an Action that would save that artboard # to the designated folder. This worked perfectly fine up until I got a new Mac then the issue started happening. ACTION SAVE FILE is created from action (that previously worked flawlessly on older iMac) and saved to destination folder on local drive. I then need to manipulate the ACTION SAVE FILE to prepare file for the production software. .ai file is saved as PDF. However, since changes were made to the .ai file, I get the "Replace Files" error message. After clicking Replace, a new .tmp file is created in addition to the .ai file. The .tmp file does not go away after closing the .ai file either. Now if I do the same exact thing manually, I do not get a "Replace Files" error message and there is not a .tmp file created. But since I have to do this with thousands of files, I want to use the actions to help streamline my time. The action is super simple and just a Save As command, nothing fancy or complicated about it. Is there anyone that can shed some light on this mystery? Or did I just find a super obscure bug that's only produced by my specific machine? As I mentioned above, I did not have this issue when I used the same exact Action on my previous iMac running the same version of Adobe Illustrator. I am using latest Adobe Illustrator update. Mac I am using is Mac Studio (2022) with Apple M1 Max Chip with 64GB memory. macOS is Sonoma 14.4.1
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‎Jun 11, 2024
08:26 AM
Thank you for the suggestions but none of them worked unfortunately.
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‎Jun 11, 2024
04:27 AM
Sorry, I didn't get an email response letting me know there was a reply to this. "Displays have separate Spaces" is not turned on. I do not use Mission Control at all. Are you suggesting I turn it on to fix the lagging problem?
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‎Jun 03, 2024
01:14 PM
I recently upgraded my work Mac from iMac Pro (2017) to a Mac Studio (2022) and I notice a few quirky differences. Most are minor but this one really interrupts my workflow because of the lag (or delay) it causes. I want to see if anyone knows what is causing it so that I can stop interrupting myself when I work! Ok, so the issue is when I want to edit something within a group. Typically I isolate the selected group so that it's easier to select the items I need to. Well, on the new Mac, Illustrator does this: https://youtu.be/kKAssq74X7E. This is just a sample document to show as I can't show our customer's artwork, but as you can see, even with simple shapes there is a noticeable lag after isolating the group. I am working locally, no network issues should cause this. I have tried switching from GPU to CPU and that does seem to eliminate the problem, but everything else is slow to work with. So that's not a feasible option for me either. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Illustrator as well and no improvement. I don't really know what else to try! I am really leaning towards it being a computer problem rather than Illustrator but theoretically this Mac should be way faster than my old iMac. Just to be thorough, here is the info on both computers: iMac Pro (2017) Processor: 3.2 GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon W Graphics: Radeon Pro Vega 56 8GB Memory: 64GB 2666 MHz DDR4 MacOS Sonoma Version 14.0 Mac Studio (2022) Chip: Apple M1 Max Memory: 64GB MacOS Sonoma Version 14.4.1 Does anyone have any ideas on how to remove this lag (if possible)?
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‎Oct 17, 2022
04:08 AM
I have zero scripting experience unfortunately. I didn't even think that was an option to export by artboard name! I'll look into that and see if I can figure out a way to do that instead. Thanks for the suggestion!
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‎Oct 14, 2022
01:32 PM
Sorry, I forgot to change Production Jacket to Instructions and can't figure out how to edit the original post. Sorry for the confusion!
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‎Oct 14, 2022
01:30 PM
Hello! I am trying to automate a process I am currently working on. The process involves organizing the artboards into a specific order so that I can export the artboards into separate folders on a shared drive. Over the years, many of the illustrator files have been created with the artboards in random order, which is making this process take longer than I feel it needs to be. For example: I want the artboards to be in this order: #1 Proof #2 Artwork #3 Instructions #the remaining pages don't matter. Most of the files were created without the Production Jacket artboard until later, so most of the time it's at #5 or #6 with other various artboards ahead of it. I have a script/actions ready to go that will export pages 1 and 3 to a specific folder on a shared drive with everyone in the company. All of the files are good with pages 1 and 2 as that has remained the same over the years. So I need a way to automatically move artboards named "Instructions" into the page #3 slot so that the script/actions can do their thing and export to folders. Is there a script that can automatically do this for me? I have approximately 12,000 files to organize!
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‎May 26, 2021
05:40 AM
I tried resetting the preferences. It was a big pain in the ass to get the preferences back to the way I like them, but alas, it did not solve the problem.
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‎May 25, 2021
05:13 AM
1 Upvote
I don't know if this is a bug or if there is something on my system that is causing the save as dialog to lose focus. But when I got to save a new file, sometimes (randomly and not consistently) the text in the save as dialog box will not automatically be highlighted. This cuts down on my production time somewhat, especially when I start typing the 10 digit part number into the box but since the text wasn't highlighted it didn't get entered. Is there an easy fix for this or am I just being too nitpicky?
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‎Jan 25, 2021
09:29 AM
I use the Ellipse tool to create 0.25" circles a lot. I get tired of having to change from 1.3889", which seems to be the default value. How can I change that default value to 0.25" within the Ellipse tool so that every time I open a new document the value will default to 0.25"? Thanks!
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‎Apr 18, 2019
04:19 AM
1 Upvote
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Ton+Frederiks wrote I was thinking about an Action. Fit Artboard in Window Create a rectangle of your desired artboard size. Cut it an Paste to get it in the center. Insert Menu Item: Object > Artboards > Fit to Selected Art Clear the rectangle. This will leave you with a resized artboard. Taking your idea of an action, I elaborated on it a good bit. I searched for a script that would automatically create a new artboard to the size I needed. I found this one and edited the size to the size I needed: tell application "Adobe Illustrator" if (count every document) > 0 then set numArtboardsBefore to count every artboard in document 1 set newArtboard to make new artboard in document 1 with properties {artboard rectangle:{0, 1059.84, 680.4, 0}} -- left, top, right, bottom set numArtboardsAfter to count every artboard in document 1 end if end tell Then, I needed to rename the artboard to something specific. In my case, "Job Jacket". So I asked for help with this script and someone kindly came up with this script that would automatically rename the active artboard: // set a new name eg "Job Jacket" for the active artboard in active document var aDoc = app.activeDocument; var abIdx = aDoc.artboards.getActiveArtboardIndex (); aDoc.artboards[abIdx].name = "Job Jacket"; // set the new name here Then, I assigned each script to an action so that I could create keyboard shortcuts for them. Now I can create the desired artboard size and rename it to the name I need with just 2 presses of a button! Hope this helps anyone else that may be searching for something similar.
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‎Apr 18, 2019
04:13 AM
1 Upvote
Stephen_A_Marsh wrote Adding to https://forums.adobe.com/people/pixxxel+schubser great example: If a simple interactive method is required: // https://forums.adobe.com/message/11034337#11034337 // set a new name eg "Job Jacket" for the active artboard in active document via prompt var aDoc = app.activeDocument; var abIdx = aDoc.artboards.getActiveArtboardIndex (); var abName = prompt("Rename Active Artboard" + "\n" + "Enter a new name:", "Job Jacket"); aDoc.artboards[abIdx].name = abName; Prepression: Downloading and Installing Adobe Scripts This is really cool and might come in handy. For this specific task, I wanted to make the process as quick as possible. Thanks for the script though. It might help someone else looking for something similar too!
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‎Apr 18, 2019
04:12 AM
1 Upvote
https://forums.adobe.com/people/pixxxel+schubser wrote Try that // set a new name eg "Job Jacket" for the active artboard in active document var aDoc = app.activeDocument; var abIdx = aDoc.artboards.getActiveArtboardIndex (); aDoc.artboards[abIdx].name = "Job Jacket"; // set the new name here Have fun Thank you so much! This is perfect. Exactly what I needed. Now I can assign this script a keyboard shortcut and my life is sooo much easier now! THANK YOU!
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‎Apr 17, 2019
01:43 PM
I don't know anything about scripting. I wanted to know if it were possible to make a script that will rename the artboard that is currently selected to a different name. For example. I have a document that has 4 artboards on it. All 4 of the artboards already have current names, (Proof, Artwork, etc.). I need to add a new artboard to the existing document. The new artboard has "Artboard 5" as the name. I need to change that to "Job Jacket". However, I need to do this for thousands of files, so I need a streamlined way to do it rather than clicking and typing through the artboards panel. Other notes; some of the existing documents will have less existing artboards, and some will have more artboards. This is why I ask if there is a way to only rename the currently selected artboard. Is this possible?
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‎Apr 17, 2019
04:19 AM
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Ton+Frederiks wrote I was thinking about an Action. Fit Artboard in Window Create a rectangle of your desired artboard size. Cut it an Paste to get it in the center. Insert Menu Item: Object > Artboards > Fit to Selected Art Clear the rectangle. This will leave you with a resized artboard. I don't have a lot of experience with actions. I believe the only time I've used actions is to when I would batch edit photos in Photoshop. I will try this idea out. I'm assuming I can assign a keyboard shortcut to actions? That way after creating that action, theoretically all I would have to do is hit that shortcut key and the artboard gets created right? Thanks for the input!
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‎Apr 16, 2019
12:53 PM
meganchi wrote You could open a blank document, setup your desired artboard size, then save it as a template. Then, each time you open as a template file, you will be able to duplicate the desired artboard size over and over again. Unfortunately this won't work as these are existing files. Each document already has a minimum of 2 artboards already. I've already got a template saved with the new sized artboard for new documents that works great. It's just the process of updating the literal thousands of existing files to have the same standard as the new documents created that is the trouble I'm having. I want to streamline it as much as possible. Thanks for your input!
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‎Apr 16, 2019
11:15 AM
1 Upvote
I have to create a specific size artboard for thousands of files (in the process of updating my company's files). The size is 9.45" x 14.72". Since this isn't a common size for anything (that I know of), I have to manually type it out as a custom size for the new artboard. I would LOVE to be able to create a preset artboard size. That way all I will need to do is click a few times when creating a new artboard. Is there a way to edit the preset sizes currently in Illustrator or to create a new preset size? While on the topic, is there a way to remove the dozens of other preset sizes on the list since I don't use those sizes for anything? I'm using Illustrator CC 2019 on MAC.
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‎Apr 11, 2019
01:02 PM
https://forums.adobe.com/people/John+Mensinger wrote zyrobyte wrote I've tried quitting/restarting, rebooting the system, multiple new documents Have you reset preferences? Yes, this is also a fresh install. As I mentioned, I just switched from CS5 to CC2019. So I'm still getting used to the slight differences. This one was a glaring difference I noticed.
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‎Apr 11, 2019
12:54 PM
1 Upvote
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Barbara+Ash wrote To change the number of an artboard you can drag it in the artboards panel to rearrange it. Note that this will not change the actual physical position of the artboard. I'm not sure that works. I recorded doing what you said but all that does is change the placement of the artboards. The numbers on the left side are what I want to change. They remain out of order. (Missing 5, duplicate of 7).
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‎Apr 11, 2019
12:33 PM
1 Upvote
I've just switched to Illustrator CC 2019 from CS5 on MAC and I think I've found a weird bug. When I add or duplicate an artboard it always skips number 5, has duplicates of number 7 then continues along normally (at least up to number 20 for this experiment). Is there a way to fix this? The attached image is from a new document that I created and just added 20 total artboards. I typically only work with 5 to 6 artboards, so the skipping of number 5 and duplicate of number 7 is very annoying. I've tried quitting/restarting, rebooting the system, multiple new documents, multiple existing documents created with CS5. All have the same result. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated!
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‎Apr 11, 2019
05:32 AM
Thanks! I knew it had to be something stupid simple like that.
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‎Apr 11, 2019
05:14 AM
Screen real estate is valuable to me. I use the transform panel often but never use the area designated in the attached image. I'm recently coming from Illustrator CS5, so I'm still learning my way around CC 2019. Is it possible to remove the space highlighted in red in the image I've attached?
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‎Nov 01, 2018
09:32 AM
Thanks, I'll try switching the default printer to use last printer and see how that goes. I would test it out but it only does this randomly, and I can press print a second time with the same exact settings and it will go to the correct printer. Thanks for taking your time to help me out!
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‎Nov 01, 2018
08:51 AM
Here are my printer settings. It does have the HP set as default. So I guess I need to change that? Also, I can't use presets because every job is unique, except the ones that print to the HP. So whenever I print to the Epson it's a Custom preset each time. I am on a MAC as well.
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‎Nov 01, 2018
07:56 AM
I use Illustrator (CS5) for printing out film separations for the screen printing business I work for. I have 2 printers that I print from multiple times a day. One is an Epson Stylus Pro 9890 (for film positives) and the other is a HP Laserjet printer (normal everyday printing). Sometimes when I have the Epson selected as the printer in the print dialog, it will send the information to the HP instead. It's never the other way around. And it's random. Is there a solution to this?
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