Ok appreciate all replies. But ultimately am no further forward....... will ask client to supply the assets within the .ai file separately to us before they were uploaded into Illustrator...... Struggle to believe there is no way to export all layers to file path on local machine other than creating/running a script. ... View more

Ok, noted. Why is "Export selection" not showing on right click of layer? ... View more

Appreciate the reply, I don't want a script, I just want a quick way to save all of the layers. Why is the "Use artboards" option greyed out? ... View more

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Perhaps the question should have been "How do you save all layers on local computer from a .ai file" ? ... View more

Using Adobe Creative Cloud, and are on latest version of Illustrator. 23.0.1 (64-bit) My main goal is to extract all of the individual layers and save to my machine at speed. I have been given the .ai file by client and don't have the individual assets/layers/files on my machine. That's all I want to do. Quick Google suggests the "use artboards" checkbox is quickest way to get them all? ... View more

Yes, basically we want to save all of the assets/layers within a .ai file to my computer, ideally as .png files but not fussed on format. Can you outline step by step how we do that please? I also don't have the option "export selection" showing either, which I understand is an option to do 1 by 1 for saving layers? ... View more