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Artboard Has Same Number As Previous

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
October 31, 2017
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In duplicating artboards in Illustrator in Windows 10. Select Alt and drag to create a new artboard NO problem. My artboards go from 25, 27, 27, 28. I cannot get a 26. I have created a new artboard at the end and even tried to move it between 25 and 27 to create a 26 and Illustrator will not do it. I still get two 27 artboards. SO the secondary 27 will not export. I have to create one at the end and rename it. I've done this for years, WHAT is going on??? It's a glitch and how do I fix it?

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Josh @ AGX

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Been having this issue for years. The screenshot attached are examples all from a single file I am working in right now. Close and reopen the file and the duplicates stay there, but if my coworker does the same on his computer they don't show. Makes no sense. If I try to export it ignores the second artboard of the same number and that art doesn't get exported.

Srishti_Bali

Legend

Hi there,

Sorry about this experience. We got a few reports for this issue last year, but it was resolved in later updates. Could you please confirm which OS and version of Illustrator is this?

Does resetting Illustrator Preferences (https://helpx.adobe.com/in/illustrator/using/setting-preferences.html) help to resolve the issue?

Please note that resetting preferences will remove all the custom settings and Illustrator will launch with default settings. You can also take a backup of the folders in case you want to. Location is mentioned in the article.

Regards,

Srishti

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mar15C2

Participant

it just happened to me on Win 10 x64 - AI cc2018 ver22.0.0

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danas40813905

Participant

My co-worker and I have this issue every few days. We often work on projects with many artboards (i.e. donor walls) for export and it has led to some major issues. Restarting is not a valid solution.

hdogslobber

Participant

I am experienceing this issue as well. For me numbering goes ...14, 16, 16, 17...

Deleting, recreating, and reordering artboard does not solve the issue.

The issue is limited to the user interface (artboards pallet, and upper left coner of artboard selection).

The first 16, which should appear as 15, will be recognised properly as 15 when 15 is specified in the page range when saving a PDF or printing.

hdogslobber

Participant

Update: after restarting system the issue does not repeat.

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Adrenaline22

Participant

Happens to me aswell!

Any solution to this?

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Please show.

Please do also show the artboard panel.

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audrab76645303Author

Participant

I tried renaming the second 27 and it would work - the only thing that would was to create one at the end (#44) and save it as number 26. It would NOT automatically change it and/or save it.

Nitish Agarwal

Adobe Employee

Hi,

Are you able to reproduce it from the scratch? If yes, please provide the detailed steps. Also, if it is reproducible in any particular file then please share that file so that we can try to reproduce it at our end as well.

Thanks & Regards

Nitish Agarwal

Illustrator Team

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johanjoyce

Participating Frequently

This happens for me as well, it will also do the same thing with artboard #57.

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

seemed to work ok for me. what version of illustrator?

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