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Collect For Export... as Multiple Assets

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August 18, 2021
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What is the purpose of this menu item? I had thought I could select multiple paths and this would add them to the asset export panel to be exported as individual files.... it doesn't. In fact I cannot tell the difference between what it does and the other option "as Single Asset".

In the same way, in the asset export panel clicking the "Generate Multiple Assets From The Selection" button also just adds all selected paths as a single asset to export...

Am I missing something? The only way I can get it to work is open the asset export panel, then select one path, click the "Generate a Single Asset from the Selection" button, and repeat for each path to export as a separate file.

Thanks

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Correct answer iethis

Sadly, they are not grouped either. They are just paths in the same artboard.

I tried in a different document and it works fine... must be just something weird going on with the document I was working on.

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

Probably your objects are located in a sublayer.

Unfortunately sublayers are treated like groups in this context.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Make sure they are not grouped. Here the blue and green ovals are grouped and act as a single asset.

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iethisAuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

Sadly, they are not grouped either. They are just paths in the same artboard.

I tried in a different document and it works fine... must be just something weird going on with the document I was working on.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Something weird can always happen, sometimes copying the content and pasting into a new document helps to solve the problem.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Maybe this answers your question:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/collect-assets-export-for-screens.html

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iethisAuthor

Inspiring

Hi

Thanks for the reply, but no, it doesn't answer the question. It seems to suggest that Collect for Export > As Multiple Assets is supposed to work as I thought - but it doesn't as noted in my original post.

After playing around - it does seem to work as expected if the objects are on different artboards - but if you select two layers or paths on the same artboard it combines them into one asset - even if you use the multiple asset option.

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