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jordanh65344997
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October 23, 2017
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Illustrator 2018 Artboard Issues

  • October 23, 2017
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I've found a couple of issues with artboards in Illustrator 2018:

Anytime the artboard tool is engaged the "align to" is changed to "selection." This is the new default even if it was previously set to "align to artboard." I now have to go back and change this frequently in my work flow.

If you have a list of artboards and try and delete several of them, deleting one will deselect the list. No longer can you click on the trash can and delete multiple artboards in succession.

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Correct answer Nitish Agarwal

Hi,

We are looking into "Align To" option issue and to delete multiple artboards you can follow below steps :

1. Select artboard tool

2. Press shift and click on all the artboards that you want to delete(you can also do Shift + drag to marquee select the artboards / select them in artboards panel /  ctrl or cmd + A to select all the artboards)

3. Click delete on artboard panel / control panel / properties panel /keyboard

Result : Selected artboards art deleted. If  all the artboards were selected one artboard will remain in the document.

15 replies

DrTc
DrTc
Inspiring
June 28, 2019

Is there a way to change default behavior of copy/move artwork with artboard to OFF that is to NOT select all objects?

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Monika GauseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 28, 2019

  schrieb

Is there a way to change default behavior of copy/move artwork with artboard to OFF that is to NOT select all objects?

You could try and set it up that way in your preferred new document profile.

Nitish Agarwal
Adobe Employee
Nitish Agarwal
Adobe Employee
December 18, 2017

We have a fix for Align to selection issue and is available in the pre-release build. Please visit http://adobe.ly/1Q3rCPI and get the latest build titled Adobe Illustrator CC 22.0.2  - Hot Fix.

This build is of production quality. Please feel free to use / recommend it for your day to day activity.

Warm Regards,

Nitish Agarwal

    andranspeer79
    andranspeer79
    Participant
    January 9, 2018

    This link is no longer available.

    Nitish Agarwal
    Adobe Employee
    Nitish Agarwal
    Adobe Employee
    April 6, 2018

    Please update to our latest release or look for latest build on pre release site.

    Z
    ZivoDesign
    Known Participant
    December 10, 2017

    So annoying cant work like that

    every time to go back to the alignment panel and change to Art-board, please fix

    i hope it's not a "New Feature" like the "save as" folder location

    who the hell calling the shots in adobe lately

    thomasf44927082
    thomasf44927082
    Participant
    November 16, 2017

    I have had the same issue. I have opened the align tool panel and changed the "align to" to Artboard and when opening new artboard the "align to" is staying with artboard.

    dice316
    dice316
    Participant
    November 15, 2017

    Also, I'm unable to get snap to pixel working anymore when resizing artboards (grabbing one side of artboard and moving it with mouse) It used to work fine in earlier cc versions. This is very important to me since I do a lot of pixel precise art.

    Added: Snap to pixel works fine when drawing a new artboard, but it doesn't when adjusting an existing one.

    Nitish Agarwal
    Adobe Employee
    Nitish Agarwal
    Adobe Employee
    November 16, 2017

    Please vote for your issue at Adobe Illustrator Feedback

    Thanks

    Nitish

    cpattersonv1
    cpattersonv1
    Inspiring
    November 17, 2017

    Oh man. The future of development support right here. LOL. My clients would bail immediately. Good thing you guys have a monopoly.

    nitishagarwal123  wrote

    Please vote for your issue at Adobe Illustrator Feedback

    Thanks

    Nitish

    H
    heyjudedesigninc
    Participant
    November 9, 2017

    I have an issue with not being able to add a NEW ARTBOARD!! Everytime I try to add one, I get the beachball spinning and spinning!

    I need this tool to work!

    Nitish Agarwal
    Adobe Employee
    Nitish Agarwal
    Adobe Employee
    November 13, 2017

    Hi,

    Did you rearrange or created artboards with 0 spacing between the artboards?

    Thanks & Regards

    Nitish Agarwal

    Illustrator Team

    kevin1407
    kevin1407
    Participant
    October 31, 2017

    This is a problem for me as well, I work on hundreds of new pages every week and need align to artboard as the default.

    B
    benh40110092
    Participating Frequently
    October 26, 2017

    I have this same issue. I use align to artboard much more often than align to selection.

    The way I understand the setting is that it was a global setting in previous versions. But with the new functionality it is a document specific setting. So in any document you change the setting it will stay for that document, even after closing the document and opening it again. The problem is that the default setting is align to selection and in order to change a setting to make it a global change you have to change the setting while there are no documents open. There is no access to this panel without a document open, so the default can not be changed. I've had to change my workspace around in order to have faster access to that panel. I would very much like to have Align to Artboard as the default setting.

      gökhanyaka
      gökhanyaka
      Participating Frequently
      October 25, 2017

      You should use "New Artboard" button to do this.

      A
      AartB
      Participant
      October 25, 2017

      There are even more issues with Adobe illustrator 2018 and artboards; I am not able to move an artboard without moving the artWORK as well. Even when the option "Move Artwork with artboard" (in property panel or in the banner at the top) is UNchecked, the artWORK moves with the artboard... very annoying!

      Nitish Agarwal
      Adobe Employee
      Nitish Agarwal
      Adobe Employee
      October 25, 2017

      Hi,

      Please try clearing your preference and see if that works out for you. If that does not please share a video or steps so that we can try to reproduce it on our end.

      Thanks & Regards

      Nitish Agarwal

      Illustrator Team

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      AartB
      Participant
      October 25, 2017

      Thanks for your fast response.

      I just figured out that you can move the artboards without the artWORK  by  dragging, but not with the use of the keyboard cursor keys which could be done in the previous version (2017) and I found that very usefull.

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