Illustrator saving my single artboard as multi-page PDF

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July 30, 2018
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Hey guys - I'm working with an Illustrator template for a job. It's a single artboard, but when I save it as a PDF it creates several pages, each page cropped to a different view of the document. (This is like a book cover, and when it saves it makes a page for the front cover, back cover, and spine)

Is there a way to turn off this feature? I can see it being helpful sometimes, but it's a bit of a pain right now to have to go into Acrobat after saving my PDFs and delete the extra pages.

Thanks!

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Luke Jennings

Inspiring

If the original template was created by your printer, they may have a preference for individual pages for the front cover, back cover and spine. If you have edited the template to produce a spread page and you want to save this page only, you can choose the artboard (page) range when saving your .ai file to PDF.

jane-e

Community Expert

sbrinsdon wrote:
I'm working with an Illustrator template for a job. It's a single artboard, but when I save it as a PDF it creates several pages, each page cropped to a different view of the document. (This is like a book cover, and when it saves it makes a page for the front cover, back cover, and spine)

This is what it sounds like is happening. Three artboards are drawn inside one artboard. I can't think of any other way the extra pages could occur.