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ferrisferrisetc
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February 5, 2026
Question

Illustrator shifts artwork off of board after saving

  • February 5, 2026
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I’ve recently been having difficulty with my Adobe Illustrator files where the artwork layer shifts off the artboard after saving as a .AI file, but everything else remains static. It looks perfectly normal in Adobe, but when exporting it and viewing it in Google Drive, it’s shifted. See attached images of the artboard in Illustrator versus the one in Google Drive. 

 

Thanks so much for any advice or help. I’ve already tried uninstalling and re-installing Adobe.

    1 reply

    Monika Gause
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 5, 2026

    So it only shows if you view the file in other apps than Illustrator?

    Can you turn off “Save in background” in the preferences and save your file again?