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emil emil
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June 8, 2011
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Move artboard along with its content to another documet?

  • June 8, 2011
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Is it possible and if not what's your fastest way to recreate that on another document with different artboard/s on a differnt place in the workspace?

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    quiden14
    quiden14
    Participating Frequently
    August 25, 2017

    I'm looking for a solution to this question as well--the need to copy an artboard from one document to another.

    The solution that I've come up with is to:

    • draw a placeholder rectangle the exact dimensions and placement of the artboard I want to copy.
    • Copy that shape along with all of the art on the artboard I want to copy.
    • Paste it into the other document somewhere in the pastboard area away from any artboards.
    • Select the create artboard tool.
    • click on the rectangle that is the size of the artboard and a new artboard will be created at those dimentions.
    • Delete the placeholder rectangle.

    Probably not a perfect solution, but it gets the job done

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    JKarttunen
    Participant
    November 23, 2012

    1) Create same size artboard(s).
    2) CMD+C to copy, CMD+SHIFT+V to paste in place.

    rcraighead
    rcraighead
    Legend
    August 25, 2017

    And turn on "Paste Remembers Layers" if you want to maintain the same layer structure.

    quiden14
    quiden14
    Participating Frequently
    August 25, 2017

    Correct. I thought about adding that about 10 minutes after my post. that seems to be the biggest concern from others on similar forums asking about this problem. "Paste Remembers Layers" will maintain the structure.

    Grant H
    Community Expert
    Grant HCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 8, 2011

    document set up / edit artboards / option drag the current artboard somewhere els on canvas... that will also create a "new page" if saved as PDF for instance

    but: if u select the artboard and apple C it the past in new  doc it will only paste the contents and ignore artboard size...

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    emil emilAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 8, 2011

    That's basically what I'm doing, adding a rectangle snapped to the artboard boundary then copy all, paste in a new document, create new artboard snapping it to the rectangle, and deleting the rectangle but I was wondering if there is a faster way. Can this be scripted?

    I'm making a layout with various sizes images that will be printed all, in groups, or one by one, so I have nested artboards and moving a group of images and their artboard between documents is getting really tedious.

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    melaniea95188378
    Participant
    September 2, 2015

    Instead of deleting the boundary rectangle, you can select it, go to the Artboards submenu and select "convert to artboards".

    If you want to simplify your copy pasting, you can select the all the content from the source artboard with Alt-Ctrl-A before Ctrl-Cing and Ctrl-Ving.

    If you're copying the same stuff often, you can save the selection using the selection menu, and then you can easily retrieve the selection when you need it in the future.

    I think this is as fast as you can get with it manually.

    Of course it can be scripted, since everything you can do in Illustrator can be scripted.

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