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Ameddou
Ameddou
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March 2, 2018
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Placing new artboards Illustrator CC

  • March 2, 2018
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Hi!


I recently upgrade my illustrator to CC, and I came across new functionality, and thats awesome, I'm yet to learn a lot from it; but I got used to some other functions that made my work easier. In this case it has to be with the creation of new artboards. Before, I used to select a specific artboard with specific size and the click on the top bar for new artboard. This gave me an new artboard the size of the preselected one and I could place it wherever I wanted. Now, that button automatically place it next to the preselected artboard, not giving me the chance to place it wherever it fits to me.

Have any ways to disable that function? or enable the function I'm detailing?.

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Correct answer Kurt Gold

What you are describing isn't available anymore in the latest versions of Illustrator, Ameddou.

It is available in older versions of Illustrator that support multiple artboards.

Srishti,

in case you want to reproduce the issue, open Illustrator CS5 (for example) and follow the instructions Ameddou provided in his initial post (by "top bar" he meant the Control palette while the Artboard tool is active). Compare that to the behaviour of recent CC versions of Illustrator. You will immediately see the difference.

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Kurt Gold
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Kurt GoldCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
May 2, 2018

What you are describing isn't available anymore in the latest versions of Illustrator, Ameddou.

It is available in older versions of Illustrator that support multiple artboards.

Srishti,

in case you want to reproduce the issue, open Illustrator CS5 (for example) and follow the instructions Ameddou provided in his initial post (by "top bar" he meant the Control palette while the Artboard tool is active). Compare that to the behaviour of recent CC versions of Illustrator. You will immediately see the difference.

Srishti Bali
Community Manager
Srishti BaliCommunity Manager
Community Manager
May 3, 2018

Thanks Kurt, but I may not be able to do this in CS5, but I tried it yesterday on CS6 version, they were all behaving the same way. Would you mind sharing a screenshot if you were able to reproduce it?

Regards,

Srishti

Larry G. Schneider
Community Expert
Larry G. SchneiderCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 3, 2018

Which version of CS6 did you use?  the 16.0.x series or the 16.1.x? It may make a difference.

Srishti Bali
Community Manager
Srishti BaliCommunity Manager
Community Manager
May 2, 2018

Hi Ameddou,

I have checked this in 3 different versions of Illustrator. It's working the same way. Would you mind sharing some screenshot of the issue?

Regards,

Srishti

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