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Slight variations in multiple artboard size when exporting

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
October 6, 2021
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Hi, I'm trying to export multiple artboards and then bring them together to create a simple animation.

Even though my artboards are all exactly the same size (20 x 20 mm) when I export them all there is the slightest of variation between the images and when I bring them together in photoshop to create a gif it becomes appparent.

You can see what I mean in this short snippet:

Even though all the artboards are the exact same size and the "plate" in centered in all of them (i've double checked), there's a wobble present.

I thinking this may have something to do with the varying amounts of the images that are clipping outside the artboard (the vegetables in this case), but im not sure, and since im exporting artboards as a whole, it shouldnt be including anything outside of that 20x20mm space anyway.

Any ideas?

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marcorr

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I'm having the same issue. I've resized the artboards several times to attempt to rectify the issue and it still wobbles no matter what. It's as if each artboard is exporting differently.

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marcorr

Participant

To clarify, I'm working in pixels

Larry G. Schneider

Community Expert

But as Ton says the edges must land on whole pixels. Is this the case for you?

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

I understand that you have checked the Use Artboards option when exporting.

When exporting to an image file format, Illustrator has to convert the artboard size to pixels.

In your case some rounding will occur: 20 mm = 56,6929 px

Fractional pixels do not exist and additional (semitransparent) pixels will be added.

Does it still happen if you change your units to pixels and your arboards to 56 or 57 pixels?

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davidh51148911Author

Participant

Thanks, I think this was my problem.

Though it still seems a bit inconsistent, sometimes using pixels fixes this and other times it doesnt. I think it may also have something to do with artboard arrangement / alignment but I havent had too much of a chance to test.

Mylenium

Legend

Start by making sure you actually work at 72 DPI and have pixel-exact rendering and placement enabled. cm and DPI mean nothing in the world of animated GIFs or whatever you need this for. Only absolute pixel data matters.

Mylenium

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