When Importing .ai into another .ai file, the artboard is importing as a shape. How do I fix this?

Question

When using a colored artboard, the artboard then exports as an object and imports as an object into another .ai file.  The artboard color is described as just being a visible GUI change, but it is acting as an object.  SEE VIDEO.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS · Accepted Answer

You are telling Illustrator to “Fill” the background, which makes it solid. If you want to just see the BG in a color, do this:

Keep Artboard BG as transparent.

Document setup.

Change the two transparency grid colors to the same, desired color.

Select “Simulate Colored Paper”.

Ton Frederiks · Answer

It is acting as a background. If you want to have a color in the background, but not have it visible when placing, you can do the paper color trick as Dave mentioned or create a layer with a filled color shape and make it a template layer.

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.