Artboards Shift Automatically, Cause Export Issues

[Juniperf]

Anyone who uses this software professionally definitely understands the importance of resolution. It's intuitive that the size of the artboard should directly reflect the resolution of the export. However, I'm finding that is consistently not the case in Illustrator, partircularly with smaller artboards. Worse still, any attempt I make to correct the issue is, without fail, always undone with every reopening of the file. It's infuriating!

I use illustrator to layout hundreds of ads of various sizes. These images need to meet the display ad specifications listed by Google Ads. If an artboard's position coordinates are a fraction off a whole number, the exported image will almost always not match the artboard size. A 300x600 artboard will export as 301x600, or 300x601. 

In response to this issue, I've taken steps to make sure all artboards positions are on whole numbers. But on reopening on the file, or duplication, the artboards needlessy shift, requiring a re-shifting of the hundreds of artboards scattered across dozens of files. To me it's insane this quirk hasn't bugged anyone else so I'm either missing a key feature the always snaps artboards to a whole number, exports artboards correctly, or this bug should be addressed immediately.

[Doug A Roberts]

That person demonstrates removing decimals from centimetre values, which isn't a good idea -- that will almost certainly result in fractional pixels. Artboards need to sit on whole pixel values.

[Monika Gause]

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@Doug A Roberts  schrieb:

That person demonstrates removing decimals from centimetre values, which isn't a good idea -- 

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People calling something a "glitch" always cause me to be super careful about their advice.