Can't save artboards as separate ai files

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October 16, 2020
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Hi everyone,

I'm having trouble saving my artboards as separate ai files. I watched a tutorial on it but when I tried it myself, my Save As window grays out the "Use Artboards" checkbox. It only ungrays for eps or svg files. Has anyone else ran into this problem? Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks!

Bug

Correct answer Ton Frederiks

Just click Save to get the option.

creative explorer

Community Expert

@lilbeaujingles also, you need to make sure you select either EPS or SVG to select 'Use Artboards' because the other formats will not allow you to select Artboards

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Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Artboards can be exported in all formats with export for screens.

Zachary0526

Inspiring

No. I don't think so. Not .ai files. Export for Screens only produces PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF, and WebP formats.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

You need to save as Adobe Illustrator and in the options window check the "Save each artboard to a separate file"

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lilbeaujinglesAuthor

Participant

Thanks for your quick response — I don't have that option though. I uploaded a screenshot in my initial post. My artboard checkbox is not available and I don't have the option you are talking about either. My Adobe CC is up to date as well.

Zachary0526

Inspiring

Hello @sethwise,

Thanks for reaching out. Would you mind trying the following steps to check if they help:

- Choose the Save option for your new file with multiple artboards, choose the option to save on your computer, and click Save after selecting the folder location.
(No need to worry about the artboard option being greyed out)

- On the next window, check the option for Save each artboard to a separate file and click OK.

If the problem persists, kindly share more details, like the exact version of the OS/Illustrator, your workflow details, and a screen recording of the problem (https://adobe.ly/41rQgTm), so we can investigate this further.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks,

Anubhav

This produces 1 .ai file for each artboard selected, but each file includes the full art and all artboards from the source file. It isn't splitting that single artboard to its own file. And, it's adding the artboard extension to the end of the file name as FileName-01.ai, FileName-02.ai, etc. This is not how this used to work.

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