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Alexandre Brandt
Alexandre Brandt
Inspiring
July 24, 2020
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Exporting a PDF ready file

  • July 24, 2020
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Hello designers,

Quick questions about the "Export for Screens" or the other export options in Illustrator v24

 

I've got my resume / CV designed on two Artboards, each Artboard is one standard A4 page.

I don't really print this for people by I do send it as a PDF attachment in emails and what not.

 

When I export via the "Export for Screens" I can select the PDF format. However, it exports me two files, one for each Artboard. Up to now I've been doing an extra step, of open these in Preview (Apple) to combine the pages into one PDF file.

Is there a way to export my two Artboards directly into a 2 paged PDF?

 

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Correct answer Doug A Roberts

File > Save As.. > Choose PDF

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Kurt Gold
Kurt Gold
Braniac
July 25, 2020

Yes, I think I know that already, Ton.

Kurt Gold
Kurt Gold
Braniac
July 24, 2020

Ton is right about the "native" .pdf support since Illustrator 9, but as far as I understand something (assumed that I do understand anything at all), the native .ai format is still a dialect of Postscript.

 

I may be wrong, of course.

Ton Frederiks
Ton Frederiks
Braniac
July 24, 2020

Native PDF support does only mean that Illustrator can create a PDF file without first creating PostScript.

Native PDF support also means that transparency is supported (introduced in CS9), something that was supported in PDF but not in PostScript.

Doug A Roberts
Doug A RobertsCorrect answer
Braniac
July 24, 2020

File > Save As.. > Choose PDF

    Alexandre Brandt
    Alexandre BrandtAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 24, 2020

    Ahh, interesting, this is a new feature, no ?
    I didn't see that in the older version of AI i was using up to a few weeks ago (I just updated my OS which allowed me to update Photoshop and Illustrator).

    Thanks.

    Doug A Roberts
    Doug A Roberts
    Braniac
    July 24, 2020

    Not as far as I am aware. Save As has been the normal route for creating PDFs since at least CS5.

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