Exporting a selected section of an illustrator project

[Suncast Studios]

Trying to select and export only a section of a current Illustrator 27.4.1 project. I can't seem to figure out how to do this. It is a park map and the client wants the entire park map as a pdf, and each section of the park in a pdf. Hopefully I can have just one overall park map and export sections of it as the client wants. Couldn't find an existing answer in the forums. Yes, I am fairly new to Illustrator. Appreciate your help!

[Larry G. Schneider · Accepted solution]

Each AI file can have multiple artboards. Just set a single one for the whole project and then a set of smaller ones to cover the areas you want. To export do a save as, make sure the Use artboards box is checked and use the Range to select the artboard you want to export.

[Suncast Studios]

Thank you Larry! After looking up how to work with multpiple artboards I was able to accomplish exporting different sections as seperate artboards.

[Larry G. Schneider]

Glad you could follow my directions.

[Met1]

Export selection doesn't work for you?

[Suncast Studios]

Met1, to be honest, I haven't been able to figure out how to just select a whole section of an artboard (the main board with entire map on it). Apparently I must be using the wrong terminology when searching for an answer to this. It doesn't appear to work like cropping a photo (which is what I am more use to). 🙂