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Exporting or Saving an Artboard with different dimenions

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March 1, 2024
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I am on a Mac, with Illustrator 28.2

I have a file with multiple artboards. Some of them are intended to be thumbnail views of the main artwork. I would like to save them as PDFs as say US legal size, but they are saved at the full poster size. I can't see a way to change the saved size. Ican't see an easy way to change the size using export-as. I have tried using Mac Preview and Adobet Reader Pro as well but can't see how to change the dimensions of a PDF.

Any ideas?

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Correct answer Rene Andritsch

The file size is 218mb

In any case I gave up and used Preview

Cheers
Geoff

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Ah ok, I thought more of the dimensions. As you said they were big posters. 218 MB is not shockingly big but maybe InDesign tried to render the Previews at “Best Quality” which might have slowed it down. Most important thing you got it done in some sort of way. If you have to do it again give it another try in InDesign with theses settings (in the Object Menu):

I think it would be the fastest workflow for now. Hopefully the Illustrator feature to scale content with artboards comes back at some point.

Kurt Gold

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In Acrobat you can scale pages to custom sizes with a preflight operation.

In Illustrator you may do it with the Artboard tool while the Scale Content with Artboard option is turned on in the preferences.

geoffreyp37178285Author

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Thanks.
"Scale Content with Artboard option is turned on in the preferences"

where is that? I've looked and searched online but can't find it.

Also, I'd prefer a solution where I don't have to copy the artwork. It is likely to change after review by the printers, which means I have to repeat that operation. I'd rather multiple views onto the same artwork, each view scaled.

Rene Andritsch

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The file size is 218mb

In any case I gave up and used Preview

Cheers
Geoff

Sent from my iPhone

Ah ok, I thought more of the dimensions. As you said they were big posters. 218 MB is not shockingly big but maybe InDesign tried to render the Previews at “Best Quality” which might have slowed it down. Most important thing you got it done in some sort of way. If you have to do it again give it another try in InDesign with theses settings (in the Object Menu):

I think it would be the fastest workflow for now. Hopefully the Illustrator feature to scale content with artboards comes back at some point.

Ton Frederiks

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You can change the artboards to whatever size you want.

Make a copy of your file.

Click Rearrange Artboards (icon lower left in the Artboards panel)

Set a large space between them so that they will not overlap when a new page size is chosen.

Double click the page icon for an artboard in the Artboards panel and select or specify a page size (I did it from the center).

Repeat for all artboards.

Rene Andritsch

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As a workaround you could place all your posters in InDesign where you have pages that are the sizes of your intended output and then export a PDF from InDesign.

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