How to split an art board into 2? Illustrator cs6

[Varyani1]

Hi i have an artboard that is 7x19 inches and want to create a book where each page is 7x9 inches, is there a way to spit my artboard into 2? If not is there a way to create a flip book using multiple 7x19 inch pages??

Please help it would be very much appreciated, Thanks!

[rcraighead]

Use the "Artboard Tool" to resize the existing artboard and duplicate it.

[Dhirendra Mohan]

Hi,

You can certainly resize artboards using the Artboard tool. You can change the artboard size by selecting the artboard and changing the options from control panel or from artboard options dialog. There is an artboards panel as well for re-arranging or editing the artboards. You can also create a multiple artboards document while creating a new one(File>New).

You can look for more about Multiple Artboards here:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS0939CFEE-49EF-4c6f-B337-8897EC89DF89.html

Please let us know if it helps.

Thanks!

Dhirendra

[CarlosCanto]

I'm going to translate here, they meant "No", you can not split artboards, but you can certainly redraw new ones as needed

[iFoxhound05]

Thank you.

[alfredt14925583]

Hello,

You could use this work around;

1.Create a Rectangular Grid(Alt+Click, for options) with 0 Horizontal Dividers and 1 Vertical Horizontal.

2.Make them guides (Ctrl + 5)

3. Object > Slice > Create from Guides

4. Object > Artboard > Convert to Artboard

5. Go to Artboard Tabs (Next to Layers, usually)

6. Delete the unwanted artboards( usually first one, as that arboard is holding other 2 artboards)

Hope this helps.