I made a new preset artboard for Illustrator

[Mike Witherell]

I made many improvements on the File > New Illustrator preset print documents.

Under Print, I made new presets that are RGB; not CMYK, and have Bleeds showing.

I added paragraph and character styles. I cleaned out the Brushes, Symbols, and Graphic Styles panels.

I made all the Swatches global.

But...

I made layers and guides but they don't survive the trip into a new document when clicking Create or File > New Document....

Why not?

[Doug A Roberts · Accepted solution]

They are simply not included when Illustrator creates a new file from a preset.

The only way to include them is to create and use a template (.ait) file.

[Mike Witherell]

Hi Doug,

Thanks for your input. Do you have any understanding of why Illustrator defaults to spacing artboards 1p8 apart? Is there any way to overcome that?

[Doug A Roberts]

Not as far as I know. Only by using Rearrange all Artboards after the fact and setting the spacing there.

[Mike Witherell]

I was surprised that layers don't survive the New Document cycle!

[Doug A Roberts · Accepted solution]

I would guess it's to do with Illustrator's object hierarchy. If objects can't exist in a new document, perhaps layers can't either, as they're just a container for objects.