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Illustrator is not exporting all artwork on the artboard to jpeg

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June 14, 2021
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Has anyone had this happen? I'm creating a super simple animated gif. I created my art in AI, each artboard is a duplicate of the previous artboard. All art is visbibe on my artboards. No layers. No art has any effects (opacity, multiply)- when it exports, AI is failing to export all of the artwork on the artboard.

Anyone know what might be up?

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Correct answer LizzyDS

Heya! I just had this problem too.

It turned out to be Overprint was checked on some elements. (NO idea how.)

Just check and uncheck the Overprint box(es) in the Attributes Window [Ctrl+11].

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Heya! I just had this problem too.

It turned out to be Overprint was checked on some elements. (NO idea how.)

Just check and uncheck the Overprint box(es) in the Attributes Window [Ctrl+11].

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pukr51670531

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Hey Lizzy! Almost 2 years later and your answer is still saving designers from hours of wtf hysteria. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Trisha5E13

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Hello! I'm having the same issue. When I go to File --> export as--> select the artboard I want to export as PNG, it shows a transparent blank artboard on the next screen. Do you know why this is? I updated my Adobe Illustrator as well and that didnt help. It only works if I do export for screens which I hate because it sends your files to another folder each time and sometimes the images are not as clear and high quality. I used your recommendation of unchecking overprint preview and that didnt help. Any other ideas please? I'm working on a large project and I need to figure this out ASAP!

Monika Gause

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Please show something.

Contents of the layers panel are important as well. Perhaps the layers are set to non-printing?

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MinnepolitanAuthor

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Thanks Monika 🙂

I have not modified any layer preferences.

Below are two exported artboards. 19 is a drag + duplicate of 18. You can see that all the artwork is visible on all of the artboard.s (1819.jpg) but when exported to jpeg, random items go missing. I literally selected the artboard tool to duplicate the previous artboard. This happens sucessfully. I modified some text, which exported correctly.

Here is a shot of the layer. Everything is visbible- which I would expect because this is all one layer, and the subgroups have not been modified. Its just these few artboards where content disappears. My export method was "export to jepg" artboards selected.

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JuliaTM1

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Hi Monika, sometimes its faster to find a work around.

Would try saving as a jpeg/gif instead of exporting. Also if the images used have a clipping mask or a translucent background, this can cause an issue. Example the logo top left, if it is a photo trace with clipping mask sometimes this can create an issue when saving as photo/jpeg that already has many paths. All else fails take all the layers (in a saved copy ) that are not used and combine / simplify the artwork as much as possible. Been a long time since I made an animated gif ( like 20yrs *-*), but back in the day each element was saved individually ( example rollover image separate than non active component) and put together in the respective program (dreamworks/fireworks). Good luck!

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