printing posters on multiple sheets - Is it possible to add a margin after the pdf export?

[Faye Jennifer]

Happy new year adobe community,

When I am tiling my posters, I create multiple artbooks smaller than my printing sheet and arrange them with no spacing in between. As result I have no margin in my exported pdf. How can I archieve the margin without loosing the layer structure of my poster?

I tried to place the ai. artboards (or the layerd pdf) on inDesign pages with ajusted margins, but as a result I loose access to the layers, even with "remember layers" on.

And is it possible to add "marker" page numbering in Illustrater? I only know that it is possible to add them with the acrobat reader but maybe there is a more elegant solution out there.

Kind regards 

Faye

[Monika Gause]

If I understand that correctly you need to make the artboards larger so they overlap.

Maybe you can also just define bleed.

[Faye Jennifer]

Hi Monica, 

thanks for the answer!

I forgot to mention, that I wanted the margins to be blank.

I made this grapic to better illustrate what I want my result to look like. It is necessary to preserve the layer structure and not to use clipping masks (because I use too many artboards).

If I overlapp the artboards, the overlap also has the the artwork on it. Is there a hidden option to clear these? 

Adding bleed results in lost pieces of the artwork, or is there a way to have negative bleed?

Kind regards

Faye

[Monika Gause]

I would search for a solution in Acrobat.

Or rely on your printer to add white space.

Maybe the people in the Acrobat forum know how to do this.