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March 29, 2017
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Save artboards as individual PDFs in one hit.

  • March 29, 2017
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I've looked for quite a while to find a simple script to save multiple artboards to single page PDFs but to no avail.

Imagine that there are several artboards with office stationary and I want to export specific single page PDFs for print...  It's a pain in the posterior.  now multiply that by a range of different colours multiplied by a list of employees and what could be 5x export commands turns into 150 exports with several clicks for each one.

A chap from the NY Times wrote a script: Export Illustrator Layers and/or Artboards as PNGs and PDFs | Matthew Ericson - ericson.net but that's for Mac...

C'mon Adobe, this should be standard, surely?

There are work arounds from what I've read but i don't have Acrobat professional.

Any chance this can be patched or updated?

Cheers

Andy

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Correct answer Monika Gause

In case you're using a current version, the Export for screens feature will do it as well.

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Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
March 29, 2017

In case you're using a current version, the Export for screens feature will do it as well.

GandSAuthor
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March 29, 2017

I'm using the most up to date cloud version... There is no multiple artboard to single PDF export option.  Only mutli-page PDF - unless I'm looking in the wrong place?

Doug A Roberts
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Community Expert
March 29, 2017

export for screens with this setup gave me four individual PDFs as I'd expect. that's not what you're getting?

Doug A Roberts
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Community Expert
March 29, 2017

.jsx scripts are not platform-specific. you can use that script.

GandSAuthor
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March 29, 2017

Erm...  I see.

Thanks, I'll check it out!