Art Board Numbering still a nightmare

[juergen huber]

This goes back to a post from another user 11(!) years ago. He then wrote:

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I'm currently working on a project which involves over 16 artboards in the same document, though when i want to change the order of the artboards [for saving as a PDF] i have to move all my artboards content to new artboard, etc.etc.

This is really annoying, especially when i want to insert a new artboard between some excisting ones.

So is it possible to somehow change the order of the artboards, or they numbers [basically the same]?

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And still, 11 years later there is no answer to this. Artboards only are numbered in CHRONICAL order (i.e the TIME when I created the artboards. Why???) So when you move the artboard order for saving (as described) to PDF only the CHRONICAL order is considered. Why is there no way to SWITCH to an order where the ACTUAL ORDER ON MY CANVAS is taken into account? PLEASEEEEEEEEE!!!

(Yes, I know I can change the artboard numbering manually in the artboard palette but have you ever changed a huge document that way? And no, this is not a job that woud be better done in InDesign as a have a lot of vector-data that need to be handled in illustrator.)

Regards

Jürgen, Berlin

[Monika Gause]

This forum is 95% other users.

You simply are not talking to the developers in the forum.

Please post bugs & feature requests to http://illustrator.uservoice.com

[juergen huber]

aha. Thanks for letting me know. But why then is there a button for „feature request“ if non of the Adobe people is not reading it anyway?

[Monika Gause]

I didn't set up this forum or administrate it. I'm not even a moderator. I don't know.

I'm just telling you how to reach them.