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Hide everything outside the Artboard?

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March 12, 2008
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I'm designing some business cards, which have an 1/8" bleed, along with elements that hang outside of the border of the card. Is there a way in Illustrator CS3 that I can say, "hide everything outside of the Artboard" so I can see what the finished product will look like?

I know I could print them out or output to PDF and see it without the non-Artboard items, but these approaches seem clumsy and labor intensive. I'd like it if I could have some sort of "cropped view"--where everything not on the Artboard is hidden--to work in.

Thanks.

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Beste Antwort von Monika Gause

View screen is indesign only. I wish they would add this to illustrator because I use it all the time. It's so easy to hit W to toggle it on and off

You might want to add your vote here: Have the option to hide all artwork that falls outside the bounds of the artboard. – Adobe Illustrator Feedback

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Steve Fairbairn

Inspiring

For this sort of job you're better off using InDesign which has Normal, Preview, Bleed and Slug view options.

For business cards you put everything that's the same on all cards on a master page and the variables on ordinary pages.

You can duplicate pages ad infinitum – a whole lot easier than making lots of artboards.

Also if you've got printing on the backs you just work with facing pages.

I used to do business cards in Illie but have long since gone over to ID exactly for the reasons you mention.

You can easily copy your Illie artwork into ID or place it linked.

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fvlcrvm

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I totally agree. I'm missing this feature for so long. I know about my friends creating white boxes everywhere outside the artboard which is absurd.

CarlosCanto

Community Expert

you can create your own "hide everything outside the Active Artboard" using Actions.

self explanatory

to bring everything back, go to Object->Show All, or hit Ctrl+Alt+3

schroef

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@CarlosCanto,

Still wanted to know why your version of the script failed. It was actually a very easy fix. We just need to check which index the artboard has. You code wasnt that much different from what i added in the prior post.
I simply used the i to get the current Index number for the artboard.

var margins = Number(Window.prompt(msg, 400, "Artboard Faux Clipping Mask"));
    for (i = 0; i < idoc.artboards.length; i++) {
        // Returns errors
        var abBounds = idoc.artboards[i].artboardRect;// left, top, right, bottom
        var ableft = abBounds[0]; // 0
        var abtop = abBounds[1]; // 612
        var abwidth = abBounds[2] - ableft; // 792 // width
        var abheight = abtop- abBounds[3]; // 0 // height
        //$.writeln(abBounds);
        // Source: Ladygin from the inc script file

Perhaps a different approach would look nicer. Is that instead of using a margin for the mask, we add a second rect the size of the full document. So we make a rectangle based on the limits then subtract or mask the current artboard.

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Anonymous

I have been hoping and wishing for this ever since I started using AI — Now with multiple artboards it's tedious to make and keep editing the masking layer as artboards are added.

Adobe: Please add Artboard Masking

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_Greg_Maletic_Autor

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I've done that, too...but doesn't it seem a little absurd for me to have to create a separate layer, remember to set it to "non-print" status, etc., just so I can see how my item will print? It's hard for me to believe that Illustrator doesn't have a feature like this.

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_Martha_Bostwick_

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I just fudge it either by using a Clipping Mask, or by having a dummy "Masking" layer on top with white rectangles drawn to hide the content off the artboard.

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