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How to create a new 'saved' document preset in Illustrator CC 2017

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May 12, 2017
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When I create a new document in Illustrator, the 'New Document' panel pops up. There is a tab at the top called 'Saved'. I'd like to be able to create a preset and save it so that it appears under this tab. In Photoshop, a 'Save Preset' button appears in the 'Preset Details' panel next to the document title, but this does not appear in Illustrator.

How do I get a preset to appear under the 'Saved' tab? I've tried creating a blank document and then clicking 'Save As Template', but it does not then appear in the 'Saved' tab when I create a new document.

There MUST be an easy way to do this that I'm missing...I've searched Google but no dice.

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Correct answer Mike_Gondek10189183

Sorry forgot mention apple hides that folder. The folder you chose is not inside your username >> Library

Finder >> Go >> (hold down option) >> Library

EclecticaJess

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Does anyone know what maeks the difference between the "Mobile" tab and the "Web" tab? I want my presets to pop up in the right place (if not in the saved tab) but I'm not sure what characteristics determine the tab it's saved in.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

They are assigned to the tab you have used to set them up. So when you start off with a web document, then yours will also be web.

This is metadata and I think it can also be changed, but is not obvious how to or might even be a hack.

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isontwerp

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I found there is a template folder for Illustrator, if you use Windows 10:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC 2019\Cool Extras\en_US\Templates\Blank Templates
Only, when I saved my docs there, they did not show in the window 'create new...' so basically still looking for a solution. If I find one, I will let you know....

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

That is specifically for template (AIT) files, which are (perhaps confusingly) a separate beast from document profiles.

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/illustrator/using/files-templates.html#about_templates

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isontwerp

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Ok thank you. Do you, however, also know if it is possible to get my previously set-up documents that I regularly need in that form, to pop op as an option when I open Illustrator? Like 'create new document' and that my 'saved' ones pop up? There is a 'tab' there, with 'Saved', but it stays empty, as I do not have the option to Save a preset (like I can in Photoshop, for example) Hope to hear from you!

berzins

Inspiring

Hello. The same problem here.

There is a "Correct Answer", it seems so.
And even so ... sorry, I didn't get in. Was the question "How To Put a New Document to "Saved" menu section", right?

Is there a way to do it? Cause this way brings me even harder to find my own preset as it was before when it wasn't created.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

The "Saved" section only contains files downloaded from Adobe Stock

Please write feature requests on http://illustrator.uservoice.com

cc037991906

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Just a save preset button missing in Ai, why Adobe can't fix it long long time???????

schroef

Inspiring

They really should streamline the apps, why are they keep showing differences on how they handle saved presets. The Photoshop method is way more easier than the Illustrator method

schroef

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PS i do see them show up now, they are showing under the "Print" presets and not under "Saved" presets.

However Photoshop saves the saved document custom presets in the preferences folder, that is here:

/Users/USERNAME/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 Settings/

Here there are 2 files located; New Doc Sizes.json and MRU New Doc Sizes.jason, these 2 files contain the custom saved doc sizes.

This is what illustrator is missing and to me seems like a bug or broken GUI.

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yellowdogparty

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It'd be great if the preset system actually saved things in a usable fashion, or offered any insight into where things will show up when you actually save them in hidden away Library folder. Every Adobe program saves its presets in like 5 places and they're all different from each other. Here's a fun one, After Effects 2017 keeps trying to save animation presets in the 2015 directory, and it has tried that for two versions now.

I decided to start going around it. I've been copying their presets to my own folders in Dropbox and symlinked them back. That way I can always figure out where the hell to save them.

runninghead_design

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This may be a low-quality reply but thank you for making me laugh today!

This is just, like...WTF?! 😂
I'd say more but that might just get this deleted faster.

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yellowdogparty

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Haha, thanks!

mcr2582

Participant

I kind of liked how the new interface would retain variations of the new document specs as a history. But at some point, I lost the original profile. Even when opening those variations, it would have mostly default parameters. I couldn't find my added profiles anywhere in that interface. Switching to the old interface gave me back access to the profiles I use regularly, so I'll have to live with the fact that I don't have access to the variations anymore.

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stevew40944139

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Having worked my way through this thread, and finally managing to save a preset that appears under the expanded Print tab in the New dialogue box - I've found that when it opens, the dimensions of the file have been increased by 2.83464646464. If I open the same file from where it is saved, it opens with the correct dimensions.

Any ideas?

Also, I'm on Windows.

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robinc98191084Author

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How strange. I've just checked to see if this is happening on my Mac, and it isn't - the document is the same size as when I created it.

Anyone?

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

I've just checked to see if this is happening on my Mac, and it isn't - the document is the same size as when I created it.

did you use pixels as your unit? this doesn't seem to be a problem in that case. since they're equivalent to points already, i guess.

Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

If there is a preset you want to stick up there permanently, you can create a new .ai file in the folder location below. You will need to choose that name under profiles (using the legacy interface as Doug shows in his initial reply).

NEW DOCUMENT PROFILES

HD\Users\(user name)\Library\Application Support\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS#\en_US\New Document Profiles

You can save one page size though profile, so this is the best I have found unless anyone else has any ideas.

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robinc98191084Author

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Here's where I'm saving on my Mac:

I've tried saving the new profile (yh background.ai) directly in the New Document Profiles folder and in the en_GB subfolder, but no luck. Any Mac users out there who can tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Sounds like using the legacy interface is the best solution.

Mike_Gondek10189183

Correct answer

Community Expert

Sorry forgot mention apple hides that folder. The folder you chose is not inside your username >> Library

Finder >> Go >> (hold down option) >> Library

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

There MUST be an easy way to do this that I'm missing...

yeah you'd think so wouldn't you... but that 'saved' tab is currently only for templates downloaded from Adobe stock. document profiles you make yourself (by placing them in 'New Document Profiles' in your user folder) appear under the same tab as the original profile they were created from (so if you edit an 'Art & Illustration' document to create your custom doc profile, that's where it'll appear). I think.

there's a dodgy bug with this though that I believe is still extant: if you create a new doc profile and open it from the 'new' new doc window, its original artboard size in points will be converted to mm. so for example I have a profile that was 107 mm wide, or 303 points. in the 'new' window, its size is listed as 303 mm!

short story. I don't use the 'new' new document window at all. see this checkbox in prefs:

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robinc98191084Author

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Thanks very much Doug. That's a very convoluted way to do something that seems like it should be intuitive - especially since Photoshop offers the option to create new presets with one click. I hope this is something Adobe are looking at streamlining in the future.

I might take your suggestion and just use the old interface.

Thanks again!

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

yeah the new window will really only be usable to me if it eventually ends up working like PS. right now it just seems half assed

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