Ai's implementation, all with two different panels, may feel cumbersome (I mean, all of Ai *is* cumbersome, the whole thing), but AD's implementation seems dumbed-down and broken by design. I hadn't done any complex, multi-artboard documents in AD before, but now that I started trying that out I realised just how limited AD is and… to be honest, I feel a bit cheated. That turns “Slices” into a bit of a misnomer when applied to artboards… 1992?Īlso… is there any replacement for artboards in AD, as in a proper slice tool that actually slices things in half but still shows up on the Draw persona? Because it seems you can't really slice an object between two adjacent artboards, as it can only “exist” on/belong to either one of them.
OBJECTS NOT SHOWING IN DOCUMENT INFO ILLUSTRATOR PDF
Are we working with a modern and supposedly WYSIWYG vector app with full PDF and pre-press support, or with AutoCAD ca. So… artboards are these transparent, diaphanous entities that allow objects to show through, but unless you manually specify on a panel which ones belong to them, they won't show up when exporting. Yes, I know it makes sense from a database/file structure standpoint, but from a visual standpoint it's a mess. It feels as if AD is working against you, in a quite frankly illogical fashion. I understand that you can still make objects visible, even with the “Clip to Canvas” option grayed-out, by dragging them outside of the artboard they're in in the Layers panel, but then they won't export because the corresponding slices will be empty… even though it doesn't seem like it visually when looking at the working area, the artboard/slice will seem to have content, but only after exporting the files or by looking at the layers panel thumbnails will the user realise they are, in fact, empty. I was playing around and reading the forums here, and I found out a few things about AD that left me utterly dismayed. And I'm not using the word “broken” liberally here having access to objects that extend past the artboard edges, even if temporarily, is of paramount importance how else are you supposed to be able to easily select (and drag) objects that may have only a smidge inside the artboard?īut wait: it gets worse. This modal logic that determines that a document can be in either single- or multiple-artboard “mode” (and it's an invisible mode, at that, not like your well-thought-out personas), with different tools available depending on which “mode” you're in, adds unnecessary complexity and makes the app feel a bit broken. Even if things may look a bit messy in certain documents, because of artboard positioning, that should be our choice to make. Hi! I just wanted to chime in… Even if you don't change a thing on the way AD treats artboards and layers, this feature (being able to toggle “Clip to Canvas” in multiple-artboard documents) absolutely must become available at some point in the future.
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