View only artboard - Illustrator 77 Responses

Last post: 2 years, 2 months ago | Thread started: Mar 2, 10, 2:21 p.m.

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• detritus

  Dunno - I've always made a full-canvas sized white vector with the artboard area knocked out, as the topmost layer.

  • same here– jmilligan1/3

    i do the same thing also i use endless layers and show/ hide.– e-pill2/3

    dit-three– set3/3

  

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  Dog-earMar 2, 10, 2:45 p.m. – Permalink

• doesnotexist

  save as PDF

  

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  Dog-earMar 2, 10, 2:55 p.m. – Permalink

• orrinward

  Saving as PDF is the neat way, but there's probably some faster way. It'd be neat if there was a "preview current artboard" setting thrown in somewhere.

  

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  Dog-earMar 2, 10, 3:03 p.m. – Permalink

• shapeaspect

  detritus - I do that a lot too. Was just wondering if there was a quick and easy way to achieve the same thing.

  • what if you have hidden layers or hidden objects that are on the artboard?– e-pill1/3

    Well that's fine. All I'm meaning is during the process I do this just to hide everything that's not on the artboard for preview purposes. When It comes to final output of course then I'd tidy everything up– shapeaspect2/3

    ..preview purposes. When It comes to final output of course then I'd tidy everything up– shapeaspect3/3

  

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  Dog-earMar 2, 10, 3:03 p.m. – Permalink

• duckofrubber

  When you show outlines (command-Y) it shows everything, yes?

  

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  Dog-earMar 2, 10, 3:17 p.m. – Permalink

• doesnotexist

  I hardly ever use just the artboard area, and if I do it's tiled 8.5x11 pages on a big 100"x100" artboard

  • with things to size/clipped with views– doesnotexist

  

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  Dog-earMar 2, 10, 3:19 p.m. – Permalink