Illustrator Art board
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- Fritz
Interestingly enough, today I was told that my attention to detail is not there because I place objects outside the art board in Illustrator. Id like to hear who else lacks this detail because they place objects outside the art board?
My boss opened the file and couldnt see some objects I had created because she didnt zoom out to see what was in the file.
When you begin to open a file in Illy, it shows everything in the file, whether on the board or not.
- silencer0
If my boss said that I would punch him. In the face.
- RevoltOne0
I dont even use the art board.
- dopepope0
not sure I'm following. She's critiquing your design sense based on HOW you use illustrator? Thats weird.
- Fritz0
I agree... I cant believe she said it to me, when shes the one who needs to pay attention what shes doing before panic attack begins...
- Fritz0
Pope: no shes saying that she had to recreate some artwork, cus she didnt see it in the file I told her it was in. She didnt look around in the file, just opened it and assumed that I didnt do it. When all of it was outside the artboard because I exported other graphics in the artboard...
- Point50
Your boss is a fucking idiot. Anyone who has spent any amount of time in Illustrator would know that one is not restricted to the artboard boundaries. I know a few Jr. Colleges that offer beginning courses in Illustrator if she's not intelligent enough to find those resources on the web.
- dippy0
It sounds like your boss is just insecure about how she didn't think to look outside the artboard, so she took it out on you by saying you lack attention to detail.
- Fritz0
Dippy, I think you hit it on the nose!.
Well put
Thanks
- dopepope0
she's a tard. Prolly always in a rush, maybe being pissed on by her higher ups, so she'll take it out on you in these dumb ways. If she doesn't take the .08 seconds it takes to zoom out or move the board around, then SHE's the one with poor attention to detail. My last boss would be so agree if anyone used layers in illustrator. sometimes there's no way around it.
- jimeeboy510
I can sort of understand this comming from a production point of view. Setting up the document size and everything can means a world of a mistake or not and that means money.
I'm not sure if illy is your final file destination or what, but lets say you print it from there. The printer is set to print what is on the artboard, not whats outside of it. Could it be that you left important things outside of the artboard?
I didn't really understand your whole problem, but are the things you place outside of your artboard important objects or just stuff you set aside so it doesn't print? If that is the case, then remove what you don't use. Extra points means longer time to rip a file when sending to the printer. And time = money!
I can be wrong, but thats just my point of view from working in production.
- jimeeboy510
Another thing guys is that you have to set your file for another designer to view. Not everyone things to zoom out everytime you open a document. Some people assume that what you see on the artboard is what you get. If you hit view all, it will only show you everything withen the doc boundaries. You have to create files so that just incase you are not there to work on the project and if it gets passed on to another designer, they must be able to see it right away and know whats going on.
- swollenelbow0
actually, yeah...if you are delivering a final file to pre-press and there's all this shit around it then you suck.
if you are working on some comps or something else like that who cares, use the entire thing, i always put shit everywhere but when it comes down to giving a final file i make sure it's nice and clean.
- dopepope0
actually jimeeboy makes good points. But had you adhered to all production laws of your task, then she's a tard.
- Point50
It sounds like the file Fritz was talking about in Illy was just a workspace. Boss then opened to grab some elements and didn't have the subconcious thought to look outside of the artboard perimeter.
Honestly, if you really have any experience with illustrator at all, I would hope you would have enough sense to look outside of the artboard. All that space wouldn't be available for you to use if it wasn't practical. The boss was just mad because he/she duped herself and also wasted time re-creating elements taht were already done.
- jimeeboy510
anyway...MOST women are just hard to for. Unstable creatures.
- vburo0
due when i am studying forms or creating assets for a bigger illy i always had the artboard at the start.. it's so limiting..
- cindsoo0
from now on you should no longer work inside the artboard at all. work really far in a corner where you have to zoom out like 10 times.
- Fritz0
This file was just for comps, not print, I have a better sense than to leave unused art on in the file when its for print. It was for creating artwork for PowerPoint and thats all. She didnt take the time to zoom out, instead panicing as if I didnt do the work. We have the flow laid out as if someone has to pick up when someone is out, same for filing, but to lay it on me as if it was my fault is a little arrogant and to say that everything should always be in the artboard is a crock of shit.
- timg0
must say i agree with the boss.
maintaining a clean file from begining to end is good habits to keep. no stray points, no empty text paths, and art on the artboard.
if you accidently left hidden objects way off your artboard (like stray points!) and sent a file to press, it could potentially cost your boss bigtime.
i like to keep all my art on my artboard simply because i can easily see everything with a simple cmnd-0, and zoom in and out from there with the adjacent -/+.
if you like to spread your objects out while designing, set your default document size to a massive page size and adjust to finished dimensions when completed.
- Duane0
Although zooming is an easy thing (and obvious to most people) if you're trading files wiith others you have to come up with a way for them to pick up where you left off. Ain't no big thing though. I don't keep my assets on the artboard, but I'd make sure to communicate that to the next person in line.