Adobe Illustrator Cc 2015 Serial Number
Floriana Monterroza
In duplicating artboards in Illustrator in Windows 10. Select Alt and drag to create a new artboard NO problem. My artboards go from 25, 27, 27, 28. I cannot get a 26. I have created a new artboard at the end and even tried to move it between 25 and 27 to create a 26 and Illustrator will not do it. I still get two 27 artboards. SO the secondary 27 will not export. I have to create one at the end and rename it. I've done this for years, WHAT is going on??? It's a glitch and how do I fix it?
Anshul, I'd like to help you out with this, but I've not been able to recreate this issue, which I guess is good news (for me!) - unfortunately I can't send you client files that it was (and still is) happening in. I don't recall deleting preferences since, but I have had to sign out and back in to Creative Cloud, not sure how that would affect it though.
Same thing happened to me for the first time which I found really odd. My AI version is CC 2019, but I'm surprised since 2017, this issue has not been fixed. Usually when I want to duplicate an artboard, I would drag and drop an existing one and move it to the side. This would automatically create a new artboard for me. However, I noticed that if there was a layer/vector touching both artboards, both artboards would be assigned the same artboard number. When I deleted that layer/vector and drag from the existing artboard to duplicate, then it becomes a new artboard. However, that only worked like once or twice. Other times, when I tried it again, the artboard number would still not change, no matter how many times I tried to switch it up. So in the end, if I want to export particular number of artboards, I'll have to create new artboards in order to get different numbers to export.
Artboard names are also glitching, I thought it was just me missing something. But almost random mix ups with the artboard names is making it near impossible to export and file over 750 variant files for a client....
Sorry to hear about your experience. I checked this on Illustrator version 2020, 2021 & 2022. I assume you are using alt/opt + drag to duplicate the Artboard. For E.g., If you duplicate Artboard 1 using alt/opt + drag, that Artboard name will be Artboard 1 Copy. If you keep on duplicating it following the same technique, you will have Artboard 1 Copy 2, Artboard 1 Copy 3, and so on, but their S.No will be different.
Another scenario is you are copying & pasting using ctrl/cmd + c/v or from the edit men; in that case, Artbaird is the same name as the Artboard you copied. For Eg. If you copy Artboard 3 using ctrl/cmd + c and paste it using ctrl/cmd + v, that Artboard name will be Artboard 3, but their S.No will be different.
Just sharing my observation with you all. In order to have a proper Artboard numbering, you need to click on the "+" icon in the Artboard panel, or you need to draw using the Artboard tool & change the dimensions manually from Control Tab or Properties panel.
Sorry for the trouble. I would like to know if you tried creating an Artboard using the Artboard tool if the "+" sign was not working for you? If not, I would request you to share a few more details like:
Also, have you tried resetting the Illustrator Preferences ( -preferences.html)?
Disclaimer: Please note that resetting preferences will remove all the custom settings, and Illustrator will launch with default settings. You can also take a backup of the folders in case you want to. Location is mentioned in the article.
@Anshul_Saini I can confirm that it happened on 2 different files on 2 different workstations. I didn't try to reset preferences because this glitch don't happen often. This issue is inconsistent and cause trouble when exporting as a PDF or EPS. Illustrator will extract 2 times the first duplicate occurence. For exemple if I have page 10 as duplicate, it will export 1 to 9 then 2 times the first page 10 then will go to 11 it will skip the second page 10.
This error is still occuring. When I duplicate an artboard, or create a document with multiple artboards, I am getting duplicate artboard numbers, which is causing an error when i try save them as individual pages.
@Jonathan Quintin, I saw your video and checked your file, and I was unable to replicate the issue. I would request you both to share the file in which serial numbers are similar, as shown in your screenshots. The file shared by @Jonathan Quintin didn't have any similar serial number artboard when I opened it at my end.
Also, could you please confirm the exact version of Illustrator you are using, and did you import or keep your old Illustrator preferences or manually replace the new Illustrator preferences folder with the old Illustrator preferences folder?
My Illustrator version is 26.0.3. I didn't get this error for almost a two weeks, but my collegue had. When she was creating a document with 30 pages (with the "New..." prompt), she had duplicate pages. She closed Illustrator and tried again and it was fixed.
Myself designing logos, it's not practical to copy and paste in place whole or parts of logos on newly created art boards. Then to duplicate sets of 10 or more artworks for colour and other variants is extremely impractical.
I have been having this glitch happen for a long time and I finally figured something interesting out! It has nothing to do with the file, it is the illustrator session itself. This is why sending the file to someone does nothing, as soon as that file is opened in another session or on a different computer, the glitch is cleared. That is also why quitting illustrator completely fixes it (until it happens again that is)
I have had this issue intermittently for a few years, and in various versions of Illustrator. I just had it today in version 26.3.1. I quit Illustrator and restarted my computer, and the artboards were then normal when I went back to the same file. No idea why, but sharing that in case it saves anyone else a lot of headaches. Here's hoping this gets fixed once and for all (but if not, that a restart will continue to serve as a workaround). Otherwise, this is completely maddening.
I had the exact same problem. I used the dialog when you first start a new file to create the artboards. Using Illustrator CC, up to do date as of posting. Restarted Illustrator and it seemed to fix itself.
Are you able to reproduce it from the scratch? If yes, please provide the detailed steps. Also, if it is reproducible in any particular file then please share that file so that we can try to reproduce it at our end as well.
We do these series of slides every quarter. We open the last years quarter and update them. The artboards are usually in the same position just with that quarters modifications - color change, quarter and year change, graphs change etc. They were fine until the first update of illustrator on 10/31 hence the original post. Yesterday 11/2 an additional update for Illustrator came through. Since then the duplicate numbers have seemed to go away. They seem to be back the way they were before.
Not sure it was a Halloween thing - a "gremlin" - or the first update didn't like the older files - or just what. The numbers were as you see them - the same number 27. So it wasn't anything I typed in myself.
My co-worker and I have this issue every few days. We often work on projects with many artboards (i.e. donor walls) for export and it has led to some major issues. Restarting is not a valid solution.
Been having this issue for years. The screenshot attached are examples all from a single file I am working in right now. Close and reopen the file and the duplicates stay there, but if my coworker does the same on his computer they don't show. Makes no sense. If I try to export it ignores the second artboard of the same number and that art doesn't get exported.
Please note that resetting preferences will remove all the custom settings and Illustrator will launch with default settings. You can also take a backup of the folders in case you want to. Location is mentioned in the article.
I believe it's only happening when you create a copy (alt + drag) of an artboard. And even then, it only happens sometimes. I am having this issue as well and can't figure out how to fix it.
I have the latest version on Windows 10 installed.
I need to have Axis Values ranging from 1,000,000 to 8,000,000 and Illustrator won't let me go above 2,147,483. With or without commas. This wouldn't be a problem - I could simply use the suffix Million - however my data needs to be miscellaneous millions, i.e. 3,567,876. I found this issue dating back to 2013 and the answer was Illustrator hasn't worked out this glitch. Surely by now it has. A powerful program like Illustrator can certainly do 7-dgiti numbers, right? Please help.
i had a hunch in another topic that bugs like that could be to do with rounding problems due to illustrator's accuracy limits (i.e. 1000ths of a point). if you make your graph arbitrarily larger, does the limit change?
Same issue here, I just multiplied the amounts by 5% in order to accommodate the limitations. You can add a text label along the edge of the axis to indicate "Millions" or whatever makes sense. In my case, I deleted the axis number for my chart entirely.
And if you divide the value numbers by one thousand, you can work with no problems.
I doubt you need the bars have such an accuracy that makes visible any difference between 3,567 and 3,568 or any intermediate value. graphs are used for visual representation or comparison not for making a precision mechanism for NASA. (Excuse the comparison). Later you can edit the values (manually) entering your seven figures on the graph.