Illustrator Serial Number Cs5
Jorgelina Celli
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?
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 use illustrator with multiple artboards to design website layouts. Often I start at the beginning (what I think is the beginning at the time) and get 15 pages deep. Then I realize that I need to add another page at the beginning. I want this page to be page 1. Is this possible to do without physically moving all the elements in a page one by one?
In the Artboards panel (Ctrl + SHIFT + O) you can re order the artboards listed by dragging a row up or down to the required position. This renumbers the artboards. Great for the purposes of exporting, no more reordering pdf pages each time.
Artboards are given a default name reflecting the initial number but this is just a label - you can rename an artboard either when the artboard tool is active by clicking the label of the actual artboard or using artboards panel options menu.
Moving them around so that they are visually ordered is a bit of a pain - you can use the artboard tool to move them which best done zoomed out but if you stop dragging while over another artboard it will pick up all art work that is under it when you start dragging again (Ctrl + Z to the rescue).
click on the Artboard tool before running, to see the Artboard Indexes. In this scenario, lets pretend we had 3 artboards and we need to add a 4th one, and insert it between 1 and 2, so page 4 becomes 2, page 2 becomes 3, and page 3 becomes 4.
There isn't currently a way to renumber artboards in AI, so you'd have to do some kind of workaround no matter what. Possibly you export to Illustrator PDF then Place the pages on new artboards in a new document, but I don't see that would be faster than simply moving the contents of the artboards.
I received 12 CS4 files that each had 3 artboards. The majority had the artboard order as 1,2,3. But a couple of the files had the artboards go 1,3,2. When auto updating in my InDesign layout the artboards would import out of order. So I would go into Illustrator, duplicate the last artboard, and delete the original one I just duplicated. That put them back in order. Basically: original order was 1,3,2. Duplicate 2, which is now artboard 4. Delete the original #2 and now the artboards read 1,2,3.
i had 4 artboards and wanted to add one more at the front, for a total of 5. i started by going to document setup, edit artboards. once there, to visualize, i added a new artboard to the left of artboard 1. this new artboard was labeled 5. reading left to right the boards were numbered 5,1,2,3,4. next, i again clicked add new artboard, labeled 6. this time i positioned 6 directly on top of artboard 1. it now read 5,6,2,3,4.
i then exited the edit artboards menu. when i went back to document setup, edit artboards, the numbers were now 4,5,1,2,3. i repeated the above step of covering artboard 1 with a new artboard and then deleting it.
this simply moved the number 1 artboard to the right each time until it eventually went back to the start and read 1,2,3,4,5 from left to right. and voila, no moving artwork but newly numbered boards.
Drag the artboard in the toolbox to the numeric position you want. Then, rename that artboard. You may have to add a *.1 extension to the name to differentiate it temporarily. Do the same for each artboard you need to change. The problem is that when it comes to Exporting and naming to Share with colleagues, if you don't get that Artboard order fixed, your Artboards will not be in the order you want. Its a PITA that Devs need to think about a better, cleaner solution. It sucks when you realize that you've got a few pages out of order. I think its a result of auto rearranging.
When I add or duplicate an artboard it always skips number 5, has duplicates of number 7 then continues along normally (at least up to number 20 for this experiment). Is there a way to fix this?
The attached image is from a new document that I created and just added 20 total artboards. I typically only work with 5 to 6 artboards, so the skipping of number 5 and duplicate of number 7 is very annoying. I've tried quitting/restarting, rebooting the system, multiple new documents, multiple existing documents created with CS5. All have the same result.
I know you said "yes" there, but the fact that you felt it necessary to mention the fresh install compels me to suggest that you reset preferences again. The "freshness" of the install doesn't guarantee clean operation. And, if when you installed the new version, if you chose
I'm not sure that works. I recorded doing what you said but all that does is change the placement of the artboards. The numbers on the left side are what I want to change. They remain out of order. (Missing 5, duplicate of 7).
I know you said "yes" there, but the fact that you felt it necessary to mention the fresh install compels me to suggest that you reset preferences again. The "freshness" of the install doesn't guarantee clean operation. And, if when you installed the new version, if you chose to preserve your settings from the previous install (assuming you were presented with the option), that by itself could be the source of your problems.
I am working on a project that involves printing 300 county registration decals, which will each need to have a different number, from 001 to 300. Obviously it would be quite a pain to have to retype the number 300 times and save/print the decals as 300 different files. It is not just a number in the bottom right hand corner like a page number, rather a large number in the middle of the sticker.
Does anyone know of an auto-number function or plug-in that would allow me to do this in Illustrator without individually changing the number 300 times? Help! I need an answer soon or I will have to number them manually to complete this order.
Do you have InDesign and a spreadsheet program (Excel or Numbers)? If so, place the AI file onto a master page in InDesign and, while still on the master page, format a number in a text frame until it looks right. Make the text frame tall enough for only one line of text at that size. Delete the text but keep the text frame. Go to page 1.
Use your spreadsheet program to generate a column of numbers from 1 to 300, then export that as a text file. Now place that file into InDesign and hold Shift as you click on the text frame on page 1. All 300 numbers will pour in creating 300 pages. Export a PDF or print as needed.
If you don't use InDesign, or if the numbers need to be more graphically embellished than is possible in InDesign, you might take a look at a couple of the AI Javascripts described here.
To semi-automate production of a set of highly-stylized sequentially-numbered text objects, the SerialNumbers script can be used in conjunction with the TextVariablesFTROU script described here to create Variables Palette DataSets that can then be batch printed or exported.
I normally use "Data Merge" in InDesign and use Excel (or something like it) to generate the list of numbers for me. You would copy the numbers into a text file so that InDesign can read them as the merge data source. Note that you would have one ticket on the page and then let InDesign set the other tickets on the page (you can tell the Data Merge control panel about spacing).
On a master page, create a text box. rightclick/insert special character/markers/current page number (also under the type menu). Have your ticket image on the master page too, then just create x number pages for x number of tickets.
I am from supercoloring and we decided to convert our vector illustrations in color to color by number worksheets. Our input files are color and outline images in svg format.Outline version (like a coloring page) + Color version
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