Print multiple artboards, Tile artwork on multiple pages – Adobe Illustrator CS4 User Manual
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USING ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS4
Printing
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Click a square or arrow on the Placement icon to specify the origin point for aligning the artwork in relation to the
page. Enter values for Origin X and Origin Y to fine-tune the position of the artwork.
To move the printable area directly on the artboard, drag in the illustration window with the Print Tiling tool. As you
drag, the Print Tiling tool responds as if you were moving the printable area from its lower left corner. You can move
the printable area anywhere on the artboard; however, any part of a page that extends past the printable area boundary
is not printed.
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Print multiple artboards
When you create a document with multiple artboards, you can print the document in a variety of ways. You can ignore
the artboards and print everything on one page (tiling may be required if your artboards expand the page boundaries).
Or you can print each artboard as an individual page. When you print artboards as individual pages, you can choose
to print all artboards, or a range of artboards.
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Choose File > Print.
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Do one of the following:
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To print all artboards as separate pages, select All. You can see all the pages listed in the preview area in the lower
left corner of the Print dialog box.
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To print a subset of artboards as separate pages, select Range, and specify the artboards to print.
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To print the artwork on all the artboards together on a single page, select Ignore Artboards. If the artwork
extends past the boundaries of the page, you can scale or tile it.
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Specify other print options as desired, and click Print.
Tile artwork on multiple pages
If you are printing artwork from a single artboard (or ignored artboards) that cannot fit on a single page, you can tile
the artwork onto multiple pages. If your document has multiple art
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Choose File
> Print.
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Select Tile option:
Note: If your document has multiple artboards, first select Ignore Artboards, or specify 1 page in the Range option and
select Fit To Page.
Full Pages
Divides the artboard into full media-sized pages for output.
Imageable Areas
Divides the artboard into pages based on what the selected device can image. This option is useful
for outputting artwork that is larger than your device can handle, because it allows you to reassemble tiled pieces into
the original larger artwork.
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(Optional) If you selected Full Pages, set the Overlap option to specify the amount of overlap between pages.
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