How to Export artboards as multiple print ready PDFs in Adobe Illustrator.

Have you ever wondered if you could export multiple artboards as individual print-ready PDFS in one easy step, in Adobe Illustrator? In this video, we’ll show you how!
Whether you are an in-house designer or a freelance graphic designer, you know that tips and tricks to increase your production speed can be a game changer. It could be label design, packaging design, poster design, or any other print design that you are working on. You know when you have a pile of different artboards from previous drafts or design things you tried, but you have a few perfect ones in there that you want to export print ready? Yeah you could do them 1 by 1, but in this video Gabby will show you a tool that you can use to do this in 1 quick step. Not many designers would think of it because it is called “export for screens”. Enjoy this free Graphic Design Tutorial.
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[@jessicaferreira4053]

Thank you! Fast and straightforward as we love it

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Sweeeeet. Glad you thought so ☺️ There is a longer form one too if you want to deep dive into it a bit ua-cam.com/video/IFkAOEViTbQ/v-deo.html

[@rachelatprintedpagestudios7729]

You. Are. My. Hero. Thank you!!!!

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Awesome! So glad you found value in it.

[@NumanDotDesign]

this was exactly what I needed. Thanks.

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

You're most welcome! So glad we could help ya out. Such a neat lil work around.

[@shrimpinpat]

But won't save for web save out as SRGB or RGB rather than CMYK for print?

[@squidzink9203]

whether you can do this to CMYK is the key question. That would be "print ready," in most cases.

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Totally valid concern! We're actually using "Export for Screens" and not save for web. Plus with my file color mode starting in CMYK it keeps it in CMYK. I've done some tests where I check the PDF after using color separations in Acrobat and all the color levels show CMYK and stay accurate ☺️

[@gync4]

PDF file still keeps all the pages when you open it in AI and pdf every file becomes very heavy, any solutions?

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Yaaaaa it will do that whether you use this trick or the traditional export a PDF individually. The only way to combat it is to create a file where the surrounding space and other artboards are clear and it has just what you want in the PDF. You could open the PDF after it's saved and delete all the unneeded stuff and then hit save again.

[@ossamakotaich6467]

Amazing

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

thank you!!!

[@izaturska7011]

so helpful, thank you!

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

You're so welcome!

[@johnodo77]

thank you for your help but still this is not really user friendly from Adobe.... why is it so complicated for them to fix that U_U

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Yaaaaa it would be nice to have a built in option right?! But, it be what it be. Glad this was helpful nonetheless! ☺️

[@evingood7133]

Illustrator, ever since updating, keeps the rest of the art boards inside the individual PDFs after exporting. Not sure how to make it to where Illustrator exports only 1 art board, as a PDF, at a time...

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

I think this might be something it's always done, but definitely not sure about that....but yes, unfortunately it will have all the other hiding stuff still in that PDF. So the way to fix it is to delete everything you don't need before saving, or you can open that PDF after and tidy up by deleting any extra stuff. Then just hit save again. That way, your PDF will only include the important stuff without any extra baggage.

[@khaleeqkhan358]

Thanks for quick solutin😊

[@ThouseefMohammedShabir]

How to do same for photoshop?

[@ryanlockhart7613]

This is great thanks for this. Is there a way to keep the CMYK color space? it looks like using "export for screens" changes it to RGB.

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Hey heyyyy! hmmmm that's interesting. As long as your file color mode starts in CMYK it keeps it in CMYK every time I've done tests and checked it. I've tested where I check the PDF using color separations in Acrobat and all the color levels show 100% CMYK and stay accurate for me.

[@hudaalzoubi4722]

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[@S1MONSAYSVR]

Thanks!

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

You bet!