Comments on: Quick Tip: Guides In Multiple Artboards

By: Laurelby

Laurelby — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:26:26 +0000

For my basic inside margin guides, I draw a rectangle 1/2″ smaller than my artboard, align to center of artboard, right-click and “Make guidelines”. If guides are left unlocked these will also be copied to new artboards when holding Opt+drag to create new artboard.

By: Torpiedo

Torpiedo — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:20:29 +0000

Is it possible to run one gradient across multiple artboards? I’ve got a project where I am doing several banners and want to use a common gradient so, even though they need to be designed to hang individually, they all work together when hung as a trio set. Is it possible to make one gradient work across say 3 artboards? I haven’t found the method to do that yet.

By: Twisty

Twisty — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:05:22 +0000

I’ve been using cs5 for a couple of weeks now and love it.
I don’t mean to turn this into a illustrator vs indesign thread but i’m sick of purists who won’t even do a newspaper ad in anything but indesign.
I lay out lots of brochures and flyers in illustrator because most of the work i do is very graphics heavy – usually illustration and photos, with a small amount of text. Why would i go back and forth between the two when i can just lay it up in illustrator? If on the other hand i was doing something that involved alot of copy i would start it in indesign. I’m just sick of people slagging off designers who choose to do simple layouts in illustrator. Each job is different. *Getting off high horse now*

By: Richard Welch

Richard Welch — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:24:45 +0000

Cheers for this tip.

The thing is, going back to the argument about Illustrator and InDesign.. I prefer Illustrator for layouts where the pages are likely to be different dimensions within the same document. Creating a Web layout, Stationary pack or specific types of packaging are all examples of this. Unless Adobe adds the functionality to make different page sizes within a document in InDesign, then I will continue to use Illustrator for the above examples. I actually really like InDesign because of its speed.

By: Rype

Rype — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:54:39 +0000

I don’t know of any way of creating a Horizontal Guide that appears on ever artboard when the artboard are aligned vertically. What I do is create one artboard with the guides exactly how I want them on all artboards, make sure the guides are unlocked, then use the Artboard tool, hold down Option/Alt a drag a copy of the artboard and guides, creating a exact copy.

The Artboard feature is new in CS4 so I think people are still finding out works best. Really, I think whatever works best for you is the right way to go.

By: William

William — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:20:50 +0000

Thanks for posting this!

In my case, the artboards are arranged vertically. I can easily put one vertical guide that runs across everything, but I can’t figure out how to do one horizontally that appears on all the boards.

Do people normally stack all their artboards? I’m getting back into Illustrator, and artboards are new to me.

By: Rype

Rype — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:33:00 +0000

Are all the artboards on top of one another? If they are, just a guide outside of the artboards to cover all the artboards.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:08:59 +0000

Good tip – in related matters – do you know how to add identical vertical guides on all the pages? It’s driving me crazy!

By: D Ward

D Ward — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:08:23 +0000

He means designing packaging is easier in Illustrator – it’s kind of the unwritten standard for packaging layouts.

Packaging the files, on the other hand, is sorely lacking from Illustrator. I swear Adobe doesn’t include that just to try to make people use both Illustrator and InD.

By: Kristint

Kristint — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:46:22 +0000

@ SILICONJONES:

How is packaging easier in Illustrator than InDesign? I’ve googled how to do this and I can’t find out out how. I use InDesign the most and all you do is go to File>Package. How much easier can it be? I’m looking forward to your feedback as I’m been trying to find this out for a while–thanks!!