How to export artboards as multiple 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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00:00 Introduction
00:19 Bleed Setup
00:50 Creating Crop and Bleed PDF Preset
02:08 Exporting Multiple PDFs
04:12 Checking Files
04:42 Outro

[yuliyaginzburg]

Thanks for sharing this, super helpful!!

[brkvsky]

I LOVE YOU woman, thanks so much you just saved me from my crashing illustrator panic )
Also the delivery is so on point )

[Thewanderingpenofficial]

OK, this is a checklist that I really really need

[nazz]

You are a Queen! thank you! I have been manually exporting with "Save As" artboard by artboard all this time...I never knew that "Export for Screens" could be used for print. Freaking Adobe needs to update that to "Export Multiple Assets" or something

[aleksdeveloper]

In case you need to export many artboards into separate PNGs (like a game character to pieces to animate it)
you just go to File->Export->Check select artboards->Select PNGs

[Thewanderingpenofficial]

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