Adobe Community: Layers at artboards?

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1. Muppet Mark,

May 4, 2012 3:38 AM in reply to Mr Clint Eastwood

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Your layers are document wide so all layers are on all artboards…

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2. Mr Clint Eastwood,

May 4, 2012 4:05 AM in reply to Muppet Mark

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Ah okey, hmm.

I Would like to export my Layers to PNG and if i user the .artBoardClipping = true; i will get the space between the artboard and the layer.

If i set it to false then i would get all layer at all artboards so then i need to hide the layers that is not on the current artboard.

Hence my question How do i know what layers to hide? Is it even possible?

Or can i remove the space between artboard and layer?

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3. Muppet Mark,

May 4, 2012 7:47 AM in reply to Mr Clint Eastwood

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Hum… So your page items are scattered in 3 dimensions… X & Y across multi-arboards… and Z for the layer positioning… That is not as straight forward as it should be… Artboards do NOT have a page items collection…

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4. Mr Clint Eastwood,

May 4, 2012 11:33 AM in reply to Muppet Mark

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Okey, is there a way to open upp a PNG file and remove all the transparency in the file? Reisize it to layersize and not artboardsize?

Do you understand?

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5. CarlosCanto,

May 4, 2012 11:54 AM in reply to Mr Clint Eastwood

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Do you understand?

No, Layers don't have "size"

lets pretend you have 1 artboard and 1 layer

you draw a square in...ah...the only layer you have, layer 1. it may be on the only artbaord you have, it may not. Then you add another artboard, and move your drawing to Artboard number 2, it still on layer 1, it's the only layer you have. And still may be on artboard 1, or 2, or none (off the drawing area).

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6. Mr Clint Eastwood,

May 4, 2012 1:00 PM in reply to CarlosCanto

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Hello,

I understand that the layer does not have any size but when i export layers to PNG i only want to export where its actually drawn something.

This is at layersize:

http://imageshack.us/f/826/layeratlayersize.png/

This is at artboardsize:

http://imageshack.us/f/406/layeratartboardsize.png/

Do you understand what i mean?

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7. Larry G. Schneider,

May 4, 2012 2:03 PM in reply to Mr Clint Eastwood

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Use the Save for Web & Devices Option and in the image size tab make sure Clip to Artboard is unchecked. The PNG will then be clipped to the artwork, not the artboard.

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8. Mr Clint Eastwood,

May 4, 2012 2:45 PM in reply to Larry G. Schneider

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Hey!

That works great! its just that i want to export all artboards to a PNG with all layer that is on that artboard. So if i uncheck the Clip to Artboard then i need to hide all the layers that is not on the the current artboard that i am exporting.

Here comes the problem, how do i know what layers to hide and not? According to Muppet Mark you cant know what layer are on what artboard.

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9. Larry G. Schneider,

May 4, 2012 3:54 PM in reply to Mr Clint Eastwood

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That's true. One way would be to set up your file with all the items on each artboard on a layer by itself. Then the layer and the artboard could have the same name with sublayers to further control the objects.

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10. bluefire777,

May 5, 2012 1:02 AM in reply to Mr Clint Eastwood

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are you using the artboard panel to manage your artboards?

artboards dont respond to layer depth, think of them as on a single depth plane. all objects are flattened in that sense when it comes to exporting the artboard, although they are not, just trying to explain the concept.

you can save out multiple artboards in the save as dialogue box by listing the artboard numbers,

if you dont want transparency you would export as jpeg or tiff. - not .png

you can place all items you want to export on one artboard if you want them on the same page,

exporting to PDF allows you to combine all artboards onto one page, or each artboard on its own PDF page in the PDF document.

here`s a rundown on the basics of artboards.

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11. Mr Clint Eastwood,

May 5, 2012 8:30 AM in reply to Larry G. Schneider

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Yeah, i made the script look for the layername, if it begins with a 1 then i belongs to artboard 1.

for example: 1GreenLayer2003 will be exported with the first artboard.

Thanks for all the helo!

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12. Mr Clint Eastwood,

May 5, 2012 8:30 AM in reply to bluefire777

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Thanks for the reply but i need it to be PNG files because it is going into another application that only supports PNG files.

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13. Muppet Mark,

May 5, 2012 1:02 PM in reply to Mr Clint Eastwood

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What are you using to get each layer as *.png regardless of the artboards? Sorry just trying to get a visual of what you are trying to do… You want a *.png of each layer ( that has content? ) of each doc artboard? So artboard 1 could have 5 layers with content artboard 2 could have 20 and so on… but you only want layers for each artboard that have visible content… Am I on the right wavelength or not?

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