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This will bring up my Document Properties dialogue box, which contains some customization options for our document and canvas. To start this process, I’ll go to File>Document Properties. Luckily it is pretty easy to make a few tweaks to Inkscape and have your canvas look exactly like Adobe Illustrator’s artboard. This makes it hard to tell precisely when you are drawing on the canvas and when you have gone off of it.

In Inkscape, however, both the active and inactive parts of my canvas are white by default (shown in the bottom portion of the first photo), and the border disappears whenever an object is drawn on top of it (in other words, the object obstructs the border – shown in the photo above, denoted by the red arrow). Additionally, the border that outlined the artboard always displayed on top of any portions of my designs that spilled off the artboard. Perhaps this is simply because I was used to Illustrator’s artboard set-up (shown in the top portion of the photo), which included a dark gray background for all of the areas that weren’t on the artboard, and a white background for areas that were on the artboard. We teach from experience -not from a manual.As a longtime Adobe Illustrator user, the toughest part of transitioning to Inkscape was opening the program and seeing an all-white canvas staring back at me. Multiple artboards can be used for including multi-page sizes in one file, storyboards, multiple design concepts, multi-page documents, etc…but no matter what you use them for, one thing is for certain -multiple artboards make our lives easier! Interested in learning more about Multiple Artboards and the other great features in Illustrator? We offer small, hands-on Illustrator classes, taught by expert instructors. The dimensions of the artboards can be changed at any time. Now you can use the control panel to generate a new artboard-this artboard will have the same properties as the selected artboard. When you select the artboard tool, you will enter Edit Artboards mode. The second method for creating artboards is to add them as you go using the artboard tool.You can have up to 100 artboards in 1 document! When you create a new document, you can enter the number of artboards in the The New Document dialog box.There are two different methods to creating multiple artboards: The multiple artboard tool in Illustrator gives the user more flexibility and looks beyond the traditional multiple-page document by letting the user define the order, the size and the location of each artboard within the file.Ī designer is putting together a letterhead, envelope and business card for his/her client-the designer can define 3 different size artboards within the same file instead of creating 3 different files. Traditionally when you think of a multi-page document, you might think of a catalog, magazine, book layout, etc…design projects that have the same page size and are printed and bound.

But multiple artboards go beyond multi-page projects… don’t worry, I will explain. It’s hard to imagine, but pre-Illustrator CS4 you could not create multi-page documents in Adobe Illustrator.

When Illustrator CS4 was released in October 2008, one of the greatest new features was the addition of multiple artboards and the multiple artboard tool on the toolbar.