Only showing art board

hi iv got a really strange photoshop problem, when i open a project ( except a new project which seems to work) i can only see the art board, the layers are ther but i cant see them in my window, like i said if i place things in a new document that works but opening a file this just happens.

This is a pretty common display driver problem.
Usually it can be remedied by visiting the web site of the maker of your video card, and downloading/installing their latest display driver release that matches your hardware and operating system.
-Noel

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This is really frustrating because the old crop marks system is gone and oh well it is just frustrating.
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He cheryl,
Thanks for your reply, but then i can't use the art board to crop the image... there is always transparent space around the artwork.
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Hi.
Can somebody tell me how to configure the Adobe Bridge CS4 so that it shows/views/displays individual art boards (that I can scroll thru) and NOT the whole *.ai file (which contains ALL the art boards)?
I want to preview the individual art boards as a larger image, and when they all appear together in the *.ai file, they appear smaller.
At the bottom of this page:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/illustrator/articles/lrvid4016_ai.html
it says;
"To view documents, open Adobe Bridge and select an Illustrator document from the Content panel. A larger view of the document appears in the Preview panel located to the right of the Content panel. When viewing an Illustrator file with multiple artboards, click the right-facing arrow below the preview to display each of the artboards."
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Did you check if there is an update for that script?
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I absolutely agree.
I don't ever recall using a program that created arcs and circles like AI. A circle appears simply to be 4 arcs of 90 degrees. You cannot change the start and end angles, either by dragging the points or by dialog input. I'm not an illustrator by training - I'm a technical writer but I've been doing line illustrations, exploded views, etc. for almost 20 years using various vector-graphics programs. Every program I've used allows you to alter an arc, elipse or both, NOT just size and move!!
I'm only evaluating AiCS4 for possibly migrating from FreeHand. In Freehand, you cannot change the angle of an arc but you can with elipse. Even the limited graphics package in FrameMaker allows you to define the start/end angles of an arc (not an elipse) via the properties dialog.
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I have a file with multiple art boards with a lot of high res imagery on each one. I need to save these files to PDF individually (or two, three at a time) for my purposes, but when I do, the PDF size seems to encompass the entire file, rather than just the art boards I've chosen to export. For instance, I have 10 Art Boards, but I only export Artboard 1 and 5 to a PDF - my resulting PDF is huge. But, if I were to create a new, separate file with just the two art boards and saved as a PDF from there, my PDF size is about 20% the size. Obviously, I don't want to have to recreate these files every time I want to save as a PDF, which is why I wanted them all in one file to begin with.
Any ideas on how to manage this?

Just export those pages as PDF and make sure you don't check "Preserve Illustrator editing capabilities" in PDF options

Art board changes from CS3 to CC?

We are updating our workflow, and with it, software. Going from CS3 to the creative cloud. For years we have stuck to CS3 as our downstream customers were slow to update and it was beneficial to provide the product in an older format usable to the broadest user base. Now we are upgrading to CC and I'm experiencing difficulty translating older Illustrator documents to Creative Cloud.
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Anyone experience this in CC and is there a fix for it? See screen grabs below:
This is the way the document appears in Illustrator, notice the zero zero point.
When the document is distilled, the art board shrinks:

LTU,
how do I fix it so its consistent?
I believethe following ways still work:
A) Install and run the script in the OP of this thread,http://forums.adobe.com/thread/890507?tstart=30
or
B) Manually change the relevant preference settings as follows:
0) Close down Illy (you can only change the preference file with Illy closed);
1) Find and open the AIPrefs (Win speak) or Adobe Illustrator Prefs (Mac speak) file withe a text editor like Notepad or TextEdit; the preference file is a (hidden) file in the (hidden) folder Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings
2): Find and change the following two bits of code:
/isRulerOriginTopLeft 1 >>> /isRulerOriginTopLeft 0 (change 1 to 0)
/isRulerIn4thQuad 1 >>> /isRulerIn4thQuad 0 (change 1 to 0)
This is a global change so you only have to do it once (just as you can undo it once).
You may find the folder as described in <a href="http://www.bugge.com/Family-and-friends/Illy/illy.html">Move the folder</a>.
Also, it doesn't explain the discrepancy between Distiller and saving as a PDF within CC.
I have no clue about that one, I am afraid. I hope someone else has.
Someone?

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I’m trying to do something very simple yet can’t seem to figure it out.
I’d like to work with my vector graphic line drawing on a completely transparent background. My goal is to add color in blocks behind the line drawing.
I know how to import my artwork, placing it on the art board, and then make a Live Trace. And I understand how converting it into Live Paint will create outlines. But it looks like if I want to remove the default color of the art board (White), I need to also remove the color of the line. And I don’t want to have to re-color all of my line.
I remember in the old days of Streamline how this was possible. (My last version of Illustrator was the original CS, so I’m way behind.) It looks like the only option for coloring artwork in CS4 is to do it exactly inside the lines, super-clean. And I’d like the freedom to paint behind the line.
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Win 7, Illustrator CS5, plenty of RAM & ROM
I am having trouble with PNG transparent files also. This work is from an original EPS, so no tracing is involved. I wish to use the file in PowerPoint so I need the transparency. As I mentioned above, I thought that PNG files were natively transparent, unless you add a coloured background.
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Art board

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to create a 8 1/2 by 11 inch landscape document with 7 art boards..
the 8 1/2 by the 11 document I can do no problem. but after that I need to create 7 art boards inside the document..
That I do no know how. They need to be 6" x 4 1/4" frame. Any help guiding me through this is much appreciated.. I never made art boards before.
Thank you.

Holdig the shift key down allows you to create an artboard inside and artboard you resize it in the Control Panel and you can duplicate by holding the option key down and dragging with the artboard tool or using the new artboard icon in the control panel
I did a video because it would nice to have a video if i hhad to show this to a client.
http://www.wadezimmerman.com/videos/Artboards2.mov
You should however read the help files to learn more about artboards and how and what you can do with them.
The response in the previous post is really the correct answer as yhere is a lot more to know then what is on the video.

How do I get the screen to refresh when drawing a line larger than the art board

How do I get the screen to refresh properly when drawing a line larger than the art board when the screen scrolls? Everything turns white in CS6, CS5 and CS4.

Existing art - not the new art. The new art just gets a proxy shape - seen in my example as the blue rectangle. The existing art is what gets smeared as you drag past the edge of the screen. If it's anything other than an Ilustrator thing, it's a Mac thing. I've never known it to be any other way other than maybe in the past showing blank white instead of stuttered art on probably 10 different macs over the years.
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How does Wade take his videos?

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When dragging and dropping an image from FF 20/21 into AI CS6, it forces elements on the art board to be displaced.
The image dragged into the app will plop into the middle of the art board, and anything in the file just gets moved.
Where it gets moved to is inconsistent- but it appears to always move on a diagonal.
Probably one of the weirdest things I've ever seen AI do, in 10+ years...

It turns out that this doesn't only happen in Firefox, but the results appear (at this point) to be completely random.
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Also, I have some examples where it is not happening at all in Firefox.
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