Tile printing in Illustrator CS4/CS5
In a recent Illustrator training session we had created artwork with three large (24” x 36”) artboards. Someone in the class asked how to tile print the artwork onto 11” x 17” paper. “No problem” I said, just select the Tile option in Illustrator’s Print dialog.
But when we looked, that option was grayed out.
This stumped me for a moment. But then we figured out that to tile print files that have multiple artboards, you need to select the Ignore Artboards option in the Print dialog box, then the Tile option becomes available.
If your file consists of just a single large artboard, you don’t need to select the Ignore Artboards option.
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I used the tile setting to print 36" by 96" on tabloid size paper(border) and i got pretty wide linds of white grids.
when I tried the borderless tabloid, I was missing small fractions of images.
How do I tile seemless using this new feature?
@eunice: Adjust the "overlap" setting in the Print dialog box to make this work.
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