[chasg]

Hi All,

I've just started to use the new version of Illustrator (10), and I'm having a very strange problem.

The artboard and page tiling boxes are not lining up. They're both set to the same size, and in Illustrator 9 they work perfectly together (the artboard box contains a centred, inset, page tiling box).

In 10, the page tiling box seems to be misaligned wih the artboard box (if I set the artboard to be much bigger than the page tiling box, then I can see the entire page tiling box, but when they are the set for the same size paper, say A4, they don't line up).

What in the world is going on? Unless I can fix this, I can't print from 10!

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

Chas

[art_director]

click and hold the button down on the hand tool in your tool palette. the option to switch to the page tool will appear. with the page tool you can determine where you would like the page tiling to be placed.

[godzookie2k]

doublecheck your page setup on your _printer_ drivers to make sure that its set to print as close to the edge as it can, 'maximum' if you would.

[Corys]

is it just me or has printing from Illustrator always been an absolute mystery..
I gave up trying to print out of AI a few years ago, maybe it's fixed with 9/10?

[godzookie2k]

I don't think so...I always found going to the file menu and clicking print usually worked out fine, no mystery. what are you on about?

[chasg]

art_director, I owe you one. I've been using Illustrator _forever_ (I've kept my version 1 box, as a souvenier :-), and honestly have never used the page tool. Just one of those things you learn to not see :-)

Dunno _why_ 10 insists on misaligning the page and artboard though (this from newly created docs).

godzookie2k, thanks for the info. I definitely checked that, but it was a good suggestion.

Chasg

[godzookie2k]

damn, attack of the forgotten threads. Yeah, I've never had the problem of the page not lining up with the print edge, but to each his own. That page tool is also useful for tiling large illustrator documents, the options are in the document setup window.

[art_director]

chasg:

i never used the page tiling before illustrator 10 either. as always i learned the trick at 3:00 a.m. while crunching on a hot project.

always happy to help...

cheers.