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Creating
Multiple Page Documents
With Adobe® Illustrator® |
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Adobe Illustrator does not provide for multiple page documents
per se. It only recognizes a single page. However, it does
provide for tiling printed output if the page size exceeds
your printer's paper size. Page tiling is simply where the
printed output is divided up into "tiles". Each tile is the
size of one sheet of paper. Essentially, you setup the artboard
to be a custom page size whose dimensions are in multiples
of a single sheet of paper. Then you tell Illustrator to tile
the output when printed. Following is a step-by-step example.
1. First click File > New. The default page size
is 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches (letter size). The view in the
document window should look similar to the one below.

Click File > Document Setup... In the Artboard
section of the dialog, choose "Custom" for the size, and enter
the page dimensions in the Width and Height boxes. In this
case we will make the artboard four times the width of a single
sheet of paper - 34 inches (4 x 8 1/2 inches). We'll leave
the height at 11 inches. In the View section of the dialog,
choose "Tile full pages". Click "OK" when done.

3. Now, the view in the document window should look similar
to the one below. Note that the page tile numbers (shown below)
do not print.

4. Build your layout like you would any other multiple page
document. The pages are divided between the page tiles. When
you click File > Print, Each tile will output as
a separate page.

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Tip:
If you want to save the file as a multiple page PDF, don't
use File > Save As > PDF, otherwise you will only
get a one-page PDF the size of the artboard. If you want
to make a multiple page PDF file, use Adobe Acrobat® Distiller®
and click File > Print > to Distiller. |
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