PDF Pages to Ai Artboards is BACK!
- by Mark-Anthony
- in Blog Tutorials
- posted July 17, 2011
Have you ever had a multi paged PDF document that you wanted to place into Illustrator and have every page convert into its own artboard? I have. I came across a solution a couple years ago using an apple script that was created by Shane Stanley. I had CS4 at the time and the script was intended to only work for that version. Since then, I’ve upgraded to CS5 and, now CS5.5 and when I tried to drag and drop a multi page PDF document into my CS5 version, I couldn’t do it. 🙁
Well, it’s been almost over a year and Shane has written a new apple script that is able to convert PDF documents into Illustrator artboards for CS5. 🙂
Thanks Shane, There’s balance in my Ai world once again.
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Comments
Mike Gondek
September 20, 2013 at 1:24 pmDoes not work for me CS5 (15.02)/ Mac OS 10.8.4. This download looks just like the CS4 version and I get a prompt that thsi works only with CS4.
Mark-Anthony
September 25, 2013 at 7:06 pmYou may have tried this but have you dragged the pdf to ai app to your dock? If so, drag a pdf file overtop of the pdf to artboards app. It should start to create a file in Ai and separate each page in the pdf and place it on its own artboard. I am using the app now with CS6 and it still works fine.
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November 20, 2013 at 10:36 pm[…] I also had a lot of editing to do. One of the things I worked on was the Social Media Presentation for Carl. He needed the document to be updated. The format was in PDF so to bring it into Adobe Illustrator I used this great little plug in: https://mark-anthony.ca/pdf-pages-to-ai-artboards-is-back/ […]
Mark-Anthony
November 23, 2013 at 12:02 pmGlad to hear the pdf to ai plugin helped you out. 🙂
Steve Fox
November 22, 2013 at 9:57 pmWorks for me. Could be quite useful!
Dont Wannakonw
October 4, 2014 at 10:36 pmAny chance of seeing a Ai CC compatible version of this amazing program ?
Mark-Anthony
October 12, 2014 at 1:45 pmI would hope so. I haven’t made a full transition over to CC but I will let you know as soon as I find out.