We will cover both, so you can decide which one is more useful for you. A limitation that still persist by the time of writing this article.Īs mentioned, there are two ways to use the ‘Export for Screens’ functionality. Illustrator allows you to create only 100 artboards per single document. But there is a caveat with Artboards you probably heard about. With the new ‘Export for Screens’ feature you can export Artboards and Assets (a group of vector objects - in our case icons) to multiple sizes and formats with just a click. With the release of Illustrator CC 2015.3 in June 2016, Adobe made promising steps to help icon designers exporting icon sets much easier. Imagine you had an icon set with 1000 icons, that needed to be exported to 5 different formats and 8 sizes. For me, it took days or even weeks with a lot of manual work: clicking, naming the files, resizing, etc. Making an icon set with a few hundred icons and exporting them to various sizes and formats can be a Sisyphean task.

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