: Illustrator: Resize Artboard With Objects Inside I've been looking everywhere, and cannot find my answer so I wanted to ask here. I know how to re-size my artboard in Illustrator and all that,

@Courtney577

First, select your vector graphics.

1: 'Transform panel' > Scale vector graphics to desired size.

2: 'Object menu' > Artboards > Fit to Artwork Bounds.

Done:)

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@Samaraweera207

Select vector
Go to "Object"
From drop down menu select "Artboards"
Select "Fit to Artwork bounds"

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@Nickens508

There is no way to do what you are asking inside of Illustrator itself.

BUT there is a way to do what you want while exporting your artwork to png/jpg/whatever. When exporting 'for web', you can resize your entire artwork, using pixels or percentages.

An Example: say I've got an image file of South America, with Colombia in blue. My artboard is 350 x 720 pixels. Now I want it to be twice the size.


I hit 'Save for web and devices' and select the file format I want.
I select the 'image size' tab (it's pretty well hidden, thanks Adobe)
I enter the size I want (eg 200 percent)
I hit 'Apply'
I inspect my image to see if it's any good.
If it is, I hit save.


It's not the fastest way of working when you need to do a lot of files. But it is way quicker than some of the options in the other answers.





Another way to go would be to open up your file in Photoshop and resize it on import. The upside to this is that Photoshop handles rasterizing much better than Illustrator, reducing chances of artifacts and errors in your images. Downside is that you have to open the file again for every different size.

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@Yeniel278

Select all the objects you wish to resize then click Object -> Transform -> Scale. You can scale uniformly and preserve ratio or independently for each axis, but do remember to tick the Scale Strokes & Effects box. Afterwards, resize the Artboard independently.

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@Heady304

Ok I've been scratching my head on this too. Was trying to manually calculate the transformation Grrr...

In my case I have svg art centered on 300x300 artboard. I need them to be 220x220 while maintaining position and relative scale.

So with the 300x300 artboard, create a 300x300 rectangle, right click Arrange -> Send to Back (so you can see your art). Select all, and make a group. Now resize to 220x220 (shift and drag to maintain aspect ratio), I also positioned top right 0x0. Now Shift+o or select resize artboard, and set to 220x220. Ungroup and delete background rectangle.

Hope this helps someone.

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@Merenda852

This can be done in a hacky way.


Create a layer that is a rectangle encompassing the entire artboard you want to scale. Make sure the rectangle snaps to the edges of the current artboard.
Make sure all layers within the artboard including the rectangle are selected.
Scale and transform the layers up to the desired size.
Then just simply redraw the artboard to the edges of the rectangle. The artboard tool should snap to the edges of the rectangle.

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@Goswami567

Do you have to resize a too many artboards? If not, try filling each artboard you need to resize with a rectangle of its same size, then group each rectangle with the contents of each artboard. Next, resize your artboards as you need. Then resize all the groups you just made so that the rectangle fits its respective artboard. Finally, delete each of the rectangles you made earlier.

This is so you keep the proportions between the artboard and its contents. Hope this helps.

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@Candy945

Place the illustrator file in InDesign, then resize:

You can PLACE the Illustrator file in an InDesign document as a linked graphic, at whatever size you need. Then you can export to PDF from there for printing.

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@Turnbaugh909

Not that I'm aware of.

The artboard size is not "connected" to the objects on it in any way. There's no command to "resize objects to fit artboard".

You might try looking into scripting. If it can be done at all, it will require scripting.

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