: Use an artboard as a template, exporting multiple versions with an image swap? I have an artboard with a card design and I have an image that have to change one hundred times inside that.

@Phylliss782

I think I get what you're saying now. You have a design with one image position that will be changed out with 100 different images. Right?

In that case you have two roads:

Illustrator

Use the Variables feature Horatio mentioned.

You could also set up a javascript that will read the directory of images and loop through each found image performing the following tasks.


Relink the image on your layout
Export the artwork to your chosen format


You would get into trouble if your images aren't all the same size. It would relink them at the same size, doing whatever squishing and stretching was necessary.

A more manual alternative is ...


Build your basic layout
Place that file into a new document (or another artboard)
Duplicate the artboard 100 times
Position your images
Run a script to export all your artboards


InDesign

Set up your template design and follow these guidelines for data merge. You'll just have to tag the image element in your layout and put the path to your images into a spreadsheet so data merge can do it's thing.

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@Vandalay110

Illustrator has a Data and Variables feature (window->variables) (which I have not used) that can handle graphics and linked files, as well as text.

Adobe Online Documentation: Data-driven graphics through templates and variables

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@Bryan765

Not in Illustrator, but InDesign would let you do this pretty easily. Any repeating elements could be added to a Master. You could even use dynamic data to import those images if you have them in a list somewhere.

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@Si6392903

Make the card in flash as a 100 frame animation and export the individual frames as your 'artbaords'.

Im not sure if thats applicable to you design but if it is just tiny changes in each card it may work to do it as an animation

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