Adobe Illustrator - Tiling business cards for printing

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Tiling business cards for printing

2006-11-05, 10:21 pm

So, I have my card layout (front and back). Now I want to print an 11x17
sheet with 5 rows of 6 across.

I've tried to copy and paste the single card and used the Distribute and
Align options to lay out the page, but I'm having a hard time getting
both sides perfectly centered with each other.

Is there anyway to take the single card I created (on an artboard that's
1.834 x 3.4 inches; exactly 1/30th of the page) and tile it to perfectly
fill the 11x17 sheet that I want to print to? I figure if I do this with
both sides, I should end up with a perfectly centered layout.

Any help would be greatly appreceiated.

Thx,

A

steggy

2006-11-05, 10:21 pm

A wrote:
> So, I have my card layout (front and back). Now I want to print an 11x17
> sheet with 5 rows of 6 across.
>
> I've tried to copy and paste the single card and used the Distribute and
> Align options to lay out the page, but I'm having a hard time getting
> both sides perfectly centered with each other.
>
> Is there anyway to take the single card I created (on an artboard that's
> 1.834 x 3.4 inches; exactly 1/30th of the page) and tile it to perfectly
> fill the 11x17 sheet that I want to print to? I figure if I do this with
> both sides, I should end up with a perfectly centered layout.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreceiated.
>
> Thx,
>
> A
>
>
>

Your problem lies in the American inches;))))

No seriously: I am not sure how exactly you did this, but 17 times 3.4
is indeed 5, however 11 times 6 = 1.8333333333

Details.

What is the problem. Make a double letter sized landscape document.
Paste one card in it, copy and duplicate it 5 times 3.4 inches
horizontally (= 17 inches).

Select the whole row and duplicate/copy it 6 times 1.8333333333 inches
vertically (= 11 inches)

Now you have 6 x 5 cards = 30 cards on a landscape letter.

Group the whole bunch, select it and go to Transform. Click the left
upper corner on the small dotted thingy, and type in for the X and for
the Y: 0 (zero).

If your rulers are set right you are done. Do the same for the reverse.

If it does not cover the woile lettersized doc, just click the
centerpoint of your group of cards in the smae Transform thingy and set
the X to 8,5 and the Y to 5.5 (centerpoint of a double letter), the
whole thing is exactly in the center