Octo for artboards and export in Illustrator

Twelve formats, three scales, not a single “Artboard 7@2x.png”. Who releases the delivery is you.

Illustrator holds up to a thousand artboards in one document and exports artboards and assets in several formats and scales at once. Octo writes the artboard plan and the export profiles, checks the document against the plan, exports without overwriting, optimizes SVG only on a copy and checks the folder by content. The artwork, the round and the delivery stay with people.

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Current version30.8August 2026, according to Adobe Help

Artboards per document1,000at most, according to the Help

Scales in Export for Screens0.5x to 3xand a custom value, with subfolders by default

Sources14listed at the end of the page

What Octo does with your artboards.

Six possible deliverables, drawn from the assessment. None overwrites a file, all check the result by content, and all go to review by whoever is accountable for the artwork.

Artboard plan

Name, size, unit, channel and profile of each piece in a spreadsheet. The name is the key that links plan, file and check.

Deliverable: plano_pranchetas.csv reviewed with the art team

Checked document

The script compares the document with the plan: missing, extra, wrong size, nonstandard name. It only creates what is missing when a person says so.

Deliverable: criar_pranchetas.jsx and report

Export profiles

Formats, scales, suffixes, SVG decimal places and maximum file size. The person, the script and the check read the same file.

Deliverable: versioned perfis_exportacao.json

Export without overwriting

Each standard artboard comes out as PNG 1x and 2x and as SVG; a nonstandard one is skipped; an existing file becomes pending in the log.

Deliverable: exportar_pranchetas.jsx and log

SVG optimized on a copy

svgo on copies, with the file size before and after; the original stays as the reference for side-by-side comparison.

Deliverable: otimizar_svg.sh and otimizacao.csv

Content check

PNG and JPEG dimensions, viewBox and duplicate ids in the SVG, name, file size, missing and extra against the plan, and a sha256 manifest.

Deliverable: conferencia.csv and manifesto.csv

Eight arms, one checked folder.

The same Octo cycle, applied to artboards and export. Each arm has a narrow role; the people approve the artwork, the round and the delivery.

Discovery
Maps what already ships

Which pieces go out every campaign, at which sizes, in how many documents and on which Illustrator version.
Data
Writes the plan and profiles

Artboard plan, export profiles and team presets in versioned files.
Security
Protects the source

Source folder read-only, a new output per round, nothing overwritten, SVG optimized only on a copy.
Architecture
Chooses the path

Export for Screens, Asset Export, Export As, a script or an open-source tool, depending on the task.
Development
Writes the scripts and check

Create and check artboards, export, optimize and check the folder, with the source of each rule noted.
Review
Checks by content

Dimensions, name, file size, viewBox, ids, missing and extra. “It exported” is not a check.
Release
Prepares the delivery

Checked folder and manifest. Delivery to the website, the app or the printer is approved by a person.
Documentation
Records what holds in your environment

Profiles, presets, who approved each round and what changed from one round to the next.

Octo does not overwrite files or optimize the original. It does not approve artwork, change an approved artboard or hold anyone's license.

Each task, its own path.

The criteria Octo uses to choose, with the documented limit of each path.

Task	Path	Note
Many pieces of different sizes	Artboards in one document	Up to 1,000; split by channel above a hundred or so
Name in series	Rename multiple artboards	Numbered sequence; fixed pattern before exporting
Artboards at several scales and formats	Export for Screens	Subfolders by scale or format are on by default
Icons and objects as files	Asset Export	Asset linked to the artwork; shareable preset
PDF of only some artboards	Save as PDF with a range	Range by panel order
Create and export from a spreadsheet	ExtendScript (`artboards.add`, `exportFile`)	With Illustrator open and a person present
Smaller SVG for the web	svgo	Only on a copy, with side-by-side comparison

From hand export to a checked folder.

Three steps. Each one only makes sense after the previous one has shown results on your team.

A proposal, not a promise

1 Today

Plan and check

Octo writes the plan and checks the folder that already goes out, without changing how you export.

Missing and extra against the plan
Dimensions and name of each file
Manifest with sha256

Benefit: fewer files sent back by the website

2 Next

Profiles and scripts

Written profiles, shared presets and scripts that check the document and export without overwriting.

Artboards checked before the artwork
Log of every file
Designer present and signing off

Benefit: no more renaming by hand

3 Later

Rounds and libraries

Approval rounds with a range and a manifest, and an icon library exported and optimized in one go.

Only what changed goes to the client
SVG optimized on a copy
Publishing from approved SVG and PDF

Benefit: the client approves the right version

Confirmed in a source.

Each point below has a source published by the vendor, the project or the responsible body. The sources are in the next section.

points with a published source, each with its reference shown alongside.

ConfirmedUp to a thousand artboards: A document holds at most 1,000 artboards; the Artboards panel reorders, renames and resizes them.Source: Adobe Help, Introduction to artboards (Aug 25, 2026)
ConfirmedRename in sequence: Several selected artboards get the same name with numbering: abc-1, abc-2, abc-3.Source: Adobe Help, Rename artboards (Oct 28, 2025)
ConfirmedExport for Screens: Scales from 0.5x to 3x plus custom, prefix, suffix, iOS and Android presets, and subfolders by scale or format on by default.Source: Adobe Help, Export artboards and assets for screens (Oct 30, 2026)
ConfirmedAsset linked to the artwork: The collected asset follows changes to the drawing; the panel preset can be exported and imported.Source: Adobe Help, Asset Export panel (Oct 30, 2026)
ConfirmedBackground export: PNG and JPEG only; mixing with SVG or PDF makes everything use the normal process, and changes made afterward are not included.Source: Adobe Help, Export artwork from Illustrator (Oct 24, 2026)
ConfirmedInkscape from the command line: Exports pages, objects by id (one file per id) and plain SVG without editor metadata.Source: Inkscape command-line manual

What Octo does and what stays with you.

Octo prepares everything, but it does not sign. The document of record stays with whoever is accountable for it.

Octo prepares

Surveys, calculates, organizes and generates the documents: files, artboards, proofs and reports.

Deliverable: material ready to check

Your team checks

The client or the art director checks what Octo delivered before approving. If something doesn't add up, it goes back to Octo with the correction.

Step: review by the approver

Who approves

Octo does not approve the artwork. Artwork carries no legal signature: approval of the artwork and the proof stays with the client or the art director.

Approval: client or art director

Sources.

Illustrator Help pages, the community scripting reference and the Inkscape and svgo pages, consulted on Oct 31, 2026.

What's new in IllustratorHelp; 30.8, August 2026
Technical requirementsHelp; version 30.0 and later
Introduction to artboardsHelp; up to 1,000 artboards
Rename artboardsHelp; rename in sequence
Export artboardsHelp; selected ones only
Export artboards and assets for screensHelp; scales, suffixes, subfolders
Export for ScreensHelp; list of formats including TIFF
Asset Export panelHelp; assets and presets
Export artwork from IllustratorHelp; Export As, background
Export file format optionsHelp; SVG options
Save and export Adobe PDF filesHelp; multi-artboard PDF
Scripting reference, DocumentCommunity; exportFile, saveAs, artboards
Inkscape, command lineProject; export-page, export-id
SVGOProject; SVG optimizer

Your artboards in Illustrator, with a written plan and a checked folder.

The assessment starts with the plan for the pieces that already go out and a check of an export folder that already exists. You get what was missing, what was extra, what came out at the wrong size and the questions only your team can answer, and you decide with that in hand.

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