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Originally Posted by Gino
In illustrator when I create something say a business card...and I save it as like a tiff or jpeg it tends to crop the design not by the canvas size but by the objects in the canvas which is really annoying.
Is there an optin some where to fix this or do you HAVE to put like a solid block of white or color as the background layer to match the canvas size?
Does adding a solid block of white behind your text if your printing on white paper effect the look of the printed text?
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First, if you can at all avoid delivering work as JPG or TIFF, I can't recommend it enough. PDFs shall set you free.
If that's not an option, the quickest way to get the image exported to JPG cropped to the artboard is (ab)using the Save for Web option in Illustrator (File > Save for Web).
If you click the Image Size tab, you'll see a Clip to Artboard checkbox; check that. You'll also see a box for size, set as a percentage of the original image. 417% = ~300 DPI, 833% = ~600 DPI. Make sure you click Apply, and save your image. Ta da.
Depending on your image, the higher resolution export might not work with this method, since it's not made for this sort of thing.