Illustrator: Resize Artboard With Objects Inside?

Question

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, but I cannot get my artboard to re-size with objects inside of it.The reason I want to do this, as I'm creating an identity for a small start-up company in it. I want to be able to print a PDF(which I can do), with all the images. What I don't want, is the printing of various sized logos(etc), when you print them they are the same size. So I need to be able to re-size the artboard with the objects inside on the fly for creating jpg, png, etc. I hate re-sizing the artboard, then going and re-sizing the objects to fit the artboard. Can I just re-size both at the same time?

Answer 1

Currently, Illustrator only allows the repositioning/copying of artwork and artboards simultaneously. Scaling must be done separately.

To have multiple versions of the same artwork, the “.ai” file can be Placed into itself: File—> Place (using the “Link” option). The placed versions could be scaled and spread out on multiple artboards of various sizes. Whenever a change is made to the main artwork & Saved, the Placed versions would be updated by using the Links Panel. Note—the Placed versions are single, self-contained objects.