How can I export an image from Illustrator image at multiple sizes?

Question

I am new to Adobe Illustrator and I have a logo image which I need to use in 5 or 6 different sizes. The logo image was created in Adobe Illustrator, but when I try to save the image to PNG or JPEG what should have been simple turns out to be very complicated.I understand that Adobe Illustrator wants to treat the image as a certain size, and then wants to multiply that size by a pixels per inch scale factor to result in the actual number of pixels that it saves. It has a few limited scale factor choices which give a *very* limited set of resulting output pixel sizes.However for many web uses the user already knows the output pixel dimensions that are needed. Is there a way of just specifiying either the pixel width or height of the saved graphic which is needed?I have seen suggestions to export the image and then use Photoshop to resize it, but that results in a poorer image quality vs. creating the final image from the vector image.

Answer 1

If you need the same logo sized for different sizes of screens, you can choose "export for screens" from the file menu. But, I personally prefer to manually do it in Illustrator by scaling the logo up or down.

You can create multiple artboards and size each to the specific pixel dimensions. Copy the logo into the new artboards and scale it to fit. Then, choose "export" from the file menu, click on the check box to choose "all artboards," and pick the file format.