artboards-prompt.md
c122 — Illustrator artboards (2026-10-23)
Mark's prompt, verbatim. Produced: artboards-plan.md, from a probe of 15 drive .ai files.
with illustrator files, they tend to have multiple pages per file. Often the pages are quick iterations horizontally. Let's create a plan for documenting the contents of the illustrator files, not just their previews. Each page becomes a png? then we can show sequences by stitching pngs together. This will add to our page evolution content.
Follow-up, mid-plan (verbatim), which moved sequencing from automatic to manual tagging:
it will be difficult to derive that yourself, I think we would want to stitch these sort of things together manually in post. Tagging?
Steps 1–2 (verbatim). Produced: scripts/drive-artboards.mjs (npm run drive-artboards), server/data/drive-artboards.json, public/library/artboards/, and the canvas map on /library:
Start step 1 of the artboards plan with the 1,200 px + 320 px default: extract every artboard from the drive's .ai files, then build the canvas map on /library.