Production toolkit / Illustrator
Number every artboard in the file in one step, in sequence, with no skips. Then do the same for the QR codes, the artboards, the links, and the layers.
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The suite / everything included
No tiers, no per-tool pricing, nothing to upgrade to. When a tool ships, your subscription already covers it.
Create, resize and rename many artboards at once, from a list, a CSV file or about seventy standard print and screen sizes.
layout
Generate many barcodes at once as vector artwork, each with its number printed underneath.
generate
Draw a full twelve-month calendar as live text and paths, in six languages, with the week starting on any day you choose.
generate
Copy a selection onto other artboards, anchored by zone, so nothing drifts when the destination artboard is a different shape.
production
List every empty layer and sublayer in the document, untick the ones you want to keep, and remove the rest in one pass.
cleanup
Sort artboards into folders once, and every export lands in the right one: a folder per platform, per campaign or per language.
production
Lay selected images into a grid of even cells, each one scaled to cover its cell and clipped to it. Preview the cells before anything moves.
layout
Turn selected artwork into linked files, each named after the artwork and keeping the document colours and clipping masks.
production
Rename linked files on disk and in the document at the same time. Renames stage until you commit them, so nothing breaks halfway.
production
Draw a guide rectangle inset from every artboard in the document — a safe area, a print margin or a content well, set once at 3mm and applied to the file.
layout
Put a number on every artboard in the file, in sequence, with no skips, in nine number styles and the position you set.
production
Generate a QR code as vector paths from a URL, plain text or a vCard contact. No bitmap import, no external site, no resolution ceiling.
generate
Give every selected object its own artboard sized to fit it, or wrap a single artboard around the whole selection.
layout
Where the hours go
Illustrator was built as a drawing program. You use it as a production system, so the exact, repetitive parts fall to you and your mouse.
Numbering three hundred artboards by hand takes an afternoon. The digit you fat-finger on board 214 is found when the sheets come off the press.
Page Numbering writes a number onto every artboard in the document at once, in the style, position, and starting value you set.
One step for the whole file — whether it holds 12 artboards or 312.
Renaming two hundred linked files means renaming them in Explorer and relinking every one. The link you miss goes to plate as a stale version.
Links Name Management lists every file once, with a count of how many placements use it. Stage the rename. Commit once.
A logo placed twelve times is one entry in the list, not twelve.
A job lands in nine formats. Pasting artwork at the same absolute coordinates leaves the logo hanging off the tall one — nine times.
Copy to Artboards places by zone instead of coordinate. Left stays left, right stays right, and the middle holds its relative centre.
Send it to every other artboard, or tick only the destinations you want.
What you install
Every tool is a panel in the document you have open. No export, no round-trip, no second application, no new workflow for the studio to learn.
One installer sets up CEP, the Hub panel, and every tool. Each launch checks the installation and repairs anything that has broken.
The Hub ships as a signed CEP extension — not a folder you sideload with debug mode switched on, and not a script that stops after the next update.
One panel inside Illustrator lists every tool you have installed and opens them. It is where the suite lives once it is on the machine.
Platform note
Designer Shortcuts runs on Windows. The plugins are platform-neutral, but the desktop app and installer are the Windows part — and that work is not done yet.
Kept current
Designer Shortcuts is built and supported by the Designer Shortcuts team. Support goes to [email protected] and a person reads it — not a queue, and not a script nobody maintains.
Our track record
1,700+ downloads of our Illustrator scripts on Gumroad since June 2025.
What it costs against what it replaces
Enterprise prepress does this work properly. It also costs thousands per seat, brings its own workflow, and needs IT to deploy and maintain it. If you run a plant with a colour management department, that is proportionate and you should buy it.
If you are four people and a RIP in the corner, it is not. Designer Shortcuts costs $399 a year, installs in a minute, and works in the file already open on screen.
One hour of prepress time saved in a month pays for the whole year. Everything past that first hour is margin.
Pricing / one seat, one machine
Both cover every tool in the suite and both start with the same 14-day free trial. Windows 10 and 11 — macOS is not available yet.
Flexible
$42/ month
Billed every month. Change your card, switch plan, or cancel from your account page.
Start with monthlyBest value
$399/ year
Billed once a year. That works out at $33.25 a month — and covers every tool, including the next one.
Start the 14-day trial14 days free to try it, then a 14-day money-back guarantee on your first payment. No reason required — how refunds work.
Connecting a second machine signs the first one out, so you can move between the studio and the home desk without buying a second seat.
Every tool is included. It becomes a paid subscription at the end of the trial unless you cancel before then.
Your tools stop working when the subscription ends. Your files do not change — they are ordinary Illustrator documents and stay that way.
Your account page shows status, plan, renewal date, and the billing controls to change or cancel.
Releases and the macOS build
New tools as they ship, and the day there is a macOS build to install. No newsletter and no schedule — and one reply takes you off the list.
Enter a valid email address.
You are on the list. Nothing happens until there is something to send.
Stored so it can be used for exactly this, and never sold, shared or used for anything else — see privacy.
Honest limits
There is no macOS build. It is planned and it is not dated, and we will not pretend otherwise on the way to a checkout page.
No brushes, no path editing, no sketching, nothing that helps you draw. It does the mechanical production work around the drawing.
Version 24.0 upward. Older installs will not load the panel, and no amount of reinstalling changes that.
A subscription runs on one machine at a time. You can move it as often as you like; you cannot run two at once.
