Illustrator CS5 save a portion of a page for web
Since upgrading to CS5 I've been missing a feature terribly. I generally design web pages in CS5 before cutting out graphics. In CS3 I could create an artboard, then save for web. This would only save the portion I needed.

Now this feature is apparently no longer present. Here are the ways I have tried:

1. Cut and paste into photoshop - loses background images, unless I include the background in which case I have to spend ages cropping it by hand.

2. Creating slices - the issue is that Illustrator assumes I am making a table, so it generates lots of auto slices which I then have to delete. Also, there is no granularity, I can't set compression settings on an image by image basis.

Output seems like core functionality for a design program. Is there a simple way to achieve this?
Illustrator CS5 save a portion of a page for web
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Since upgrading to CS5 I've been missing a feature terribly. I generally design web pages in CS5 before cutting out graphics. In CS3 I could create an artboard, then save for web. This would only save the portion I needed.

Now this feature is apparently no longer present. Here are the ways I have tried:

1. Cut and paste into photoshop - loses background images, unless I include the background in which case I have to spend ages cropping it by hand.

2. Creating slices - the issue is that Illustrator assumes I am making a table, so it generates lots of auto slices which I then have to delete. Also, there is no granularity, I can't set compression settings on an image by image basis.

Output seems like core functionality for a design program. Is there a simple way to achieve this?