Mega huge trim printer marks in PDF copy, using large canvas document
AI 25.4.1 / Win10
ACTION TAKEN:
Saving a copy of A2 sized AI project as PDF file (print-production style).
RESULT:
Extremely huge printer marks in PDF (see screenshots)!
Tried several PDF versions in saving dialogue with same failed result.
WORK-AROUND:
1. Verify artboard size (and PDF document size as well) several times, just to be sure if my mind works OK this morning. And it's working fine (sight of relief :-)
2. To make printer-ready PDF, original AI file was imported to InDesign (via import, Cmd+D).
3. Then, upscaled imported graphics to 100% (which made me guess than original AI is somehow saved in 1:10 scale).
Wojciech Traczyk
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onenower
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We really need a big canvas. In the advertising industry, large-sized files are converted into PDFs and sent to printing factories. Printing factories usually use CDR software, and opening PDF files with CDR will shrink them by 10 times. It is easy to make errors due to size issues.
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Brian Boehm
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There are scaling issues in large size canvas mode. For instance, when creating a file in large size canvas mode and saving as PDF with trim marks, the trim marks will be scaled up 1000%. Instead of them remaining .375", they scale up to 3.75".
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Brian, if only it was simple, this 'simply allow'.
Ai is a behemoth with dependencies as bones and existing workflows as veins. Changing anything that simple can cause everything to crumble, in the most unexpected place imaginable. Actually, the problems you are seeing the large canvas mode is causing (while it being a rather harmless band-aid, applied to the surface of the behemoth) would be a tiny fraction of problems a truly infinite canvas would cause to the model. And it’s like performing a surgery on a living brain, since Illustrator is always is in use by us.But I agree.
There is an existing request that is gaining popularity, about the truly infinite canvas: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/38129344 — you can upvote it, if you wish. -
Ton commented
This happens in Large Canvas documents. Easily reproducable:
Create a large document (600 X 600 CM)
Change the artboard to an A4.
Create a PDF with trim marks.
The trim marks size is 9,525 cm -
Jérôme Agostini commented
We are in 2024 and this bug is still happening. Any chance to fix somehow?
(on the screenshot, the cropmarks are more than 9 cm! -
Sophia
commented
I had the same problem- When exporting a 24"x36" document as a PDF, crop marks showed up as 4" each. Happens on all new documents since the update.
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Wojciech Traczyk
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Egor: done, the original file sent to Adobe.
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Wojciech, it feels like a bug with the large canvas coefficient. Can you please package the original file and send it to sharewithai@adobe.com for further investigation?
Also, please try to create new file with the same dimensions (which should result in a non-large canvas doc) and paste your art there. Then try again the save process and see if the bug stays.
And thanks for the report!
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Vegard commented
In latest version of Illustrator canvas is increased, but trim marks got issues when making sizes over 5x5m. when making file with multiple artboards that exceeds 5x5m trim marks scale to 10x size, just like they would if you made the file 1:10
