Yogesh,

'Would it help if there was a "virtual scale"?'

Come on! This is a disingenuous question, no doubt. You must must must know that any of us working in the 'built' world (i.e. with architects) are working at scale, AND that we use HotDOOR CADTools (with more or less success) or some other 3rd party plug-in that allows us to do what we need to do. Adobe must have been considering (and working on?) 'at-scale' tools and, for reasons unknown to us users, chosen not to push this process.

When you ask this kind of coy question, you alienate your subscribers. And then we feel like prisoners of a product relationship, rather than willing members of your 'community'.

A little honesty would be lovely here...

(yes, I see that yours is an ancient post, but the feedback continues to be valid...)

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Encountering this issue more often in designing for larger surfaces like wall murals. Scaling is fine I guess, not ideal.

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The only reason I can think that this hasn't already been fixed is that there is some fundamental problem with the way Illustrator stores information. Maybe they didn't allow enough bits per dimension and can't fix it without starting over.

I'm 100% on board with removing the artboard size cap. Get rid of it!

I also pay for this product and use it at work.

I agree flexi is horrible and Corel a close 2nd, common adobe fix this

Let's see.. 505 votes thus far. At $79.49/mon per user, that over 40k a month. $480k a year.

If Adobe doesn't want to listen to the customers which give them nearly half a million dollars a year, then that tells me Adobe doesn't give a ****. Not too many companies would ignore that much potential yearly income.

Except Flexi is horrible software at everything else. The artboard size is it's only redeeming feature. If I wanted software that looks and performs like it was written in the 1980's, I'd use Corel Draw instead. :D

Flexisign which is a sign specific software for designers offers the ability to design using 1:1 scale at sizes of hundreds of feet, wish illustrator offered this

CorelDRAW was mentioned earlier as having no size limits to its art board. That is incorrect. CorelDRAW has a max art board size of 1800" X 1800". But really it's only practical to go up to about 1000" before the app hits zoom limits that bring up warning pop ups. I don't think any drawing program has an unlimited art board size.

Before I was using Illustrator as my main source of design. From research to production.
When was doing more UX work and switched to Sketch, and have this infinite canvas, I cannot go back
anymore. I use Sketch to mockup. I'll refine in Illustrator after yes, but it would be nice to stay in the same software...

I just want my illustrator to be infinite so that I can explore and stay in this focus without the need to constantly scale down, reposition, change files, etc. It breaks the creative flow.

i oftern need to design 8m wide documents! so 8000mm wide by 4000mm high would be perfect!

I have been doing 1/10 scale, I am bad at math and find this the easiest way to work around this.
So if it's 408" make it 40.8", just move the decimal one space to the left and you got it! 720"=72.0"

Kaitlyn, The image is 408" x 720". Make the doc at 102" x 180", and tell production to enlarge 33.33%

I am trying to work with an image that is 34'x60'. How am I supposed to scale this correctly if I can't go past the preset drawing space?

It would help a lot in the sign and vehicle graphics trade if this canvas limit was scrapped. We are constantly working with graphics that are larger than the canvas size. Constantly having to scale things down in illustrator and then scaling them back up again in our other sign software. It just adds time and loses us money. I think when we are paying this much for software they should listen to us and sort it out, what reason is there to restrict the canvas? We use other graphics packages that have unlimited canvas sizes, come on Adobe sort it out, your giving us unnecassary headaches and losing us money.

I'm paying per year the license to use all the Adobe pack, I design my murals by hand and I re-draw everything in Illustrator and I really feel completely ridiculous that the drawing area is still limited a lot my way of work, please fix this problem, a lot of people are struggling with the same thing.

And now Corel Draw has been released for MAC so even more competition for Adobe.... And one more program that doesn't have any dartboard limits. I loved Corel Draw when I was using PC. Now I will defenetly go back using Corel Draw again.

Serif is awesome. I've been using Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher for a while now, and though they're not quite there yet, I think in a year or two Adobe will be in real trouble

The engineers at Adobe just do not care as it only adds more work for them and the company's corporate decision makers rely on their huge market share.

They're more focused on gaining ground in other markets with the ridiculous collaborative apps that they keep adding/killing and promoting their idiotic events.

Adobe has no incentive to add real requested features or fix its outdated core programs. They just are not the company for creators anymore.

Your only real alternative is to switch to a company like Serif that make Affinity Designer and Photo. They do actually listen to their community and it's so refreshing!

almost 2 years and still need more info? Is 290+ comments not enough to make a determination?