I am making it my own personal crusade to make sure this happens. I'll run or office if I have to.

******** and Micah are on point. Us large-scale designers are being left in the dust for the new crop of UX boneheads.

I have sympathy for the team at Illustrator because I'm assuming this is some kind of baked-in limitation from 1987 when you had to run it on 128k of RAM. But what is a challenge if not something to overcome and be all the better for it?

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
Go team.

Please remove canvas size limit or vastly increase it. We design tradeshow booths that are modularly built with hardwall panelling, panels are usually just under a meter wide (963mm) and we often have 5+ panels in a row to make up a wall with art that spans across all the panels. When working on the art I will set up a document with an artboard for each panel that needs to be printed and set up the document so the gap between each artboard is the same distance as it will be physically when the panels are set up. I need to be confident in the artwork that I hand off to our printer as the printing process can make up a large chunk of the cost of our clients booth, so working in 1:1 scale is crucial .

Working at a scaled size is not ideal. It's called compromise (with an arbitrary limit). It's better to work at the appropriate size, so that it doesn't need to be scaled up for output. Just saying.

It’s called a “Workaround” but you can call it whatever you want; Working in scale, adjusting to limitations, or paying more while getting less.

No one is saying they cannot function because of this limitation, we are simply expressing why should we work within this limitation when other less mainstream applications have no such limitations?

its called working at a scaled size. as long as it is something normal (half, quarter, tenth) it does the trick.

if you must work at a ridiculous size use mm as your unit instead of cm (if 1 mm = 1 cm you are at 1/10 scale)

Please please please make this change!!!!

What Micah said

This is still a problem in 2018. Where is Adobe's input on this? Everyone on notice for this suggestion thread needs to bump it. Let's flood Adobe!!!

1000 art boards isn't the solution. Indesign takes care of that. I don't think there are many people using Illustrator to create multi page catalogs, and if they are then they are using the wrong app for that. People need to be able to design art for banners, flags, airplanes, boats, cars etc at full size. This makes no sense to me why there would be limits. While a scaling fatorizer would be a nice feature, it's not the solution. It's a work around.
Adobe Illustrator is supposed to be the de facto of design applications but yet it consistently leaves its users wanting when other programs have had these basic and common sense features for decades.

Here is your "More Info": No, a workaround is not adequate.

DO IT DO IT DO IT

Remove the LIMIT!!!!!!! Omg...

Unfortunately Corel draw does not work on Mac

Remove the pasteboard/canvas limit. There is no need to limit users to scaling. This is the top problem for Illustrator and it has been a thorn in my side for the past 20 years.

my client wants 16 meters long and 3 meters high graffiti design... but illustrator don't allow size more than 227 inches.
Please help me...

Bump

TRY CORELDRAW, IT HAS BEEN DOING IT FOREVER...

Please.

Bump.

I am a sign designer and I've been using Illustrator for years, but what's frustrated me the most about the product is being limited to a 227" x 227" area to work with.

I almost always design at a 1:10 scale, but a lot of the time this can be a major inconvenience.

Some of my colleagues use Corel Draw which allows an infinite artboard size, so why can't illustrator do this? I'd switch over but the UX on Corel is truly awful so I'm pretty locked in.

If it has something to do with app performance, could it be possible as a toggle? Like opt-in to infinite artboard and you'll understand it could crash your machine if you go too wild?

Just an idea. Please please please please do this.

Please.

Yes, Yogesh has left the company. The work goes on without him.

Hi everyone,

Yogesh has not responded to anyone since December 2017. You can confirm this by looking at his profile. .

To gain momentum, maybe reach out to Adobe Social Media channels and highlight this fact. It's possible he has left the company.

Good luck.