Remove canvas size limit
Can we please have the possibility to set bigger canvas size to incorporate large sized artwork.
(Please note: This item is NOT for more number of artboards per document)
Dear Users,
We have launched this feature in the latest release of Illustrator, 24.2. I request you to try out this feature and give us your feedback.
Thanks,
Sanjit
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********, @Spike et al
We tried to increase the canvas size earlier this year, but we hit technical limitations. So we are back to the drawing board exploring other solutions.
From what we understand, canvas size limitation impacts two workflows:
1. Multiple artboards that, together, require larger area than current canvas.
One way to solve this could be to have multiple canvases in one file with a seamless experience.2. Single artboard but bigger than the current canvas.
This a tricky one. And that's why I asked whether it would help if you could specify a virtual scale for your document, say 1:10, and *********** starts accepting bigger dimensions. It's like *********** takes care of the calculations for you. You would be able to specify "50 ft" for dimensions. When you view your art at 100%, it would be similar to 10x zoom had you been drawing without the virtual scale of 1:10. Does that make sense?I am going to keep this thread in "Needs More Info" for a while so others can add more info.
Thanks,
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Richard Smallbone commented
@Yogesh - this is excellent news. Additional artboards will really help with our workflow.
We don't typically have individual artboards that would exceed the size of the canvas. However, it's a huge pain to hit the limits of the canvas when I'm only adding 5 or 6 new artboards.
Example:
I'm working on a screen layout, so I've opened a doc with one artboard. I finalize the layout and want to add new artboards to create variations on the original.
I hit the "New Artboard" icon in the Artboards palette.After adding 5 or 6, I get the message "Cannot create Artboard outside the canvas. Please rearrange and try again."
I have to "Rearrange Artboards", add more artboards, then rearrange again.
Thanks,
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Spike commented
I work on vehicle graphics and trade show graphics, and prefer to do all artwork at actual size. It is a huge waste of time scaling and figuring out resolution and line weights for scaled down art. Broad side of a box truck exceeds the pasteboard, workflow stops to figure out how to paste an element, or you scale and start from scratch.
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In the upcoming release of Illustrator we have enabled up to 1000 artboards in an Ai document. But we will be tracking this request for increased Canvas size.
It will help if you can tell us about your workflow while you vote on this bug. Also would it help if there was a "virtual scale"? Say, if you could define a scale of 1:10 so that input fields accept bigger values, and exported files are at scaled size (10x in this case)?
Thanks,
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Jason commented
Not sure that infinite artboards solves anything; sounds risky from a project management and workflow perspective to chuck every thing in one Illustrator file, but a canvas at least twice the current size would be a significant. Thanks.
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Anonymous commented
This is great!
How many artboards will we be able to have in one AI file?
When would this new feature/upcoming release of Illustrator happen?
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Shivendra Agarwal commented
We have worked out for solving Artboards limit problem in upcoming release.
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Richard Smallbone commented
We use Illustrator for icon creation, so that we can export to PNG and SVG. Across a large organization with hundreds of products, we have thousands of icons. We also use Illustrator for UI design, and can easily run out of artboards for complex flows.
The 100-artboard limit is a huge pain, and is causing us to look at more flexible products, like Sketch.
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Jasen commented
Please remove all size limitations for the illustrator drawing area, and illustrators ability to save to PDF. This can be a huge pain when multiple people are working on the same large format files.