Large size canvas saving to pdf failed
Using windows 7 and Illustrator 24.2 June release
As documented for Large size canvas, created a file using 2270x2270 in. While saving it as ai it's saving as expected, but saving it as pdf using pdf ver. 1.6 or later getting an error:
"The dimension of this page is out of range"
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Liam McLaughlin commented
I was able to get my large-sized canvas PDF document (300" x 400") to save by selecting the [Illustrator Default] Adobe PDF Preset.
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Justin Penner
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Prior to the new large canvas feature, Illustrator documents were limited to ~227"x227", but PDFs have always been limited to 200"x200". Since the large canvas feature was implemented via a multiplier function that's part of the PDF spec, you're seeing the same problem in a 2270"x2270" large canvas document.
Illustrator will allow you to create documents up to 2270"x2270" in large canvas mode, but you still cannot export a PDF larger than 2000"x2000", because the multiplier is fixed to 10x in large canvas mode, and the base PDF document size before applying the multiplier cannot be larger than 200"x200".
As a side effect, this creates some confusing problems when trying to create documents between 200–227". Suppose you want to design a 216"x216" banner (18 ft x 18 ft) for print: you have to create a new document in a larger size like 240"x240" first to enable large document mode, and then resize your artboard to 216"x216" so that you don't get an out-of-bounds error when exporting to PDF.
I'm glad large canvas was implemented, but it really has created a host of new problems. For one, when you're sending large canvas PDFs to a printer, you really don't know whether their system is going to read it at the correct size or at 10% scale, as it depends whether their software reads the multiplier key in the PDF, and many don't.