Cannot paste the artboards because of insufficient space on the canvas
I get this error so often, and I'm not sure how to fix it. I belive it has something to do with guides, but guides are infinite, so they should always (and never) go off the canvas.
Happens when I select an artboard and try to copy/paste
Kaelan Maass
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Guides in Illustrator don’t behave like guides in InDesign. Guide in Ai are basically objects with a 'guide' flag (and any path can be turned into a guide, and not loose it’s attributes like stroke and fill even, they are kept when the guide is released).
A standard guide dragged from a ruler is not infinite, but is having a maximum artboard size: 2^14 points = 16383 (when counted from zero), which is almost 227 inches or 5776 mm...
When we drag a guide, Ai will ignore it moving outside of the canvas, keeping it within it.
But if you copy and paste a guide, selected with other objects... well, AI then HAS to respect its coordinates — and if a guide falls to far, the message is given.This is hardly fair and clear.
And several entries here at UserVoice ask to review guides:
1. Make guides to be like in InDesign: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/37211029
2. Automatically push guides to a single layer: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/36594571
3. But the opposite is true. At some point Illustrator stopped treating selected guides as objects when scaling a selection with the bounding box, and some users find it very inconvenient: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/32888611It’d help to see the whole layout and details of the operation you are trying to perform.
Hope it helps. Please reply.
