Saving in older illustrator format scales 10 times down
When saving a file in an older illustrator format, now the file appears 10 times smaller. As a signmaker working with sign software that doesn't accept newer ai or eps files this is VERY MUCH unwanted. I can scale it back to 100% in my sign making software but only manual. Not by alttering the comma in the scaling. This isn't accuracy I often need. Please undo this downscaling. Me, and a lot of colleagues, work for decades this way.
Charles
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Charles, what I meant to say is that if the document is created in the Large Canvas mode, it stays in it even if you make the artboard smaller. The hidden userScale is invisible and can’t be toggled manually.
There are ways to see if the doc is a large canvas — to copy the artwork into another non-large-canvas, to see if numerous large-canvas-bugs happen (like this one with brushes: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/41713246)... or to see how it behaves when downsaved.
If this happens next time — mind this and comment back, please. -
Charles
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Well, here's a little update. Something strange happend. I asked a couple of colleagues if this was happening to them too. None of them reported the same scaling problem. We all have version 30.1
So, as I was the only one that appeared to having this problem, I restarted Illustrator and the macbook.
And.. the warning that "If you open the illustration in an older version, it will be scaled down and displayed 10 times smaller." was gone. Very strange but I am happy.@Egor; problem wasn't related to the size of the artboard. It didn't matter if it was A4 sized or 1000 x 3000 mm. or... when saying in older format, CS6 or whatever, the saved artwork scale was downsized by 10. very inconvenient. But it is all good now
Thx for your reply btw. And I hope this post will help anyone who encounter the same. -
The 'Large Canvas' mode was introduced in 24.2 (CC2020)... There is just no way to save the scale coefficient value that is used to tell Ai the canvas should be scaled into a format that doesn’t know about this parameter. Older formats just don't support it.
So, if you set your artboards to be larger than 227 in (~5766 mm) — the large canvas would be enabled for the document, basically forever, even if the artwork is smaller.
We asked Adobe to add an option to change the mode later (requested here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/40733938), but it was not done.
Meanwhile I can only offer to not create a large canvas for art that is smaller than the mentioned 16384 point limit (2^14 — have no idea why this value was chosen).
