Oh yeah - my bad. I have latest versions of Adobe Suite on Mac and just realised you are right. Maybe it was a preconceived idea that I couldn’t go below 4pt from  older versions or other applications. Thx for updating me.  Still think either a larger art board (love the art boards btw) or an automatic scale rule would be ideal. Trying to work out conversions slows work speed considerably and encourages errors. ... View more

For what it's worth Adobe, can I add my preference for a larger canvas. While I agree that in most cases of signwriting/large-format-printing, just scaling up a vector image when you go to print is the preferable way to go. But what happens when the smallest font size you can get is 4pt and you need smaller in order for it to scale up to the correct size. You might incorrectly assume that there is a cut off of point sizes for billboards, but this doesn't account for all the various circumstances where small print is required. I have a long narrow piece of artwork - 1500cm. If I reduce this down to 227cm, ie the longest artboard I can get, then my artboard width becomes very narrow and I can't get the point size for fonts small enough for some of the "legalise small-print"  When I enlarge 4pt type, it ends up too big compared with the rest of the layout.  I'm going to have to create it in several pieces and stitch it together later, hoping that it matches up right, which will mean cropping vector diagrams in weird places. Which means there is big chance that a path point or curve may move slightly. Frustrated. ... View more