AI 30.0 - Resizing artboards scales artwork - Turn it off?

Forum|Forum|4 months ago
January 9, 2026
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New Illustrator 30.0 now scales artwork when the artboard gets re-sized.

I never gave Adobe permission to add this annoying feature. 🙂

How does one turn this off? So that I can resize artboards like the old days with it scaling my artwork.

How-to

Correct answer Tina_Irvine

HI @SundayGladiator,

When you're in the artboard tool, there's a button at the top. Click on it to toggle it on / off.

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Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

And there is another place where you can change this, the Properties panel; "Scale artwork with Artboard" but not where you also would expect it in the Artboard Options.

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Tina_Irvine

Correct answer

Community Expert

HI @SundayGladiator,

When you're in the artboard tool, there's a button at the top. Click on it to toggle it on / off.

Screenshot 2026-01-09 at 2.24.32 PM.png

S

SundayGladiatorAuthor

Legend

Thank you !!

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