Cannot increase canvas size in illustrator

create a new file. Got to the file tab and click New.

Before youcreate it change the size to whatever you want.

Now you have a giant canvas to whatever you specify.

In corel I could set canvas size in kilometers, work in illustrator is pain and nothing but the pain, so unlogical and limited in every way.

it's extremely frustrating when I'm used to working in photoshop and can create files 6-700" wide. Working in illustrator at 50% or 25% is awkward to say the least (seeing as I've been working at 100% for many years), especially when working with bleeds of 0.25" at full size. I don't find the AI snap to-guides works anywhere near as well as the photoshop snap to guides, and the lack of ability to increase canvas size to left/right/up/down as in photoshop is even more frustrating.

Anyone know of plugins that might help with more accurate placement of guides and better "snap-to"?

Scale the size into its half. or smaller.

advaitp,

As you may have found, the limit is 16,384 points, or the equivalent in other units.

In addition to what Lutz said, you may choose the most appropriate scale (1:2, 1:4, 1:6, 1:10, whichever) which best suits your purpose and unit. Then you may instruct the printer or save a copy as PDF and then set the page size to the full value.

Remember to set any possible raster effects (Effect>Document Raster Effects Settings) so that the final resolution becomes right (increase it by the reverse scale, such as double for 1:2, tenfold for 1:10 and so on). Any raster images should have an adequate size in pixels x pixels to get the right resolution too, of course.

Moving to Illustrator​

You can't nor should it be necessary. Simply work at half scale or something.

Mylenium