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Working with Large Canvas in Illustrator 2020 (24.2)

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June 16, 2020
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Just updated to the new version of Illustrator ( 24.2 ..64bit for PC ).

Update said 100X Canvas size.. anyone know where to do that..I'm not seeing it anywhere.

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Correct answer Doug A Roberts

Create a document larger than 227 inches in any dimension. Illustrator will inform you it's using Large Canvas. It's the same as the old canvas, except the units are 10x greater and you can zoom in 10x less. Pay attention to these caveats:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/large-sized-canvas-troubleshooting.html

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The problem I have with Large canvas is how can you tell illustrator to switch back to normal artboard settings?
For example my colleague sent me a file at 2400x400mm.

When I used my vinyl cutter plugin to add a registration mark,
the reg marks it applied were 10 times the size they should be.

The document has the large canvas size applied. How do I switch it off in this case?

The only fix seems to be to create a new document and copy/paste.

brockw20521716

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Yes I am having similar issues. This setting is a nightmare for print production. We are a wide format printer and this large canvas setting isn't read correctly by the printer software so sizes are coming out 10 times the size they should be.

I find it ridiculus we have to copy and paste it into a new document, what were they thinking? It should be a feature that can be turned off for production purposes.

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SimonBarton

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I guess it depends on your RIP soft, I was fully expecting issues when this was first introduced but I've never had an issue with RasterLink or Caldera.

I'm in the large format, signage and exhibiton insdustry and have found the Large Canvas feature an absolute godsend since it was introduced. Any issues we initially had with scaling we're a result of the limitations of pdf setting rather than Illustrator. As long as files are saved with PDF 1.6 or 1.7 compatibility there is no scaling and any up-to-date RIP software should be more than capabel of handling the files.

Captain_CrunchAuthor

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..so the artboard really isn't any larger..Adobe just changes the default scale from 1:1 to 1:10. Saying you made the artboard larger isn't really accurate. All of us that design larger then 227" were already working in scale as a work around. This is actually going to cause more problems then if fixes. For instance..a designer will think they've created something that's 20' x 20'..and tell the print house the graphic is full size...but what they have actually done is created a graphic that's 2' x 2'. Not the end of the world in vector..but if there are raster elements in the file and they haven't calculated for the 10x scale increase with resolution there will be problems.

I'm a bit disappointed in the way this feature was marketed.

Monika Gause

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... and where do you read that in the document?

Doug A Roberts

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Create a document larger than 227 inches in any dimension. Illustrator will inform you it's using Large Canvas. It's the same as the old canvas, except the units are 10x greater and you can zoom in 10x less. Pay attention to these caveats:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/large-sized-canvas-troubleshooting.html

Monika Gause

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https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/large-sized-artwork.html

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