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Can I make this pasteboard, backboard, dark gray surface board.. whatever it's called.. BIGGER?

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Mar 30, 2023 Mar 30, 2023

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See attached image. AI2023 27.0.

 

Not the artboard, but that gray 'pasteboard?' thingy that the artboard rests on needs to be bigger.

 

I have to make this file 225in wide as a printable PDF. No ifs, ands, or buts.

 

How do I make that dark pasteboard area LARGER so I can re-size my artboard to the required 225in?

 

 

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Community Expert , Mar 30, 2023 Mar 30, 2023

Using a large canvas document may help.

 

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

 

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Community Expert , Mar 30, 2023 Mar 30, 2023

Maybe this helps, you cannot change a document to a large canvas file, but you can create one and copy your content in it:

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

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Contributor , Mar 31, 2023 Mar 31, 2023

Ok, that's interesting. I just need to create my AI file from scratch at 230in wide. Then it looks like it will export a PDF with trim marks to 230in wide.

 

Maybe a patch was sent overnight to my machine through CC. Â¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Using a large canvas document may help.

 

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

 

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Maybe this helps, you cannot change a document to a large canvas file, but you can create one and copy your content in it:

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

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Thank you. Creating a new one from scratch helps. I see it's 227in max.

 

But now when I try to export to printable PDF, I get this error -

 

Screen Shot 2023-03-30 at 2.35.12 PM.png

 

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You need pdf 1.76 or higher

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Not sure what 1.76 means..

 

In my export settings, the max compatibility PDF level is 'Acrobat 8 (PDF 1.7)'.

 

Same error message when trying to export out PDF.

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Did some digging, and learned there's a kludgy kerfuffle export limit of PDF to max 200in.

 

Still. Since 2017. It's now 2023, and we're still handcuffed to 200in PDF ..

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I just saved a 230 inch artboard and that is what Acrobat sees as page size.

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Ok, that's interesting. I just need to create my AI file from scratch at 230in wide. Then it looks like it will export a PDF with trim marks to 230in wide.

 

Maybe a patch was sent overnight to my machine through CC. Â¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I meant 1.7 or 1.6

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