Can't Resize Artboard Freely in Illustrator 2025

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July 17, 2025
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in Illustrator 2024 I could create any size artboard I wanted. Where has that function gone in 2025?

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Correct answer Doug A Roberts

Sorry, and thank you, but none of this addresses my question. I'm not trying to create a huge drawing, I'm trying to control the artboard size myself. Thanks.

This is the artboard tool in the default 'Advanced' toolbar:

Ton Frederiks

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The Large Canvas option that Bobby mentioned is only available when you create a new document.

You cannot create artboards larger than 227 inches in a regular canvas document and you cannot convert a regular to a large canvas document.

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Bobby Henderson

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That's right. Another serious work flow issue: few if any applications outside Illustrator will import AI or PDF files with large canvas sizes preserved. The artwork will often be reduced to 10% of its original size.

Doug A Roberts

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Sorry, and thank you, but none of this addresses my question. I'm not trying to create a huge drawing, I'm trying to control the artboard size myself. Thanks.

This is the artboard tool in the default 'Advanced' toolbar:

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Bobby Henderson

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Adobe Illustrator has always had upper limits for canvas sizes. By the way, all vector graphics applications have canvas size limits; none offer unlimited canvas sizes. When Illustrator was based on Postscript the size limit was around 120" X 120". The change from Postscript to PDF with Illustrator 9 bumped the canvas size limit up to 227" X 227". That was 25 years ago. It has already been 5 years since Illustrator's large canvas mode was introduced with version 24.2. That mode merely does some internal trickery to make artboards up to 2275" X 2275" possible.

Doug A Roberts

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What is preventing you? What difference between versions are you experiencing?

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As I said, in Ilustrator 2024 (Mac) i would tick the "artboard" icon and could drag the boundaries to any size. In 2025, there is no such icon..

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