Cannot increase canvas size in illustrator

[advaitp36000706]

How can i increase canvas size in illustrator? As i want a size bigger than 267in, which illustrator is not supporting?

[Mylenium]

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

Mylenium

[Kanikas]

Moving to Illustrator​

[Jacob Bugge · Accepted solution]

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.

[innovative_adventurer5D56]

Scale the size into its half. or smaller.

[AG2011b143]

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"?

[igordugonjic]

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.

[bongofernie · Accepted solution]

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.

[Ihnderson Vieira]

This is not a solution, but it helps a lot!
Many thanks

[Jacob Bugge · Accepted solution]

Ihnderson,

How about this (large canvas)?

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