Error "The Dimension of this page are out of range"

[_Corey_Kristensen_]

Please help me with this error i continue to get while attempting to save my work in Illustrator CS3

"Acrobat PDF Format is having difficulties. The dimension of this page are out of range"

The original artwork was massive so i figured it could have been because of the size. I scaled the artwork down by 70% but got the same message. I then created a new document which was A3 in size, I copied the artwork over to the new A3 doc in a single layer but the error still continues.

I have never seen this kind of error before and i cannot work out how to solve the issue - I need to save this work!

Please help

[caitlinr13424316]

What is happening it's LITERALLY 10 years after the initial inquiry and this is still unresolved? I've got a massive doc I need to save as a pdf Help!

[jeanniel8733561]

Having the same issue here...

No phantom crops, even shrunk the artwork down by 10%. Nothing is working.

[everandoak · Accepted solution]

Hey guys - I never had an issue doing billboard layouts, but just found this thread after searching this error while trying to create a PDF of a 3-page letter sized (8.5" x 11") document. The problem was a tiny dot of a page created in error at some point - I could barely see it without zooming in. Rather than too large, the page in the document was too small. If anyone finds this in the future, take a look - your problem may be solved as easily as finding and deleting an erroneous page in your spread.

(For the record, this is Illustrator CC 22.0.1 on a Mac Pro 3.5GHz 6-core cylinder running Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.3)

[saraht69830098]

OMG! Thanks!!!

[blumeb93106122]

Completely agree with ShaneH. Why in the world am I able to create a larger file in Photoshop than I can in Illustrator? In the days of ordering print work online, it's absurd that I should have to go through the rigamarole of customer service agents who have no idea what they are doing or what I'm talking about to try to explain that Illustrator won't let me make a full size over the street banner, so I had to make it half the size and I need them to double it. I get my first gig doing something this large and it's a nightmare - not for any other reason than the software won't comply. Absolutely absurd!

What's more absurd is that I can take the file into Photoshop - create the proper sized file (420"x24") and copy/paste over my Illustrator file without problem. The thing that sucks about this work around is that now my file is a pixel file instead of vector. Thanks for nothing Adobe. Seriously. I have paid for and used Adobe products since their inception. I'm appalled at the lack of ability to design a full sized vector product.

[jane-e]

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[candeez]

Never had a problem with this before until today. At work trying to figure out what is happening. Somehow in the top corner away from any of my artboards was a tiny tiny dot, artboard #14 hiding - deleted and problem solved. I'm also designing billboards and hate having to send off and explaining to the printer to scale it up. Totally agree this needs to be fixed.

[olavjohans]

I saved it as an .ai file, and after i saved it i changed the last part of the name of the file from .ai to .pdf and it worked perfectly. But you can not open it in illustrator with the layers again, so you'll have to save another .ai file.

[valb70520882]

this works!!!!!

[kizat727]

THANK YOU!!!!! This worked for me. All the other solutions weren't applicable as I had no outlying artwork or hidden artboards anywhere.

[K_in_LA]

Had this problem too. Went to Window=>Artboards

The pop-up showed I had an invisible Artboard    called "Artboard 4" (No idea how it got there)

Hit the trash can to delete it then did undo to see if I could see a difference and discovered there was a small sliver above my main artboard that would disappear on delete and reappeared if I hit Undo

After deleting it I could save no problem

Note that I did a 3% view and selected anything outside my main artboard and hit delete. Although this took out all random objects lying around it DID NOT delete the extra artboard. So you have to go to the artboard window to get rid of that thing. Very annoying.

[aesthetocyst_]

Thanks, K.in.LA.

Dunno how these ninja boards are creeping in. Never would have thought to look for one ....geez.

[leew49972274]

I had the same issue. I had 19 art boards in my ai file that I could see but my art boards editor was showing I had 20, so I went looking and discovered an extra little tiny art board not the same size as the other 19. It was so small it would be easy to miss if I didn't zoom in. I have no idea how it got there. Once I deleted that rogue art board everything saved just fine in the PDF format. I'm running Illustrator CC.

[madku70]

PDF page dimensions can not exceed 200 inches in either dimension

[tammyr88064668]

Just solved it.

When going through my canvas I found a 1px width artboart which I created by mistake, and since my file contained bleeds , I guess  a bleed to 1 px couldn't be calculated...

As I deleted this dartboard - the problem was solved.

[lehou]

I have the same problem. If I create a new document with the same dimension with no artwork at all, I still have the same problem ... dimensions are out-of-range.

Document size: 204" x 27"

[lehou]

ok .... I got it .... You can't export more than 200 inches wide.

200.1" and the system blocks it. So make your artwork smaller than this.

[jeffreyg29178146]

I had this problem today as well and it was a tiny tiny Artboard, 2pxx2px that had somehow been created. Deleted, fixed.

[marielleb19316035]

Amazing, quick solve, thank you!! 

[belaboss]

This happened to me too. I must have been using the "Artboard Tool" and by accident created a tiny Artboard. Deleting it solved the issue.

[defaultfu58c23wg41e]

I had similar issue. Couldn't figure out what causes this problem. Then I have checked m arboards one by one by double clicking on each artboard from the artboards panel. Apparently there was an artboard that wasn't even visible to the eye. After deleting it the provblem was gone.

[Sonali5E7C]

Hey guys, so I was facing the same problem in illustrator so I completed my artwork in illustrator and saved it as "eps" file and opened in photoshop and from there it was getting saved in pdf file easily. 

You should try this I think this is the easiest and obvious one. 

[Monika Gause]

When "opening" an EPS in Photoshop, you are converting in to pixels. So I'm really not sure which problem this kind of "solution" should solve? It only makes everything worse.

[El Kemelyen]

Hi all, just found the problem, I had the same issue.
The problem is that there is a 1x1 pixel artboard in the document.

Obviously this happens when accidentally we "clicked" when we were in the "Edit Artboard" mode.

Hopefully my experince will help you there.

[shihab249438453jpw]

Hi,

I have the same problem and I solve it by قeduce the size of the workspace. then it work fine