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Help......Change Document Size

Forum|Forum|17 years ago
November 26, 2008
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How to change (Illustrator)Document Size. As Old Document Size Width:400
Height:600 I would like to change Width:450 Height:650
Similar features Menu-->File-->Document setup....

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Rosstarino

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This absolutely does NOT work, Adobe Illustrator no longer allows me to tell it what size I want my artboard to be. I have uninstalled and reinstalled 6 times today. IT WILL NOT let me type to change the artboard size. I have to create a brand new adobe illustrator file setup to the size I want. Adobe ignores these typed inputs in an already existing document

Monika Gause

Community Expert

You are answering a thread about Illustrator CS2 covering scripting. Those versions were quite different than today's versions.

Unless your question is about scripting an equally old version, please create a new thread and describe your issues.

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hulju

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or use this script

Re: Resize Artboard to exact size : jscript

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dnkalp

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follow this tutorial, Video : How to change adobe illustrator artboard size (resize) - YouTube

paddotk

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Dawsun's answer is the right one! (Thanks, Dawsun )

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Dawnsun

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You can change the document size! There is no need to create a new Illustrator file - this is false.

All you have to do is go to your tools > double click on the artboard icon > enter in the new size you want. You can also manually change the size by clicking on the "anchors".

By the way the artboard icon is just above the slice tool on the tool bar.

Larry G. Schneider

Community Expert

From the UI, yes you can make these changes but this is a scripting forum and from a script you cannot change a document's size.

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Al_Se

Participant

What about scripting a copy from the existing file and paste into a new document (created from a .ait of the correct size)? If your files are single layers, it shouldn't be too unmanageable to script.

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_ChinaSz_Author

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Thank you more than your help
Do not be on it?

Larry G. Schneider

Community Expert

This is from the CS3 JS reference

A documents color space, height, and width can only be set when the document is created. You cannot modify these properties in an existing document.

So the only way around this is to create a new document at the size you want and move everything to it.

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_Mark_Larsen_

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Is "read only" up to CS2 can't say beyond that

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_ChinaSz_Author

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Use JavaScript