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GertvandeCappelle
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July 30, 2010
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How to resize my Canvas in Illustrator

  • July 30, 2010
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Hello,

can anyone help me out. I would like to rezise my canvas in Illustrator and I dont know how to do that!

Why: I'de like to fit my AI design on to an other AI, real size object and the Illustrator canvas is to small to handle the design in a proper way. So my design is to large to fit the real obeject. the question is therefor how can I make my Canvas larger?

Hope for your support and help.

Thanks

Gert van de Cappelle

    解決に役立った回答 Eric23155489ll2s

    Here's a link to resize your Canvas (not artboard) in Illustrator.

     

    Enjoy.

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    Anonymous
    November 9, 2011

    Jacob,

    If there's no canvas in Illustrator, how come I get an error message saying, "Artboard size can not be bigger than CANVAS size", when I try to make a large artboard?

      Jacob Bugge
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      Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
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      November 10, 2011

      RPCappa,

      Because whoever started using the term, in error messages and/or elsewhere, had failed to realize it.

      Some day, (almost) everyone may use this basically misleading term with its implication of a (non existing) background, and we shall have to really waste time in the Illustrator forum explaining that there is no background (of any colour) in an Illustrator file.

      Here is just one of many threads over there in the past, showing that it had not crept in in CS4:

      http://forums.adobe.com/message/2211879#2211879

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        tylerbuckguinn@gmail.com
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        July 16, 2013

        There's no point in being rude to people bro. get over yourself.

        its a canvas.

          Jacob Bugge
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          Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          July 30, 2010

          Gert,

          There is no canvas in Illustrator.

          In Illustrator you have the (about) 227" x 227" Workspace, and inside that the Artboard, which corresponds to the page (in print), and which holds the artwork that is printed or saved as PDF; in the newest versions, it is also used to crop for exporting artwork in other formats. You set the Artboard size with File>Document Setup>Artboard, or in the newest version with the Artboard Tool (DoubleClick).

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            Conor4400
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            October 12, 2010

            Hi Jacob,

            I've been tooling around the internet for a while now looking for answers and I was wondering if you could help! Do you know of any way to change the size of the default 227 inch workspace?

            Thanks!

            Conor

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              JulieBaggadonuts
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              October 2, 2025

              This problem has vexed me for years. I'm kinda OG and like to build long webpage wireframes in Illustrator, so that leads to 'the crap you just tried to paste is about to fall of the edge of the universe' message. Today I found a klugey solution: File > new document > in the templates, go to Print > select the Print-Large (canvas size 19000x8640) > Celebrate loudly and then feel weird about it.

              Now, manually copy your artboards from the tiny world to the multiverse: hit SHFT-O in both docs to open the artboards tool, begin the CRTL-C / -V process. The new artboard system is smart and pastes them in sensible rows instead of the random cat fight chaos they used to throw. Before you close the tool, you'll probably want to delete the huge honker artboard, but you-do-you. Yes, starting a new file means I'll break my client's preview link, but they'll survive. [Of course, this is from 15 years ago, so you probably already figured out a solution!]

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