Illustrator Canvas Size (not Art Boards)

Hmm..  just found this post... This is a feature request that has been chased for years now!  If you're still looking for help, try supporting the feature request on the link below:

Re: Add the ability to scale the canvas beyond it's archaic 227 inch limits.

I'm new to Ai and needed this and eventually found it in the menus.

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Conor,

In addition to the previous answers:

Working with vector artwork with the help of Illy, you may work at any scale and scale up in another application for print and still have everything fully smooth; PDF can be scaled to any size (with the same proportions).

Working with raster artwork with the help of Illy, you may also work at any scale and scale up similarly, if you have a sufficiently high resolution to result in a sufficiently smooth appearance at the final size; you may start with lower resolution copies and replace them when the rest of the work is finished, to avoid unnecessary waiting time. It should be noted that the needed smoothness/final resolution depends entirely (and inversely proportionally) on the distance of the viewer; generally, you can use the same total image size at different sizes to be viewed at (proportionally) corresponding distances (which will give the same appearance (and vieweing angle)).

Depending on the units and sizes, different scales may be easy to work with; that could be:

1:10, 1:100, etc, especially in mm and cm (using mm for cm is 1:10 in itself),

1:6 using picas for inches,

1:12 using points for picas,

1:72 using points for inches,

1:2, 1:4, 1:8, 1:16, 1:32, etc, especially in inches.

The default seems to be about 228 inches but I need a bigger canvas size for a project I'm involved with.

Work to scale! Anything that would require a larger canvas wouldn't possibly be printable anyways and if it contains pixel imagery, AI would long bomb out before that just as well.

Mylenium

Can't be enlarged.

JET