I need to have Axis Values ranging from 1,000,000 to 8,000,000 and Illustrator won't let me go above 2,147,483. With or without commas. This wouldn't be a problem - I could simply use the suffix Million - however my data needs to be miscellaneous millions, i.e. 3,567,876. I found this issue dating back to 2013 and the answer was Illustrator hasn't worked out this glitch. Surely by now it has. A powerful program like Illustrator can certainly do 7-dgiti numbers, right? Please help.
i had a hunch in another topic that bugs like that could be to do with rounding problems due to illustrator's accuracy limits (i.e. 1000ths of a point). if you make your graph arbitrarily larger, does the limit change?
but i'm not sure about any of that really. the graph tools have, as far as i know, been largely abandoned since their introduction 25 years ago and are full of bugs and oddities.
Same issue here, I just multiplied the amounts by 5% in order to accommodate the limitations. You can add a text label along the edge of the axis to indicate "Millions" or whatever makes sense. In my case, I deleted the axis number for my chart entirely.
Guess you will be using round values in the axis, no?
And if you divide the value numbers by one thousand, you can work with no problems. I doubt you need the bars have such an accuracy that makes visible any difference between 3,567 and 3,568 or any intermediate value. graphs are used for visual representation or comparison not for making a precision mechanism for NASA. (Excuse the comparison). Later you can edit the values (manually) entering your seven figures on the graph.
I am not defending in any way Adobe or the limitations of this archaic graph tool, that has not been improved at all for many, many years, over 25, I think. This tool and area needs a complete overhaul, just to be on par with other features of current illustrator reelases. Really sad.
Try unticking Override Calculated Values, graph your millions data, and manually typeset your Y-axis and horizontal ticks.
I can graph figures in the millions, I just can't set corresponding values in Override Calculated Values fields (Object > Graph (or Right-click the graph) > Type > Value Axis > Tick Values > Override Calculated Values), which top out at 2147483 for some reason.
I unchecked Override Calculated Values and it seemed to be working but then some numbers still were converted to 000, this is frustrating! I also set the decimal to 3 and manually replaced the last comma with a decimal to make it a 6 digit number not 9 digits.
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