Copying and Pasting Layers

[Sharen2244]

Hello. I'm trying to copy and paste into a different document but it pastes bigger than what it actually is. I am pasting from a 1228 x 2084 px document to an A3 document. How do I maintain the size when pasting into the A3 document? What it does is blow up the image to fit the A3 document as opposed to just fitting in a corner in the page. 

[Monika Gause]

Illustrator always converts based on a resolution of 72 ppi for documents set up in pixels.

[Sharen2244]

is this always the case? is there anyway i can export it out of illustrator and bring it back in into another document without it resizing? thank you!

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

Just scale it to the size you want after pasting.