This is written after my returning from an(other) intriguing and far more complex and iterative double case of working to scale in the form of seed drill calibration for (barley) grain and clover/grass seeds to obtain the right seeding rates (the iteration including feedback in the form of actual seeding rates in the fields for readjustment).Part 1. I believe the size limits and thereby the challenges may be related to inherent properties, maybe even comparable with other inherent properties such as the inaccuracy of Bezier circles/ellipses with 4 Anchor Points (shared by all Bezier based applications). We would like to hear your requirements *if you need larger canvas in your work*. Like any other feature, larger canvas has its own share of complexities, functional as well as performance, and we are looking for your feedback. It may be worth (re)reading what Yogesh wrote (see the second last link) which expressly says that enlarging the Workspace/canvas size has its challenges: I included four links in that post #5, and only one was to the Remove canvas size limits thread. The kind assumption made by Doug about my old days comment in my post #5 is true. With this behaviour you are loosing positions - Dreamweaver got forgotten, Flash got forgotten, etc. Imagine if 3DSmax had a limit of 5 meters/227' for the models. Fix that damn issue, it's a vector software. So we have CorelDraw workstations and Illustrator as secondary software. Why the hell is that cap in Illustrator? And bealeave it or not, that's the reason we haven't bought Illustrator for our entire work process. So scaling it as an additional step, it breaks the workflow.Īnd come on, on Photoshop you can make larger artworks and it's raster based, wich in general translates to alot more resource demanding software. Loads of things going on and the mainstream workflow doesn't invovle scaling of the graphics. you work with other agencies, other designers (sometimes hired by the client itself), freelancers. OK, you'll say - 'You print 50 things a day and don't have a proper workflow?' But imagine that. You design something, but forget to include the ratio in the file name, or in the email, since you are discussing other stuff as well. Sometimes the name of the file may be larger and you miss the 1:10 ratio.

This limit increase workload - increase communication, increase chance for error, increase losses. Man, really? This question means you are no proffessional at outdoor advertising.

It makes no sense that the limit is soooooooooo small.Īnd as a side note regarding having to work in scale: besides not being able to do things at size, why then wouldn't Adobe include scale settings so designers could at least use real-world numbers even if the actual artwork is not that size. But now, it's near hell to get this seemingly simple job done. If Adobe allowed real-world OOH sizes, I could just size the artwork at 100% and place multiple overlapping artboards equal to the width of the vinyl roll (allowing for needed margins) under the artwork and export the panels. But the artwork is made of hundreds of overlapping and interlocking fragments that are intricate and extremely tedious to break up enough to pre-split the whole artwork so I can seamlessly split into overlapping vinyl strips. However, now I am on the production end having to get the artwork to 100% (real-world scale) ready for vinyl cutting, and have to break the artwork into strips for the vinyl roll feed. I've always had to do scale-downs as a designer, which sucks but is do-able.

Illustrator canvas size change