- Adobe Illustrator Canvas Size
- Adobe Illustrator Set Artboard Size
- Adobe Illustrator Cc Change Artboard Size
- Adobe Illustrator Export Artboard Size
Select the Artboard Tool on the Tool bar. You can then click an artboard and change it's size with the options in the Control bar across the top of the screen. Another method is to highlight the artboard in the Artboard Panel (Window Artboards) and choose Artboard Options from the Panel menu.
- In the normal case, I mean if all of your drawings are inside of the artboard, you can easily export your file to a jpg. On the other hand, when your drawings exceed the boundary of the artboard, the ordinary export command will result in exporting all the drawings you have in your file regardless of your artboard size.
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I'm having real trouble with saving a simple SVG in Adobe Illustrator.
Illustrator keeps imposing its own canvas size on the export.
This is what I'm doing...
1) Draw an art board around the image
2) File > Save As
3) Change type to SVG
When I view the result, Illustrator has seemed to have resized the canvas arbitrarily
How can I control this so I can get my own size?
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5 Answers
Adobe Illustrator Canvas Size
Your problem is that your SVG is being saved with the Artboard, which is set to the default document size.
Try using 'Object > Artboards > Fit to Artwork Bounds' before you save.
The Mac Finder (which I'm assuming you're using to view your SVGs) tends to ignore SVG boundaries. Shouldn't matter in production, although it's a bit annoying when you're viewing them in a folder.
Open your SVG file in a text editor, paying special attention to the opening tag. Make sure the cartesian coordinates in the 'viewbox' attribute matches what you have in mind.
In-depth explanation of what the code means: http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/SVG_Essentials/Coordinates
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Illustrator has an issue with artboards, ie 'viewBox' in the .svg format. Try this: first adjust your artboard/canvas for your graphic in Illustrator, then save the file in .ai format.
Now from the .ai format you can save the file as .svg and your artboard will be as you adjusted it. Next time you open the .svg in Illustrator, the artboard will be messed up again, so you will have to work from the .ai file and just use the .svg on the web.
Adobe Illustrator Set Artboard Size
That means each time you need to adjust an .svg, you need to first save it in .ai-format, adjust the artboard, save it as .ai and then save it as .svg.
Adobe Illustrator Cc Change Artboard Size
If you have a contact address to the people at Adobe, let them know...
Sometimes you can unintentionally include small items in the illustration that increases the size. Try pressing Crtl + A to highlight everything in the document. Then, delete any extra items outside the illustration. This should resize the canvas.
The solution to this is to use an optimiser like https://petercollingridge.appspot.com/svg-editor
This strips out white space and also optimises the file.