Publisher V2 - export of pages larger than 600x300cm page dimension?

[Amir Anderson]

 

Hello!

I have designed several large banners with sizes over 600x300cm. After exporting the file as pdf, adobe acrobate pro (latest version 2023) shows the following message:

"The dimensions of this page are outside the acceptable range. Certain page content may not be displayed."

Since the dimension limitation of acrobate pro has been updated several years ago to 15Mio Inches, there shouldn't be any problems.

Therefore I believe it has something to do with the file export of affinity publisher. Maybe there are some values missing that acrobate pro needs to fully display the file?

Do you know if the printer still "understands" the file although acrobate cannot display it?

I know, I could scale down the size to 1:10, however I would be more confortable when the print company receives the exact dimensions to avoid any missunderstandings etc...

THANKS!

 

 

[Dan C]

Hi @Amir Anderson,

Thanks for your post!

I can confirm that the maximum size the Acrobat (and most PDF viewers) can display is 200" x 200" - hence the reason you're seeing this warning.

This is not controlled by the Affinity apps, as we are simply using the Adobe PDF format and Adobe choose to only display up to 200" x 200", though the PDF file exported from Affinity can be larger than this and the content outside of this area will be retained/exported as expected.

You can find many posts online regarding this maximum size, as well as posts regarding Illustrator exporting to PDF, which shows a similar warning - 

https://answers.acrobatusers.com/Maximum-Acrobat-page-size-q143051.aspx

6 hours ago, Amir Anderson said:

Do you know if the printer still "understands" the file although acrobate cannot display it?

This will depend on the specific printer & driver in use, so I would recommend consulting your printers/ printer manufacture to check this - again Affinity has no control over this.

I hope this clears things up

[Bryce]

I have heard rumors that Adobe will finally address the warning in Acrobat this year. We'll wait and see. This is a very old restriction and the PDF standard was updated years ago but Acrobat, Indesign, Illustrator etc. have not been corrected as far as I know.

The PDF is fine. Our RIPs recognize the data, even those that are imposed in Acrobat using Quite Imposing which is not restricted to the 200x200 size limit. They will throw the warning up and show the PDF cut off, but the data is there and it works fine in other PDF viewers.