672"x84" document will not save into pdf

[evtonic3]

I had a file that I needed to be printed. I originally thought that it wouldn't be a problem other than the usual waiting for it to save to a pdf based on the dimensions of the doc. I needed it to be 300 ppi so I already knew it would be a beast of a file. (the file is for huge partition walls inside a big hotel). 

The file did save, although only 69mb so I was suspicious. When I open it in Adobe Reader it says "The dimensions of this page are out of range. Page contents may be truncated." Other PDF readers would only open a part of the whole file. After several hours of trying to do something different to save the file and get ready for print, I had to ultimately break it up into 5 parts to get it to print. 

I am attaching the .afphoto file to see if someone else can try and save it at 300 PPI and the dimensions are 672"x 84" finished.

Face 5-6 .afphoto

[thomaso]

7 minutes ago, evtonic3 said:

the dimensions are 672"x 84"

The PDF file format has a limitation of 200 inch / 5 metres. Therefore large formats are usually setup in scale, e.g. 1:10, with increased document / export resolution (up to max. 10 times) and a print size of 1000%.

Note that 300 dpi is the resolution of the human eye at a "normal" reading distance (~12 inches / 30 cm). This resolution would not be necessary for your printed wall unless people needed to "read" / view it from such a close distance (which people naturally prefer to avoid). For a wall and a viewing distance of ~1 meter, a resolution of ~200 dpi is still high, 100-150 dpi may be sufficient. For a longer viewing distance (> 3 m), even 72 dpi or less will work well.

[Alfred]

4 hours ago, thomaso said:

The PDF file format has a limitation of 200 inch / 5 metres. Therefore large formats are usually setup in scale, e.g. 1:10, with increased document / export resolution (up to max. 10 times) and a print size of 1000%.

In this particular case, using a scale of 1:4 and a print size of 400% is sufficient to bring the dimensions within the permitted range, with 672″ × 84″ becoming 168″ × 21″.

The following article may be of interest: https://alexwlchan.net/2024/big-pdf