UkeyD Posted October 23, 2018 Posted October 23, 2018 Hi, I’ve created a design in Affinity Publisher 6000mm x 3000mm (for a billboard poster). When it was sent to the printers they couldn’t open the PDF. Instead a message came up saying "The dimensions of this page are out-of-range - Page content might be truncated" The file opens fine in preview but they can’t send it to print the way it is. Does anyone have any suggestions why the file may not be opening? Thanks for your help UkeyD Quote
carl123 Posted October 23, 2018 Posted October 23, 2018 It may have something to do with what the maximum size a PDF file can be Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
UkeyD Posted October 23, 2018 Author Posted October 23, 2018 Thanks. It doesn’t seem very logical if the document needs to be printed at a particular size. Any suggestions to designing a billboard poster compatible with max size PDF would be great. Thanks Quote
MickRose Posted October 23, 2018 Posted October 23, 2018 I think the maximum PDF size is 200 inches x 200 inches. You might be better off with a jpeg file at 96ppi. Talk to your printers. Quote Windows 10 Pro, I5 3.3G PC 16G RAM
Alfred Posted October 23, 2018 Posted October 23, 2018 4 minutes ago, carl123 said: It may have [something] to do with what the maximum size a PDF file can be It may have everything to do with the maximum size a PDF file can be! PDF files are normally limited to 200 inches (5080 millimetres) in either direction, so you need to create the drawing at 50% of the intended final size and ask the printer to scale it up for you. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
UkeyD Posted October 23, 2018 Author Posted October 23, 2018 Thanks for your help. The printers have asked me to scale it down to 10%. Hopefully that will work for them. Just concerned photo quality won’t be so good when scaled back up. Alfred 1 Quote
Alfred Posted October 24, 2018 Posted October 24, 2018 21 hours ago, UkeyD said: Thanks for your help. The printers have asked me to scale it down to 10%. Hopefully that will work for them. Just concerned photo quality won’t be so good when scaled back up. I wonder why they asked you to go so low! 50% is still quite big, but 25% should have been more than adequate (and 12.5% would probably yield better results than 10%, since it could then be scaled back up by an exact power of 2). Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
UkeyD Posted November 1, 2018 Author Posted November 1, 2018 On 10/24/2018 at 10:36 AM, αℓƒяє∂ said: I wonder why they asked you to go so low! 50% is still quite big, but 25% should have been more than adequate (and 12.5% would probably yield better results than 10%, since it could then be scaled back up by an exact power of 2). Yes seems alot but that worked well for them! Alfred 1 Quote
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