How Do You Find The Dimensions of A Document in Illustrator?

Question

Is it possible to find the dimensions of an imported document in Illustrator? For example, if you drag a SVG into Illustrator (On Mac)/open a pre-made SVG, it doesn't necessarily tell you the dimensions of the document itself. If you wanted to recreate the document size, how would you do so?

Answer 1

In Illustrator, select the object and click on the top menu selection Window and choose Info. A dialogue will pop up showing you the dimensions of the object. You can change the units to inches or whatever you want by choosing the top menu selection Illustrator - Settings - Units and choose the units you want.

I hope this helps!

Answer 2

You can set your Adobe Bridge preferences to show the sizes, see this site for details to show the dimensions:

https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/using/adjust-bridge-content-panel-display.html#show_additional_metadata_for_thumbnails

You can drag the thumbnails into Illustrator (or InDesign) the same way you would from the desktop.

Respectfully,

Bill

Adobe Certified Instructor