BUG-000168501 for ArcGIS Pro

Bug ID Number	BUG-000168501
Submitted	June 20, 2024
Last Modified	January 19, 2025
Applies to	ArcGIS Pro
Version found	3.3
Operating System	Windows OS
Operating System Version	N/A
Status	Known Limit

Additional Information

This is a known limit in Adobe Illustrator. Adobe Illustrator has a longstanding limit of 32,000 vertices in a figure. Refer to this documentation: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/maximum-anchor-points-on-a-path/td-p/10163260 for more information. Because of this limitation in Illustrator, shapes with >32K vertices are lost or truncated when imported as vector features into an Adobe Illustrator document. Unlike ArcGIS Pro, ArcMap's display and output engine truncates the resolution of complex polygons to a grid of the same resolution as the system's default printer's default page size, so the SVG file exported by ArcMap can be opened by Illustrator because it contains much less complex vector data.

Workaround

Esri and Adobe Illustrator recommend exporting to the AIX format to import into Adobe Illustrator using the Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud extension. AIX export splits up the exported complex polygons into several less complex polygons that are less than 32K vertices per polygon, so the AIX format will not have this limitation when imported into Adobe Illustrator. Refer this documentation https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/maps-for-adobecc/overview for more information on Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud.