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andeecollardandClaude Opus 5.5 17a602d1dc Image Trace: large images trace with a warning; anchor limit 8,000,000
The public documentation says Image Trace warns about images larger
than 1500 pixels on a side but traces them, only more slowly. VectorCraft
traced them silently, and refused any trace of more than 2,000,000
anchors, which a 4000 x 3000 photo at High Fidelity Photo nearly reaches
(1.9 million on a code-drawn photo) and a noisier one passes.

- imageTrace.make and makeAndExpand return `warnings`: one for an image
  over 1500 px on a side (traced, but more slowly; a lower-fidelity
  preset or a smaller copy is quicker), one for an image over 64 MP
  that was traced from a scaled-down copy. The app shows the first in
  the status bar.
- MAX_TRACE_ANCHORS is 8,000,000 natively (2,000,000 on wasm, where a
  page has at most 4 GB). Measured through imageTrace.make on
  code-drawn photos: about 90 bytes an anchor kept in the document;
  7.9 million anchors kept 685 MB with an 876 MB peak (4000 x 3000,
  Full Tone at Colors 100, Paths 100, Noise 1, 37 s).
- The refusal keeps its translated advice: raise Noise, lower Paths or
  Colors, or pick a lower-fidelity preset.

Tests: a_large_image_traces_with_a_warning (1600 x 40 and 1500 x 8
code-drawn images, make and make-and-expand),
trace_warnings_name_a_large_or_scaled_down_image, a compile-time check
of the limit's range, and a UI test that the status bar shows the note.

Source:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/image-trace-results-optimization.html

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018tBcdwNhptqtmX32JCGFzB
2026-10-17 19:38:18 +07:00
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