A reader emailed recently to ask about the maximum Weight of a Stroke in the Stroke panel, so I decided to take this as an opportunity to discuss all maximums and minimums in Illustrator. The fastest way to find a maximum or minimum for any feature is to specify a ridiculous amount. With Strokes, I started by typing 1000 pt in the Stroke panel for the Weight of a selected path. Hmm! My path now had a Stroke of 1,000 points. When would I ever need such a heavy Stroke? Probably never! But I still did not have an answer. So I specified a 10,000 point Stroke Weight and an error message appeared on my screen, which read: "The value must be between 0 pt and 1000 pt." So 1,000 points is the maximum Stroke Weight that you can specify in the Stroke panel. But is that the maximum Stroke Weight possible? It would seem so, but a little experimentation proves otherwise. To see what I mean, select a path with a 1,000 point Stroke and double-click on the Scale tool. Specify a Uniform Scale of 200% with the Option for "Scale Strokes and Effects" selected and press OK. Hmm! No error message. But the Weight in the Stroke panel is still 1,000. But if you check the Weight in the Appearance panel (Window>Appearance), it's 2,000 points. So what's the maximum Stroke Weight possible? The answer is, it really does not matter. In my experimentation, the maximum is much heavier than the size of Artboard (227.5 square inches) can possibly contain.
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