In Illustrator's Export for Screens, how do I specify exact height in px – or see what the actual pixel dimensions are?

Question

• I'm using Adobe Illustrator 27.2 on Windows. This is the current version as of February 2023 on Creative Cloud.

• I have an Illustrator document of a company logo originally intended for print use: the artboard dimensions are in Inches and it uses CMYK color (and the DPI is set really high, so the artboard's pixel dimensions are in thousands of pixels).

• I'm wanting to export it as a 400 px tall transparent PNG file – preserving aspect ratio.

• Using File → Export → Export for Screens, the formats list lets me specify the usual scale-multipliers (1x, 3x) but does not seem to let me specify exact dimensions for height or width:

  

  • The drop-down options for Width and Height both enter “100px” into the box, and on export this seems to control the width of the image, not the height.
    • This is a bug, surely? (And where is it getting “100px” from?)

My questions:

• How do I tell Illustrator I want a one-off 32-bit transparent PNG export that's 400px tall and have Illustrator calculate the width for me?
• And how can I see, in advance, what the actual pixel dimensions of each output format/scale would be?
  • For example, if I choose a "3x PNG", how can I be sure it isn't going to generate a 100,000 px × 50,000 px output image (due to the artboard's high DPI)?

Unfortunately I can't use the older (and arguably better...) Save for Web dialog because the menu option is disabled for some reason.

Answer 1

If you started a new file at 8.5 x 11" and turned on rulers, then select Export > Export as... and select jpg, then it will ask what dpi you want it to be. If you say 300dpi and the image on the 8.5 x 11" size sheet is 8 x 10", then you'll get a jpg image that is 2400px x 3000px. You can choose "Other" and calculate what would get it closer to your final size.

In Photoshop you can open and resize more accurately.