Exporting to PNG from Adobe Illustrator cutting off edges

Question

I created a 40px x 40px image in Adobe Illustrator CS4. I saved as an .ai file and then tried to export as a PNG.

Adobe Illustrator automatically crops the background and tightens the export to a rect around all the objects which if fine. In this case, I am not working edge to edge so my image is not quite 40px wide.

But, unfortunately, Illustrator is not exporting the entire image. I end up with an image that is 34px wide. Indeed, the icon I draw starts on the left hand side but the right edge of my object cut off.

Any ideas why this is happening? I can't imagine Illustrator CS4 can't correctly to export to PNG.

Answer 1

Are you exporting the image by going to File>Export or are you using File>Save For Web & Devices. I think this problem only appears when you are trying the latter. Usually File>Export gives you good result.