Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs
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- Details of your operating system
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732 results found
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Live corners are stretching
The corners are supposed to be live, but yet they stretch/distort when transforming. Objects with round corners should retain their radii, or I should have the option/keyboard modifier to change this behavior. The radio button in the transform palette is not working.
The options should be scale, distort, or retain current value.
Illustrator 25.2
CadTools 12.2.3
AstuteGraphics plugins, manyiMac 5K, 27" 2019, OS X 11.2
Core i9, 32GB RAM
AMD Radeon Pro 580X, 8GB RAM3 votes -
The pencil tool doesn't close the path when you draw small objects
If you draw a small dot with pencil tool it will not close the path. That little circle under the cursor indicating that it will close the path never pops up. So now you have to zoom in if you want to draw small shapes and get a closed path.
Changing the number in the "Close paths when ends are within:" doesn't do anything so that's not the problem. It's a new bug.
This was no issue in CS6. You could hold "Alt" to close the path no matter how tiny shapes you were drawing.
2 votes -
Crash on export for screens with Repeat Grid
I can make this consistently crash when exporting Artboards 2, 4, or 5. If I turn off the Grids layer it exports correctly. I found that converting a Repeat Grid a making it a normal Group of objects fixes the issue but I have no idea how I did that in the first place.
Expanding the repeats seems to solve the crash.
For example Artboards 1 and 3 grids were created by a repeat but somehow it got converted back to a group of objects.
1 vote -
Why are Tools on Toolbar are present, but will not activate when selected?
The selection tool is the only active tool. When any other drawing tool has been selected it will not activate, pen tool, rectangle tool etc. I have Reset Essentials and tried multiple options suggested on forums and videos. Closed and reopened program reset to other "Workspaces" and nothing has reactivated the tools. Everything worked yesterday. The tools are not hidden. They simply will not activate when selected.
1 vote -
Toggle tool with CMD will not change back to current tool in 25.2
OS X 10.14 Illustrator 25.2
Using e.g. the pencil tool and switching temporarily to move tool will with pressed CMD key, often results in not changing back to current pencil tool after release of the CMD key.
Works fine with 25.1 but does not work properly with 25.2.
Especially while making hand drawings, where one changes often between pencil - move - eyedropper - this is quite annoying. Could you please fix this?
1 vote -
Opacity Scroll
I used to be able to hover over the opacity % and just scroll with my mouse to actively change the opacity. Since the latest 2021 update, it will change the values shown in the bar, but will not apply them to the object.
1 vote -
Pencil tool fidelity issue when smoothing lines added anchor points NEW AI VERSION
The pencil tool is not responding to the fidelity even if is 100% smooth it will add anchor points making the drawing really wobbly. I noticed this only happens on the new Illustrator2021 version running on Mojave 11.1. Seems to be a common issue currently See link below:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/pencil-tool-fidelity-issue-when-smoothing-lines/m-p/11754465#M259637 Im uploading a video showing the bug
Why is this happening?
Can this Bug be fixed?1 vote -
Surface Pen Stylus Pressure paintbrush doesn't work
The stylus pressure for the paintbrush tool in the touch workspace on a Microsoft Surface seems to work occasionally but not always. The Surface Pen is connected (Bluetooth), I can get stylus pressure to work sometimes and not others. Sometimes in the same session! Or if I flip to the regular desktop workspace it'll work occasionally. I cannot figure out what the key ingredient is. It seems very random. I can also get it to recognize pressure if I enable "constrain drawing 45deg" but not if I disable it. How does that make sense? Must be a bug. Please address…
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Smooth Blend Tool Broken
On the Mac OS, when blending between two shapes using the smooth blend tool, 7/10 times the blend will not be smooth but have one step between the shapes. I can instead create lots of steps as a work-around, but the designated tool does not work. If the shapes are separated far enough, more (but few) steps will appear.
In the images below, you will see an attempted blend between a dark green gradient square, and a light green square. I am using the smooth blend tool.
2 votes -
Can't place circle or square in middle of other circle or square.
On circle tool.
1) Draw a circle
2) Go to the middle of the circle to draw another cirlce.
3) It does not let me. (Changes to some selection tool)This did not used to happen in older versions of illustrator. When it changed I just lived with it, but working on a file now where I have to create a bunch of objects in middle of other objects and its driving me mad. Anyway to revert it back to the way it used to be? (probably worked fine in about 2010)
2 votes -
art brush direction
I created a new art brush. When applied to a stroke it rotates 90 degrees. The same bug was reported by another user in July 2020. How many months will it take to fix this?
1 vote -
Locked Layers No Longer Safe?
i have the lock icon turner on, pull up blob brush or text or any other tool, locked layers below still active. HELP!!
1 vote -
Expand and Expand Appearance Greyed out since update
My 'Expand" And "Expand Appearance" has been greyed out ever since the recent updates. Its like this with every file of mine. They are NOT on locked artboards, they are all expandable files and I tried changing color settings and importing different file types, to see if that would fix it but nothing changed, everything is still greyed out.
4 votes -
clipboard copy bug
I have iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019), the latest OS BigSur 11.2, memory 64 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, video card Radeon Pro 580X 8 GB. The latest regularly updated version of Illustrator (25.1) and since last year or some I noticed that once in a while there were problems with clipboard memory. Whenever you copy or just select some object on artboard, immediately you get a garbled text box pasted. Very nasty, and after the latest update it has gotten considerably worse. Now I literally cannot simultaneously select several objects without having this garbled block pasted. So I cannot align…
1 vote -
Knife leaving behind graphical artifacts on low opacity
I just updated Illustrator on my Mac OS and I am really unhappy. One of my most used tools, the knife, leaves behind little, uneven and ugly shapes on the edges of the cut objects. This only happens on objects that have a lowered opacity. That ruins my work as I like to cell shade with low opacity blacks. Please fix that.
1 vote -
Eyedropper tool vanished from tools panel
Whenever I restart my computer and open Illustrator, the eyedropper tool disappears from my tools list. The measure tool is in its place. No option to hold down the measure tool to expand to the eyedropper tool. Also not showing up when you try to add the tool via the Edit Toolbar feature.
2 votes -
I can't give color fill and border value
I cannot give a color fill and border value. I have to turn the program restart
1 vote -
Repelling objects
(macOS Big Sur Illustrator 2021) objects, lines, etc don't snap together like in previous versions of illustrator. i cannot get objects to align at all. they seem to bounce each other away like magnets.
1 vote -
Scale Stroke & Effects not working with Symbols in Scale Window
The Scale Strokes & Effects checkbox in the Scale Window doesn't work with Symbols.
You have to enable/disable Scale Strokes & Effects before entering the Scale dialog to get it to work with symbols.
1 vote -
lines aren't smooth with pencil tool
Back in version 25.0 the paths drawn with the second setting were smooth. Since version 25.1 the paths aren't smooth. it creates unnecessary misplaced points.
4 votesI am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our latest release – 25.2.3 which is available worldwide now.
Going forward, our goal is to fix as many top User-Voice bugs as possible and as frequently as possible. Given the nature of the fixes, some of the bugs will take a longer time to fix, but we are on it.
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Thank you for all the feedback. Keep it coming!
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