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  1. Smart Guides - Center point not usable

    When Smart Guides are enabled, the Center point of an object is shown, when hovered over the edges of the object, but it dissappears (and doesn't snap) when trying to hover over the Center point itself.

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  2. Freeform gradient line stops disappearing

    The freeform gradient tool is very cool in its flexibility but I have encountered some major bugs with the line option. I can create the line stops but if I change the opacity of a stop from 100% then stops along the line most of the time one or more stops disappear.

    Sometimes just clicking or clicking and moving a stop makes stops disappear as well.

    It makes the tool unusable. Hopefully, it will become more reliable in a future release.

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  3. Dragging multiple groups by text anchor deselects other groups.

    See attached video. With multiple groups selected, clicking and dragging by one of the group's text anchor deselects all other groups. Only the group with the selected text gets moved.

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  4. Scatter Brush - cannot make adjustments

    Mac OS 10.14.1 Illustrator 23.0.1 Scatter Brush dialog will not Preview adjustments, will not accept "OK." Must Cancel and lose adjustments to leave dialog.

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  5. Unable to select individual anchor point to move

    I was trying to fill a shape with an object but can't select and move individual points to create the custom shape i'm looking to make. It just moves everything even if I have the other layers locked

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  6. illustrator CC 2019 selection by path only broken with symbols

    1. In Prefs>Selection and Anchor Display check Object Selection by Path Only.
    2. Drag a symbol from the symbol pane onto the artboard. 2a. It needs to be one with a filled area.
    3. Choose the pen tool.
    4. Draw an unfilled, stroked path with an anchor point that is on top of a filled area of the symbol.
    5. Choose the Direct Selection Tool.
    6. Drag over the anchor point, making sure not to drag over any paths, just a filled area. Alternately, drag over a filled part of a symbol even without a path on top.
    7. Notice that the symbol becomes selected. It should…
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  7. handles

    1. Version 23.0.1
    2. I was working as usual but suddenly kept closing and running slowly. I had lost what I was doing once. Then opened up again and couldn't extend lines anymore, there wasn't centre handles nor white anchors in any object I draw.
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  8. Have to zoom a lot to reveal middle handles with small objects

    MacOS Mojave 10.14.2 (18C54) and Illustrator CC2019 23.0.1
    MBP 2018, i9, 32 Gb, Radeon Pro Vega 20, 4080 Mt

    It seems like Illustrator CC2019 has an issue with handles vanishing (at least on my system)
    If you have a long and narrow (either horizontally or vertically), or otherwise small object, you have to zoom very very close to reveal the middle handle. Makes changing lengths of said objects pretty hard when matching with other objects with, for example, snapping etc.

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  9. illustrator brushtool NOT displaying brush stoke in realtime

    I'm using quadro 2000 + 24GB Ram + dual xeon x5650.
    But when i using brush tool, turn on GPU performance.
    illustrator brush tool NOT displaying brush stoke in real times when i drawing. It work when i turn off GPU performance.

    ps: my system work fine AI 2018

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  10. Transformation problems

    The Width/height (Screenshot B: / H: ) Values don't work sometimes.

    If I manually type in the values like 20x20 it will create something like this 20,134x19,999.

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  11. Lock/unlock width and height while scaling

    If I have a rectangle for example and I unlock the width and height so that I can change the values separately, If I change the width or height (size) the object transforms proportionally.

    Example:

    Object 500 H x 500 W px (locked):
    If I change H -50px I get 450 H x 450 W px.

    Problem

    Object 500 H x 500 W px (Unlocked):
    If I change H -50px I expected to get 450 H x 500 W px.
    But what I get is 450 H x 450 W px.

    4 votes

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  12. Bug: Cannot scale a horizontal line via center box handle

    Hi,

    in Ai CC2019 I cannot scale a horizontal line via the center box handle. The only way to it, is to use the direct selection tool (A).

    see: https://feek.d.pr/drpiNK.gif

    == feek

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  13. Distorted dashes at small sizes

    OS: Windows 10
    Adobe Illustrator 23.0.1

    When creating dashed lines at small sizes, the lines are distorted. See attached image - weight is .1mm, dash size is .1mm. The line is perfectly straight, the profile is uniform and the "Preserve exact" option is enabled.

    The type and amount of distortion seems to vary depending on the line's position in the document as well. Moving the pictured line 2 mm to the right means the distortion is suddenly vertical rather than horizontal.

    This is of course not a major issue as long as the illustration is only meant to be viewed…

    4 votes

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  14. ILLUSTRATOR CRUSHES WHEN I CLICK ON THE BRUSH TOOL.

    Illustrator crushes everytime I click on the brush tool. I have reinstalled the Illustrator and its not working. I am using a hp z800 running windows 10 with Nvidia Quadro K2000 as my gpu. Please Please Help

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  15. Selection tool acting like Direct selection tool and vice versa

    Selection tool does not select all points and will not move a group of objects correctly, (it acts like the Direct Selection tool, not selecting all points). And the Direct Selection tool selects ALL points of a group and moves them, which is what the Selection tool is supposed to do. They are working exactly opposite as they should. "Show Bounding box" does not resolve this issue. The Selection tool has also instantly changed format of text simply upon selection (indent & tracking). Using MacOS Sierra 10.12.6, Illustrator CC 2019. This is a bad bug, please help.

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    Please accept my sincere apology for the inconvenience. Please get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html . Since this is not a generic issue that we can reproduce at our end, we will need someone to look into your machine to figure out what is going on here.

    Warm Regards,
    Ashutosh Chaturvedi | Sr. Quality Engineering Manager – Illustrator

  16. Can't put objects exactly in the middle of another object

    At first I thouht it was an alignment problem, then i looked up to help videos but none of them solves my problem. I want to put a figure for example a square, then I want to put another square to have the exact triangle of that square but it won't let me make another figure exactly in the middle, it always goes left or right but not center. Help please!!

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  17. Can't create bar charts with numbers larger than 2,147,483

    When creating a chart with numbers larger than 2,147,483, the value axis will not render the number positions accurately.

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  18. Cannot change the blending mode when the gradient tool is selected (windows 10, ai 23.0.1)

    Is this a bug or a feature? If this is a feature then it is very uncomfortable.
    In version 22 it was possible to change the blending mode with the gradient tool selected.

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  19. Constrain (shift key) doesn't work with Smart Guides turned on

    When smart guides are on none of the constrain features (holding down shift) work properly, whether it's rotating, reflecting, etc. It just sort of jumps back to one position, often the original position, and won't move. The little magenta text that lets you know the angle etc. also goes a little crazy and looks like it's trying to display a few different words on top of each other.

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    I am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our latest release – 26.3.1 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.

    You can update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html

    Thank you for all the feedback. Keep it coming!

  20. blendtool

    Hi Adobe,

    I downloaded the new illustrator, 2019 version. Happy to see that the eyedropper tool can adopt colors from images again.
    However the BlendTool seems to be different. In earlier versions it was possible to ajust the line on which you blended certain shapes... It appeared between the shapes as a loose vector line. This line is gone now, the only thing I can ajust are the shapes which I blended.. Can you guys fix this again in an update?

    Thanks! Bjorn.

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