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  1. flickering guide lines

    In Illustrator 25.4.1 one cannot use the guides while Astute Plugins active! What did you do Adobe? While selecting objects the guide lines will appear blink think suddenly while someone click drags the mouse as long as one releases the mouse button again. While dragging objects, the guide lines will be fine, but with nothing selected, click drag will cause flickering guide lines.

    VIDEO on youtube: https://youtu.be/r_GMXaUSH5w

    1 vote

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  2. Worse situation on M1 macs

    macOS Monterey V 12.0.1 (M1 chip)
    Illustrator Desktop V 26.0.1

    Recently I noticed, that performance have some bugs.
    It is often, that screen smudges like in screenshot. and thats everyday issue. I need to zoom in and move around, then it disappears. now even Pink stripes showed up, which doesn't disappear...
    Also, sometimes when I start new document (from template), there is the pink blink (very short, few mili seconds and the same colour like in screenshot)

    Today I saw new update for Ai, so updated, will see if this issue was

    0 votes

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  3. Color Bug

    When I move objects, the colors bug out. As you can see in the picture ''Bug'' , I am only using different shades of purple and the light orange that is in the background, as shown in ''Bug 2'' . All of the darker orange is not supposed to be there and they only appear when I move objects around. This continues unless I move the screen off the artwork and then go back, then it dissapears but comes back as soon as I move an object. So far I'm unable to find a solution for this, so I would…

    1 vote

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  4. GPU issues with certain graphics cards and Mac updates

    So after a lot of time spent on chat and phone with Adobe. It seems that I am unable to use v25.4.1 or v26 in GPU mode unless I upgrade to Monterey.

    However Monterey is in its infancy. I'm not taking the risk of upgrading yet.

    My machines both have the same GPU redraw issues, where images within clipping masks create echoed glitches of themselves across the screen. this disappears when GPU mode is turned off.

    CPU mode in Illustrator is so sluggish it's pretty much unworkable.

    Adobe informs me this is NOT an Adobe issue, it is an issue…

    3 votes

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  5. illustrator freezes when moving object, task that was not a problem before oct 21 update.

    Since last update, I have a problem moving some object in illustrator without it to freeze, making impossible to work. only workaround is to disable GPU acceleration, witch I don't like since I use scrubby zoom all the time now, and the experience is not as smooth.

    I made driver update to my graphic card (Nvidia Quadro P2000) everything is up to date.

    Please hurry... I consider uninstalling latest update so I can work more efficiently

    1 vote

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  6. GPU not working with Wacom when using Illustrator

    When using my Wacom Cintiq Illustrator colours de saturate and fade. When I uncheck GPU performance the problem disappears and the colours return to as they should be. But I want to use my GPU for complex artwork
    The problem does not occur on my desktop monitor only on my Cintiq.
    I am using a Mac

    2 votes

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  7. Illustrator Zooming issue over 1600%

    Zooming over 1600%
    go to View, Screen Mode, then change from normal mode to Full Screen mode with menu Bar

    2 votes

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  8. Secondary Jagged Stroke

    Mac OS Monterey 12.0.1
    Illustrator 26.0.1

    I have been drawing lines with the line tool and expanding and bending them using the Anchor Point Tool. Sometimes Illustrator creates a secondary line alongside my smooth one that is jagged. It is still visible if I zoom in or out but I don't think it's really there (as a vector path). It is visible in the middle of my screenshot.

    3 votes

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  9. Images in clipping masks glitching and overlaying artwork when in GPU

    This is similar to previous posts but not sure if the same.. apologies if repeating. In the latest version of illustrator, images within clipping masks are glitching out and making the file impossible to work with. These glitched versions of the masked image change constantly when zooming in or out, but do not disappear as they used to when illustrator bugged out previously. see attached screenshot. The orange metal flake texture should only exist within the frame of the bicycle. The lighter orange glitchy shapes do not exist.

    iMac Pro - Big Sur 11.61
    Illustrator v26.0.1

    7 votes

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  10. ERROR with drop shadow when blend

    the object disappears in pieces

    2 votes

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  11. AMD Radeon Pro 580 rendering bug

    Hi, I have a 2017 iMac Retina 5k 27", 64GB RAM, Mac OS Catalina 10.15.7 with AMD Radeon Pro 580 GPU, 8Gb VRAM, driver version 01.00.931, Illustrator 25.4.1. I am getting odd effects in rendering of linear gradients where angular areas of colour appear at higher magnifications. If the GPU is turned off in Illustrator prefs the effect disappears. Please see screenshot attached showing the effect with GPU. Is there a fix for this, please?

    2 votes

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  12. Preview Problem in imac m1 on GPU Performance

    This problem occurs when Illustrator is on the GPU Performance, there is a Preview problem in some parts .. I have a request to solve the problem, this problem has not been solved in the last update either ...

    illustrator 25.2.3 & 2022!
    System imac m1
    memory 16gb

    macos monterey 12.01

    1 vote

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  13. Jittering / flickering content when scaling Ai windows on M1 Pro Macbook Pro 2021.

    Jittering content when scaling Ai windows on M1 Pro MBP. Seems to be a GPU render glitch.

    2 votes

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  14. Magnifying screen redrawing flaws

    In Illustrator 2022, when I zoom in, the screen turns black and my artwork only redraws the portions where I hover the mouse, as if the display was defective.

    3 votes

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  15. Zoom w/ Command + Space Bar screen grays out

    Hi - when I zoom in close to anything in AI using Command + Space Bar I will get a grayed out background and the object is very pixelized & strange looking - see attached screenshot. This happens about 50% of the time I do this. Can you look into fixing this bug? MacOS Catalina v 10.15.7, AI 25.4.1 Thank you.

    1 vote

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  16. The GPU preview renderer glitches out on distortion meshes when the canvas is rotated.

    See title, really. It might just be on distortion meshes inside of clipping masks; that's where I found it and I didn't bother checking for any further details.

    1 vote

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  17. Path render error

    See screenshot. All I did was add opacity to a path and it renders it like this. Happens all the time since I updated.

    4 votes

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  18. Stroke display error when stroke is 0.001mm

    Stroke does not display correctly for very fine stroke lines on curves (for example 0.001mm). If the change the stroke to 0.1mm it displays perfectly, but when 0.001mm the appears to be large vectors filled in. There are not "really" there - it is just a display issue, but very easy to reproduce.
    Since 0.001mm is a common stroke width for Laser Cutters, this is a big problem as it is difficult to work with detailed drawings when it does not display correctly. See the attached sample for a very simple example.

    2 votes

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  19. Weird neon pink image of straight horizontal lines while creating new symbol

    As I was making a new symbol, I had another tab open of a house I was creating and in the midst of making such my laptop went blank showing some weird neon pink image of straight horizontal lines, and then it went blank and then after that my laptop restarted. It was only after I reported the bug to apple I realized looking back at my other tab on illustrator that the original image I was using for practice on illustrator got really messed up and can't use now.

    1 vote

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  20. 'Scrap' appearing in preview mode

    See screen grabs; unwanted shapes appear along contours in filled shapes.
    I'm on MacOS10.14.6
    AI 25.0.1

    4 votes

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