Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs
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Click and touch release problems Illustrator CC 2018 Mac High Sierra - cause dictation software
Illustrator v 22.0.1, Mac OS High Sierra on Macbook Pro 2016, touch bar, 2.9GHz Intel core i7, 16GB 2133MHz LPDDR3
Clicking, tapping, with trackpad or wireless mouse (Kensington wireless Turbo Mouse trackball): click/tap does not release, so the object is highlighted or selected and stuck to the cursor as you move it around.
In the layers palette, (The new Properties/Layers) clicking/tapping a layer lock to unlock it may unlock it with a delay, or lock/relock it. The same goes for view/hide visibility for layers. The response is difficult to interpret, possibly because of delays. But it not possible to use…
35 votesWe are not hearing any more comments on this thread. If you still run into this problem due to Dictation software, please reach out to Support.
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"Current proportions" option missing from Illustrator CC 2019
LEFT (Screenshot from a tutorial): The "Current proportions" option is visible under Artboard Options window.
RIGHT (Screenshot from my desktop): The "Current proportions" is missing.Please let me know how to enable this option.
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Cannot Scale Images or Text
As I'm illustrating on Illustrator, I cannot scale images or text suddenly. I would uninstall and re-install the program to get rid of the bug, but it keep returning randomly. I do not hit or click on any key or button to make this happen. Every time is comes back on its own unprovoked.
It happens on both my work and home macbook.
A text box, for example would be too small for the copy inside it, but I cannot expand the box because the box seems to be frozen in its exact shape.
I can drag the box anywhere…2 votes -
Text Styles from library not applying to new text in Document
When I try to apply text and paragraph styles from CC Library to new text it doesn't work. The text doesn't change.
I have tried selecting the text with subselect tool, the text tool, double clicking the style in the library, right clicking the style in the library to apply to new text. It doesn't work, it used to.
I have CC version 2019
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Saving a PDF compatible causes slow saving
I have a top end workstation so the spec isn't an issue. When saving an AI file, checking PDF compatible slows the save and subsequent saves significantly. Un-checking it results in normal performance. This was not an issue prior to the latest release.
21 votesCompleted (Comments Open) ·
AdminIllustrator Engineering
(Software Engineer, Adobe Illustrator)
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Hi All,
This issue has been fixed.
Please update to the latest AI version 24.0.0. and let us know if you are facing any issues around this workflow.Thanks & Regards,
Illustrator Team -
Version info disappeared from “Get Info” of Finder
macOS 10.12.6
CC 22.1For ai files saved using v22.1, version info is not displayed in “Get Info” of Finder.
When checking with xattr command, com.apple.ResourceFork did not exist in those file.
Did the specifications change?18 votesResource Fork in .ai files are removed in version 22.1. This is done to prevent an intermittent crash while saving Illustrator files to smb volume on macOS 10.13. Apple deprecated resource fork many years ago.
Following Apple document talks about deprecations that lead to removal of Resource From .ai files
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/releasenotes/General/CarbonCoreDeprecations/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40012224-CH1-SW28https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreservices/carbon_core/file_manager?language=objc
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Sentence case deletes first letter of each line.
I use the change case multiple times daily, since I frequently receive text content in all caps. I recently started using Illustrator CC 23.0.2. Anytime I use (specifically) the "sentence case" option it deletes the first letter of each (paragraph) line. It's extremely annoying. I have to open InDesign to do it and change it there, then bring it back into Illustrator.
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making postscript file
i working with illustrator from cs4 and cs5.
in cs5 version of illustrator when i print my artwork to a postscript file with the generic post script driver, the default path for saving file was the path of saved current document or latest saved location, and that was very good and time saver for me.
but in CS6 and later versions, the default location for save file is "this pc" or my computer ...
and this is very time vested process.
with the best regards.
thank you2 votes -
RIGHT CLICK NOT WORKING
RIGHT CLICK DOESNT ******* WORK ON ILLUSTRATOR
1 votePlease 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.
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Interacting with properties panel can make app require force close
MacOS 10.14.1
Illustrator 23.0.1Clicking on options in the 'Properties' palette, then clicking outside the resulting dialog can make the app become mostly unusable:
- Menus are greyed out
- any menu function can't be done, including save and quit
1 voteHi David,
This happens, when you open some menu while a panel pop-up is still open. Since you had the fill popup open from properties panel, when you clicked on menu, so its grayed out.
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Panel "Dropdowns" appear on wrong monitor
If the Panels are on a second/external monitor on Mac OS, Illustrator renders the dropdown information (ie font size, stroke width, arrowhead type, rotation, Transparency type) not on the second monitor, but back on the Main monitor/iMac.
The example shown has the latest build, with panels on the right monitor and artboard on the iMac screen. Trying to select from the Stroke Width drop down menu puts the options on the iMac screen instead of within the Stroke Panel.
Photoshop doesn't do this, so it's not an Apple thing. Illustrator team, please fix this!
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Film and Video presets have an unnecessary Artboard 2
Every new document created has 2 artboards (At least when creating from the 1920x1080 HD video template) Every time I go to export a jpg or png via save for web, it slows to a crawl because of a huge unnecessary artboard. I only want to export the size artboard I created, the HD size. But I have to wait for it to catch up and then cancel, delete the useless artboard, then go back to exporting. The whole process takes several minutes and is infuriating.
4 votesThis artboard has a purpose.
As mentioned here in comments and in several discussions (here or here), this artboard is needed when importing the file as a composition into After Effects.
Quoting Ton Frederiks (thanks):
With a single artboard, After Effects clips the content outside the artboard even when Retain Layer Sizes is selected.
With the second large artboard, AE will show the contents of layers when Retain Layer Sizes is selected.
Another way to solve it is to create a single large artboard that has the size of all the artwork.
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Hitting "enter" key when specifying page range of 'Save to PDF' on mac broken
Running AI on Mac 10.13.6 with AI 22.1.
On all programs, when a dialog box is 'highlighted' you can hit 'enter' which will do that action. There is a new bug on save to PDF on Mac at least. Should be very easy to fix guys!When you Save as PDF, and you have a multi-artboard file - if you want to save out a couple of the pages to PDF, you click 'Range' and type the page range, ie. 2-3. Usually I would always do this and then hit enter, as there is no point picking up the mouse.
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Properties panel showing wrong properties and text attributes all the time
Properties panel don't reflect correct properties and font kerning and size were not reflecting in the the properties box. Changing a text box affects another text and not the selected text. An yes, I have the latest version and have replaced preferences many times.
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Command-s save reverts back a few steps
Sometimes saving the document (command-s) causes it to revert a few steps back. WHAT? What is going on with all this weirdness!
2 votesPlease 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 -
Continuous drag over locks or visibility in layer palette regularly fails when using Wacom
I have experienced this problem on both macOS and Windows when using a Wacom tablet.
1. Toggle visibility of multiple layers by click-dragging over the eye icons.
2. Toggle the visibility of another layer by clicking on the eye icon.
3. Occasionally the last click will be interpreted as being part of the drag gesture and the visibilty of multiple layers will be affected.
4. Undo doesn't see step 1 and 2 as separate. So undoing gets you back to before step 1.You may have to test this for a while as it doesn't happen very often. A few…
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Tool Menus Errors: Tool menus click through into the tool options below them.
Tool Menu Interface Errors:
I have my Character Tools on Top, then my Swatches below, then my Transparency tools.
I click to change transparency setting and the color swatches are below, thus what ever I click in the menu clicks through into the swatches and thus my color changes. Same issue when I change fonts.
I click the multiply option in my transparency tools and that menu pops up over the swatches, thus whatever I click, clicks through the little menu and into the swatches color. See attached or you won't understand.
Am using the latest Illustrator on Win10. See…4 votes -
Linked image file cannot be deselected
I have an infuriating problem with selected linked files that's been going on for years now.
If a linked file becomes selected (often by dragging within it's area to select other items) it is then impossible to deselect it again. I generally work with the Path Selection Only option on but a link often gets selected anyway and then this problem occurs. It's usually necessary to close the document to get out of it.
Occasionally, deselecting the file in the links panel used to work, but this problem has generally got worse. It sometimes results in editing an item unintentionally.
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Font style descriptor repeated in the Font's name
I just created and exported a new font using Glyphs app.
While I was testing it, I realize how the style descriptor "Regular" appeared in the name as well.
Tried to fix this with Glyphs support as long as I discovered it's this way only on Illustrator.
No repetition on Photoshop or other non-Adobe apps.
Problem goes away if I have 2 or more styles, but other single-styled fonts (like Impact) don't have this repetition.
Might be a bug?1 vote -
Uninstalling old version breaks windows preview handler for new version.
When uninstalling an older version of illustrator, the windows preview handler for AI files gets removed such that it no longer functions for newer versions of illustrator that are already installed. The only resolution is to uninstall the newer version and reinstall which can be a pain, or manually modify the registry entries to assign the PDF handler to AI files.
2 votesPlease 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.
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