Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs
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- Details of your operating system
- The version of Adobe Illustrator (desktop)
- The steps you were taking when you experienced the issues
- Your expected result and the actual result
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color mix
Using Adobe Illustrator 23.0.1 CC 2019. My CMYK color 100-85-0-0 changes to 99.17-83.58-1.74-0.02. My document color mode is set to CMYK. How do I keep original l color mix?
3 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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Illustrator doesn't open
I simply can't open Illustrator anymore. The screenshot below shows how Illustrator appears when it's open. I can only see the top bar, none of the actual interface. I'm working on MacOS Mojave Version 10c.14.1 Illustrator version 23.01
I even tried uninstalling and installing it again but nothing changed.
Thank you
Corina1 voteHi,
What happens when you choose the Illustrator menu Window >> Application Frame ?
Thanks & Regards,
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Keyboard Increments in preferences doesn't work.
I set my Keyboard Increment to .0139 and anchor points move correctly. Then I change it to .00139, which has alway worked in the past, it now jumps about 10X the correct distance. I restarted. No change. I uninstalled, then reinstalled. No change. I restarted my computer. No change. I can't work with it like this. How do I get this fixed?
4 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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Unable to save to Illustrator 8 legacy format
Illustrator 23.0.1 (64-bit)
Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64File saved as Illustrator 8 cannot be reopened by Illustrator CC 2019 or earlier versions.
Create simple file (can be blank, but this doesn't show the full problem.
Save as Illustrator 8 format.
Attempt to ope.
Error message (see screenshot) is displayed.
Click OK.
File then opens, but has no content.2 votes -
New document (File > New) window / dialog is blank / black / gray / empty
I am not able to create a new document, the dialog is blank
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78 votesWe are not hearing this anymore in recent times, marking this one as Resolved.
If you are still facing this issue, please add a comment.
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.AI an d XD files not opened by default on Windows 10
Ashutosh Chaturvedi, sorry but one of your issues is not totally fixed, you have many users who are waiting for an answer for the .ai an wd files wich are supposed to by opened by default by thèse two softwares by double-clicking. This issue is not fixed on Windows 10. Thank you for your time and you answer ASAP.
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.
Before you do that are you manually able to change file association of .ai file to another application say Notepad.exe ? There is another issue with file association going around. Please check this link: https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/microsoft-broke-windows-10s-file-associations-with-a-botched-update/
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23.0.1 Windows 10: Marquee selecting inside rectangle with no fill selects that rectangle
23.0.1 Windows 10: Marquee selecting inside rectangle with no fill selects that rectangle. Clicking inside a rectangle with no fill behaves as expected, it will only select the rectangle if it has fill
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Illustrator issues, SVG only?
When using CC (updated to v. 23), illustrations appear distorted when rendered with stylesheet. During troubleshooting, I open a colleague's SVG illustration in CS6 as well as CC v.23 and compare. See attachments. CC distorts both content size and artboard size. We never had this issue with CS.
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Illustrator Crashes on external monitor
When I try to create a new page or open a file on my external monitor illustrator crashes. im using windows 10 latest version and latest illustrator.
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Cannot view 150% zoom level
- Illustrator CC 20.1 (64-bit); Windows 10-64
- Trying to zoom to 150% by selecting the preset option from the zoom drop-down menu, or using Ctrl++
- Expected result: document is shown at 150% zoom (actual size due to DPI scaling issues)
- Actual result: zoom preset goes to 200% and document is shown at 200%. This only happens with this document and not others; it contains both vector and raster data. For some reason I can zoom at every other preset except 150% (true actual size)
4 votesA sample file to reproduce the issue would have helped us. 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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Illustrator CC is in Overprint mode super slow
Dear User Voice Team,
While working in overprint view , Illustrator slows down and starts freezing
Im working on:
HP Z440
Intel Xeon E5 1620 v4 @ 3.50 GHz
64 GB DDR4
NVIDIA Quadro P4000 - 8192 MB
Windows 10 Pro - 64 bitWe have 2 other computers with specifications below, which work perfectly fine :
1) Asus ROG G75 VW
Windows 10 Pro - 64 bit
Intel® Core™ i7 3610QM
16 GB - DDR3 1600 MHz SDRAM
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 670M with 3GB GDDR5
Illustrator CC 20182) iMac (27-inch, late 2013)
macOS High Sierra - Version 10.13.6…8 votesHi Sanan,
Sorry to hear that you are facing this issue. And, Sorry for getting back so late. we are not able to reproduce this issue in-house.
1. Are you still getting this issue on latest version of Illustrator?
2. Would it be possible for you to share the video of the same?Thanks
Anish -
Lags horribly...I cannot do anything because of this. This was before and after update. This happens with Adobe PDF too.
Lags horribly...I cannot do anything because of this. This was before and after update. This happens with Adobe DC and InDesign I too. I haven't tried other CC apps but Pages (not an Adobe app) works fine and so does the internet. I removed Windows Bootcamp from my Mac thinking that it was a space issue. At this rate I am unable to get any work done. Very frustrating
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Certain font styles are missing, like Montserrat Bold, Arial Bold, Myriad Condensed, etc.
I have ITC FrizQuadrata installed. This font family has 4 styles: normal, italic, bold and bold italic.
AI CC2017 does show all four.
CC2018 shows only one — 'ITC'.It doesn't show it when you type family name, it doesn't show other styles in drop-down style list.
If I copy/paste text with needed font family style from 2017 to 2018, AI will show me two identical font names but two different preview near them (and again no italics).-
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Very slow working when raster imiges are placed.
Why Illustrator can't be as fast as Indesign with images placed or linked?
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Illustrator won't export SVGs - V. 23.0.1
When trying to export (for screens) artboards and/or assets, it does create subfolders but won't export any SVGs.
It does export PNGs etc but not SVGs.
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File > New or Cmd/Ctrl+N fails to create new document
After opening Illustrator, I'm only able to open existing files. Trying to create a new file by clicking "File > New" in the menu, or clicking "Ctrl+N" results in a brief pause, but no new artboard or new file appears.
Illustrator 22.0.1 (64-bit)28 votes -
Not enough memory to place the file + can't export files Illustrator
Hi,
Hope all is good.
When trying to add any file over approx 50kb to an Illustrator project (to an empty one or one with existing layers), if that's a png, jpg or psd, error message comes out ''not enough memory to place the file'', or nothing happens at all.
At the same time, when I try to export a finished project (of any size), these methods don't work:
'Export As' PNG = the operation cannot be completed because of an unknown error. [!now]
'Save for web (legacy)' = can't even open the option panel, error message comes up straight…7 votesRequest to Contact Support ·
AdminIllustrator Engineering
(Software Engineer, Adobe Illustrator)
responded
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.
As Andy commented that the memory issue was resolved after updating to 23.0.3, please try that.
Thanks & Regards,
Raghuveer Singh -
Preferences reset to default... EVERY time I open Illustrator
Every time I open Illustrator, all preferences are reset to the defaults. EVERY preference, EVERY time. I've saved custom workspaces, keyboard shortcuts, etc. and those are available to be activated, every time I open the application.
Using AI CC 2018 (22.0.1) on Windows 7, with Cloud disabled.
I do NOT have the option to install the latest patch; I don't even have access to menu item "Check for Updates."
Would be EXTREMELY helpful if Adobe would make the list of fixes for each patch available. I have no way of knowing when there's been an update, or what was patched…15 votesThe issues seems to happen again in 28.0 and 28.1
The team is now aware of the bug.
Still — please comment and upvote to help the team to get statistics on the magnitude of the problem.
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