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  1. Gradients Crashing Illustrator

    Every time I drag a color swatch, whether an existing swatch or eye-dropped, into my gradient panel, Illustrator crashes. I'm also having issues with my gradient sliders spazzing out when trying to drag them. It causes my program to freeze up. I have one file open and only five gradients in my file, so not enough to overload illustrator. It's making my job extremely hard to do. I have also restarted and tried re-installing illustrator.

    4 votes

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  2. Illustrator taking forever to save

    Version 23.0.4 taking forever to save relatively small files- not sure what's going on but this problem began this week and persists after reinstall.

    help!

    4 votes

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  3. Select Objects in Layer selects locked objects

    Objects that are locked within a layer get selected when selecting everything in a layer. Instead of selecting everything in the layer except the locked items.

    Win 7, Ai CC 23.0.3

    12 votes

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  4. AI unusable performance lag

    As soon as I open a artboard or template I experience

    5-10 Seconds UI lag for menus and tools

    If I close the artboard the menus are responsive

    Hardware Overview:

    Model Name: MacBook Pro
    Model Identifier: MacBookPro15,3
    Processor Name: Intel Core i9
    Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz
    Number of Processors: 1
    Total Number of Cores: 8
    L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
    L3 Cache: 16 MB
    Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
    Memory: 32 GB
    Radeon Pro Vega 16:

    4 votes

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  5. 2 votes

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  6. Rearrange All Artboards ignores locked layers

    When I use the command Rearrange All Artboards from the Artboards panel object on locked layers are not moved with the artboard.

    To test make a document with two artboards and two layers. Draw anything on Layer 1 for each artboard them copy it exactly to Layer 2, or just duplicate Layer 1. Hide or lock a layer then use Rearrange All Artboards to rearrange the dartboards. The objects on the locked or hidden layers do not move with the artboard.

    The two screenshots show before and after using Rearrange All Artboards with one layer locked.

    2 votes

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  7. O Adobe Illustrator está Travando e Fechando sozinho

    O meu adobe Ilustrator, esta com erro de travamento. principalmente quando vai salvar um arquivo., le trava e fecha. Já não sei mais o que fazer. Esse problema começou depois da atualiazação.

    Por favor ajudar ai!

    2 votes

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  8. Different size of postcard preset in the home about Japanese version

    Illustrator that is Japanese version has different size of postcard preset in the home.

    In the home screen, postcard preset written in "100 X 148mm" but that preset becomes other sizes (197.56 X 101.6 mm).

    I want to fix it.

    1 vote

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  9. Alt + Scroll wheel doesn't zoom

    Just updated to 23.05 (64 bit windows 10) and the alt+mouse wheel no longer zooms. It just scrolls left and right same as CTRL+mouse wheel. If I use ALT+Shift+Mouse wheel it does scroll.

    22 votes

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  10. AI doesn't warn about matching hotkeys for commands and actions

    Actions can only be bound to F-keys.
    Keyboard shortcuts can be match to almost anything, including F-keys.
    When user tries to register new keyboard shortcut that already exists, AI warns them about conflict.
    But when user creates new shortcut for F-combination, already taken by action, AI says nothing.
    For example, if one of my actions uses Ctrl+Shift+F2, and then I want to assign same Ctrl+Shift+F2 for 'Change case' command, AI won't notify me. Action will run, but not a command then. If I uses Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F2 for that (or any) command, it still won't run, but action will do.

    4 votes

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  11. Move objects always moves downwards in y direction, behaves fine in x

    Selecting an object and hitting ENTER brings up the 'Move' dialog and, for a while now, negative values moved things up and positive values moved things down the y axis. Fair enough, we all got used to it. As of today, things behave differently and everything is always moved up, unless I adjust the angle in the two entry fields below. Please see attached GIF.

    3 votes

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  12. Shear in Transform Panel doesn't add numbers

    In the Transform Panel I use the mouse wheel to adjust the Shear of an object but it does not show the degrees that it is moving. The object does adjust but the panel only reports 0°. As I scroll with the mouse wheel I can see the number flickering. When I click on the selection arrow I can select a number but that only adds to the number of degrees instead of telling me how many degrees I have adjusted it. I have attached a short video where I am adjusting the shear using the mouse wheel

    1 vote

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  13. Saving switches a layer back on

    When saving in Illustrator 2019 a layer that was switched off becomes visible again. Only a minor problem I guess, but is part of a growing list of things that don't work in the latest version.

    1 vote

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  14. Smart Guides do not always snap

    This can happen even if I am at the 200% limit. Which taking the limit off would be great also.

    2 votes

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  15. Negative Offset not functioning using Pica

    When units are set to Pica

    Create a shape, choose Object Menu > Path > Offset Path. Input a negative number and move to Miter Limit. Number changes to a positive.

    Select the input field again and use arrow keys to create a negative number. Number changes to a positive.

    Use a negative number from with circumstance and click okay. Object obtains an offset path equal to the positive number (not negative).

    This behavior is preventing me from doing my work!

    1 vote

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  16. Changing values in Move dialog immediately applies them

    There appears to be another bug crept into the latest version of Illustrator when selecting an object and using the Object > Transform > Move dialogue.

    When you change values it commits those values rather than previews them, even if you cancel the operation. Ie. if you type 100mm into the x-coordinate box then change it to 150mm it will move your object 100mm then a further 150mm (250mm in total) rather than honouring the last value and only moving it 150mm.

    Illustrator is becoming all but unusable of late.

    3 votes

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  17. No Response when saving/printing files

    Every time I attempt to save a file in Illustrator or Photoshop the system (Windows 10) hangs and shows 'no response'. It clears itself after a couple of minutes and then works normally. It will hang like this while I am printing as well. Our Level 1 tech has not been able to find the problem and it is becoming frustrating when attempting to work on a project. I have uninstalled and re-installed the programs twice as well as reinstalling the operating system to no effect. I have also tried rolling back to an earlier version which also has no…

    1 vote

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  18. Pivot point in Free Transform doesn't snap

    Draggable pivot pint in Free Transform tool doesn't snap at all: not with Smart guides, not with Snap to grid.

    8 votes

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  19. Missing image link when pasting

    When I select artwork in one open document, select copy and then paste into another document, Illustrator cannot find the image links.
    However, when I drag the artwork from one document to another there is no problem.
    Congratulations to Adobe in breaking records for the most buggy version of Illustrator so far!

    1 vote

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  20. PDF with CMYK JPEG is inverted when opened in Illustrator

    Tested on Mac OS 10.14.6 with Adobe Illustrator 23.0.4

    METHOD
    open a PDF that contains a CMYK JPEG image in Illustrator
    (This PDF was created by converting a CMYK JPEG file to PDF in Acrobat DC Pro 2019)

    RESULT
    image is shown inverted in illustrator (same issue opened in Photoshop as "image").
    Opening in Photoshop as "page" it looks ok, but this cannot be selected in Illustrator.

    PDF and original JPEG are attached.

    EXPECTED
    visually the same as input file, no inverted image

    4 votes

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