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
- Upload your Illustrator file or a video (screen recording or gif, this helps us most to reproduce the issue and resolve it)
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Wrong appearance of Drop Shadow effect with text object (non-English characters).
Wrong appearance of Drop Shadow effect with text object. It looks like effect use incorrect regional standards settings separate from the text itself causing the shadow looks like complete other characters .
Also, if you turn off BLUR in DROP SHADOW, the shadow becomes normal. And this does not happen with all fonts.
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CMYK colors get recalculated in a document with color mode changed from RGB to CMYK, using Color Picker
According to the user, they often receive files created in RGB mode, and they have to convert them to CMYK, using File > Document Color Mode, make specific changes and push documents further. And while the document becomes CMYK, Ai keeps recalculating supplied values, as if these get double-converted via RGB space.
There are easy steps to reproduce this problem from scratch.
1. Create a new RGB document, using Web Document Profile
2. Go File > Document Color Mode > CMYK
3. Create a rectangle
4. Open Color and enter a CMYK color, like 15-30-45-15, tabbing through values. Press Enter…6 votes -
Repeatedly unable to create New Files
After a few hours of running illustrator at work, it will come to a point where I cannot create a new file. Ctrl+N won't open the window. File > New... won't open. Clicking New File in the home page won't work. I have to close illustrator and reopen it. It happens at least 3 times a day and is quite frustrating. I've tried resetting my preferences and reinstalling illustrator, but it continues to happen.
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Major Bug: Illustrator "undo"s randomly the last step (transform, move and copy using "alt")
Adobe Illustrator does randomly revert the last transformation. Sometimes it reverts movement, sometimes scaling, sometimes copy and moving using "alt".
This bug makes impossible to work with it.1 vote -
Duplicate Artboards will always fail if even one artboard exists near the right edge of the canvas
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Duplicating an artboard using the Duplicate Artboards command in the Artboards panel will fail if one of the artboards in the document is near the right edge of the canvas and the new artboard is at coordinates that extend beyond the canvas.
It is not possible to duplicate the artboard by wrapping it in the Y direction. Therefore, when such artboards are in the document, it will never succeed.
The expected behavior is that Duplicate Artboards will also do so, since you can copy and paste artboards and New Artboard will generate them with a wrap around.
Environment
- macOS…
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Crash when minimised on file open
When AI is minimised in Dock (latest MacOS), using right-click File, Open with in Finder causes AI to crash with no dialog. The AI window briefly opens before crash. AI v. 29.6.1
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Document’s dimensions are 10 times larger when printing
Illustrator calculates dimensions incorrectly.
The problem is when printing from Illustrator.There is no problem saving the file and placing it in ONYX.
Incorrect settings for mm and cm units
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Illustrator "froze" when adjust object in transform panel
- Mac Mini 2024 (Sequoia 15.5)
- Adobe Illustrator 2025 (29.6.1)
- Tried moving the selected object using "Transform" panel - X,Y value
- Adjusted the "Y value" by 1mm - the app dialog "Progress - Transforming Objects..." pop up and nothing happen, app just froze.
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Generative AI patterns not lining up
When generating a pattern, the edges do not line up. It does not actually generate a usable seamless pattern.
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Live Paint settings reset on restart
Whenever I open Illustrator the settings for Live Paint reset themselves.
I.E. I double-click on the tool, set the swatch preview to off and highlight on, but next time I open Illustrator swatch preview is back on and highlight is off.2 votes -
Pen’s rubber band lies when I try to continue a path with with an unnecessary handle
Please take a look at this file and the GIF attached.
Try these steps:
1. Grab Direct Selection and select the inner arc segment only
2. Cut it
3. Delete the rest
4. Paste the segment back (I used Paste in Front)
5. Now select the point at the top. When zoomed in, you can clearly see it has an unnecessary handle — the remnant of the deleted path, not contributing into the curvature of the path in question (BTW, if you save it right now, Ai would strip away both 'appndix' handles from both ends of the path —…1 vote -
Cuando necesito arrastrar un objeto, se congela el programa
Cuando necesito arrastrar un objeto, se congela el programa, incluso cuando son objetos livianos, como vectores.
Windows 11 Home
Illustrator 29.6.1 (64 bit)1 vote -
Shift+Dragging an Object doesn’t constrain it
Dear Adobe, if I wanted to nudge an object across the screen with the arrow keys to retain it's current horizontal/vertical alignment I would be designing everything in Microsoft applications. Please, PLEASE, PLEEEEEEAAAAAASE fix the Shift+Drag position constraint, it hasn't worked for over a year, and I'm losing my mind.
1 vote -
2025 Paragraph styles broken opening files created in previous versions
Opening up previously formated files (2024) with Character/paragrah styles applied is useless in 2025!
1 vote -
Curved paths not honouring guide styles / Guides are not dotted
When converting artwork to guides, anything that has a curved path does not show the guide style set up in preferences. In my case I have guides set up as a dashed line with a light grey colour. What I'm seeing is a solid black line. Happens in AI 29.6.1 and the beta 29.7 88. Sample shows two shapes converted to guides but the ellipse remains as a solid black line. Using MacOS 14.7.6.
3 votes -
JPG werden nicht mehr exportiert
Seit einer Woche lassen sich aus der .ai Datei keine .jpg mehr exportieren. Hierbei erschein keine Fehlermeldung. Es erscheint einfach keine .jpg Datei. Dieser Sachverhalt tritt einzig bei .jpg. auf. PDF lassen sich weiterhin exportieren.
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PARM error with Bounding Box or Free Transform when scaling an image
I just started to get this error... on the newest version of Illustrator 29.6.1 ...when trying to scale an image up/down in size...
Any good ideas how to fix?
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Request for Improvement: Kerning Delay with Complex Background Data in Illustrator 2025
I am experiencing performance issues with Adobe Illustrator 2025 (latest version) in the following environment:
Environment: MacBook Pro 2024 (32GB RAM, SSD), macOS Sequoia
File Setup: Approximately 30 artboards with the same complex background (vector data or high-resolution images)
Issue: Kerning and text spacing adjustments result in a ~1-second delay per operation. Hiding the background does not resolve the issue, but removing it eliminates the delay.Attempted Solutions:
Disabled Navigator panel and layer thumbnails
Toggled GPU performance on/offRequest: Please optimize performance to ensure smooth kerning operations even with multiple artboards and complex background data.
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Scaling down a placed image makes it unmovable
After placing a PNG and scaling it down to fit my artwork, I was no longer able to move the PNG into place. I could only select it in the Layers panel or by clicking and dragging over it. There does seem to be a threshold before this happens — if I only scale it down a small amount, it seems to behave as normal, but if I go beyond 50%, it becomes unstable. Of course, the workaround is to scale the PNG closer to the size needed, but this behavior seems to be new. I am pretty sure I…
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Cyrilic character disappears when loaded from variable library
When I load a csv variable library that contains the cyrilic character ç in it, this character disappears when I merge it with the template. Using Adobe Illustrator v29.6.1 on a Mac Sequoia 15.5
2 votes
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