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  1. Blob Brush sticks and then releases when starting a stroke. very annoying

    I have tried everything that I know. n Unchecking GPU Performance is not working. I do a lot of work in blob brush and the attached video shows how annoying this is. I have a Wacom Cintiq 22HD.

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  2. The path Eraser tool not working

    Rien ne se passe quand je veux effacer quelquechose qvec cet outil

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  3. BUG - perspective grid - ground plane widgets disappear

    The Left and Right ground level widgets DISAPPEAR when the vanishing points are adjusted moderately far apart. There seems to be no way to make them visible again, which makes it hard to move the entire perspective grid to another location.

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  4. BUG - perspective grid planes disappear permanently

    If the grid cell size is adjusted -- while some planes are turned off (with temporary SHIFT-hide function) -- the hidden planes cannot be made to reappear.

    1. Select Left plane. Hover grid tool over an intersection in Left plane.

    2. Press SHIFT. The right and ground planes disappear.

    3. Adjust cell size with diamond widget.

    4. Now try to make right plane or ground plane visible again -- gone forever.

    This bug seriously interferes with using the Perspective Grid tools.

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  5. Stroke not aligned with Fill

    Stroke is not aligned with Fill
    When Drawing, the stroke is not rendered on the actual place where it's placed and not properly aligned with Fill

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  6. I cann't turn off "Snap to point" while using Pen tool.

    I turned off all snap functions, but when using the Pen tool, snap to points still happens. How i can turned off this function?

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  7. Resizing objects makes them taller instead of equal width and height

    Quick update:

    Adobe's senior support and dev have confirmed the issue does exists in the files we have sent them which uses this particular illustration. They believe this issue is due to the file being created in the older 32 bit version of Illustrator before the transition to the 32 and 64 bit versions of Illustrator and no longer scales properly as today's version is only 64 bit.

    They have logged this as a feature request and but will not be categorized as a bug at this time.


    Since 24.3, resizing certain complex grouped objects while maintaining the ratio using…

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  8. Simplify error

    When there is typy to a path object, Path —> Simplify —> Convert to Straight Lines or ”Show Original Path” crashes all time when I use that command.

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  9. Can't Select Center Point of Symbol to Drag

    After the latest update, I'm unable to drag symbols from their center point.

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  10. offset path doesn't work with simple shapes like a circle

    OS: Windows 10
    Illustrator CC 2020 Build 24.3 (64 Bit)
    I can't offset any type of shape and do the "Ctrl + D" trick anymore
    Steps:
    1. Create a Circle
    2. Click "offset path" button on the side menu

    I'm having problems with video attaching, so here's some snapshots

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  11. Bug with end of line - Convert selected anchor point to smooth

    When you have a line in illustrator where you:

    Select using the direct selection tool (A)
    Convert the point to smooth using (B)
    And get the fabulus result (C).
    BUT you also end up with point D where the alignment of the line is always vertical.

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  12. Josef Pro font disappears as you type

    Hello

    I am trying to type the word "Communications" in Adobe Illustrator. If I use any other font, it types fine and looks fine. When I use Josef Pro, the "ti" goes missing and only shows "Coomuncaons". When I change from Josef Pro to any other font, I can see the "TI". I tried this is other applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel and this problem does not happen. It's definitely an issue with Illustrator.
    Unfortunately, I cannot use another font because our company logo uses this Josef font.
    Please help.

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  13. Expanding simple paths autogenerates dozens of unnecessary bezier points

    Drawing 2 overlapping shapes or paths (or shapes expanded from paths) could once be reliably split/trimmed/etc cleanly using Pathfinder tools.

    Currently, doing so autogenerates dozens of unnecessary bezier points. This can be cleaned up using the smooth tool, but becomes a tedious process, especially given that the same cleaned shape will behave the same way if Pathfinder is used again.

    This is a critical part of my workflow that's become substantially disrupted by whatever change was made under the hood in the past 6 mos - year.

    My hope is that with the change to other drawing tools, this is…

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  14. errors loading plugins on 2020 illustrator

    Since i updated my Illustrator to the latest 2020 version, i get a list of about 15 or more plugins not loaded successfully...

    i can open my project but then my work space is gone and all my drawing tools to the left are gone and i cannot do stroke, fill or shapes....my older version was working perfect... now my computer crashes every 15 min and i get errors of plugins not loaded when i start again....so frustrating i am about to cancel my membership.

    i tried installing the older version i had and i still get the errors.
    i…

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  15. In the latest version cursor keys are now moving the selected objects/nodes 2 pixels instead of 1

    Up until 24.2.1 if I selected an object or node and hit the cursor keys they would move 1 pixel in the direction of the key. Now all of a sudden they move 2. makes trying to align/tweak the position of objects/nodes really difficult and painful

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    This often happens when we open Preferences and accidentally press Up or Down arrow key. The very first field focused in the dialog is Keyboard Increment value, and pressing an arrow makes it either zero (which turns into the smallest allowed value of 0.0001) or 2 (if you had 1).

    Open Preferences and change the value back.

  16. Simplify Path flags points incorrectly as smooth

    When using Simplify... on a path with several corner points, the resulting simplified path will have several of its corner points flagged as "smooth". As soon as you try to move one of the tangents of the incorrectly flagged corner point, the opposite tangent will snap into a colinear position.

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  17. Rotate lagging/hangs, whenever I'm in rotate tool and rotating lines or objects, sometimes I experience lagging about 1 - 2 minutes

    it stucks on this cursor here(image attached), it will last 30 seconds - 1-2 minutes, been dealing with this for a long time.

    Looking forward for the fix.

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  18. Selecting two objects adds millions of points to second path...

    Adobe Illustrator 24.2.1 (and its predecessor) have a horrible feature which I assume is a bug. When selecting two separate paths (or even two separate text objects) using the Selection Tool or Direct Selection Tool, it seemingly adds millions of points to the second path. The points are not really added and don't actually exist, but they LOOK like they do, meaning it adds a thick blue line along it that looks ghastly and is completely off-putting. I can't use those versions at all and have had to stick to 24.1.3 which is the latest version to not do it.…

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  19. Shape builder not working consistently for the same shape after being moved

    I have a perfect tangent (generated by code) that will work in the top part of the attached file. The bottom part will not work for the shape builder tool.

    Reflecting the shape or moving it might fix one or both of the bits, and allow them to be "shape built". It might also break the possibility of "shape building".

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  20. Lost Feature

    Before the last update I used to be able to draw a square or ellipse then type the location I wanted to place it, X or Y. Now that is gone. Now I have to open another box "TRANSFORM" in order to place the shape exactly where I wanted it. Very inconvenient. If I at least had the ability to dock that box at the top it would make life much easier. It has been at the top for as long as I can remember. I often use this like a CAD software when I draw. The last update made…

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