When I am creating shapes or text boxes, the box freezes. Meaning I cannot resize or scale it, but I can drag it freely. All four corners turn blue as if I used the direct selection tool to select all four corners but I have not. This sometimes solves itself when I exit out of illustrator and open it back up. Sometimes I have to uninstall illustrator and reinstall it to solve the problem. Regardless, it happens at least once a day. And my job relies HEAVILY on illustrator to complete time sensitive projects. PLEASE help me find a solution to be rid of this bug

Example: I have an action that prepares a logo file, then saves to ai and svg, and exports to png and jpg.

I have it recorded as an action, and it runs great.

If I try to use "Batch..." to run it on a folder of images I have options to "Override Action 'Save' commands" and "Override Action 'Export' commands" that will let you point the save/export commands to a new folder. This is great in theory, but does not work right.

After running the batch, I only have 2 files. Not 4. The Save as AI then SVG steps leaves me with just an ai-file, and the export as svg and png leaves me with a single file with no file extension. Clearly not supposed to happen - is a fix likely?

Reporting a very frustrating Illustrator bug that has been there since version CS6 at least.

There is a bug concerning the Live Paint tool. Live Paint objects need to be expanded most of the time to develop them further in Illustrator. However, after expanding, the dimensions of the shapes get distorted and this renders the Live Paint tool completely useless for precise drawings or illustrations.

I hope something can be done to eradicate this bug as it extensively hinders workflow of many projects that need to be developed with Illustrator.

Thank you.

P.S. The same happens not only with imported files, but also with Live Paint objects created by native tools.

This is not ethical. I know that. But I want to publish this video. Just explain to me why these problems are caused. I've never seen any logical explanations until this time. And that makes me sad.
Illustrator is very clumsy, slow, has bad performance, interface bad and exhausting.
Example, I can't easily apply effects on an object or text. Restricts me with everything. These are very simple and the features that should be. I'm sure a lot of people think that.

Affinity is small size, more practical and user-friendly, faster and cheaper.
Many of your competitors come up with more innovative features. I hope you don't lose leadership. Once upon a time, Nokia was a world giant

I ended the subscription with you. I hope you won't lose any other customers.

1. Handles on on object's Gradient Annotator are difficult to adjust once a gradient has been dropped. Usually, handles simply don't respond. User needs to start from scratch and create a brand new gradient rather than make small adjustments to existing ones.




2. Repeated but not consistent bug: adjusting one gradient causes changes to unrelated gradients on same document.




3. Live preview of gradient tool is prohibitively slow, esp when gradient is anywhere near an existing Effect.

FIX: Allow us to toggle the preview effect.

1. Dropping a color onto the gradient slider, color creates a new color-point onto slider, immediately next to existing color-point, rather than dropping color onto the existing color-point, creating extra color points. Usually happens further than the desired color, usually black or white leftover from default gradient. See attachment.

While trying to distribute spacing using the Align palette, I've noticed a strange align bug which only appears to affect compound shapes when trying to align to a key object.

Steps to recreate:
1. Select two objects, one of which is a compound shape
2. Make the compound shape the key object (click on it while selected)
3. Set a distribute spacing distance in the Align palette, and click on the horizontal/vertical distribute spacing button.

Result:
The key object moves by the preset amount set and the second object get spaced from the key object by the same amount.

Expected result:
The key object should stay put and the 2nd object moves to the specified distance from the key object.

Note:
Expanding the compound shape using the pathfinder palette and repeating the steps above causes the key object/spacing to behave as it is expected to.

The attached video demonstrates the expected behaviour first and then highlights the issue. The video also shows a second issue whereby when you choose a key object without the Align palette at the forefront, the distribute spacing text entry point is greyed out.

Could be related to the following issues:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/32727160-smart-guides-does-not-align-to-compound-shapes
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/36007084-compound-shape-bounding-box-issues

I am working on a huge document with hundreds of linked images. All files are now changed due to company policy. So I need to relink a bunch of files. This is not possible automaticly so I believed I found a solution. But the shortcut was devastating. If i choose say 10 links which have the same name, lets call them Image1 but now the name should be Image01. Same image is in other words used in several places in same file. I marked the links and choosed Relink. So far so good.
I choose the new name Image01.ai and then I copy the filename och press ok until the first file is ok. Then it opens automaticly a new window and i choose ctrl-v with the image01.ai file and press enter. I enter this for all image files.
Then I realized that the Link button is turned off???
It´s on checked if i manually click image01.ai but not if i paste the filename.

Please fix this bug and to be honest, a professional program as Illustrator should have batch-possibilities!

Tdlr: horisontal guides made with "split to grid" go onto the first artboard, when they shouldn't.

I use split to grid to make myself a grid to work on and it works fine on a single artboard. But if i try to make split to grid on any other artboard than the first one, it sends the horisontal guides to the first artboard and keeps the vertical ones on the correct one. The lines stay grouped and can be moved, but it takes extra time and effort.
This happended on different machines.

Writing this on a phone, but I can make a screenshot if asked for.

Sometimes, elements will incorrectly be deselected, getting them into a strange state where they are seen as unselected in the layers panel, but being displayed as selected on the canevas. Most operations will not affect it (move and scale), but some, including align, will produce strange, incoherent results. It either stops at random or does not, needing a restart of Illustrator to be able to resume editing.

It has happened multiple times already over the last weeks, and I cannot see a pattern to it's occurence. Just now it happened while navigating the history where elements were being grouped/ungrouped and transformed multiple times.