Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs
When reporting a bug, please provide a detailed description with the following:
- 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)
- or
No existing idea results
- ~ No ideas found ~
8117 results found
-
Image Map URL Links Disappear in PDF Export
Issue occurs in Illustrator 2025 (29.6) and later versions
Description:
URL links configured through the Attributes panel’s Image Map feature are not preserved in exported PDFs, despite enabling the “Preserve Hyperlinks” option in PDF export settings.Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new document
2. Create an object (e.g., rectangle, text, etc.)
3. Select the object and enter a URL in the Attributes panel → Image Map
4. Create a new layer above the current layer
5. Export as PDF with “Preserve Hyperlinks” enabled in export settings
6. Open the exported PDF in Adobe AcrobatExpected Result:
URL links should be clickable and functional in the exported PDF.Actual Result:
URL links are missing/non-functional in the exported PDF.Root Cause:
This bug occurs specifically when there is an additional layer positioned above the layer containing the object with the image map URL. Objects on layers without overlying layers export hyperlinks correctly.
The issue occurs even when “Create Acrobat Layers” is unchecked.Workaround:
Merge all layers into one before exporting to PDF.
イメージマップのURLリンクがPDFで消失する
おそらく Illustrator 2025 (29.6) 以降で発生
属性パネルのイメージマップでURLを設定し、PDFで書き出し設定で「ハイパーリンクを保持する」にチェックを入れても、PDFでURLリンクが消失してしまいます。
再現方法
1. 新規ドキュメント作成
2. オブジェクトを作成
3. 属性パネルのイメージマップでURLを入力する
4. 新規レイヤーを上に作成（ここがバグ発生要件）
5. PDFを書き出す。その際に「ハイパーリンクを保持する」をチェックする
6. PDFをAcrobatで開き、URLリンクが消失していることを確認する発生要件
該当オブジェクトがあるレイヤーの上に別のレイヤーがあることでバグが発生します。該当オブジェクトがあるレイヤーが一番上にあると発生しません。
「Acrobatレイヤーを作成」をOFFにしても発生します。回避方法
すべてのレイヤーを1つに統合します。Issue occurs in Illustrator 2025 (29.6) and later versions
Description:
URL links configured through the Attributes panel’s Image Map feature are not preserved in exported PDFs, despite enabling the “Preserve Hyperlinks” option in PDF export settings.Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new document
2. Create an object (e.g., rectangle, text, etc.)
3. Select the object and enter a URL in the Attributes panel → Image Map
4. Create a new layer above the current layer
5. Export as PDF with “Preserve Hyperlinks” enabled in export settings
6. Open the exported PDF in Adobe AcrobatExpected Result:
URL links should…28 votesHaving a layer above the layer with hyperlinks now works as expected in Beta 30.0.0.114
-
Can't Save as on your computer
I use illustrator 26.1 and Monterey 12.3 on MacBook Pro with M1 chip .
I can't Save as on my computer . The Window is freeze except the format box and the "save on cloud document" button.Please help I can't do my job and save as pdf formats for print .
Thank you.
28 votesThis issue is fixed in macOS 12.3.1 update from Apple.
-
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 -
AltGr key not working
AltGr key does not work as intended, it currently only produces a Ctrl+Alt keypress. On many European keyboard layouts it is used to type e.g. characters @, [, {, |, \, ~, and currency symbols (€, $, £). The only way to circumvent this is to use e.g. Notepad to type in the characters and copy-pasting them, which is a nuisance. All the other Adobe CC apps - just as basically every other Windows app in the world - use AltGr as intended, so why does not Illustrator?
28 votesAltGr is supposed to be equivalent to Alt + ctrl.
At present, when we press e.g. AltGr + E while writing text, we check if any command can handle it and if yes it is not passed to application to handle key event. That’s why existing commands are triggered on those extended char shortcuts.If we want to change the behavior that while writing text key shortcuts (e.g. AltGr + E) should write extended character, Then we will have to sacrifice all the text contextual shortcuts we have at present in app e.g. ctrl + alt + I does something. All those commands would stop working.
This is the reason why we are moving it to the feature -
Top Bar Menu Items Stop Responding
Platform: macOS Sonoma 14.2.1 Illustrator: 28.1
While operating and working on a drawing portions of the Title Bar Menu no longer respond to clicks (File, Edit, Object, Type, Select, Effect, View Window) however the Illustrator and Help still respond.It was necessary to use keyboard shortcuts to save work and was necessary to quit and reload Illustrator and then load the file I was working on and the menu items now respond.
Has happened numerous times while working on recent drawings.
27 votesIt seems like this problem happens only for Mac Sonoma users...
Downgrading to a previous version of MacOS seems to be a viable workaround at the moment.
This is not a proposed solution though.
If this happens for you at earlier versions — please comment.
-
Illustrator desktop version 27.8 Error message [UKCO] after update on 8-3-2023
I get the following error message upon starting up Illustrator desktop.
"The operation cannot complete because of an unknown error. [UKCO]"
The app opens and I can create a new doc but the message keeps popping up.
For now I'm reverting back to a previous version.27 votesWe have rolled out a version with the fix for this issue. Please update to 27.8.1 from your Creative Cloud App to have the issue fixed. Thanks for your patience.
-
Unable to save
This is not an idea, it is a serious bug.
Apple OS Mojave - latest version, Illustrator 2022 - latest version.Saving doesn't happen. Clicking File>Save As and nothing happens, no dialogue pops up, nothing. Trying shortcuts on the keyboard. Same. Trying to quit the program, shows File not saved/ I click Save FIle and it does nothing. So, unless I force quit, there is no way to close the program. Illustrator seems to not initiate any action on my attempts to perform a SAVE. It is a HUGE problem for my work!
27 votesHi ,
Thanks for reporting the issue . This issue is fixed with Mac OS 12.1 update .
Thanks & Regards,
Ankit Goyal
Illustrator Team -
Wake from Sleep resizes Ai windows and moves panels
M1 MacBook Pro, Mac OS 11.5.2. - AI 25.4.1.
Every time I wake my MBP from sleep, AI window is resized to half screen (horizontal) and all Palettes are whacked! all bunched in corner of screen, have to reset window size and reset palettes, every single time. Only AI does this, no other App.27 votesIf you have this issue again — please drop a comment (all but Phillip Byrne, who already made one). Does it still happens to you? Does waking your Mac from sleep makes your windows and panels move and resize?
-
Drag to select Text in fields broken with update
In the properties panel we are no longer able to drag to select the text in text fields. Very frustrating. This doesn't seem to be an issue in other text fields throughout the UI, mainly the properties panel.
27 votesI am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our latest release – 26.0.0 which is available worldwide now.
Going forward, our goal is to fix as many top User-Voice bugs as possible and as frequently as possible. Given the nature of the fixes, some of the bugs will take a longer time to fix, but we are on it.
You can update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html
Thank you for all the feedback. Keep it coming!
-
Incorrect size for a group with an ellipse
I have a number of 5mm ellipse selected - these should have a complete height of 65mm when selected. But illustrator has ignored the white space between, giving a height 10mm less than it should be!
-
Dimensions_4.jpg 287 KB -
Dimensions_3.jpg 265 KB -
Dimensions_2.jpg 269 KB -
Dimensions_1.jpg 201 KB -
Screen Shot 2021-08-17 at 3.12.40 PM.png 211 KB -
シェイプテスト.ai 1183 KB -
回転前.png 136 KB -
回転後.png 132 KB -
旋轉90度後.png 37 KB -
水平對齊.png 36 KB -
Screenshot 2021-05-19 080253.jpg 26 KB -
Screenshot 2021-05-19 080234.jpg 27 KB -
Screen Shot 2021-03-30 at 8.23.13 PM.png 1360 KB -
Screenshot 2020-12-09 at 16.24.15.png 50 KB -
Bildschirmfoto 2020-11-16 um 12.15.32.png 106 KB
27 votesSeems to be fixed in the latest release. Please check if it is and comment back if it does not.
-
-
Illustrator could only partially read this file
When I load the first attached file in 24.0.1 (with Windows 10) it loads OK and I can edit it. When I save it and try to reload it in 24.0.1 it says Illustrator could only partially read this file. That's awful when Illustrator cannot read a file it has just saved.
The layers (and sublayers) under ALL > WATERWAYS > A-B beginning with A have all gone missing when it reads in what it can. Other parts may be missing too.
It works fine in 23.1. and I have had to revert to using that.
I have lost a day's work as I kept saving my work in 24.0.1 at regular intervals but the following day none could be read back in and I had to revert to the previous day's backup which was saved in 23.1
The first file attached (y191125-1042 EAW 95) is one which loads OK into 24.0.1 and the second (x191130-2214 EAW 95) is the result when the first file is saved in 24.0.1 and which will not load back in.
Note the files are not attached as I don't want them to be public. I will provide them on request.
When I load the first attached file in 24.0.1 (with Windows 10) it loads OK and I can edit it. When I save it and try to reload it in 24.0.1 it says Illustrator could only partially read this file. That's awful when Illustrator cannot read a file it has just saved.
The layers (and sublayers) under ALL > WATERWAYS > A-B beginning with A have all gone missing when it reads in what it can. Other parts may be missing too.
It works fine in 23.1. and I have had to revert to using that.
I have lost a…
-
Screenshot 2022-02-15 at 3.37.37 AM.png 285 KB -
Screenshot 2022-02-15 at 3.37.33 AM.png 176 KB -
ภาพถ่ายหน้าจอ 2565-01-22 เวลา 14.22.44.png 1009 KB -
ภาพถ่ายหน้าจอ 2565-01-22 เวลา 14.22.27.png 449 KB -
ภาพถ่ายหน้าจอ 2565-01-22 เวลา 14.22.09.png 96 KB -
ภาพถ่ายหน้าจอ 2565-01-22 เวลา 14.22.14.png 73 KB -
Screenshot 2021-08-11 at 6.01.59 PM.png 557 KB -
Screenshot 2021-08-11 at 6.01.34 PM.png 278 KB -
Screenshot 2021-08-11 at 6.01.27 PM.png 175 KB
27 votesHi Paul,
We would need these files to reproduce this issue. Can you please share the same on my mail ID: anish@adobe.com
Thanks
Anish -
-
Adobe Illustrator CC 23.0.1 2019 Not Responding when opening file & Slow on Start MACOS Mohave 10.14.1
- Adobe Illustrator CC 23.0.1 2019 / MACOS Mohave 10.14.1 2.1 Slow or Not Responding - Launch Adobe Illustrator - by clicking on icon in dock or in applications folder 2.2 If it launches - Click on Open from Dashboard and try to open a file - it becomes non-responsive or takes forever. 2.2.1 Tried opening ai files (any of them I have) directly- same issue 2.2.1 Tried to command copy and save to change location I have filed stored - it copies to new location, including adobe cloud, same issue 2.2.3 New files never show up in recent files on dash board or in file menu- only some very old ones. 2.2.4 Tried to change file name to see if that helps- does not 2.3 Tried to create a new file - takes a while, but on save of a file with a single line in it (save as ai) - again non-responsive, regardless of file location 2.4 tried to shut down computer, tried to uninstall and reinstall adobe cloud and illustrator, tried to run illustrator 2017. Nothing is working!
- Expected result - to be able to quickly launch application either from ai file or from applications/dock and then quickly and easily open, save, and and save as my work as I go.
Taking 3 hours to just open a file and am still unsuccessful - opened the downsampled PDF and am going to try that. However, when I save - same issue if saved as ai file.
Could not upload my illustrator file because .ai files are not allowed, uploaded screen shots of configurations and the PDF version of file.
-- General Notes
Interface is Not Responsive when launched
I have 3 TB Hardrive iMAC with 32 GB RAM - I meet or exceed the requirements. Also this just started happening after last update 23.0.1.I am trying to open any ai file type folder. Although slow it seams to open PDF's.
This happens again when I try to save as or newly save an untiled version.
I tried to send an error report and that crashed as well.
I have attached my computers configurations- Adobe Illustrator CC 23.0.1 2019 / MACOS Mohave 10.14.1 2.1 Slow or Not Responding - Launch Adobe Illustrator - by clicking on icon in dock or in applications folder 2.2 If it launches - Click on Open from Dashboard and try to open a file - it becomes non-responsive or takes forever. 2.2.1 Tried opening ai files (any of them I have) directly- same issue 2.2.1 Tried to command copy and save to change location I have filed stored - it copies to new location, including adobe cloud, same issue 2.2.3 New files never show up in recent files on…
-
mockup-final proof 1.pdf 10698 KB -
Screen Shot 2018-12-28 at 7.01.17 PM.png 140 KB -
Screen Shot 2018-12-28 at 6.44.04 PM.png 298 KB -
Screen Shot 2018-12-28 at 6.43.03 PM.png 3459 KB -
Screen Shot 2018-12-28 at 6.40.17 PM.png 167 KB -
Screen Shot 2018-12-28 at 6.30.17 PM.png 143 KB -
Bad performance.mov 17582 KB -
2.png 668 KB -
1.png 480 KB
27 votesRequest to Contact Support ·
AdminAnkit Goyal(Illustrator Team)
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
responded
I am closing the ticket due to lack of response.
Please get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html . Please give a reference to this post so that we can identify you.
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.Warm Regards,
Ankit Goyal
Illustrator Team -
text handling still a mess in 22.1
Text handling in the 22.1 build - meaning the interactions between the Paragraph, Character, Paragraph Styles, and Character Styles panels - is still fraught with bugs and/or undesired oddity compared to previous versions. (2015.3 being the last completely -- or mostly -- working version.)
Open Illustrator 22.1 (Windows) and create a new blank document.
Draw a text box and fill it with placeholder text.
Create a new paragraph style (‘body text’) and set the font, size, and leading to something different from the default. (e.g. font: 10pt Avenir LT Std Book, 16pt leading).
PROBLEM 1: Select a word or words in the text and change the style (by pulling down the list in the Character panel) to (for example) ‘Black’ instead of ‘Book’. The selected text leaps to 12pt/14.4pt leading, though it does stay in the chosen font.
PROBLEM 2: Undo. The selected text reverts to Avenir Book, but stays at 12pt/14.4pt.
PROBLEM 3: Undo a second time. The selected text goes back to the original state (Avenir Book 10pt/16pt), but the entire block of text is now selected (?!?).
Deselect.WEIRDNESS: Select a few words, and change the style (again, to Black), but this time do it by clicking in the Style box in the Character panel and scrolling through the values via the mouse wheel or the up/down arrows – not by pulling down the menu and making a direct selection. The text correctly changes style without changing its size.
Delete the entire text box. Draw a new one. Make sure the ‘body text’ style is selected in the Paragraph Styles panel and fill with placeholder text.
PROBLEM/WEIRDNESS: The text displays in the correct style (Avenir Book 10/16), but in the Paragraph Styles panel the ‘body text’ line has a ‘+’ after it, indicating that the text doesn’t match the saved style in some way. Also, in the Character panel, the leading shows no value (empty space) in the control. And the pulldown menu in the Paragraph Styles panel has ‘clear overrides’ dimmed out...
Further WEIRDNESS: If one then selects some words and opens the Leading pulldown menu (in the Character panel), it shows 16pt as the first item in the list (above ‘Auto’ and the list of default sizes), with a checkmark... it just isn’t displaying inside the text box.
Close the document and Illustrator.
Start Illustrator and create a new document.
Draw a text box and fill with placeholder text. Click outside the box to remove the keyboard focus (and cursor) from the contents, but leave the text box object itself selected.
Create a new Paragraph Style in the Paragraph Styles panel, called ‘body text’, font settings ‘Avenir Book 10/16’.
WEIRDNESS: The displayed text updates correctly, there’s no ‘+’ after the style name in the Paragraph Styles panel... but the Character panel still shows ‘Myriad Pro Regular 12/14.4’. De-selecting the text box and re-selecting it gets the Character panel to update (‘Avenir Book 10/16’).
Start Illustrator and create a new document.
Draw a text box and fill with placeholder text. Click outside the box to remove the keyboard focus (and cursor) from the contents, but leave the text box object itself selected.
Create a new Paragraph Style in the Paragraph Styles panel, called ‘body text’, font settings ‘Avenir Book 10/16’. Deselect and reselect the text box to get the Character panel correctly updated.
Select a few words. Then, in the Character Styles panel create a new character style called ‘italic’. Set the font to Avenir, Book Oblique, but do not touch the size or leading boxes.
Close the dialog box and click the character style name to apply it to the selected text.
Select an entire paragraph (or several) that includes the italicized text. In the Paragraph panel, change the size/leading to, say, 8pt/20pt. Everything works as it should.
Deselect everything and double-click the ‘italic’ style name in the Character Styles box to verify that the style displays no values in the size or leading controls, nor in the text summary, implying that size/leading are not specified and will not be affected/overridden by this character style.
Select the previously italicized text. The character style name shows as ‘italic+’ indicating that the selected text doesn’t match its character style definition, even though it should.
PROBLEM: Select some other text in the same paragraph. Click ‘italic’ in the Character Styles panel. The selected text changes size to 10/16, even though the size was explicitly not specified as part of the Character Style definition.
I could go on.
--John Bradley
Text handling in the 22.1 build - meaning the interactions between the Paragraph, Character, Paragraph Styles, and Character Styles panels - is still fraught with bugs and/or undesired oddity compared to previous versions. (2015.3 being the last completely -- or mostly -- working version.)
Open Illustrator 22.1 (Windows) and create a new blank document.
Draw a text box and fill it with placeholder text.
Create a new paragraph style (‘body text’) and set the font, size, and leading to something different from the default. (e.g. font: 10pt Avenir LT Std Book, 16pt leading).
PROBLEM 1: Select a word or words…
27 votesWe have the fix available in the latest release. Please update Illustrator using Adobe Creative Cloud application to the latest build for version Illustrator CC 23.0.
Please refer to our knowledge base FAQ – https://illustrator.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/1844590 if you face difficulty in update.
Or get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – https://helpx.adobe.com/support.htmlWarm Regards,
Ashutosh Chaturvedi | Sr. Quality Engineering Manager – Illustrator
Adobe. Make It an Experience. -
Save a Copy in same folder of AI file (like before)
Save a Copy in same folder of AI file (like before)
Since the update to 22.0, the behaviour of “Save a copy” has changed so as to present the last-browsed folder destination in Windows Explorer. Previously this defaulted to the location of the working file.
This is interrupting workflow considerably. I’m sure I am not alone in saving PDF copies of artwork in profess, for discussion with colleagues and clients. This used to be a couple of keystrokes but now I have to remember to browse back to the working file location each time.
In summary:
Expected Result: Explorer window should really default to the location of the working file.
Actual Result: Shown location in Explorer window is that of the last-browsed folder destination.
Save a Copy in same folder of AI file (like before)
Since the update to 22.0, the behaviour of “Save a copy” has changed so as to present the last-browsed folder destination in Windows Explorer. Previously this defaulted to the location of the working file.
This is interrupting workflow considerably. I’m sure I am not alone in saving PDF copies of artwork in profess, for discussion with colleagues and clients. This used to be a couple of keystrokes but now I have to remember to browse back to the working file location each time.
In summary:
Expected Result: Explorer window…
27 votesWe have the fix available in the latest release. Please update Illustrator using Adobe Creative Cloud application to the latest build for version Illustrator CC 22.1.
Please refer to our knowledge base FAQ – https://illustrator.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/1844590 if you face difficulty in update.
Or get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – https://helpx.adobe.com/support.htmlWarm Regards,
Ashutosh Chaturvedi | Sr. Quality Engineering Manager – Illustrator
Adobe. Make It an Experience. -
Maintain Width and Height proportions lock button in Properties panel behaves as if locked, while the button is not pressed
The Ai I'm running has this strange bug where upon making a new document the Transform section under the Properties Panel will have the 'Maintain W & H' lock activated; however the icon does not indicate as such. It will show the function as in active.
So every time I were to scale an item with no intention of keeping it's initial proportions, the function will scale it proportionately.
Ai CC 2018
27 votes -
Unable to import SVG textPath
Illustrator is able to export SVGs using the <textPath> element for use in browsers. However, it is unable to import SVGs using the <textPath> element - instead of importing them properly, it puts each glyph in the appropriate position along the path, but it doesn't rotate the glyphs.
The workaround is to generate SVGs with "expanded" outlines for text, but this leads to much larger SVG files, with a loss of editability.
27 votesI am glad to update that this issue was fixed in 23.0.5 release.
Thank you for all the feedback.
-
ESC key not exiting text editing and isolation modes in Illustrator 2025 on macOS and PC
On macOS (latest version), ESC key does not exit text editing mode in Illustrator 2025 as it used to in previous versions.
Resetting preferences and keyboard shortcuts does not fix it. I created a new action to perform the exit task temporarily.
Expected behavior: ESC should exit text mode.26 votes -
Scale percentages are not consistent for images.
When placing a file without changing the scale, the links panel should display 100%.
It does that for Linked Tiff (and PSD) files, but displays a scale percentage (that depends on the resolution) for JPEG and PNG files.
When images are Embedded, a scale percentage is shown, where a resolution of 72 ppi is shown as 100% and smaller percentages for higher resolutions.
When images are just placed 100% should be shown, they are not scaled and their size reflects their resolution.
Currently (Illustrator 28.7.1) it will show 100% for a Linked Tiff file with a resolution of 144 ppi, but when embedded, the same file shows 50%See this User Forum dicussion: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/placed-image-scaling-is-wrong/m-p/14865963#M420645
When placing a file without changing the scale, the links panel should display 100%.
It does that for Linked Tiff (and PSD) files, but displays a scale percentage (that depends on the resolution) for JPEG and PNG files.
When images are Embedded, a scale percentage is shown, where a resolution of 72 ppi is shown as 100% and smaller percentages for higher resolutions.
When images are just placed 100% should be shown, they are not scaled and their size reflects their resolution.
Currently (Illustrator 28.7.1) it will show 100% for a Linked Tiff file with a resolution of 144 ppi,…26 votes -
I can't comment on the "č" key after the update
After today's update to version 26.0 I have the same problem with key "č". Others work without a problem.
26 votesI am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our latest release – 26.0.1 which is available worldwide now.
Going forward, our goal is to fix as many top User-Voice bugs as possible and as frequently as possible. Given the nature of the fixes, some of the bugs will take a longer time to fix, but we are on it.
You can update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html
Thank you for all the feedback. Keep it coming!
-
Illustrator 2020 (24.2.1) crashes when saving eps file
Illustrator 2020 (24.2.1) crashes with the following steps.
- Apply a calligraphic brush to the path
- Save the document in [Illustrator CS EPS] or older format and close it
- Open the document from step 2 and save it again
Confirmation environment
OS: macOS 10.15 (Catalina), macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra)
Illustrator: v24.2.1Stock illustration services often require Illustrator 10 EPS, so we expect corrections.
Illustrator 2020(24.2.1)が，次の手順でクラッシュします。
１. パスにカリグラフィブラシを適用する
２. 書類を［Illustrator CS EPS］かそれより古い形式で保存し，閉じる
３. ステップ2の書類を開き，再び保存する確認環境
OS: macOS 10.15 (Catalina), macOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra)
Illustrator: v24.2.1ストックイラストサービスではIllustrator 10 EPSを要求されることが多いため，修正を期待しています。
26 votes
- Don't see your idea?