Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs
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- The version of Adobe Illustrator (desktop)
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Unidentified dash / gap values get shown as zeroes
Make a simple test (as demonstrated in the attached GIF).
Make sure you test this after relaunching Illustrator.
Open Preferences > Units and make sure you have all three parameters (General, Stroke, Type) set to Points.A. Create a new document based on Web document profile
B. Create a simple rectangle
C. In the Stroke panel enable Dashed Line optionThe first 'dash' value would be 12 pt (or somethin else if you general units are not points), and the rest of the fields would be empty, undefined. It means Illustrator uses the same 12 pt for the gap.
D.…
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BMP bitmaps are seen as RGB, lose transparency and cannot be coloured in 28.5
Place a .BMP 1 bit file in AI 28.5. It is seen as RGB and cannot be coloured.
PSD and TIF bitmaps work fine.
See the recent answers in these posts: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/assign-spot-color-to-bitmap-no-longer-works/td-p/13138271
https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/bitmap-issues-with-illustrator-28-5/m-p/14619511#M40760312 votesThe bug seems to be fixed in Beta 28.7.0.65
Please try to update and verify if it now works as intended for you.
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Align / Distribute ignores Constrain Angle
The Align and Distribute options do not take into account the Constrain Angle setting when the Constrain Angle is not equal to zero. In simpler terms, the Constrain Angle for Align and Distribute is always set to zero.
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Unable to catch error that occurs when exporting empty artboard to PSD
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When exporting Illustrator artboards to PSD using ExtendScript's exportFile, if the artboard does not contain valid PageItems, an error occurs and two alerts are displayed.

The problem is that this error cannot be caught by a try syntax. It will stop the batch process with alerts.
Also, if
app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevel.DONTDISPLAYALERTS
is used to prevent the alert, it is not possible to provide detailed information to the script user as to why the artboard was not exported.Ideally, the design should be changed so that the error can be caught, or even an empty artboard can be…
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Alt + Shift hotkeys for menu commands in the latest version are broken
Any keyboard shortcut that uses both Alt and Shift sends Alt only when pressed.
So if you have a 'Alt + Shift + T' hotkey assigned to something, pressing it will open Type menu instead ('Alt + T').
Also, a hotkey that uses F-key with a modifier launches an action that is assigned to F-key without modifiers, but not the command.
I have an action that uses F3 for launch.
Then I make a new keyboard shortcut for a menu command, assigned to Alt+F3.I expect to run the command when I hit Alt+F3.
Instead, Ai does not launch the…12 votes -
Add scrollbar to the Image Trace panel
The 3d panel has a scrollbar, but the image trace hasn't.
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An object with a freeform gradient fill makes the coloring control in the tool panel switched to None
In the tool panel we have three indicator buttons, which show the current type of fill/stroke for the selection — Fill, Gradient, None.
Illustrator switches it to None, when an object with a freeform gradient fill is selected.I can understand why it probably happens. Since freeform gradients are not technically gradients, and using this mode converts an object into a dynamic container for generating a triangular mesh, it makes sense for Illustrator to not display the proper indicator here — the container has no fill... but it makes no sense for a user. It is you who decided it’s…
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An action set can’t be dragged into the topmost position
For some peculiar reason an action set item can’t be dropped at the top of the list in Actions panel, like it’s shown in the GIF attached. To workaround this, you have to put it second, and then put the first one after it.
Minor, but still a bug.12 votes -
Locate in an action gives an error when nothing is selected
Layers panel has a 'Locate Object' command in its menu.
It can be recorded into an action directly, without messing with the Actions’ 'Insert Menus Item...' workaround approach.However, when this recorded action is called with no selection made, Ai throws an error (!):
The action failed with an unexpected error code.
Error:CANT...if there is nothing to locate, locate nothing. But an error is too harsh, it breaks workflows.
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You can't import actions by dragging .aia file into Illustrator
We can run a script by drag-n-dropping it into Illustrator.
We can open files like this.
We can’t load an actions set by dropping an .aia file into Ai, even if we snpe the Action panel specifically. We are forced to use the panel’s menu, Load Actions command and the system dialog. Too clunky for the modern times.12 votes -
Spellcheck underlines things that are OK
The dictionary Illustrator uses is quite poor it seems, especially for non-English languages.
But what’s more important, Ai always wants me to make each first word capitalized in a line after a soft-break. Hey, do you know soft break is not a paragraph return, right? It means just a new line, not the end of a sentence.
Just stop. It makes the Spellcheck completely useless.
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Discover panel’s videos don’t have Full Screen button
OK, I am a new user and want to use Discover to make some learning.
Illustrator shows me the video of steps I need to perform.
How on Earth am I going to view these that small, if I am not familiar with the UI? What good do they make being shrunk like this?Also, when you try to see maybe the cog button has something useful, the video covers the menu. Just great.
And even if you find the 'Read article in a browser' link, it’s somewhere deep below, and you have to scroll all the way down.
Good…12 votes -
Export for Screens via ExtendScript is slow and appears to have stopped
Description:
When I run Export for Screens via ExtendScript, it slows down and looks frozen. The rainbow cursor will appear.It actually works, and will finish if I wait long enough. It seems to take about 10 times longer than running it manually from the GUI.
This is especially noticeable when exporting JPEGs. If the image to be exported is large to some extent, it will hardly progress after the progress bar reaches about 99%. CPU usage will be around 100%.
Example: When exporting 8 1700x1000px artboards at 300ppi, it takes 157.636 seconds (the weight of each JPEG is 2.9MB).…
12 votesThis issue is reported to be fixed in 27.8.1.
Please verify it and comment back!
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Font Height Options misbehave with rounded fonts
Recently I started to notice that some of the fonts I use make wrong result when x-height or cap-height is used to set a font size.
I clearly see that the height is of, by eye and the underlying grid, but Character palette says otherwise. I outline the font, I measure glyphs and I get smaller dimensions.
Take a look at the file and the picture attached.
When fonts with straight terminals are used, everything is fine. Visual dimensions match metrics precisely.
But when a font with rounded terminals is used, like two examples at the bottom, things go weird.
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12 votesHi All,
Thanks for reporting the issue .
We are not able to reproduce this issue in house. ,Kindly provide following info to nail down this issue:1)Kindly provide a video recording , Test file(Via File→Package) & some steps with which you are facing issue and share with us at ShareWithAI@adobe.com .
Please mention the title of this issue as the subject of the mail.
Warm regards
Aishwarya G Gadodia
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Live shapes loose their controls in Transform panel once they become a part of a compound shape
If I have a Rectangle shape and then subtract it from another path with Alt held (to make a live compound shape), I loose ability to change the width and height and rotation of this rectangle.
That is if I select it with the Direct/Group Selection tool — Transform panel does not show Rectangle Properties section, and Properties panel does not show anything from Transform at all — it has a no selection set of buttons.This is crucial because the rectangle I subtract is rotated, and simply editing width and height distorts it.
Isolation mode does not help.A…
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Coordinates label rendering problem in Overprint Preview mode
- Open the file and make sure Overprint Preview mode is on (thus GPU is off)
- Pick Direct Selection tool, grab the point and move it The gray label with current coordinates get smeared, like the GIF shows.
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Round Corners prevent a narrow bar from transforming
Please open the file attached.
Make sure that you have Bounding Box on, and Scale Corners off.- Select any one of the green bars.
- Try to make it shorter or longer, using bounding box (that is grab the center marker on the a short side) — works fine.
- Select the dark red long bar.
- Try to transform in the same manner — and fail. The bar gets only longer, and can't be made shorter (or shorter back).
- Make the red bar slightly wider or select the orange bar, it is a wider copy of the red one.
- Try to make…
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Path effects applied to a compound shape result a doubled stroke on expansion
- Draw two overlapping shapes
- Remove fill and stroke for both of them
- Hold Alt and press Unite shape mode button in Pathfinder to create a live compound shape
- Apply Offset Path effect (or any other path deforming effect, like Roughen or ZigZag)
- Expand appearance of the object Result: two copies of the same stroked object Expected: one copy of the stroke object
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特定の条件でテキストの中窓部が斜線で塗りつぶされる
再現方法
サイズA4で新規アートボードを作成
「要冷凍」というテキストオブジェクトをサイズ15ptで作成
このテキストにアピアランス「パスのオフセット:0.05mm」を適用する
アートボードの座標をX座標 100mm、Y座標 -148mmに変更
「要冷凍」テキストの座標をX座標 197mm、Y座標 -2.1mmに変更
文字の塗り潰しが添付画像のようになる(座標は全て左上起点)テキストをアウトライン化しても発生する
どのようなフォントでも発生する
同じような大きさの複合パスでも発生する
線幅では発生しない以下の環境で確認
MacOS 10.15.7
Adobe Illustrator 26.0.1
Adobe Illustrator 25.4.2
Adobe Illustrator 24.3Windows10 Pro
Adobe Illustrator 24.3(64bit)通常作成される、座標(X0,Y0)のアートボードで、版面左上端にテキストがかかっている場所で発生するようだ。普通こんな位置にテキストは置かないが、アートボードの座標がたまたまY軸方向にマイナス(上)X軸方向100mmの位置にあると、版面の真ん中で発生してしまう。文字というより複合パスで発生しているようである。
対処方法
アートボードの座標をリセットして、当該オブジェクトを適当な位置に移動して戻すと解消する。
必要がなければ線幅で対応する。12 votesIllustrator 製品版フィードバックにご協力いただきありがとございます。
ご報告いただきました問題につきまして、再現が確認できました。
「パスのオフセット」効果が適用されている文字の中マド部分の直線と、「Y軸 = 0」のラインが重なる場合に発生するようです。
簡単に「田」や「A」の字で再現できました。今後の開発進捗などはこちらでご報告させていただきます。
よろしくお願いいたします。Illustrator チーム
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異なるバージョンで、文字の間に「ー」が出現する
macOS 10.15.4 Catalina
Illustrator 2021 v26.0.11 v25.2で、テキストボックス内に「株式会社○○○」と打つ
2 v26.0.1で開くと、「株式会社ー○○○」のように、テキストに全角ハイフンが現れました。
(書体:A-OTF 新ゴ Pro)--添付データ-----
「1.ai」→v25.2で保存したデータ「2.ai」→「1.ai」をv26.0.1で開いて保存したデータ
12 votesこちらの問題が修正された Illustrator 2022(ver.26.0.2)が、製品リリースされました。 みなさん、ご協力ありがとうございました。 こちらのトピックは対応完了とさせていただきます。 コメントはオープンにしておきますので、何か問題がありましたらご報告ください。 よろしくお願いいたします。 Illustrator チーム
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