Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs
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Context Task Bar flickers when panning with a scroll, using mouse or touchpad
CTB hides itself when we pan.
It looks more or less tolerable when we hold Spacebar to pan, or hold a mouse wheel ('why should someone has access to the panel while scrolling'), but it looks HORRIBLE when scrolling with a wheel or using a touchpad.The panel flickers each tick, making it painful to look at.
Some say it happens for them only with Show Grid enabled, but for me it just happens all the time. Either way, CTB should be smart enough to skip the state update for this type of panning.
10 votes -
GPUプレビューモードで高解像度2階調の埋め込み画像の表示がおかしくなる。
macOS13.6.6〜13.6.7
Illustrator ver.28.5再現手順
1.1200ppi程度のモノクロ2階長画像を用意する。
2.IllustratorにてGPUプレビューの状態で1.の画像を配置
3.配置した画像を埋め込むと表示が反転する。期待する結果
埋込前と埋込後で表示がかわらない。実際の結果
埋め込んだビットマップの表示が反転される。現状の回避方法
埋込んだビットマップ画像が存在するドキュメントではCPUプレビューかオーバープリントプレビューで表示を行う。これはGPU表示における不具合です。PDF保存などを行うと正常に保存されますが、GPUプレビューが使えない状態というのは作業性が悪くストレスがたまります。
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[ExtendScript] Document.artboards wrongly returns artboards of active document
- MacOS 14.2.1
- Adobe Illustrator 28.0
- To reproduce:
(a) open two documents with differently named artboards
(b) run this script
for (var i = 0; i < app.documents.length; i++) { for (var j = 0; j < app.documents[i].artboards.length; j++) { $.write(app.documents[i].name + ' artboard ' + j + ': '); $.writeln(app.documents[i].artboards[j].name); } }Expected result:
demo1.ai artboard 0: ALPHA
demo1.ai artboard 1: BRAVO
demo2.ai artboard 0: CHARLIE
demo2.ai artboard 1: DELTAActual result:
demo1.ai artboard 0: ALPHA
demo1.ai artboard 1: BRAVO
demo2.ai artboard 0: ALPHA
demo2.ai artboard 1: BRAVONote that Document "demo1.ai" is active. If I make demo2.ai active, I get this:
demo2.ai artboard 0: CHARLIE
demo2.ai artboard 1: DELTA
demo1.ai artboard 0: CHARLIE
demo1.ai artboard 1: DELTAFurther links:
- MacOS 14.2.1
- Adobe Illustrator 28.0
- To reproduce:
(a) open two documents with differently named artboards
(b) run this script
for (var i = 0; i < app.documents.length; i++) { for (var j = 0; j < app.documents[i].artboards.length; j++) { $.write(app.documents[i].name + ' artboard ' + j + ': '); $.writeln(app.documents[i].artboards[j].name); } }Expected result:
demo1.ai artboard 0: ALPHA
demo1.ai artboard 1: BRAVO
demo2.ai artboard 0: CHARLIE
demo2.ai artboard 1: DELTAActual result:
demo1.ai artboard 0: ALPHA
demo1.ai artboard 1: BRAVO
demo2.ai artboard 0: ALPHA
demo2.ai artboard 1: BRAVONote that Document "demo1.ai" is active. If I make demo2.ai active, I…
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Error with app.executeMenuCommand('Adobe Stroke Palette')
en_US
In the Japanese version of Adobe Illustrator, when I execute a script that selects the Window > Stroke menu, an error occurs. It executes correctly in the English (North America) version.

Script to Execute
try { app.executeMenuCommand('Adobe Stroke Palette') ; } catch(e) { alert(e) ; }Actual Result
The following error occurs.
エラー: an Illustrator error occurred: 1346458189 ('MRAP')
Expected Result
Stroke panel is displayed.
Steps to Reproduce
- Uninstall any non-Japanese version of Adobe Illustrator that is installed
- Launch Creative Cloud.app and set "Default install language" to Japanese in the Preferences
- Install and launch Adobe Illustrator
- Execute the script in the Script to Execute section
Environment
- macOS 12.6.7(Apple Silicon)
- Illustrator 2019〜2024
Not sure how long this issue has been present, but it is reproduced in Illustrator CS6.
ja_JP
日本語バージョンのAdobe Illustratorで ウィンドウ > 線 のメニューを選ぶスクリプトを実行すると、エラーが起こります。英語版English (North America)だと正常に実行されます。

実行するスクリプト
try { app.executeMenuCommand('Adobe Stroke Palette') ; } catch(e) { alert(e) ; }実際の結果
次のエラーが起こる。
エラー: an Illustrator error occurred: 1346458189 ('MRAP')
想定していた結果
線パネルが表示される。
再現手順
- 日本語版以外のAdobe Illustratorがインストールされている場合はアンインストールする
- Creative Cloud.appを起動し、環境設定で「初期設定のインストール言語」を日本語にする
- Adobe Illustratorをインストールし、起動する
- 実行するスクリプトセクションのスクリプトを実行する
環境
- macOS 12.6.7(Apple Silicon)
- Illustrator 2019〜2024
この不具合がいつからあるのかわかりませんが、Illustrator CS6でも再現します。
en_US
In the Japanese version of Adobe Illustrator, when I execute a script that selects the Window > Stroke menu, an error occurs. It executes correctly in the English (North America) version.

Script to Execute
try { app.executeMenuCommand('Adobe Stroke Palette') ; } catch(e) { alert(e) ; }Actual Result
The following error occurs.
エラー: an Illustrator error occurred: 1346458189 ('MRAP')
Expected Result
Stroke panel is displayed.
Steps to Reproduce
- Uninstall any non-Japanese version of Adobe Illustrator that is installed
- Launch Creative Cloud.app and set "Default install language" to Japanese in the Preferences
- Install and launch Adobe Illustrator
- Execute the…
10 votes -
Enter while typing does not get recorded in history as an Undo step
When I type a text in Illustrator and hit Enter to make a paragraph break, it does not get recorded into the history as an operation I can undo. This means all typed paragraphs get clumped in history together and get undone as a whole.
This is not how many other apps do, including InDesign and Word.
Some apps also consider line breaks as an interruption of flow, which would have been handy too.
It is quite similar to this report:
Illustrator does not treat the auto bullets as a separate Undo step
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46954429and is related to this one:
Cannot undo paragraph or character style changes or deletions
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/20637886But for some reason each hit of the Backspace key is considered to be a separate 'Clear' step, even if I hold it down!
There is a separate report about this also:
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/47038315Please address these and make Ai respect text breaks as separate steps!
When I type a text in Illustrator and hit Enter to make a paragraph break, it does not get recorded into the history as an operation I can undo. This means all typed paragraphs get clumped in history together and get undone as a whole.
This is not how many other apps do, including InDesign and Word.
Some apps also consider line breaks as an interruption of flow, which would have been handy too.
It is quite similar to this report:
Illustrator does not treat the auto bullets as a separate Undo step
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46954429and is related to this one:…
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Pressing Backspace in text gets recorded in History as a chain of separate Clear steps
When we type a text, Ai treats it as one operation, all the time.
Even when we press Enter, the flow is considered to be uninterrupted — and there a bug report about this:
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/47038321
Even if an automatic conversion of bullets happen, Ai still thinks it’s not worth undoing — and there is a bug report about this as well: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46954429But for some reason when I hold Backspace to delete a bunch of text, Ai records each deleted symbol as a separate step, despite the fact it’s treated by users as a one operation, eating up the history steps!
This is not what InDesign and many other apps do!
When we type a text, Ai treats it as one operation, all the time.
Even when we press Enter, the flow is considered to be uninterrupted — and there a bug report about this:
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/47038321
Even if an automatic conversion of bullets happen, Ai still thinks it’s not worth undoing — and there is a bug report about this as well: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46954429But for some reason when I hold Backspace to delete a bunch of text, Ai records each deleted symbol as a separate step, despite the fact it’s treated by users as a one operation, eating up the history…
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Select Next Object commands in the right-click (context) menu are broken when in Isolation Mode
Illustrator provides two ways to access Next Object commands:
1. From Select menu
2. From the context menu, Select submenuHowever, they work differently.
If you use #1 commands, they behave as expected — Ai properly selects the objects at the current scope level (if we are isolated), by stack order in Layers.
But if you use #2 commands when isolated...
These commands, despite having the same names as the command from the top bar menu entries, rely on the object being clicked. But even knowing that (and it’s not an obvious thing to figure out), the result is weird.
Illustrator then selects everything in the scope. This is not at all what we need! Take a look at the attached GIF, please. Illustrator treats the parent as the next object in the hierarchy. It is expected to select a child instead.BTW, notice that the variant #1 is missing two commands the context menu provides: First Object Above / Last Object Below — for no apparent reason — and we can’t assign hotkeys to these because of it. Here is a feature request to honor the parity: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/46741999-add-first-object-above-last-object-below-command
Illustrator provides two ways to access Next Object commands:
1. From Select menu
2. From the context menu, Select submenuHowever, they work differently.
If you use #1 commands, they behave as expected — Ai properly selects the objects at the current scope level (if we are isolated), by stack order in Layers.
But if you use #2 commands when isolated...
These commands, despite having the same names as the command from the top bar menu entries, rely on the object being clicked. But even knowing that (and it’s not an obvious thing to figure out), the result is weird.…10 votes -
Hyphenation ignores pre-hyphenated words
Many languages have pre-hyphenated words (like 'pre-hyphenated').
When I setup Hyphenation with Before and After values, I expect Illustrator to apply these to each part of a hyphenated word, not to the whole complex word itself, like Ai does in the picture (where the arrow is pointing). Instead, it should prefer the existing hyphen to break a line at, not just one symbol away from it. This forces users to use 'no break' often (which is hard to call) and generally spend more time on editing.
Here is a text example.
Not
pre-h
yphenated
but
pre-
hyphenated...and obviously it can’t be fixed with a discretionary hyphen. First — it does not force Ai to redo the flow, and the hyphen should be there all the time, and not only on breaks...
I checked if InDesign behaves the same — and it does.
Many languages have pre-hyphenated words (like 'pre-hyphenated').
When I setup Hyphenation with Before and After values, I expect Illustrator to apply these to each part of a hyphenated word, not to the whole complex word itself, like Ai does in the picture (where the arrow is pointing). Instead, it should prefer the existing hyphen to break a line at, not just one symbol away from it. This forces users to use 'no break' often (which is hard to call) and generally spend more time on editing.
Here is a text example.
Not
pre-h
yphenated
but
pre-
hyphenated...and obviously it…
10 votes -
Abnormal selection after executing an action in a script.
According to the person in the know, this has been occurring since version 25.4; it was normal in 25.2.x.
When an action to duplicate an object is created and executed by specifying the action in the script function doScript(), the execution completes with the duplicated object and the original object selected at the same time.Although it is logical to perform all processing in scripts, there are situations where it is unavoidable in the process.
In addition, this is clearly an abnormal situation.
We would like to see an improvement.Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
〈にほんご / Japanese〉
スクリプトでアクションを実行後、選択範囲が異常識者によれば、バージョン25.4以降で発生している。25.2.xでは正常だったとのこと。
オブジェクトを複製するアクションを作成して、スクリプトの関数 doScript()でそのアクションを指定して実行すると、複製されたオブジェクトと同時にオリジナルのオブジェクトも同時に選択された状態で実行完了する。すべての処理をスクリプトで行うのは道理だが、工程上やむを得ない状況もある。
まして明らかに異常な状態である。
改善を望みます。According to the person in the know, this has been occurring since version 25.4; it was normal in 25.2.x.
When an action to duplicate an object is created and executed by specifying the action in the script function doScript(), the execution completes with the duplicated object and the original object selected at the same time.Although it is logical to perform all processing in scripts, there are situations where it is unavoidable in the process.
In addition, this is clearly an abnormal situation.
We would like to see an improvement.Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
〈にほんご / Japanese〉
スクリプトでアクションを実行後、選択範囲が異常識者によれば、バージョン25.4以降で発生している。25.2.xでは正常だったとのこと。…
10 votes -
Illustrator does not omit spaces in values in inputs, unlike in InDesign
Just like it is demonstrated in this post: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnv5bcuIOrt/
Unlike in InDesign, where we can accidentally make this:
'21 |mm' → '21 0|mm' and get '210 mm' as a result, in Illustrator it goes liek this instead:
'21 |mm' → '21 0|mm' → '21 mm'
It just doesn’t understand what an aiming mistake is. Makes little sense, since it can’t be anything but that, so no punishment, please.10 votes -
When a plugin is removed, the toolbar which had its tool gets completely empty
If for some reason I get a plugin removed form the Plugins folder, Ai wipes the entire tool panel which had the tool associated with the removed plugin.
Even worse — when a plugin is returned back to the folder, Ai won’t restore the panel! It stays completely broken and empty. Each next launch Ai seemingly restores it, but the next launch it’s empty again. Resaving the panel does not help.
So you have to rely on backups — manual backups, because, again, Ai fails at properly backing up these automatically.
10 votes -
Clipping mask for a layer doesn’t move when dragged in real-time render mode
If you move art with its layer-level clipping mask, Ai will draw it as if you move the art without the clipping mask. See the GIF attached.
10 votes -
When a mesh object is set as a key for aligning, the edge of it doesn’t look bold
When you click an object to mark it as a key object for aligning, Ai draws a fat bold edge around it. Works fine, but not for meshes. Need to be fixed.
10 votes -
textRange.words counts words wrong in a wrong way
If you try to calculate a number of words and store them for later using textRange.words and a punctuation marks placed one space after the word, as demonstrated in the video, Ai cuts words in wrong places, resulting words being trimmed.
This breaks all scripts that rely on this method.
You have to rename 'words-bug.txt' into 'words-bug.js' and 'words-bug.pdf' to 'words-bug.ai' to test it, since UV does not allow to upload these type formats.
10 votesAs per the comment, the bug is 'fixed' in 27.4, by creating another bug — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/46537261-incorrect-word-count-via-script
Please check and upvote the problem
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Applying Recolor to selected instances of a symbol recolors the original symbol
If I want to change colors for selected dynamic symbols, using Recolor will affect not local colors, but the original symbol.
This makes little sense. If I wanted to change the original symbol, I'd edited it and made the changes directly to it. If I have a selection, I mean to change symbols in it only.To workaround it I can isolate my selection by locking/hiding objects I don't want to affect and use Select Same commands to recolor parts of symbols one at a time.
10 votes -
Repeat on-screen controls work wrong when Bounding Box is off
When bounding box is off, splitter control is rendered, but does not work, and instances control is missing completely.
Having the bounding box turned off does not mean a user does not want to have repeat controls. So they should be A) completely hidden, or B) shown and be completely working.10 votes -
SVG export for screens not working properly.
Windows 11 22000.556 / Illustrator 26.1
Hi there,
The SVG file exported through "Export for screens" is corrupted when opened with any web browser, Illustrator or Photoshop.
I managed to export it properly by installing an older version of Illustrator (26.0.3). Previously I tried uninstalling and installing version 26.1, restarting the computer, etc and it didn't work.
Best,
Alex10 votesCompleted (Comments Open) ·
AdminIllustrator Engineering
(Software Engineer, Adobe Illustrator)
responded
I am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our latest release – 26.4.1 which is available worldwide now.
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!
Regards,
Rohit Jain
Illustrator Team
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Ctrl+click on a Gradient tool icon in a toolbar to reset gradient doesn’t work
We were able to Ctrl+click the Gradient tool button to reset gradient to default black-and-white, as stated here: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html
Now only Ctrl-clicking the preview in Gradient panel works.10 votes -
CC Library to Illustrator Swatch: Name Length Bug Creates Magenta Spot Color
When adding a Color Swatch to Illustrator from the CC Library:
If the CC Library item's name is over a certain number of characters, Illustrator cannot import the swatch correctly.
Instead, Illustrator imports the CC Library color as a Magenta Spot Color.
The only workaround currently is to shorten the CC Library item's name to match the maximum allowed characters for an Illustrator Swatch, and then import the color.
FIX: Allow more characters for Illustrator Swatch names to be compatible with with CC Library character length for items.
10 votes -
Bounding box does not get updated when 'Use Preview Bounds' is toggled
- Create a circle.
- Apply a large Outside stroke to it
- Make sure you have bounding box turned on in View menu
- Open Preferences using menu (not a Ctrl+K hotkey, this is important)
- Toggle Use Preview Bounds option, commit changes
The bounding box does not get updated. To force to to become larger/smaller (it depends on you initial state of it), you have to click/move the shape, to force it to redraw.
However, if you call Preferences via a hotkey, Ctrl+K, the brief moment you hold Ctrl is enough to toggle the selection tool to Direct Selection, which makes Ai hide the bounding box before Preferences dialog appears. And after you close the window, Ai renders it again, but now of the proper size and the bug does not manifest.
This is a small thing, but there are many of these, broken here and there. One grain of sand in a dish is not a big deal, but a spoon of them is significant. Maybe you should start fixing these.
- Create a circle.
- Apply a large Outside stroke to it
- Make sure you have bounding box turned on in View menu
- Open Preferences using menu (not a Ctrl+K hotkey, this is important)
- Toggle Use Preview Bounds option, commit changes
The bounding box does not get updated. To force to to become larger/smaller (it depends on you initial state of it), you have to click/move the shape, to force it to redraw.
However, if you call Preferences via a hotkey, Ctrl+K, the brief moment you hold Ctrl is enough to toggle the selection tool to Direct Selection, which makes Ai hide…
10 votes
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