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  1. Carcoal feather Stroke instead of basic

    Ai CC 2017, 2018; I was trying to create a circle with clean basic stroke style instead it keeps appearing as a charcoal feather stroke. I was working on Surface pro 4 while converting an image to vector. This doesn't happen on Pc or Mac.

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  2. Chrashed

    When i try to change the color of something with the Touch Bar (Grayscale), it didn't change the color and crash the app many times i tried it.

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  3. Stroke alignment out of bounds

    When drawing objects on top of each other stroke points tend to go out of bounds and are not aligned with other objects in line. I don't know if this is bug or my settings messed but its annoying and would like to get it fixed or solution.

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  4. Surface pro 4, Illustrator and InDes

    I am having problems running Illustrator CC and InDesign CC on my new Surface pro (Intel Core i7-7660U CPU 2,5GHz, 16,0 GB RAM). Usually the programs crashes on startup, and the crash is followed by an option to send a crash report. When trying to send the crash report, the crash report crashes! Only Randomly the programs open, but then it seems like the programs are running on wrong resolution. Have anyone else experienced these issues, and is there any fix?

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  5. Line distortion Issue

    I am having this issue while designing in Illustrator. The example attached is only one area that is having this distortion. The smooth lines have little cuts out of them, but when I save it out it seems to be ok. It is very distracting and would like to know if there is a fix for it.

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  6. warped text

    Trying to change font size after text has been Warped in Illustrator is not working correctly. It's just warping the text further, & not making it smaller.

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  8. Scaling bug in Illustrator 22.01

    Hi, I'm working on files in which I have to scale objects down precisely with multiple digits behind the comma.
    When scaling the artwork in multiple (3) layers down to 18,602% everything looks good. But when using one digit more, 18,6023%, the artwork is scaled down much more, which is incorrect. I need to use even more digits, but that's impossible like this. I've attached screenshots.

    I'm on an iMac Retina 5K, 27 inch, 2017 running MacOS X 10.3.3 with the latest version of Illustrator, 22.01.

    I'm using mm als units, so maybe it's a rounding issue. I can reproduce…

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  9. Libraries panel doesn’t show up on a second screen

    I'm working on 2 screens. My Libraries panel is only visible when the panel is on the main Screen (Screen N°1).
    Or I need to place all my panels on my second screen to have my main file only.

    To be able to have the contents of my Libraries i have to place the Libraries panel on my main screen.
    I would like to have it on the second screen.

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  10. crash

    I am using CC 2018 and it is up to date. Illustrator randomly quits when saving file. When I hit command + s, Adobe will randomly quit. Has done it twice today. A few more times the last few days.

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    Are you by any chance saving it a network share over macOS 10.13?

    Please get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html . 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,
    Ashutosh Chaturvedi | Sr. Quality Engineering Manager – Illustrator

  11. Transformaton Pallet Y issue (bug?)

    When I tab through the transformation pallet to input the X and Y vallues. The Y always changes to something that seems random, always need to fill Y in a second time.

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  12. Some files (not all) print in a mirror image

    Random files will print in a mirror image. I have checked settings in my printer and it is not there. This started happening when I updated Illustrator 2 days ago

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  13. Send to back

    I am busy working on a big logo project on illustrator, using only one layer. I started filling up the art-boards and space available. However, after only using about a third of the available space the send to back feature wouldn't work. It would register the object as infront of the other object but it wouldn't show the object I placed infront.

    I am a 14 year old student at the International School Eindhoven.

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  15. 4k scaling glitch

    When opening Ai on my pc with 4k resolution, a lot of the content on the menu page i off, and I can't resize them to see the rest.
    This is also current in the "new document" setup.
    Very irritating.

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  16. file dmage

    illstratrator cs3 user from south korea. some trouble occured.
    when open file, file damage window problem!!
    please answer me....

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  17. Saves pdf as ai, and a lousy update.

    Today as I was trying to save out a pdf Ai would remove the name when changing folders, everytime. Then it saved a pdf with an Ai extension, but will only open as a pdf. Screwing all of my work because it saved the file as an Ai, instead of overwriting my changes. This entire update has been a **** big buggy dis-appointment and appears to have no added value.
    When will software mfg realize that people are tired of updates?

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  18. Blur effect not working due to an unknown error

    When I using blur effect and blur in drop shadow I am getting a popup as unknown error. I am using adobe illustrator cs6

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  19. All of the bugs I have dealt with in just one week!

    These are all the issues that I had this week. Solutions?

    1/31 Anchor points refuse to join
    1/31 Eraser not working
    1/31 While using shape tool to make a circle it changed to a square mid-creation.
    1/31 Resize handles not appearing while using direct selection tool.
    2/2 Cannot deselect by clicking, must choose deselect.
    2/2 Font names disappearing from font selection drop down.
    2/2 While image is selected, crop button has disappeared from the top bar.
    2/6 Crop disappeared again.
    2/6 Direct selection tool not allowing resize again.
    2/7 Crop disappeared again.

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  20. Random path shown at 315° angle on closed object

    Illustrator CC 22.0.1 This has happened occasionally in the past few versions.
    I'll create an object with the pen tool, and close the object. When I zoom to make modifications on the path I sometimes see a path shoot off to the right at ~315° from one of the anchor points and it looks like the path connecting two anchor points isn't there. As I move it around or zoom out it'll disappear, but if I move back it comes back. Editing the object isn't affected, but it is highly visually distracting. Attached video file illustrates.

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