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)
7650 results found
-
AI 2020 (v24) fails to open - error loading plugins
Illustrator 2020 (v24) crashes on launch. I am running it on an iMac running under OS 10.14.6.
I attempted to open Illustrator by clicking the Open button within the Creative Cloud launch window and by double-clicking the AI app within the application folder. Both launches resulted in the following error being reported, then the application failed to open:
Error loading plugins.
SmartExport.aip
SmartExportUI.aipAttached is a copy of the error report that I sent to Apple.
8 votes -
Workspaces can’t be switched, managed, or saved
NONE of my pallets/Windows opened into the application. When I try to switch to built-in or custom Workspaces, nothing changes. The Workspace STAYS selected as my previously-selected Workspace and none show up. If I manually go look at the Windows in the menu, none are open and I can MANUALLY open them and move them around... "Manage Workspaces" and "New Workspace" are disabled (Gray) and no matter what I do, I cannot change or override. I have quit/relaunched numerous times - same results.
8 votes -
UI freezes, then crashes. Can't save.
Last version is pretty unstable. Can't work with it, crashed several times since the update i made this morning. While working, UI freezes (but some tools are still availaible via keyboard shortcut), then crashes without message. Can't save when UI is freezed.
I'm going back to the previous version. Aren't you ashamed that EVERY TIME we update, softs become unusable for professionnal purpose?
Ho, and when will get ******' keyboard shortcut to rename layers? Is it in the current update at last?
8 votes -
Pivot point in Free Transform doesn't snap
Draggable pivot pint in Free Transform tool doesn't snap at all: not with Smart guides, not with Snap to grid.
8 votes -
Export for screens: in sRGB, embedding colorsync profile, compression for PNG
I see a difference in options between photoshop and illustrator. For Illustrator, it would make sense to export for screens and force a conversion to sRGB –even when your drawing is still in CMYK. I notice that Illustrator doesn't change colormode, while Photoshop does (when exporting, PS converts to the working RGB or sRGB if you make that choice).
Besides that, I think it is very important to add compression to PNG files. And why not embed colorsyncprofiles in PNG files? It's a benefit when profiles are embedded because webbrowsers will show the image as similar.8 votes -
Rotation resets to 0
If you rotate groups the properties panel always resets the rotation value back to 0 meaning I have to remember the value I used if I want to put it back or if I want other shapes to match the rotation at a later time.
8 votes -
Align to selection bug
This only started recently - the past month maybe? If I select 3 or more objects and have alignment set to "align to selection" and then click the Distribute Spacing icon, Illustrator will default immediately to "align to artboard" and space the objects out across the entire artboard instead of the selection.
If I undo (Cmd Z) and then go through the process again (I have to reset the alignment preference to "align to selection" first, however), it works fine, but every time without exception I have to go through this process.
As mentioned, this only started to happen recently.
8 votes -
Text will not change fill colour to what has been selected
WIndows 10, Illustrator 23.0.3: After selecting text, I try to change the fill colour either using the eyedropper tool or the swatches panel. I expect the text to change to that colour. However, while the colour window shows the colour has been changed, the text doesn't actually change colour. I have to outline the text in order to get it to change colour.
8 votesHi Melina ,
Thanks for reporting this issue, Illustrator team really appreciate this.
As per attached screen shot , for the selected Text object your fill is below the Characters in appearance panel.
Can you kindly move the Fill above the characters and change fill. This will hopefully resolve your problem.
In order to identify the root cause , can you kindly provide us eyedropper setting snapshot ,you can find eyedropper settings by double click on eyedropper tool .Thanks
Anish -
Paste in Place gets object pasted into its original layer and not a selected one
Copy an object (Cmd + C), then create a new layer, select it and Paste it in Place in the new layer — the object gets placed in tis original layer instead.
8 votesThe 'Paste Remembers Layers' option in the Layers panel’s flyout menu regulates this behavior. When it is checked — Illustrator will honor the original layer of a copied artwork and paste it in the same layer, ignoring the selection of a layer.
However, if disabling this option does not help — please comment.
-
STOP THE 'A New Version Of Illustrator Is Now Available' Pop Up annoying everyone...
How about you get rid of this annoying "A New Version Or Illustrator Is Now Available" pop up???
ITS REALLY ANNOYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8 votes -
Fonts
Missing Fonts. When opening my files i have the fonts missing. Meaning every font i used are all gone and even though i can see it in the preveiw but when opening the files the fonts are missing.
8 votes -
resizing window
When creating a new document the widow goes full screen, when I try to resize using the bottom right corner to resize window, it automatically grows larger than the screen size and can't grab the corner....then when I do get the corner back on the screen trying to resize just doesn't work well, its very slow and largish and half the time it won't resize it jumps back to full or only partially resizes....never did this before and its a pain i spend 10 min trying to get the window like I want it to be nearly every time I…
8 votesResolved (Comments Open) · AdminIllustrator Engineering (Software Engineer, Adobe Illustrator) respondedHi,
Sorry for the inconvenience caused. Please try changing the UI scaling option under preferences—>UI interface—>UI Scaling —> small. Please revert back if this doesn’t work.
regards,
Ritika
Illustrator team -
Changing leading up and down in Character panel makes it 1 or 1295 pt
When the leading is set to (Auto), using the up/down arrow UI buttons in the character palette to change the leading results in weird leading sizes. Toggling up from Auto using the up arrow in the UI produces a leading of 1 pt. Toggling down from Auto produces a leading of 1295 pts!
23.0.1 Windows 10:
8 votes -
Regular Crashes
October Release just kept crashing...had to revert to previous release to prevent losing work and time
8 votesRequest to Contact Support · AdminIllustrator Engineering (Software Engineer, Adobe Illustrator) respondedPlease accept my sincere apology for the inconvenience. 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.
Thanks & Regards,
Raghuveer Singh -
freeform gradient tool is grayed out and not working.
I have updated Illustrator and the new freeform gradient tool is grayed out in the gradient panel. It is not usable.
8 votesPlease accept my sincere apology for the inconvenience. 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.
-
Mouse scroll animated zoom is broken when in Pixel Preview mode
I just updated to Illustrator 2019 on a Windows 10 PC
Given I have any size project open
And my "zoom to selection" preferences are on or off
When I turn on pixel preview view mode
And I have alt selected
And I use my mouse to zoom in and out
Then zoom chooses a random center point to anchor it's zoomI have no issues when in "Overprint preview" mode, or when using my keyboard in "Pixel preview" mode.
8 votesPlease accept my sincere apology for the inconvenience. 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.
-
Illustrator CC2019 isn't allowing me to create new documents. At all.
Illustrator CC2019 isn't allowing me to create new documents. At all.
8 votesI am closing the ticket due to lack of response.
Please get in touch with us at sharewithai@adobe.com or 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. -
With multiple projects open, can only view one tab
In new AI2019, if I have multiple tabs open, only the tab originally opened is usable unless I open the other tabs in a new window.
8 votesHi Joel,
Thanks for reporting the issue. I tried reproducing this on my computer but couldn’t reach to your conclusion. Can you please share the steps and a screen shot if possible with us. Is this happening every time or in some specific scenario. Also please let me know on which OS are you working.
-
Info panel makes illustrator behave sluggish
Illustrator CC 2019: Moving objects around the artboard ist slowed down and sluggish when the info panel ist displayed. With the info panel hidden everything works fine again (no difference between CPU and GPU rendering).
8 votes -
Disappearing an outline size diameter of a brush tool
When you just launch the Adobe Illustrator, you can see the outline size diameter of the cursor of brush/blob brush tools, but when you have drawn something the outline disappears , you can see only an icon of the brush and no clue what size is currently on.
8 votesRequest to Contact Support · AdminIllustrator Engineering (Software Engineer, Adobe Illustrator) respondedPlease accept my sincere apology for the inconvenience. 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.
- Don't see your idea?