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  1. Rulers disappear at restart.

    Even If I have checked "Show/Hide Rulers Across All Documents" every time I restart Illustrator, I have to activate rulers AGAIN. Come on guys, you always need a wheel to drive a car, we always need rulers ON. Help us with this bug.

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  2. Duplicating an Artboard with art on it and then Undoing it, causes crash

    if you drag and artboard with art on it while holding option to duplicate, it duplicates fine, but if you Undo, the duplicated artboard remains and you can't delete. sometimes if you try and select the artboard illustrator will crash. the only way to update is to reopen the affected file.

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    Hi, Fernando, thanks for reporting the issue.

    Since we are not able to reproduce the issue in house, kindly provide the following information to nail down the issue further: the machine details, the Illustrator version with which the issue is happening, the test file, and test steps to help us reproducing the issue.

    It would be very helpful if you can provide the video recording to reproduce the steps. Kindly share the above details ShareWithAI@adobe.com in a Zip file. Please mention the title of this issue as the subject of mail.

    Regards, Pooja Garg, Illustrator Team

  3. Artboard > Fit to Artwork Bounds with clipping mask and raster effects

    Resizing an artboard with Artboard Options -> Preset -> Fit to Artwork Bounds doesn't honor clipping masks or raster effects. The new artboard size includes artwork hidden by clipping mask, and excludes raster effects such as drop shadows.

    2 votes

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    Illustrator now honors raster effects such as clipped shadows, and fits to clipping masks instead of their clipped content, when using Fit to Artwork Bounds or Fit to Selected Art commands.

    However, there is no option to not do that, and to ignore Use Preview Bounds option in general — the fitting always uses strokes. If you want to change that, vote here: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/46067539-an-option-to-ignore-strokes-when-using-fit-to-artw

  4. 2 votes

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  5. AI displays the START SCREEN on opening the file and the document view do not switches (refreshes) the file content.

    We have created this thread to investigate . If you are encountering the below mentioned issues with latest Version (24.0.1 on Mac and Win), then please vote on this User voice thread and provide Test File via File->Package, Video and steps via dropping email at sharewithai@adobe.com along with this thread link so that we can identify and fix the root cause.

    1. On opening a file in Illustrator the START SCREEN do not gets dismissed and the file’s content is not visible.
    2. While working on a file and opening a new one the document view sticks to the old file and…
    2 votes

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    Hi,

    Thank you all for reporting this issue and providing us your valuable feedback.
    Kindly help Illustrator Team to nail this issue down further:
    1)Kindly provide video ,Test Steps or File via File→Package with which you are still facing this issue and share with us at ShareWithAI@adobe.com in a Zip file. Please mention the title of this issue as the subject of the mail.

    Please remember to update graphic driver. We are also seeing cases where updating graphic card driver fixes the issue. You can update your driver via https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/illustrator-gpu-performance-driver-update.html .

    Thanks and Regards
    Ankit Goyal
    Illustrator Team

  6. 'Preview' instantly applies effect or operation

    If I go to any dialogue box that has a 'preview' option, the effect is applied as soon as the box is checked. If I then click 'cancel' the effect is still applied. Altering the parameters applies the new value to the previously applied value.

    For example, I draw and box and open the Scale options. With 'preview' selected, I change the value from 100% to 200% and then to 150%. The box is scaled to 350% in total.

    Also, the Recolour Artwork box will only allow me to change a colour once. Again, applying the change instantly even if…

    2 votes

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  7. Wrong starting format measures ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR IN CREATIVE CLOUD

    WRONG STARTING SIZES B FORMAT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

    B4 size is 250x353mm
    and
    B5 size is 176x250mm

    I was keep getting wrong printed formats because i was just pressing given model without carefully lookout.

    2 votes

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  8. Rearrange All Artboards ignores locked layers

    When I use the command Rearrange All Artboards from the Artboards panel object on locked layers are not moved with the artboard.

    To test make a document with two artboards and two layers. Draw anything on Layer 1 for each artboard them copy it exactly to Layer 2, or just duplicate Layer 1. Hide or lock a layer then use Rearrange All Artboards to rearrange the dartboards. The objects on the locked or hidden layers do not move with the artboard.

    The two screenshots show before and after using Rearrange All Artboards with one layer locked.

    2 votes

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  9. Cannot double click to open an AI document, or open a smart object from Photoshop

    If Illustrator is closed, I can double-click on a file name, or a smart object in photoshop, and the file will open in Illustrator. If Illustrator is open this is not possible. My workaround has been to open the file from within Illustrator (tedious, but doable). However, there is no workaround to open a photoshop smart object. So I literally have to close Illustrator each and every time I want to open and edit a smart object. At first I thought this had to do with having objects on the clipboard, but even after clearing the clipboard this is still…

    2 votes

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  10. Choosing Fit On Screen option from the dropdown in the status bar pans to next mouse click position

    When I click fit on screen in the screen size (I don't know the actual name of the option thing) option it fits to the screen THEN will move to where the mouse is clicked next, just like the zoom tool. This is decreasing efficiency of the app for me.

    2 votes

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  11. paste in front does not always land on correct artboard

    Paste in front (command F) does not always land the clipboard contents onto the correct art board. It does most of time, but not all the time!

    In this screen shot, I have the black background selected on the right, but paste in front pastes it on the left artboard that has no focus or selection.

    2 votes

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  12. New Update 23.0.3 Causes Failure to Preview and Art Boards Save Erroneously in PDF

    New Update 23.0.3 Causes Failure to Preview and Art Boards Save Erroneously in PDF- when saving out files they will error. The saved file will display and print a black gradient space in lieu of the art board and (seemingly random) graphics will be omitted. This is replicated when saving as a new AI or PDF or Printed from the saved file. The original AI file shows it prints normally but the print out is also erroneous.

    2 votes

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  13. Touch Workspace Inconsistent

    I have a Dell XPS 15 9570; it's more laptop than tablet, but it does have some touchscreen functionality.

    When I first launched Illustrator on this device, I had the option to use touch mode, which was awesome.

    For some reason though, it is no longer accessible. I've checked the workspaces menu, window>wirkspaces, etc. Nothing. There's not external keyboard connected (the laptop has a built in keyboard), I've restarted illustrator, I've tried different document types, I've switched my OS between tablet mode and laptop mode... nothing.

    I'd really like to be able to use this mode again. Any advice?

    2 votes

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  14. artboard

    I am having issues with the alignment of the image on the artboard. It seems the rectangle I used to cover the artboard isn't lining up. I am not sure if this is a problem or I simply don't know how to fix it

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    The artwork has a small black dot on the right side, far away from the artboard. Watch closely at the right side of your 11×17.jpg image to notice it.
    And export options were probably without ‘Use artboards’ tick.

    P.S. Please always provide the file you have problems with!

  15. Video Rulers not correct (and useless ;-)

    While I don't really need the Video Rulers , they do not seem to work well. (Rulers are a quite skeuomorphic tool anyway, since with Ai we can place everything numerically)

    The horizontal axis does not reflect the horizontal pixelnumbers, illustrated in the screenshot, where a 1920 wide artboard is shown to have 1440 pixels in the width by the ruler. Maybe due to some non square pixel setting. Confusing and unneeded?

    2 votes

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  16. .AI an d XD files not opened by default on Windows 10

    Ashutosh Chaturvedi, sorry but one of your issues is not totally fixed, you have many users who are waiting for an answer for the .ai an wd files wich are supposed to by opened by default by thèse two softwares by double-clicking. This issue is not fixed on Windows 10. Thank you for your time and you answer ASAP.

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    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.

    Before you do that are you manually able to change file association of .ai file to another application say Notepad.exe ? There is another issue with file association going around. Please check this link: https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/microsoft-broke-windows-10s-file-associations-with-a-botched-update/

  17. Art file and screen?

    When i open a art file the screen is black and the art work is locked?!

    2 votes

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  18. Illustrator issues, SVG only?

    When using CC (updated to v. 23), illustrations appear distorted when rendered with stylesheet. During troubleshooting, I open a colleague's SVG illustration in CS6 as well as CC v.23 and compare. See attachments. CC distorts both content size and artboard size. We never had this issue with CS.

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  19. 2 votes

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  20. Currently selected artboard not automatically highlighted as per normal

    Running Mac 10.13.6 and AI 22.1

    In all previous versions of Illustrator the artboard you are currently on remains highlighted so you know which on you are on.

    In this version, the artboard is only highlighted while working in it. If I click into a menu item (say 'Object') then the highlighted artboard disappears and I no longer know which one I am on. Clicking on the blank artboard, which usually highlights that clicked on artboard, doesn't work. The only work around is to click onto another artboard and then back to the first. I've had this issue maybe 6…

    2 votes

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