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)
689 results found
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Illustrator 27 (last version) crashes
Illustrator crashes after some minutes of use without any apparent reason. I have run any possible thing to solve it. I am just drawing with my wacom tablet, the same I have done for the last 3 years. The files are usually partially recovered, but there is no error name or code displayed.
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v26.5 on Mac OSX is very slow, generally.
v26.x is generally way slower than v25.4.8, but some features, like freeform gradient, are unusably slow. It takes couple of seconds to recalculate even a simple gradient with just 3-4 points. Same goes with applying wariable width stroke profile to multiple objects or a nested group. In 25.4.8 those tasks are instantaneous, in 26.5 they can even cause "spinning beach ball of doom" and take minutes to resolve.
MacMini 2018, OSX Catalina
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Performance is extremely slow when using show grids in outline preview
macOS Big Sur 11.4, Illustrator 25.3.1
When switching to outline mode when using show grids, it is almost impossible to keep on working as everything is in slow motion, as if the graphic card is unable to cope. This occurs with a 500 kb file that was trouble free before the last updates.
41 votesIt turns out the problem is fixed only partially in 26.3.1, only for some users, and the performance remains slow when grid is rendered with lines or dots in Outline mode. This applies to zooming, panning and ghosting of objects being moved.
Please help the team by providing your specs and answers to these questions:
1. Does it work fine with grid as dots in Preivew / Outline mode?
2. Does it differ from grid as lines in these modes?
3. What is slow for you exactly? How severe?
4. Is there a difference if you disable 'Grids In Back' option?
5. What are you lines/subdivisions settings?
And any other related feedback is appreciated. Let's track it down and get this really fixed.
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Slow performance / undesirable switch to CPU preview
Operating system: macOS Catalina 10.15.7
Illustrator: 26.5When turning on rulers or editing the artboard, Illustrator switches to CPU preview, which is very slow.
After closing and reopening the file, the gpu preview is active. (If i don't save the file with rulers turned on)
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Can't Save AS!!!!!
When I try to SAVE or SAVE AS. Nothing happens. This is a random bug just pops up randomly.
It won't let me save or even save as. When I click Save As the finder box doesnt open so I can't do anything.
I'd have to force quit so that AI thinks it crashed then pray that I get my recovered document when I open it up again.
FIX THIS PLEASE.
MAS OC : Monteray 12.3.1
Illustrator : 26.5?
1 votePerhaps it’s the same issue as this one, which is fixed:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/44917468
or this one, which is a known bug and is going to be fixed:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/45656506
If it’s still a problem for you, please comment back.
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two fingers touchpad navigation bug
When I am using two fingers on touchpad to navigate through document, the movement is not fluid - it's like playing game on low FPS. When I am using spacebar + mouse to navigate - its fine.
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Illustrator 25.4.1 Generating constant 105MB log files into com.adobe.dunamis folder and filling up hard drive
When I am working in Illustrator, my fan starts to run and Illustrator generates multiple log files per minute in the com.adobe.dunamis folder. Each log file is roughly 105MB and before I was able to pinpoint what was going on, it filled my hard drive with 750GB of log files. If I close Illustrator and reopen it, it stops for awhile but I haven't been able to pinpoint what triggers the start of the log file generation – it isn't consistently doing it, but it does occur multiple times per day.
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Delay from keyboard causes unnecessary errors
I've reported this in the past, and I'm shocked and frustrated that nothing has been done to resolve it: There is a delay between when a button is pressed on my keyboard and when Illustrator registers it. As someone who has used this application for over 20 years, I'm very fast. As a result, when pressing (for example) the OPTION key in order to do anything (like changing the direct selection tool to the Group Selection tool) it takes an additional half of a second for Illustrator to register the change. Considering the speed at which I work, this means…
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Illustrator Arabic text issue
Mac Os Big sur Version 11.6
Illustrator 26.0.2
Steps done - Opened existing files in 2022 version and the text was showing different as it shows in 2021 version. this issue with all the Ai files.
To show the issue, a screenshot is added below.
7 votesI am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our latest release – 26.3.1 which is available worldwide now.
Going forward, our goal is to fix as many top User-Voice bugs as possible and as frequently as possible. Given the nature of the fixes, some of the bugs will take a longer time to fix, but we are on it.
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!
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Menu windows eventually are inoperable
Usually once per day my file menu windows become inoperable, they are completely white. This has only started happening since the most recent update. The only way out of it is to shut down. It doesn't even let me save. I'm running Windows 11 and the version is 26.4.1.
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M1 Apple McBook - Crashing
I just got a new MacBook Pro with the M1 Apple chip. Illustrator keeps freezing and crashing. It also causes my whole computer to crash! I heard many other people are having the same problem. It is unusable by this point!
76 votesThis issue (entire M1 MacBook system freezes) is fixed for AI 25.0.1 and 25.1 This fix takes effect in a day's time, if you still face this entire system freeze then please follow the steps to update:
1). Backup your preferences and launch Illustrator with fresh preferences
2). Quit and re-launch Illustrator once again
3). Use Illustrator in your workflow.
If you see AI crash and entire system is not freezing then please create a new issue.
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placing (linking) JPGs in illustrator makes files incredibly slow to work with
Often I create layouts that require linking JPG in my doc. Whenever there are multiple JPGs in my doc, the doc becomes very slow. I do not notice the same performance issue if the linked files are TIFs. This has been an issue for multiple versions of Illustrator.
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Stuck in outline mode, there is a pop-up window that comes up saying "can't finish previewing. Could not complete the requested operation."
Stuck in outline mode, there is a pop-up window that comes up saying "can't finish previewing. Could not complete the requested operation."
I try to do something in Illustrator and that pop-up comes up and I can't do anything to fix it. This is making it impossible to get work done as I'm just stuck in outline mode, if I hit command Y nothing happens but the pop-up.
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Strange lag when opening files in Illustrator and Lightroom is running in the background
When Lightroom is running in the background I am experiencing a lag when opening files in Illustrator. It takes about 40 seconds for the file to come up in Illustrator, even with smallest files.
Had this issue for a long time now and with X versions of Illustrator in the past.
- Keep lightroom running parallel to illustrator
- Open File (double click or from the menu)
- Blank file pops up and stays freezed for an amound of seconds
File opens completely
PC, Windows 10 pro 21H2, last X Versions of Illustrator
More strange: When I send Lightroom to a systray icon…
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The operation cannot complete because of an unknown error. [TAdd]
The error makes all shortcuts useless, plus they can't even be edited nor does resetting preferences make any difference.
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zooming issue......looks like other people
Doesn't matter if GPU performance is clicked on.....when I zoom in to a vector drawing to work on it......BOOM....can't see anything.
Please fix.
Screen goes grey.4 votes -
Illustrator is incompatible with Windows 11 sleep mode
My Windows 11 laptop (Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360) heats up and excessively drains battery when Illustrator is open and the laptop has been put into sleep mode. My laptop heats up even more while been plugged in and in "sleep mode" with illustrator open. These issues has forced me to use the hibernation mode for example during commuting.
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Space + drag navigation bug after sleep on M1
The space + drag navigation stops working in almost all Adobe programs after I wake up my M1 Macbook Pro from sleep on macOS 11.5.2. So I have to restart the system.
Thanks in advance for the help!
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Custom guides make Illustrator unusable when viewed as dots
I've made guides out of a large number of lines (forming an iso grid). This works fine as long as I am viewing the guides as lines, but when changing the view to Dots in settings, Illustrator get so slow that I can't even move around in the document. I am using Windows 10 version 26.1. I also have v25.4.1 installed and it is the same thing there.
Maybe it would be less performance demanding if we could set transparancy on guides instead of using dots?
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Delays and Sluggishness
For the 30+ years I've been using Adobe Illustrator, I don't think I have every really been bothered by the app or an update until last year. Now when you open AI, make a new file, or try to drag content around on a canvas or move the page around using the hand tool, the app is very lethargic and jerky. It is as if it is validating all actions by an online verification before any action is done. This really makes using the app frustratingly slow.
3 votes
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