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  1. Inconsistency between GPU and CPU modes

    mac OS 10.15.1 (19B88)

    iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015)
    4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
    AMD Radeon R9 M395 2 GB

    I have an issue regarding inconsistent appearance between GPU and CPU modes when using composite fonts. Attached are the screen shot images of the identical material when captured in (1) GPU-mode, (2) CPU-mode, and (3) GPU-mode after outlined.

    As the files show, the last 2 characters show up at different position. The outlined characters show up in the position identical with (2). So I guess (1) has some issue (not displaying the pre-outlined characters at the correct position).

    1 vote

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  2. Refresh problems in Trim View - Illustrator 24.0

    I'm not sure this is exclusive to GPU, but in Trim View sometimes when working with content, it stops refreshing properly and causing anomalies on screen

    14 votes

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    I am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our latest release – 27.3.1 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!

    Ankit Goyal

    Illustrator Team

  3. UI goes crazy after Separations View and 'Clinging' bounding boxes?

    Hi

    Have a couple of bugs which constantly keep cropping up.

    1. When using the Separations Preview, after turning it off again, I get white lines over the screen when scrolling around the page. The more I scroll, the more appear. I can rectify by floating the window, but that's not really a 'fix'...

    2. Randomly/Occasionally I get a bounding box which 'sticks' to one item on the artboards – so whatever obect I select, the selection/bounding box will highlight both that and other object. Seems to randomly un-stick itself, but usually only sorted by closing the file.

    2 votes

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  4. Fill Glitches when Previewing with the GPU

    I work for a printing company, and we see this sort of glitch a lot. We also see it in the same design over multiple different systems so this must be an Illustrator issue rather than a compatibility problem with our graphics cards.

    When rendering with the GPU, fill colors will extend out past the shape bounds. When we switch to render with the CPU, the glitch disappears. See the example attached.

    This is a problem for us. We are losing production time because our printers on the floor see this and assume its an error with the artwork and…

    3 votes

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  5. Illustrator laggy and slow on when using CPU. Colours not accurate on GPU

    Hello, I'm using a MacOs 10.14.6 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 and I have Illustrator 23.1.1.
    I've been having the following issue (even before updating to this version).
    Every time I use the CPU view Illustrator becomes really slow and laggy.
    I mostly use GPU mode for this reason but the colours are not accurate in this view. Colours look more opaque.
    I tried resetting my preferences, disabling GPU performance, disabling dictation on my mac, change my document raster effects settings to screen (which made a little bit better), but nothing quite work.

    I can't continue with the workaround of…

    3 votes

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  6. se pega

    Hola desde que lo instales funciona muy lento se paga y no se cierra cuando uno presiona la X solo cuando con el botón derecho me señala cerrar programa esto no debería ser así si estoy pagando por un buen servicio. gracias solicito solucionar

    1 vote

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  7. overprint

    Look at Problems in Picture. Help me pls.

    1 vote

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  8. GPU Preview hangs with simple file

    System specs: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) • GPU Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB • OSX 10.14.6 • Illustrator 23.1.1

    I have an Illustrator file (attached) which is originally imported from a dwg file but doesn't seem to contain that much artwork. Trying to open this file (or preview) with GPU either hangs Illustrator or takes minutes on end to render. The same thing happens if this file is placed in Indesign and GPU preview is on there, even recovering that document after force quitting hangs Indesign.

    I can simply work around this problem by disabling GPU performance from…

    1 vote

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  10. multi-GPU setups cause Illustrator to glitch out and become unresponsive

    I've got a two-GPU computer. If I'm using GPU preview mode, after working for a while (around 20-30 mins or more), the entire Illustrator UI will glitch out and become very artifact-y and unresponsive, and I can no longer work on the files I've got open, necessitating a restart of the app.

    This started happening right after I upgraded from one GPU to two, about a year ago. It happens only in GPU preview mode, not CPU. I've tried updating GPU drivers, updating Illustrator itself--nothing fixes the problem. I've seen other people online with multi-GPU setups say the same thing…

    4 votes

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  11. adobe illustrator 2015 onword version jerk and lagging issue

    im work LG 5K DISPLAY WITH MAC PRO 2013 I HAVE INSTALLED ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR 2019 ABOUT 3 MONTH IM FACING SOME ISSUES ON OVERPRINT PREVIEW MODE AND NORMAL MODE (NORMAL MODE IS OK NO ANY JERK AND LAGGING ISSUE BUT ON OVERPRINT PREVIEW LAGGING JERK ANY MOVEMENT ON SCREEN AND ARTBOARD ANY SOLUTION ABOUT MY PROBLEM PLEASE SHARE IM VERY TRIED AND I REQUEST TO ADOBE PLEASE REMOVE GPU OPTION 2015 ONWARD VERSION ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR 2014 IS EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE AND WORK OVERALL.

    1 vote

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  12. Illustrator CC Crashes In Tablet Mode

    Illustrator regularly crashes every couple of hours when my Spectre x360 is in tablet mode, also when using the HP Pen. Is anyone else getting this?

    Running Illustrator in power saving mode was suggested as a workaround, but it's still crashing.

    System info attached.

    1 vote

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  13. GPU Issue in Touch Mode on Surface Pro (2017)

    Hello,
    I have been having a repeated issue with Illustrator leaving checkerboard artifacts onscreen when drawing in Touch Mode on my Surface Pro. After drawing for a while, Illustrator will crash. I've included a clip displaying the artifacts I'm talking about.

    A related issue happens at random when drawing, where the outline will display in red while I'm drawing it, then the line won't actually get drawn. Sometimes when selecting or scaling objects they will similarly display the scale happening, but then nothing actually happens. Usually Illustrator crashes after that.

    3 votes

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  14. Measurement labels is not showing properly (Smart Guide)

    Hello,

    I found a bug that is not showing measurement labels properly on a specific environment.

    in Windows 10 Pro Korean,
    English version of Illustrator CC is not showing measurement labels properly (it just shows a narrow gray box, no text at all inside of the box).

    When I install Korean version of Illustrator CC, it shows the measurement labels properly. I think this causes because of the font issues or Windows local system.

    I hope this bug is going to be fixed as soon as possible.

    Thanks

    1 vote

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  15. pixel error

    This happens a lot when I am working in Illustrator, I have to zoom in and out to see the correct color or for not seeing this issue. PLEASE HELP

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  16. Guides are too thin since last update

    Since the last update (23.0.4) guides are almost invisible, especially when using the document grid in combination.

    This is only the case when GPU performance is on. When it's switched off, the guides appear as usual. In the previous Illustrator version this problem didn't exist...

    The strange thing is: while dragging other guides, or making a rectangle selection with the Selection Tool, the guides become thicker again. But, when I release the mouse again, they become thin again.

    I work on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) model, NVIDEA GeForce GT 750M 2GB Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB. MacOS…

    5 votes

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  17. Phantom lines in Outline mode ("QuickDraw") at large zoom levels

    Not clear this is actually GPU-related.
    This bug dates back 32 years, all the way to Illustrator 1.0, when Adobe used the term "QuickDraw" to describe it. Terminology has changed, the bug has not. It has happened on every version of Illustrator, on every Mac, under every operating system.
    I've sent the attached screenshots and videos in the past, no response.
    The bug manifests as stray lines or incorrect vectors at certain seemingly-random resolutions.
    In preview mode, in addition to above problems, (possibly a different bug), I often get sectors or areas that do not fill or redraw correctly. Sometimes…

    2 votes

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  18. White flickering screen: Illustrator 2019 gltches out video card in Macs with AMD Radeon R9 M390 2 GB graphics card...

    it's an Apple & Adobe conflict with each other regarding the AMD graphic card driver(s) + Mojave OS 10.14. Rolling back to Illustrator 2018 doesn't fix it. I first thought it was a physical hardware problem (dying graphics card) until we experienced the problem on multiple Macs in the same way.

    This issue didn't exist prior to updating to Mojave, however, I think Mojave and Adobe were fine together until updating to Adobe CC's 2019 products which had the initial conflict and, in turn, created the same conflict for the prior Adobe CC versions + Mojave.

    I 100% believe there…

    83 votes

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  19. GPU rendering problem. - My graphics appear pixelated at certain zoom levels. Comes and goes. Very annoying when working.

    This happened a few months or weeks ago.

    I am using Macbook Pro - 2017
    OS version: Mojave 10.14.5 (18F132)
    Adobe Illustrator: 23.0.4
    This issue disappears when I turn of GPU rendering but I am used to working with GPU rendering ON.

    I am hoping for a fix on this soon or maybe there is already. please let me know. Thanks :)

    1 vote

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  20. Multiply Glitch

    Multiply effect in transparency is not working properly, it's appearing partially colored and pixelated, or object would disappear when zooming in/out.

    2 votes

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