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  1. Rearrange All Artboards does not move artwork with it when spacing is adjusted

    1. OS X / Adobe CC 2018 (OS X is where this document ran into this issue, but if it helps troubleshoot, it is being passed back and forth between a Windows 10 machine).

    2. I have a document with multiple artboards. I needed to increase the spacing between them. I went to Rearrange All Artboards where "Move Art with Artboard" was already selected from multiple previous re-arrangings. I changed the spacing from 20px to 60px.

    3. I expected the artboards to have the new spacing, with art in the same location.

    4. The artboards had the new spacing, but the art on every…

    1 vote

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    I 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 – helpx.adobe.com/support.html . Please give a reference to this post so that we can identify you.

    Thanks
    Anish Kumar
    Illustrator Team

  2. Linked Files

    When placing a linked file, it only shows the first artboard no matter which one I select.

    1 vote

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  3. Undo Button Goes Back Too Many Steps

    Sometimes when Undo is pressed, Illustrator goes back too many steps and multiple operations are undone at once. This happens consistently when editing content inside of clipping masks, and happens occasionally in other contexts. There is no option to redo once this bug occurs.

    10 votes

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  4. The operation cannot complete because of an unknown error. [xlfd]

    I have two customers that send me hundreds of Illustrator files created using a Windows version of Illustrator. Every one of them reports this issue on opening: "The operation cannot complete because of an unknown error. [xlfd]." I click OK and everything is fine in the document as far as I can tell. The problem is that I need to batch save these files as PDFs, but I have to sit there and click "OK" for every file so defeating the purpose of batch processing. This is a recurrent bug with the last three revisions of Illustrator. Please resolve it.

    1 vote

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  5. Applying a new graphic style duplicates paths into hidden groups

    This is a severe bug that ruins SVG export by creating multiple copies of the same paths after switching graphic styles.

    I believe something caused a created graphic style that should have only had a simple fill to create copies of the path when applied to paths.

    2 votes

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    I 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 – helpx.adobe.com/support.html . Please give a reference to this post so that we can identify you.

    Thanks
    Anish Kumar
    Illustrator Team

  6. File Error When Opening

    I have been having these messages pop up for the past 2 months.
    When I try to open a file the message pops up, when you hit OK it opens the file but with missing elements. I then exit out of the file and re open it. Sometimes this solves the problem and other times I have to re open that file 3 other times.
    Not sure whats going on.

    1 vote

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  7. ilusstrator not working well

    dear sir
    plz see the attachment when i open illustrator file in cs6 its opening in right
    but wen m opened same file in illustrator cc its not opening with all element
    plz see the blk area in attachment....

    plz tel me the where is the problem

    1 vote

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  8. Will deselect anything that is not visible

    Since the last update if you have a long file and want to select a big chink of it everything has to be visible while selecting. Otherwise, if I start dragging from the middle let's say and have to scroll until I get till the end of the document/artboard, everything that went off screen get deselected and I'm only left with the last chunk of content that is visible. Slows down a lot working on web designs when you have to move a big chunk of content around because you've changed something before it.

    1 vote

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  9. Minor layer color bug

    If you have a layer twirled open with a custom layer color and you switch to a new layer color the child objects don't change color in the layer panel. They do show up if you twirl up and down the layer contents.

    2 votes

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  10. Workspace Disappears

    Issue addressed in the video.
    Help me Help me~

    1 vote

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  11. Illustrator Saving Error with 2 art boards

    We were building a Billoard with extension. Art saved fine with only one artboard. We created a second artboard for the extension, then saved the file , Illustrator error states: the Dimensions of this page are out of range. Total size of both art boards 16.4611 in High x 49.9167 w. Got to have this fixed new Illustrator was updated yesterday.

    1 vote

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  12. The Operation cannot complete because of an unknown error. [x!fd]

    This issue happens with older templates. When I open older files, it gives this message: The Operation cannot complete because of an unknown error. [x!fd]. I have a gotten this message in 2017 and Adobe step up to fix the issue, but the previous update and this one still has the issue. I can open these in previous versions of Illustrator. It's really a pain to fix the file as I have to save in Illustrator 8 and then reimport the text as this conversion converts the type to curves. Now to make matters worse if I save the file…

    3 votes

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  13. Shortcut for 'New File From Template' does not work

    1. Illustrator 22.1
    2. shift-command-N is the shortcut to open a new file from template
    3. Instead of the template folder appearing, to let me pick one of the dozens of templates we use…
    4. nothing happen, most of the time. But the "Type" category in the top of screen UI bar gets a highlight, indicating that this template shortcut is calling to some level in the "Type" category instead of the "File" category.
    5 votes

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  14. Adding Bleed to Previously Saved Files

    I use Adobe CC. I've been trying to add bleed to a previously saved file without bleed. When I open the file then go to >document setup< I am able to add a 1" bleed, but the red bleed line doesn't appear around my artboards once I click ok. Then when I go back into >document setup< it shows that the bleed has been saved, but it is still not visible in the art files.

    6 votes

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  15. Artwork moves with Artboard even with layers locked.

    Not sure if this has already been addressed. I just became aware of this site. I am using CC 2018, on my Mac running 10.13.3. Usually if I lock the layers I can move the artboard independently, not anymore.

    3 votes

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  16. Illustrator | Free Template Download Error

    1-Adobe Illustrator CC 2018
    2-Trying to download free template from print tab
    3-I expected the template to download like all the other templates I have downloaded
    4-I got an error message
    5-This is a screenshot of my error message

    Thank you.

    2 votes

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  17. new documents window with the same "template save" button like Photoshop CC

    I think that the button to save an template how it works in photoshop is missing. And i hope that she comes... Finally, the rubric "saved" already exists.

    The screenshot is from Photoshop.

    4 votes

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  18. 1 vote

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  19. 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…

    1 vote

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  20. Illustrator crashes when adding an art board

    Illustrator crashes when adding an art board

    3 votes

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