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  1. Artboards & Content are displaced after saving and opening a file

    After saving & opening a file with multiple art boards, many of the artboards and/or their content is shifted around the canvas. I already tried all kinds things, even creating a new file and copying everything over. The bug happens again and again – and it's unpredictable, sometimes it's just one element, sometimes it's half of all the content.

    Working with Version 29.8.1, the file is in large format mode, Mac OS 25 (latest). Not saving on a cloud synced folder.

    When saving the same file into Adobe Cloud, the bug doesn't seem to occur... at least for the last…

    33 votes

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  2. プリセットのB6サイズについて

    IllustratorのプリセットのB6サイズは125 mm×176 mmですが、日本の規格はB6サイズ182mm×128mmです。
    他の投稿より引用ですが、プリセットは、B4とB5はJISで、他のB系は国際規格になっているので、統一してほしいです。

    54 votes

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  3. Can't create New File

    Nothing happens when I click New in the File tab or when I use the Ctrl + N shortcut.

    2 votes

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  4. New Artboard Paste in Front Fails and Select Artboard Fails in Artboards panel

    Illustrator 29.6.1 - Mac
    When starting with more than one artboard.
    If you select all objects on an artboard. Copy.
    Then make a new identical artboard in another position to the artboard you copied artwork from, you cannot select the new artboard and paste in front.
    I suspect it is a bug how illustrator keeps track of how many artboards it has because the name is always artboard [number] and the new artboard number in the name is always incorrectly one higher than the actual number.
    You can no longer select an artboard in the Artboards panel and select objects…

    6 votes

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  5. Order of duplicated artboards is reversed

    A big issue is that if you select several artboards at once to duplicate them and they were in order
    A
    B
    C
    they used to duplicate as
    copy of A
    copy of B
    copy of C

    Since the latest Illustrator update they mirror instead, as
    copy of C
    copy of B
    copy of A

    Makes batch duplication worthless and I now have to duplicate each one separately OR do the set and then move them around manually.

    15 votes

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  6. Duplicating Artboard will unlock and show locked and hidden elements.

    When using the Artboard Tool and clicking on a + sign next to an artboard while holding the Alt/Option key to duplicate an artboard with its contents, Illustrator will Show and Unlock all hidden and locked objects/layers.
    It does this only the first time, when using Undo and trying again it works correct.
    See: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/why-does-illustrator-switch-hidden-layers-back-on-and-unlock-them-when-duplicating-an-art-board/m-p/15455446#M449838

    3 votes

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  7. Thumbnails & Quicklook preview has incorrectly positioned pictures.

    29.8.1 thumbnails und Apple Quicklook show previews with incorrectly positioned pictures. This was a bug present in earlier versions, but in the actual documents.
    After fixing it inside of Ai, the bug is now in thumbnails & Quicklook.

    3 votes

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  8. 定規の設定を0にすると次回開いた時にズレる / If you set the ruler to 0, it will be misaligned the next time you open it

    最新リリースバージョン「ver.26.2.1」にて、定規の0基準の設定されていないファイルを開いて、その中で0基準を設定後、保存してファイルを閉じた後、そのファイルを開くとデータの一部がズレた状態(トンボなどとそれ以外のいくつかのオブジェクトだけ勝手に動いた状態になってしまいます。
    途中の段階で別名保存したPDFは問題なく開けます。
    入稿データ等の場合かなりマズい状態です。

    2 votes

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  9. Arrow keys, Home & End keys don’t work when renaming Artboard names on canvas

    We now can rename artboards directly on canvas, by double-clicking a name, if 'Artboard names on canvas' is enabled in Preferences > Selection & Anchor Display.
    However, navigating this input with arrows, Home, End, etc., is not possible. Please make it work.

    3 votes

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  10. Crash on new artboard

    Every time I click on the "+" under my artboards window, it crashes. I have 24 artboards already, and if I duplicate one using Option click drag, it seems ok. But New Artboard crashes again and again.

    MacOS 15.5
    Illustrator 29.5.1

    3 votes

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  11. Duplicate Artboards will always fail if even one artboard exists near the right edge of the canvas

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    Duplicating an artboard using the Duplicate Artboards command in the Artboards panel will fail if one of the artboards in the document is near the right edge of the canvas and the new artboard is at coordinates that extend beyond the canvas.

    It is not possible to duplicate the artboard by wrapping it in the Y direction. Therefore, when such artboards are in the document, it will never succeed.

    The expected behavior is that Duplicate Artboards will also do so, since you can copy and paste artboards and New Artboard will generate them with a wrap around.

    Environment

    • macOS…
    7 votes

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  12. Use Artboards option disabled when exporting as PDF – even in new multi-artboard documents

    Description:
    In the current Illustrator version, the ‘Use Artboards’ checkbox in File ▸ Export ▸ Export As... ▸ PDF is greyed out and cannot be selected.
    This happens even in a new document with multiple artboards (e.g. 3 pages with simple shapes).

    Steps to reproduce:
    1. Create a new document with 3 artboards
    2. Add simple objects on each artboard
    3. Go to File ▸ Export ▸ Export As… ▸ Select PDF
    4. → “Use Artboards” option is greyed out

    Expected result:
    “Use Artboards” should be selectable so that Illustrator exports each artboard as a separate PDF file.

    Actual result:…

    2 votes

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  13. New document page dimensions resetting as I'm typing them

    Create a new document, type in desired page width, press tab to go down to the height field and suddenly it's reverted back to what was in those fields previously. Have to go back and re-enter the correct dimensions.

    There is a 2-page discussion about it here, including someone's video capture of it on page 1:

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/new-document-size-value-resetting-in-adobe-photoshop-illustrator-amp-indesign-2025/m-p/14936407

    Been having the same issue here for a little while. Just been dealing with it, but it's rather frustrating.

    I'm on Windows 10, 22H2, Illustrator 29.2.1 (64-bit).

    12 votes

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  14. Files won't actually save until closed.

    Illustrator 29.8.1

    When either choosing the 'save' command from the file menu, or hitting 'command+s' the saving text flashes in the filename of the tab, but the file does not actually save and it continues to have the unsaved changes asterisk there as well.

    The only way to save and get the currently open file to save/update is to try and close the file, and then save through the 'you have unsaved changes' window that pops up before closing.

    Please fix this, I have several operations in my workflow that require uploading a file I'm currently working on to an…

    2 votes

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  15. Artboard renaming doesn't work

    When I rename an artboard, either through clicking the artboard name above my graphic, or by going through the Artboard properties panel, I change the artboard name, then save the document, and close it. When I reopen the document the previous artboard name is there, the new one wasn't saved. This happens in an .ai and .svg file.
    (The webform for submitting ideas doesn't let me upload .ai or .svg files.)

    1 vote

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  16. Unable to create new file, have to restart software

    As title, unable to create new file, have to restart software every time

    2 votes

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  17. Illustrator freeze after navigating through opened files

    When i have two or more opened files and i navigate through Ctrl+Tab the first files remains open but no tool works except Ctrl+0 and then all starts working again...

    1 vote

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  18. Acrobat PDF File Format error when saving .AI documents. The size of the passed callbacks struct is wrong.

    Illustrator 30.0 (64 bit.) windows 11 recently loaded then I updated to 30.0. since then 99 % of the time I open my current .AI files to update them and save them, I receive this error which I can't fix. The only way to bypass it is the save to the downloads folder and then over write the original unsaved file with the new version. This is affecting my production time, so it is quite urgent. It could be a setting but as I don't understand the message I can't fix it.

    1 vote

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  19. Illustrator 30.0 (2026) .ai files open at 1/10 scale in Adobe Acrobat and RIP software (Onyx) – large artboards only

    This issue is affecting multiple users in our environment with the following setups:

    Hardware: Apple Mac Studio (M1 and M2)

    OS: macOS Sequoia (and possibly the prior macOS version – behavior appears on machines that have not yet updated as well)

    Adobe Illustrator (desktop): 30.0 (2026 release)

    For the time being, we have reverted back to Illustrator 2025 where the same workflow works correctly.

    Basically:

    When we save .ai files with large artboards from Illustrator 30.0 (2026) and then open those files in our printer RIP software (Onyx), the artwork does not come in at the correct size. Instead, it…

    1 vote

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  20. The program is crashing frequently

    The program is crashing frequently, giving a black screen and sometimes the screen freezes on a file, even if I change tabs.

    1 vote

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