Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs
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63 results found
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Action shortcuts are lost when rearranging action sets
If I manually rearrange the order of my Action Sets by dragging a set up or down in the list, all the shortcuts assigned to the actions in this set are lost.
39 votesI am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our latest release – 26.1.0 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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Action to merge swatches
Make it so we can create an action to merge swatches again like CS5!!!
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Locate in an action gives an error when nothing is selected
Layers panel has a 'Locate Object' command in its menu.
It can be recorded into an action directly, without messing with the Actions’ 'Insert Menus Item...' workaround approach.However, when this recorded action is called with no selection made, Ai throws an error (!):
The action failed with an unexpected error code.
Error:CANT...if there is nothing to locate, locate nothing. But an error is too harsh, it breaks workflows.
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You can't import actions by dragging .aia file into Illustrator
We can run a script by drag-n-dropping it into Illustrator.
We can open files like this.
We can’t load an actions set by dropping an .aia file into Ai, even if we snpe the Action panel specifically. We are forced to use the panel’s menu, Load Actions command and the system dialog. Too clunky for the modern times.12 votes -
Delete Artboards command can’t be recoded in actions
You can’t force Illustrator to record a deletion of artboards in an action, whatever method you use — a button in the panel, a panel’s menu, with or without Insert Menu Item workaround.
How stupid is this.EVERYTHING is Illustrator should be recordable.
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Actions ignore dash settings
When action is created to change line to eg. Dash 20pt, Gap 20pt, Align dashes to corners and path ends and action is run on a file, Illustrator changes only Dash size and ignoring the Gap size and aligment of dashes.
Another action crated to scale all in a file disproportionaly and action is run, it does not scale disproportionaly - ignores disproportion values.
Actions cannot be trasted (used to be very good in pre CC version).11 votes -
Abnormal selection after executing an action in a script.
According to the person in the know, this has been occurring since version 25.4; it was normal in 25.2.x.
When an action to duplicate an object is created and executed by specifying the action in the script function doScript(), the execution completes with the duplicated object and the original object selected at the same time.Although it is logical to perform all processing in scripts, there are situations where it is unavoidable in the process.
In addition, this is clearly an abnormal situation.
We would like to see an improvement.Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
〈にほんご / Japanese〉
スクリプトでアクションを実行後、選択範囲が異常識者によれば、バージョン25.4以降で発生している。25.2.xでは正常だったとのこと。…
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Changing Color panel option can’t be recorded as an action
Changing Color panel options can’t be recorded as an action
When you record Color panel menu options in actions (Web color, Invert, Complement), the color gets changed to white instead.9 votes -
Find and replace text via action
Find and replace text via action does not record OR play as expected
Recording a find and replace operation records the find and replace dialog box twice (shows up in the action twice) and when playing the action, the only thing that happens is the find portions, the replacement text portions are completely ignored.
Note that this only seems to be the case when using "replace all" button in the dialog. Using the "replace" button seems to record and play correctly, even though the list of operations/options shown in the actions pallet is identical for both.
I found a forum…
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Action "Save" is recorded as "Save As".
When a user creates an action in the form of recording work, the "Save" is recorded as "Save As".
The user must replace the command with "Insert Menu Item" to work around this glitch.I have confirmed that this has been reproduced since version 23 (CC2019), but it seems to be a bug that has existed for a long time.
This is not good.<にほんご>
ユーザー作業でアクションを記録すると「保存」が「別名で保存」として記録されてしまう。
「メニュー項目を挿入」でコマンドを差し替えるしか対策がない。
手持ちのCC2019以降で再現を確認したが、もっと以前から不具合があった可能性がすごい高い。8 votes -
'Fit to Artwork Bounds' doesn't work in action command
Illustrator 2020 won't crop the artboard to the illustration limit with an action.
I need to make an action which:
- Selects all
- Object > Artboards > Fit to Artwork Bounds
Not implemented.8 votesBoth 'Fit to Artwork Bounds' and 'Fit to Selected Art' commands can be inserted in an action using the 'Insert menu item...' command from the Actions panel’s flyout menu.
This approach can be used to insert other commands which Illustrator skips while recording. You can read more about it here: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/automation-actions.html
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Can't record an action “Export for screen” in illustrator V24.1.1 Windows user
What I'm trying to do is save time when I'm saving files. I can't find an appropriate solution for my use case. The "export for screens" interface seems to be the closest solution, I'm trying to add an action for "Export For Screen" but not showing any action please help me. Action not recording export for the screen (Alt+Ctrl+E) PNG
have a variable in Illustrator and I want to get png output automatically but it doesn't work when I want to record the action..
When I want to get a pdf output, everything is OK
But no png
Please test…
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Opacity set with an action does not match appearance of opacity set manually
When trying to select multiple objects with the same fill color and opacity, selecting one of them and under the Select menu choosing Same > Appearance will add all the same fill and opacity objects to the selection.
However, when creating an object via an action and setting the fill color and opacity to match the objects to be selected, Select > Same > Appearance returns no results.
Manually selecting multiple objects in addition to the object created with the action shows "Mixed appearances" in the Properties panel. Individually selecting each of the objects shows the same attributes. Selecting multiples…
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3 Color Trace feature no longer working after v27.1 update
3 color trace feature no longer working after v27.1 update (also effects the other limited pallet trace functions) Previously the trace would simplify the colours of a trace, now it ads far too much detail and colour variants even when you request only 3. See attached simple trace, I wanted to keep the 3 colors from the original but extras were added (defined from low res original) this never happened before. I use this feature regularly in my workflow and have done for years. please fix this bug!
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Cannot grab corner handles on bounding box
Upgraded to latest version 26.5 this morning. Now, when I try and grab the corner handles on the bounding box, they flicker and disappear constantly, so cannot grab to rotate shapes or text boxes.
macOS Monterey 12.5.1 Mac Mini (M1 2020)
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Undo affects loaded actions, Redo makes them loose their shortcuts
It is telling when "Actions" is not even included in the "category" menu.
Load a saved Action set that includes Actions with keyboard shortcuts
Perform an "Undo" in AI
The Actions you just installed will be deleted
Perform a "Redo"
The Actions will reappear but without keyboard shortcuts.First: "Undo" should NOT affect the Actions.
Second: What is the deal with the lost Shortcuts??????
I am looking for a compelling reason to "upgrade" Illustrator. I am told this bug still exists in CC 2019!
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Action with Image Trace does not record preset selection
When creating an action with the Image Trace function, I am only able to utilize the default image trace settings when batching.
While creating the action, loading custom parameters for the image trace function does not appear to be recorded in the action. When attempting to batch multiple files, the image trace uses the default black and white setting.
My work around is the edit the trace parameters found in /collection7 in the vector_parameters.json found in the user folder. This is hardly an ideal workflow.
Please have the action of loading the preset recorded in the action, so this workflow…
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Actions do not save options.
Actions do not save the SVG Options for future use. I deselect Responsive and when I go back to the action at a later date the box is checked.
Please save the options in Actions.
Thank you,
3 votes -
Export for Screens: ImageType PNG - is not recorded as an action
When i export for screens and select png as export type with a fixed width of 5906 px in my case, then this action is simply not recorded.
Other image types are recorded (like jpg or svg).3 votes -
Action Does not saving the SPOT Color attribute
Action Does not saving the SPOT Color attribute.
WHY IT IMPORTANT?
All screen printing industry works with same Predefined spot colors, some of them isn’t exist in Pantone solid colors palette (like a White, and a Base) some exist, like a Black, but much more simple to make a custom spot Black color - when you make a color separation and printing films with HOST SEPARATION option on
So for speed up the process - I’ve decided to make a small & simple action, which will create three predefined custom spot colors: Spot White, Base, and Spot Black. In the…
3 votes
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