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  1. Rotate lagging/hangs, whenever I'm in rotate tool and rotating lines or objects, sometimes I experience lagging about 1 - 2 minutes

    it stucks on this cursor here(image attached), it will last 30 seconds - 1-2 minutes, been dealing with this for a long time.

    Looking forward for the fix.

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  2. Editing text with warp doesn't update

    Editing text that has a Warp effect applied does not update on screen or even in a saved PDF until the warp effect is turned off then on again in the Appearance panel. See the attachments where I have changed the bolded word 'egg' to a roman type weight. In the second warped screenshot it is still bold. This bug has only started since the very latest general release of Illustrator: v24.1. Occurs in MacOS 10.15.3 and in MacOS 10.14.6

    2 votes

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  3. Tabs randomly stop functioning, will only show one project

    Since one of the recent CC updates at the end of February, both Illustrator and Photoshop have been having a glitch multiple times a day with their tabs. You'll go into the program and see one of your projects open, but when you click on another tab it still shows the original project. The only way you can see your other projects is if you take them off the tab bar into a separate window. All tool panels behave exactly the same. The only way I can fix this is to take every single one of my projects off the…

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  4. when I open Illustrator there are no tools showing

    I can't see my tools in Illustrator and I can't change or reset my Workspace :(

    I'm able to add some things like the Toolbar and Swatches/Layers/Etc windows, but I'm never able to see it complete, with that top bar that includes the Align + Transform + Etc

    Usually setting the Workspace to Essentials Classic does the job... please help!

    3 votes

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  5. cannot duplicate or move artboards

    Cannot duplicate or move artboards with artwork in Illustrator 2020. Artboard will merely move with the artwork contained when hitting opt+click. Can only duplicate artboards without artwork.

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  6. Cursor stuck on hand

    The cursor is stuck on the hand tool in all my adobe apps so I cannot use them at all.

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    We need your help in re-creating this issue at our end. If this issue is reproducible at will, please reach out to sharewithai@adobe.com with your convenient time for remote screen sharing. If this happens intermittently, please do screen recording and send us the same. Any other details that help in re-creating this issue will be helpful (files, workspace, plug-ins, preferences, etc.)

    -Rama
    Illustrator Team

  7. Split into Grid doesn’t work for objects smaller than 4.25 mm

    I've stumbled across a glitch in the Split into Grid code which prevents objects with dimensions smaller than 5mm from being split. See the video for a demonstration.

    NotaVoiceoverArtist :)

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  8. SVG Stroke Widths are not scaled according to viewBox

    MacOS Mojave 10.14.6
    Illustrator CC 2019

    1. rename the attached .txt file to .svg and import the SVG file into Illustrator.

    expected: it should display two horizontal lines
    actual: it appears as a rectangle because the lines are touching

    here are two lines, 200px apart, with 100px stroke width in a 500x500 SVG with a viewbox of 1000x1000. since the viewbox is twice the size of the SVG document, the stroke width should be scaled down to 50px and the lines should not overlap.

    12 votes

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  9. Zoom in keyboard shortcut bug

    Since the update to Illustrator v. 24.1 the zoom in keyboard shortcut (cmd +) no longer works. The zoom out function (cmd -) does continue to work. I have the same issue in Adobe Acrobat. Any fixes would be appreciated.

    3 votes

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  10. "copy & paste in front" in Illustrator, text is not aligned perfectly

    Our product artist use "copy & paste in front" in Illustrator, the text is not aligned perfectly.
    Please check "2hits test-CC17.pdf".

    Also posted a post in Adobe community. here is the link : https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/text-is-not-aligned-perfectly-in-pdf/m-p/11125264?page=1#M255941

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  11. Anchor pointer options becomes active while having a drawing tool (rectangle, line etc) active

    Draw some shapes. Now try to draw another shape/line starting from one of the anchor point of the previous shape. You can't because the anchor selection tool becomes active and it will take over the action. Thsi wasn't like that.

    The alternative is to draw shapes somewhere else and move afterwards the anchors to snap together. But is very annoying !!!!
    Please fix it.
    Why the old applications work the best and the newer ones are totally messed up? Why break a thing that works?

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  12. Workspace & Tool Panels Appear/Disappear Continually--AI CC 2020

    My Workspace panels & Tool panel continually disappear and reappear when I move my mouse. I cannot figure out how to restore them in a fixed position on my screen.

    Running Illustrator v 24.0.2 on Windows

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  13. Find and replace superscript

    I've tried copying the superscripted text to the clipboard and pasting in the Replace box of the Find and Replace dialog, but it loses the superscripting, and pastes into the document without it. I find I have to go into each occurrence individually and superscript each one.

    2 votes

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  14. Can't select multiple anchor points with direct selection tool

    The Direct Selection Tool does not select anchor points. When the DS tool hovers over object, the outline appears, but no anchor points appear. Neither can be selected and activated. When DS tool hovers over an anchor point, I can move that one point only. DS tool behaves exactly same as Anchor Point Tool. I cannot select several anchor points at once, and move / align / delete / distribute / join them. Win 10.1903 AI 24.0

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  16. The lines appear to be drawn when touching on the screen, but once pen is released the lines disperse

    The lines appear to be drawn when touching on the screen, but once brush is released from the surface, the lines disperse as if they were never drawn,

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  17. SVGz No longer displaying on live web pages

    Hi, I have been using Svgz files for a while now but the last couple of updates for illustrator the svgz files do not work. I have never been able to view these files till they were on the server So I would make both SVG and svgz files use the SVG to visually code then add the z to the file name on the server this worked well.

    The Files always generate this Error in a browser window but not once served via a correctly configured webserver
    This page contains the following errors:
    error on line 1 at column…

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  18. Inconsistencies in adding gradient swatches in Adobe software and Adobe's instructions for Illustrator gradient swatches are incorrect

    Only one of the methods listed on the Adobe Illustrator help page regarding adding gradient swatches actually works..

    There is no 'Add to Swatches' button in the Gradient menu (in fact, there is no Gradient menu, only a Gradient panel).

    Dragging the Gradient fill box from the Gradient Panel to the Swatches panel does absolutely nothing.

    Furthermore, the instructions 'Click the swatches menu in the Swatches panel and choose New Swatch' fails to explain the fact that you need to have your gradient selected and active in the active Fill or Stroke boxes.

    On top of all of this, all…

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  19. Gradient tool Illustrator 24 high sierra

    The Gradient tool does not work well in Illustrator 24.0.3 using high sierra 10.13.3.
    When changing anything with the annotator (color stops, angle, etc) illustartor will hang for several seconds, and nothing can be selected, so I have to wait for it to resume. Often times the gradient panel will blink continuously during this time, it's weird. It's like it's having a spasm. Everything with the gradient works fine in 22.1, so I've been using the older program when i have to use a lot of gradients. This is annoying though, to constantly switch between programs. Why would you, yet…

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  20. Illustrator not saving 100% of the time

    I'm finding Illustrator isn't saving every time I save documents, the last approx 3-4 weeks I've had to re-make approx 15 files that I had previously saved. Running Illustrator 24.2.1 + Windows 10 Pro (1903) but problem existed before this update. My co-worker is having the same issue. I've held off reporting it as I cant explain the mechanism for why it's only happening occasionally. would love a fix for this, was hoping the previous update would somehow fix it but hasn't unfortunately.

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