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  1. "export for screens" beachball bug

    I am on a M2 MBA running the latest macOS. I have a bluetooth Logitech MX master 3S. I have illustrator 28.1

    When using 'Export for Screen', if I have a document with 20+ artboards, there is a scrollbar on the Artboards tab.

    If I use the mouse LEFT BUTTON to drag the scrollbar or use the mouse LEFT BUTTON to click on the arrows on the scrollbar, Illustrator will beachball and I have to use Force Quit to close it.

    If I use the mouse WHEEL to scroll the panel, I am able to make my selections - the…

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  2. Illustrator AI - high volume

    I'd like to have a better understanding of this problem - I originally posted in the community discussion but was told I would need to repost here so that's what I'm doing.

    I've been getting this error with one of my projects since this morning and since I can still use it by closing that project and opening another - I don't think the problem is really "High volume"

    • I do have a prompt that's about 3 paragraphs which could be the problem but if that's the case, Adobe really should be limiting the characters, not just saying that there…
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  4. Cursor is gone

    The cursor is sometimes after a while just gone. You can't see it.

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  5. Legacy text objects updated after two file saves are completely lost

    Bugs fixed in CC2018 are still not fixed.
    https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/32018143-text-lost-when-updating-text-of-old-version

    Reproduction Procedure:
    1. Prepare and open a file of version 10 or less.
    2. Click [OK] button in Legacy Text Warning dialog.
    3. Save the file as is.
    4. [Important] Open the saved file.
    5. [Important] Save the file as is.
    6. Open the saved file.
    7. Click on a legacy text object with the Text tool.
    8. Click [Update] button in the warning dialog box.
    →Legacy text object is completely lost.

    This bug occurs in all versions since CC2018.

    Reported in the thread of Japan Forum.
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0-discussions/illustrator%E3%81%A7cid%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%82%92%E5%88%A5%E3%81%AEotf%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%81%AB%E7%BD%AE%E3%81%8D%E6%8F%9B%E3%81%88%E3%82%8B%E6%96%B9%E6%B3%95%E3%81%AF%E3%81%82%E3%82%8A%E3%81%BE%E3%81%99%E3%81%8B/td-p/13194772

    Japanese:
    ファイル保存を2回した後にレガシーテキストオブジェクトを更新すると完全に消失します

    再現手順…

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  6. Illustrator reopens after quitting

    I'm on macOS 14.2.1 and Illustrator 28.1.

    When I quit illustrator it automatically reopens immediately. Workaround: close the app via the dock (secondary click > quit).

    I uninstalled Illustrator and reinstalled it, but the problem persists.

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  7. ガイド線が消せない。選択できない。

    いくつかのファイルで、ガイド線を引いた後、選択もできず、消すこともできない状態に陥ります。ガイド線を一括非表示にした時に限り表示を一時的に消すことができます。印刷入稿などへ回しても現物に影響はないので良しとしていますが、作業にあたりとても邪魔で困っています。
    【マザーボード】
    ASUS PRIME B660-PLUS D4

    【CPU】
    12th Gen intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12500

    【CPUクーラー】
    DeepCool AK400

    【メモリー】
    Corsair DDR4-3200(1600MHz) 16GB*4枚(64GB搭載)

    【グラフィック】
    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

    【OS】
    windows10 64bit

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    Guides in Illustrator, unlike in InDesign, are considered to be objects and exist within layers. As per the comment by Ten_A, if your guides are contained within a locked layer, they won’t be selectable. 

    If you wish to change this behavior, you should upvote this request: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/37211029-make-guides-to-be-like-in-indesign

  8. Files have a swatch that cannot be deleted

    Please help me understand why this swatch cannot be deleted. In this case it is a Pantone swatch, but in other files it's just a global color. I have deleted all objects and links in this file to be sure it's not connected to some hidden element.

    Thank you for looking. It is becoming an issue in file cleanup for clients. They all have this one odd, unremovable swatch from another project.

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  9. Problems with Photoshop Effects

    Lately, everytime I try turning a vectored shape (after I gave it a gradient mesh) with no stroke, I constantly keep getting stray white pixels inside the stroke that seem to trace the stroke. I'm trying to make a quality illustration, but these pixels are keeping me from doing that. Thank you!

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  10. Freezing on saving locally with fonts

    Hi, I am working on illustrator 28.0. Since the last update, Illustrator freezes whenever I try to save anything with fonts on my local drive. Even when I was using the Illustrator default font (Myriad pro font)

    Things I tried that did not work:

    • uninstalling and reinstalling

    • installing earlier version (illustror 27).

    • repairing the creative cloud itself.

    • turning off background file saving as suggested.

    Things that worked:

    • saving to cloud

    • saving the exact same files on other laptop with same fonts (both with same and different versions of Illustrator).

    • outlining all font layers

    Notes:

    • I am saving to my local…

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  11. Blend Modes are Broken in Illustrator 27.8.1 and also in After Effects 23.6.0

    Hello - I updated all my creative cloud stuff yesterday and blend modes don't work in Illustrator 27.8.1 and also in After Effects 23.6.0

    I opened after effects 22.6.5 and that works as it's supposed to.

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  12. Grey Work Area (unresponsive)

    I'm on a 2020 Dell XPS 15
    Tried Versions 27, 27.4, 28 and most recent of Illustrator.
    Only started having this issue within the past month.
    All other Adobe products are working perfectly fine.

    When attempting to open any existing document, the work area briefly flashes with the document before turning into a blank grey screen. I can't click on anything in the work area, but the tools can all be selected. The mouse icon doesn't change from the windows white mouse icon to the larger black Adobe mouse icon, so it seems like the work area isn't functioning at…

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  13. Measure tool does not work at all

    The Measure tool does not work!
    Ctrl+X and place it in the same position (Ctrl+F does not work all the time)

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  14. Can't Switch Between Documents / Windows

    Having multiple documents open - sometimes I can switch between them with a quick Alt-Tab, but mostly I get the error sound (Windows).

    Using Alt-Tab or using the mouse has the same results.

    On occasion I can switch documents, but that's usually one out of ten attempts.

    This only happens with Illustrator documents/windows - so if I tab over to another program there isn't an issue.

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  15. Bad rendering of glow effect

    OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 10.0.19045 Build 19045
    Adobe Illustrator: 28.1 (64-bit)

    Steps to reproduce the bug:
    - Create a blank Illustrator document.
    - Create a new shape, such as a white circle with no stroke. The white circle on the white background is invisible.
    - Add an outer glow effect to the circle, e.g.: Color: black (#000000), Normal mode, 20% Opacity, 3px Blur.
    => The white circle on white background will be almost invisible, despite the black glow, which is very, very faint.

    • Export the artwork to PDF.
    • Open the PDF file in Acrobat : the white circle is…
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  16. Toggling Layer Visibility now Lags Greatly with each New Layer Added after introduction of Search to Layers

    In May 2022 (before Search Layers was added for example) you could have a file with 2600 layers and toggle the visibility on and off in less than a second. Now in June 2023 the same type of file takes 30 seconds to toggle the visibility of a single layer.

    Here's how to reproduce the BUG that has been introduced into ILLUSTRATOR now:

    I'm using a - Windows 10 Desktop
    Illustrator v 27.6.1
    ASUS Laptop with 40 GB of RAM
    1TB SSD drives and plenty of scratch disk and page file space.

    Reproduction Steps:

    1. create a new Illustrator document 1920x1080
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  17. Can not "Save As" in Adobe Illustrator

    I'm using macOS Sonoma 14.1 on a iMac 27-inch monitor.
    After I upgraded to Sonoma I can not "Save As" any illustrator files in Illustrator 2023 or 2024. I can only save as if I open a previous file that I have saved on my hard drive before upgrading. I have made sure that I have "read/write" privileges but still no luck on saving new file unless I save it to iCloud. Has anyone had the same problem. I have researched on the web and have seen that this problem has been discussed for many years but this is the…

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  18. Registration point and boundaries of a certain symbol jump when a document is opened

    1. Open the attached document (and review the steps from the GIF)
    2. Notice the second symbol's boundaries are giant (although the registration point is displayed within the artboard), and the Symbols panel seemingly shows nothing in its thumb
    3. Double click the second symbol to edit it
    4. The symbol opens and jumps into the middle of its giant boundaries, and the registration point moves as well
    5. Exit the mode
    6. The symbol is now displayed in its intended place, has normal boundaries, has the registration point in the same place, has a normal thumb...
    7. ...but if you make other changes in a doc,…
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  19. 線ウインドウパネル上矢印選択のスクロールを操作するとフリーズ

    1. Intel Mac 2019 Adobe Illustrator28.1.0
    2. 線ツールを選択し描写、矢印にするためウインドパネルで選択、
    スクロールバーを動かすと、カラーカーソル出現しフリーズ。
    3. スクロールによる矢印選択ポップアップ内が移動することを想定

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  20. Tool window won't update content when clicking on a different tab

    This bugs seems to come on after a while of everything working normally.

    I have multiple windows (e.g. 3 - Character/Paragraph/Open type) grouped together on one panel. When I click on an unfocussed tab to bring that to the front, nothing changes. The content below remains the same.

    For example if 'Character' was in focus, and I wanted to access 'Paragraph' options. If I click on the 'Paragraph' tab, I still see the 'Character' options.

    See video.

    This is also happening with the document tabs too. I click between my open documents and nothing changes on the artboard below.

    I…

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