Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs
When reporting a bug, please provide a detailed description with the following:
- Details of your operating system
- The version of Adobe Illustrator (desktop)
- The steps you were taking when you experienced the issues
- Your expected result and the actual result
- Upload your Illustrator file or a video (screen recording or gif, this helps us most to reproduce the issue and resolve it)
7892 results found
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We can’t use Eyedropper to sample the look of a dimension object and apply it to another selected one
The dimension disappears when using the Eyedropper tool.
3 votes -
Separations preview is wrong for dynamic symbol with spot color
When a dynamic symbol gets a spot color applied to one of its fills, then the separations preview does not show the correct separation.
Reported in this forum thread (with demo file) https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/is-separations-preview-buggy/m-p/15138799#M434726
2 votes -
New Document settings reset while being entered
When creating a new document in Illustrator, you can begin tabbing down through the fields and assigning numbers as you go (such as setting up standard business cards by typing 3.5, tab twice, type 2, tab thrice, set 3 artboards, tab once and enter top bleed amount, etcetera).
The problem is, before I can completely enter my values, the program randomly moves to another field (possibly the first of the Recent Items, or wherever focus is upon bringing up the New Document dialog). This often means my new document winds up being "reset" to the last size created, and I…
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Arabic text is not searchable in a PDF saved from Illustrator
Arabic text is not searchable in a PDF saved from Illustrator.
In Adobe Illustrator v. 29.2.1 (Middle Eastern version) on Mac OS 15.2, I created a document with A4 size page, typed any number of words, lines in Arabic Language.I choose to save the file as PDF. Then in Acrobat, when I search for any Arabic word, I get the message "No matches were found".
The same text placed into Adobe InDesign or Microsoft Word, then Export the page as PDF. Those PDFs are fully searchable.I believe that PDFs out of Adobe Illustrator are the only ones with…
2 votes -
Radial Gradient Exports very large SVG with a many ellipse elements instead of using gradient tag.
Sometimes when you select colors with pipette for radial gradients and export SVG the single radial gradient become hundreds of layers of ellipses. A single element should only export one element with a fill of a single radial gradient.
I tried uploading a zip or the SVGs but this ****** form uploader wouldn't let me.
1 vote -
Placing PDF comes up with an Unknown error
There is a bug with Illustrator when placing certain PDF's I get "An unknown error is detected...." I have been getting this error since Adobe Illustrator 2023.
Files will work if it's opened in Rosetta but not with the regular version. Now with 2025 the option to open in rosetta is gone.Using Mac OS
Apple chip M1
16gb Ram
Sonoma 14.5Do not have any issues with this on the Intel macs.
2 votes -
Don’t display Touch workspace styled handles for Free Transform when Ai doesn’t use it
If a computer has an access to a touch screen device, Ai offers users to switch the interface into the dedicated Touch Workspace: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/illustrator-touch-workspace.html
Normally this access won’t affect using Ai in the default mode, except for the way Free Transform tool’s controls.
These start to look ugly: large contoured circles with small white square padding inside, smudged icons (when viewed at 100 UI scale), giant hint arrows...Maybe these work for some better, I can imagine this.
But why do I see these when not in Touch mode?
How can I force Ai to use normal ones without removing…2 votes -
+ (plus) as keyboard shortcut not working for adding anchor point tool
The keyboard shortcut for adding anchor point tool is by default + (plus).
About 1 month ago it stopped working.
I have not changed the shortcut settings. Changing the add anchor point tool shortcut to some other key works fine, it's just + (plus) that is not working. I have also tried to make + (plus) as shortcut key for other tools, but that's not working either.
So the problem seem to be the + (plus) key itself?
Only problem is, it works just fine in text, as you can see here. It works just as well in Ai when…1 vote -
Sometimes Align panel has no Align To options enabled, even with a selection present
Occasionally I have an object selected, hit a hotkey assigned to an Align command, but nothing happens, even though Ai should automatically enable Align To Artboard with the only object selected.
I open the Align panel (in these cases it’s usually collapsed) and realize none of three Align To option buttons is pressed! I click Align To Artboard one manually, and then it works, and it doesn’t happen anymore... until the next time it misfires like this.
Probably it happens at least one per Ai session, I can’t tell yet.
4 votes -
Screen blinking when moving mouse or hit keyboard
Screen blinking when moving mouse or hit keyboard, then back to normal after some time.
1 vote -
縦組みテキストの行末にある、縦中横の括弧類のアキが不均衡
縦組みテキストの中で、行末に縦中横の括弧類を配置することがあります。例えば「100gの水にとける物質の質量〔g〕」のような文です。
その場合〔g〕の"〔"は50%アキ、"〕"は0%アキになり、文がセンターに揃わなくなります。縦組みの縦中横で括弧類が両端にあるとき、両方のアキが0%になるとありがたいです。
環境
- macOS 12.7.3(Apple Silicon)
- Illustrator 2024(28.5.0) この仕様がいつからあるのかわかりませんが、少なくともCS6では再現します。
再現手順
- 縦組みポイント文字に「100gの水にとける物質の質量〔g〕」と打つ
- 〔g〕に縦中横をかける
期待する結果
括弧はそれぞれアキ0%になり、文はセンターに揃います。
実際の結果
"〔"は50%アキ、"〕"は0%アキになり、文がセンターに揃わなくなります。
回避策
- 文字組アキ量設定をなしにすると各アキは50%になり、ひとまずセンターには揃う
- 行末に縦中横でない文字を追加すると各アキは50%になり、ひとまずセンターには揃う
- 行末にカーニング500を追加すると各アキは50%になり、ひとまずセンターには揃う
添付したファイル
- tcy_paren.ai
- tcy_paren.jpg
- expected_result.jpg
- actual_result.jpg
13 votes -
Text wraps differently in Illustrator 2025 compared to previous version
Encountered a very frustrating bug after updating to Illustrator 2025 today and opening an existing file. It turns out that text within type areas wraps slightly differently in this new version, causing overflow errors in several places throughout the document.
The file I discovered this in was created yesterday in Illustrator 28.5.
Interestingly, when I hover the affected text area, the blue preview rendering shows the old, expected wrapping. There is no way to get it back in the actual, rendered text, though.
Zero changes have been made to this file since yesterday—only the Illustrator version has changed. I checked…
3 votes -
Copy Paste in place puts the art at a wrong placa
Copy/ Paste in Place does not work. I selected an Artboard, but it never got pasted into the !selected! Artboard, but in any other artboard, the original Artboard, or outside. Illustrator 2025 29.1 MacBook Pro M2, 14.6.1 (23G93)
2 votes -
Gradient across open stroke with round cap is buggy (v.29.1)
As in title. See screenshot. Transparency here at 50%, using 100% changes nothing.
1 vote -
illustrator与Magnet软件冲突
当magnet与illustrator同时运行时,illustrator会出现严重的卡死或卡顿
1 vote -
Ligatures button not working
Ligatures button is enabled but not working, i'm testing with ra re. ri ro ru and with a font i know contains ligatures and turning it on or off dont do anything with the text
1 vote -
Type on Path brackets stay large and don’t get rendered scaled with zoom level
Path text scaling issue. Abnormal adjustment of lines when scaling path text.
2 votes -
clicking on stroke color in properties box adds fill to stroke
When trying to change stroke color, the properties box shows nothing in the RGB boxes. Clicking in them adds a fill to the stroke which is unwanted. Edit Gradient controls were buggy too
Mac OS Sonoma 14.7.1
illustrator v29.1 ( updated two days ago)2 votes -
Unable to export to SVG using 'Export to Screens'
I cannot export as SVG using 'Export to Screens', I just get unable to export files error. Only way to do it is 'Save As' SVG and change to SVG 1.0 (1.1 doesn't work).
Very frustrating!Sequoia 15.1.1 - Mac mini M2 Pro
Illustrator 29.11 vote -
Export to SVG adding spurious characters to gtags from layer names which start with numbers
When exporting to svg if the layer name in Illustrator starts with a number when it comes out the other end as a gtag in the svg it is adding spurious characters. For example if a layer name starts with 0Yx it is coming out in the svg as _30Yx This then means that downstream where the application is expecting 0Yx it's not working as _30Yx is there instead. This has only started recently with the new version of Illustrator and the only work round is to close Illustrator 2024 and export using Illustrator 2023
2 votes
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