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)
8366 results found
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Holding Shift when picking a color from a gradient in a CMYK document samples the wrong color
Even though we can hold Shift to pick a color form an object with a gradient applied, it picks the color sampled from the screen — the RGB value.
It means if we are in a CMYK document and picking a color from a white-to-black gradient, the picked color would NOT be a shade of black, as expected, but an atrocious converted muddy RGB value.
This is not what it should do!8 votes -
Canvas not visible when opening or creating files in Adobe Illustrator
I’m experiencing an issue where the canvas (artboard/work area) does not appear when I open an existing file or create a new document in Adobe Illustrator.
The application itself opens normally, and the UI loads (menus, toolbars, panels), but the main canvas area where the artwork should be displayed is completely missing or blank.
Steps to Reproduce:
- Open Adobe Illustrator
- Create a new file OR open an existing file
- Illustrator loads the interface normally
- The canvas/artboard does not appearExpected Result:
The canvas/artboard should be visible and ready for editing.Actual Result:
The canvas area is…2 votes -
Global Edit no longer works for additional groups inside other groups
AI 30.5 Win 11
If I have multiple instances of a group and want to change all at once, I can use Global Edit and then isolate the group to make my changes. But now once inside isolate mode, I can no longer use additional global edits to change multiple groups inside of the main group, as once inside global edit the only option in the select menu is to exit global edit.
So for instance I have 5 of the same group A, and these are then grouped together to make Group B. I then have 5 instances of…
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Curved paths not honouring guide styles / Guides are not dotted
When converting artwork to guides, anything that has a curved path does not show the guide style set up in preferences. In my case I have guides set up as a dashed line with a light grey colour. What I'm seeing is a solid black line. Happens in AI 29.6.1 and the beta 29.7 88. Sample shows two shapes converted to guides but the ellipse remains as a solid black line. Using MacOS 14.7.6.
8 votesWorks as expected in Beta 30.0.0.114.
Please test the fix to make sure it’s ready to be pushed into the general build.
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Illustrator 29.6.1 (Windows) crashes ~30 s after launch since Aug 17 — unhandled C++ exception (std::bad_function_call) in dunamis-ingest.dl
Environment
- Illustrator 29.6.1 (x64), Windows Server (EC2), 11 machines in a print-automation pipeline
- Illustrator is driven via COM/ExtendScript (headless typesetting), hundreds of short sessions per day
- No local changes on any machine: last Windows update Dec 2025, no reboots since Jun 25, no font/plugin/preference changes, Illustrator binary unchanged since Jul 2025Symptoms
- Starting the evening of Aug 17, 2026 (KST), Illustrator began crashing on all machines simultaneously. Daily crash counts across the fleet: ~0–5 (baseline) → 34 (Aug 17) → 90 (Aug 18) → 366 in half a day (Aug 19).
- Crashes occur…1 vote -
Overset text indicators do not show when Type on Path has overflow
Text Overflow / Overset (+) Indicators are not showing on newer illustrator versions on Text Paths (Point Text).
The text paths have stopped showing the indicator when clicking off of the Text on a path (point type) has text overflow.As a map design company this is a big issue for us, as our files have thousands of text paths. We used to be able to identify crucial overset text information using these markers however they have vanished for the most past. Some files do occasionally show them but most do not. This is recently cause us to mistakenly print…
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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 CSince the latest Illustrator update they mirror instead, as
copy of C
copy of B
copy of AMakes batch duplication worthless and I now have to duplicate each one separately OR do the set and then move them around manually.
18 votesThe fix has been pushed into the latest 30.3 general release. Please update, check, and comment back if it still happens.
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Stacked dimensions lagging Illustrator
The dimension around the red outline rectangle is the LAG source... try to move anything, it takes forever. But as soon as you delete the dimensions, the lag is gone. I'm not sure what is going on here.
2 votesExpected to be fixed in Beta 30.6.0.75.
Please try to update and check if the lagging is gone.
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Illustrator cannot recognize my Creative Cloud account without internet, hours of work lost!!!!
Illustrator has no internet connection and then closes all my files without giving me the option to save. I have a company Adobe Creative Cloud account, but when the internet connection goes down, Illustrator seems unable to recognize or verify that I have an active Creative Cloud account. Instead, it closes Illustrator and all my open files without giving me any option to save my work.
This is extremely frustrating and unacceptable. I had been working for several hours, and I lost all of that work because Illustrator could not verify my account while offline.
Even if an internet connection…
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Inaccurate stroke scaling on new objects
When I create a new shape, the stroke scaling is clearly not accurate. I have it set to 1 pixel, however, it appears much, much larger than a stroke set to 1 px.
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All my symbols gets displaced all the times
Whenever I make symbols for sock label logo, these symbols get randomly gets displaced and moved to another location on the art board by itself. the positioning is completely random and no logic. It's been like this since Illustrator 2025. what is going on???
Please see attached for example of what I mean random displacement of symbols, all the symbol object have been moved randomly to top right. Only way to fix is to break the symbols and manually move these objects back to where I intended to place. This is a must fix bug. please help!!!!MacOS 26.2 Illustrator…
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PDF export without color conversion converts RGB images to CMYK
This is a bug that occurs in Illustrator 2025 (29.2.1) and later.
When an RGB image is placed as a linked file in a CMYK document, it gets converted to CMYK upon PDF export, even if "No Color Conversion" is selected. In Illustrator 2025 (29.2.0) and earlier, the image remained in RGB.
This bug affects only PNG and JPG files. Other formats, such as PSD, remain in RGB.
Steps to Reproduce
- Create a new CMYK document.
- Place an RGB image (PNG or JPG) as a linked file (do not embed).
- Export the document as a PDF with "No Color Conversion"…
40 votesAs reported, the fix is now in the released 29.5.1 general build
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ファイルのアクセス権が起動時に必ず求められる
Mac版についてになります。
アプリの起動を行うと、まず初めに「Adobe Illustrator 2026から、他のアプリからのデータへのアクセス権を求められています。」
という確認ポップアップが、表示されるようになりました。Macの設定にある、「セキュリティ、プライバシー」のファイルアクセスなどに関する権限をみたところ、追加がされていませんでした。
(なお、PremiereやPhotoshopは追加されていました)
残念ながら、Mac上では対象アプリを追加することができないようになっており、これらの対応策が見つからない状態になりました。同様の現象などで回避策をお持ちでしたらご教示ください。
Mac OS26.3
Illustrator 30.2.1の最新版(26/3/14現在)
このバージョンにアップデートしてから今回のような症状が現れた記憶になります。
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Resizing using bounding box with Snap to Point enabled acts as if constrained to an arbitrary grid
With Snap to Point enabled, resizing with the corner of the bounding box snaps to what seems like an arbitrary grid. Smart guides disabled. Snap to grid disabled. Snap to pixel disabled.
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Libraries show a generic font in thumbnails instead of actual ones
My libraries now all update to having this generic font when I upload designs with text. And online, all my previously saved designs now all have the same font rather than the fonts they were previously. When I drag them back onto an artboard, they convert back into the previous font, so it's something to do with the libraries preview, I believe.
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Reflecting a JPG freezes the program
When I try to reflect a JPG it freezes and program gets frozen. It never happened before, but now it doesn’t work.
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Can’t access tools using Essential Classic workspace
My Essential Classic tools do not come up and it doesn't let me reset them either, so I can’t use Illustrator at all. I tried to uninstall and reinstall —didn't work either
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リンク画像の拡縮率の表示がバージョンにより違う
1.macOS14.8.1 Illustrator2024(28.7.10) Illustrator2026(30.1)
2.背景が透明・レイヤー状態のpsd画像またはtif画像をイラストレーター2024と2026に配置をしました。画像の埋め込みはしていません。
3.イラストレーター2024と2026の結果が同じになると思っていました。イラストレーター2024の拡縮率%が正しいと思っています。
4.リンクパネルのリンク情報領域の拡大・縮小の数値がイラストレーター2024と2026で結果が異なります。2024は100%。2026は20.571%になります。3 votesWe apologize for the delay, but it appears this issue has been resolved in Beta 30.5.#154. Please update the software and check to see if it works as expected.
Thank you for the feedback. Keep it coming!
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Copy-pasting mesh between files results in rasterized image
When copying and pasting a mesh from one file to another, it turns into a raster image. However, simply dragging and dropping the mesh object works fine
Adobe Illustrator 30.1
macOS Tahoe 26.2 (25C56)4 votes -
Font explorer dropdown from the Character section in Properties panel is obscured by other panels with 2 columns of docked panels
Running 30.2.1
When the new Character panel is open and font has been selected, the panel is now so big that it becomes obscured if I open a property on the second panel, so I cannot make further font adjustments without closing the second panel.
It seems the properties panel process is selective for some properties and not for others, e.g., Transform opens in both panels, whereas Appearance does not. The UX seems inconsistent. Something feels off.
2 votes
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