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  1. EXPORT AS JPEG (at least) 150 dpi's option is not working properly

    PLEASE CHECK - it says 150 dpi's but the file is less. If I do the same in a previous version of illustrator, it is accepted.

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  2. Constant random crashing of application (version 29.5.1) with no obvious operation as the cause (on MacOS 15.5)

    I am experiencing random crashes in any file with the latest version of Illustrator (29.5.1) on the latest version of MacOS (15.5). | have also been having similar (although not as often) crashes in InDesign (again, latest version 20.3.1). Meanwhile, I see stories that you are about to increase the subscription prices for access to generative Al tools, while the stability of your software--the basic usability is in question. Not acceptable.

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  3. Copying (Ctrl+C) a Radial repeated object with a drop shadow causes crash

    Illustrator 29.61

    I was able to re-create the crash with the following steps:

    Create New Document.
    Create 5 basic shapes, group them.
    From the application menu, go to Object->Repeat->Radial and apply it to the group.

    Double click on the original group to isolate it, from the appearance panel add a fx drop shadow to the grouped object.
    Exit isolation.
    select the repeated group and copy it
    Crash.

    Playing around with this, the crash only occurs when you add the drop shadow after applying the radial repeat. The easy solution is to apply the drop shadow prior to applying the repeat.

    …

    3 votes

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  4. Linked transparency ignored in document color mode CMYK

    I've noticed that, at least as of Illustrator version 30.1, transparency in linked files is ignored while the document color mode is CMYK and the View Preview mode is GPU. It does not seem to matter if the original is in CMYK mode or not.

    To reproduce the issue, create two Illustrator documents. In the first, draw a few objects on the artboard, setting the transparency for a few of them to anything noticeably different, and save it as Test1.ai. On the second document, set the document color mode to RGB, set the View Preview mode to GPU, and place…

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  5. Drag and Drop lag

    Whenever dragging vector objects in a file, Illustrator lags, the waiting circle appears, and takes several seconds to place the object where I dropped it. Working becomes almost impossible when a simple task such as this takes this long. Illustrator 29.6.1, macOS Sequoia 15.6.

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  6. Add “...” to the menu items of the modal dialog

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    In macOS apps, it is customary to append “...” to menu items that require the user to perform additional actions after selecting the menu item (e.g., modal dialogs). This is found in the Human Interface Guidelines | Apple Developer Documentation.

    ![humaninterfaceguidelines.png](humaninterfaceguidelines.png)

    Illustrator 2025 (29.4) followed this rule, but Illustrator 2025 (29.5) has departed from this rule for a few items.

    • File > Generate Vectors
    • Object > Generate Vectors
    • Object > Gen Shape Fill

    ![menu.png](menu.png)

    The change should be allowed if it is intentional, but seeing that the other items still follow the rules, it…

    8 votes

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  7. I can't Knockout in a clip mask

    After asking my friend, I found that this problem seems to only exist on Mac systems.

    [p1] Establish a clipping mask group, check Knockout;

    [p2] Drawing shapes within the clipping mask group reduces transparency, but does not have the knockout effect.

    [p3] But if I remove the clipping group and change it to a regular group, I can achieve knockout effect.

    [p4] But previewing in the navigator panel is normal, and Transparency Flattener is also normal.

    This is what I discovered while knockout in the combining group, which made me very distressed because if combining and knockout at the same…

    2 votes

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  8. Image links broken in Illustrator 29.8 for different users

    We work as a team on Windows, files are linked from an area like "C:\Users\UserName\SharedDrive\" where the user name changes based on the team member.

    Illustrator 29.4 can handle this change. For example, if Jane and I are working on the same file, she can place a file with a link C:\Users\Jane\SharedDrive\file name.jpg, and when I open the file, Illustrator updates the link to C:\Users\Sarah\SharedDrive\file name.jpg with no issues.

    Jane updated to Illustrator 29.8.2 and suddenly all her links appear as missing on my computer. I tried also updating to 29.8.2 and links remained broken. We both downgraded to 29.4…

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  9. Create Gradient and Create Swatch Info don’t get played in actions

    Swatches panel’s flyout menu now has two new commands, Create Gradient and Create Swatch Info.
    When we try to record these into actions, they get added fine — but once played, nothing happens at all: no gradient gets built, no color legend appears on canvas.
    As always, these new additions don’t get integrated into the application enough... Please don’t abandon them!

    12 votes

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  10. Extremelly laggy experience

    I have i9 14th gen CPU, 64 GB Corsair vengeance RAM , a 5090 RTX.. still my illustrator lags like crazy... It runs 10X smoother in my mac with M1 pro chip and 16GB RAM! This is soo annoying, I loose hours daily because of this lag...

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  11. Undo Release Clipping Mask Does Nothing

    I recently noticed that if I unclip an object, by accident or necessity, that I cannot undo the step either through the menu Undo or Command key Undo.

    I can clip and Command-Z to unclip.
    I can manually unclip and Command-Z to reclip.
    If I clip, I Command-z to unclip and then Command + Option + Z to redo my last action and it will properly clip.

    But if I just manually unclip, and then use the Undo command to reclip it like it was? It doesn't work. Nothing happens and it moves on in the history.

    I am on…

    17 votes

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  12. 中韓フォントの文字組みを変更してもアキが変わらない

    フォント「思源黑體 TW」の文字組みを「なし」や「行末約物半角」などに変更しても、アキ量が変化しない現象がありました。
    上記現象が発生したバージョンは下記の通りです。

    OS:Windows 10 Pro
    Illustrator CC:V 29.1、V 29.2、V 29.3.1(V 29.2.1、V 29.3は調べてません)
    なお、V 29.0、V 28.7.3 は当該現象は発生していません。

    問題発生時の手順:

    ・スクリプトを使いCSVデータを読み込んで文字情報を取得、文字をイラストに書き込む
    ・文字入力後、フォント「思源黑體 TW」へ変更
    上記どちらでも問題が発生します。

    想定していた結果:
    添付をご参照ください。
     V29.0文字組み「なし」.png
     V29.0
    文字組み「行末約物半角」.png

    実際の結果:
    添付をご参照ください。
     V29.1文字組み「行末約物半角」.png
     V29.1
    文字組み「なし」.png
    この2つの全角、半角のアキが同じ(変化がない)となっております。
    (どれを選んでも「なし」と同じ状態です)

    他のフォント(下記)で試してみましたが、アキ量の変化は確認できました。

    ・源ノ角ゴシック JP
    ・A-OTF UD新ゴ Pr6N L
    ・メイリオ
    ・游ゴシック

    Illustratorフォーラムにも投稿し他の方にもご検証いただいたところ、日本語以外(繁体字、簡体字、ハングル)のフォントで同様の現象が起きているようです。
    また、InDesign20.1(2025)でも同様の現象が起きているようです。

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0-discussions/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88-%E6%80%9D%E6%BA%90%E9%BB%91%E9%AB%94-tw-%E3%81%AE%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E7%B5%84%E3%81%BF%E3%82%92%E5%A4%89%E6%9B%B4%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6%E3%82%82%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AD%E3%81%8C%E5%A4%89%E3%82%8F%E3%82%89%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84/td-p/15194115?profile.language=ja

    バグであれば是非ともご対応いただけると幸いです。
    よろしくお願いいたします

    8 votes

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  13. Printer and settings won't stay selected

    Every other update makes the default printer not stay saved and selected. I also use a custom setting to make the PDF shrink to fit and that does not stay selected either. With my job of designing proofs and sending them out, this makes a huge time waster to have to select the printer each time, click done and then click print again to get the printer settings to come up.

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  14. Copying selection in Layers panel no longer works

    Illustrator 29.5.1 on Mac Mini M4 running Sequoia 15.4.1: Dragging the colored square in the Layers panel from one layer to another with the Option key pressed no longer copies the selection to the new layer. It just moves it to the new layer.

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  15. Enough with the memory sucking "upgrades" already!

    Hey Adobe, you've already forced us all to pay more for your subscription based software model now, so maybe instead of focusing so ******* building memory sucking AI generative tools for people who aren't artists, you should provide a version for the folks who don't need all this new ****. Stop messing with perfectly good and functional software that real artists want to use! I can't even tell you how many times the recent releases have crashed and I lost all my work, it's incredibly frustrating! I have a new macbook pro that can handle the demand, so the problems…

    4 votes

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  16. Holding Shift ignores Snap to Grid when creating artboards

    When Snap to Grid is enabled, artboards now respect it, both when moved or get created... unless you hold Shift to constrain proportions when resizing or making it a square.

    Totally works for rectangles, I can see no reason to prevent artboards from behaving in a similar fashion.

    Here’s a somewhat similar request about these also misbehaving with smart guides:
    http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/46604530

    6 votes

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  17. Allow to change scale and precision, show/hide units for existing dimensions

    Once dimension is created, we can’t change some parameters of it: scale, precision, units displayed.
    We can open Dimension Tool Options and change these for NEW dimensions, but both Properties and Control don’t allow to modify existing ones.

    The only thing we can do is change these parameters, create a new dimension and then hit 'Apply to all' button in Quick Actions section in Properties (which should be a menu command as well: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/49010378) — but what if we don’t need to change ALL the dimensions, but only some?
    Another thing is to delete a dimension and recreated it…

    6 votes

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  18. Le matériau 3D se transforme en image lorsque j'enregistre et rouvre le fichier

    Quand je fais du 3d matière, quelque fois cela se transforme en lien une fois enregistrer, fermer et ouvert le fichier. Malheureusement je ne peux plus connaitre l'effet que j'ai réalisé et plus le copier

    1 vote

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  19. 割注指定の文字と通常の文字の間のカーニングおよびトラッキングができない

    「割注で2段に指定した文字」と「通常フォントサイズの文字」の字間をカーニングおよびトラッキングで広げることはできますが、詰めることができません。環境設定でトラッキング「100/1000em」で設定もしています。割注設定している文字の字間は詰めることはできるのですが…。

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  20. A width profile that is uneditable and rendered wrong

    Take a look at these two path; Illustrator says they have the same width profile, but it’s obviously not correct.
    If saved as Graphic styles — these do match.
    Paths match.
    Directions match (and simple reversing still looks different).
    The left-hand path cannot be edited with the native Width tool.

    I can edit these with Width Selector tool by Astute Graphics, but it makes the width changed in a different spot. Saving the style, clearing the appearance, reapplying the style — heals the bug. Deleting a leftmost segment... this keep the look the same (almost), but the bug gets healed…

    2 votes

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