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  1. 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.

    1 vote
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  2. 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!

    2 votes
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  3. 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…

    1 vote
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  4. 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.

    1 vote
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  5. 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…

    1 vote
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  6. 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)

    1 vote
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  7. 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.

    1 vote
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  8. 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…
    1 vote
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  9. 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…

    2 votes
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  10. 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,…
    2 votes
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  11. 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

    1 vote
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  12. 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…

    1 vote
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  13. Freezing when copying object

    Whenever I copy or cut an object (shapes, mostly) Illustrator freezes. Sometimes for 30+ seconds.

    Windows 10. 32GB memory. It only started doing this a few months back, and it's getting worse.

    1 vote
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  14. Illustrator 27.9 introduces severe choppiness when panning with fingers on trackpad rather than Hand tool

    When panning with the Hand tool, performance remains intact and panning is smooth. When using trackpad or mouse to move the canvas, frame rate is severely low, 10 fps, even on an empty document. This is a new issue that has existed in the past but had been resolved sometime in the past year or two.

    Using a MacBook Pro with M2 Max 38-core GPU running macOS Ventura 13.5.2, the latest as of now.

    This issue reduces efficiency and hampers productivity, making it unpleasant to navigate small documents and impossible to navigate large ones with multiple dartboards.

    Uninstalling and re-installing…

    2 votes
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  15. Illustrator (still) cannot read TIF files.

    When can we remedy this? I cannot open or place a TIF file in Illustrator 27.6.1. The error message is the file is an unknown format and can't be opened.

    There are reports on this page still open from 2021. When will this be fixed?

    I have several TIFs from a museum to lay out for printing and I'm having to individually bring them all in to photoshop and export them as a different format.

    3 votes
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  16. Arrow keys just stop working in Illustrator 2023 Mac

    Since the last update to 27.7 on my Mac (Monterey 12.6.7), the arrow keys just stop working, andI have to quit and relaunch Illustrator to get them to work again.

    1 vote
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  17. Abnormal selection after executing an action in a script.

    According to the person in the know, this has been occurring since version 25.4; it was normal in 25.2.x.
    When an action to duplicate an object is created and executed by specifying the action in the script function doScript(), the execution completes with the duplicated object and the original object selected at the same time.

    Although it is logical to perform all processing in scripts, there are situations where it is unavoidable in the process.
    In addition, this is clearly an abnormal situation.
    We would like to see an improvement.

    Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

    〈にほんご / Japanese〉
    スクリプトでアクションを実行後、選択範囲が異常

    識者によれば、バージョン25.4以降で発生している。25.2.xでは正常だったとのこと。…

    10 votes
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  18. Can't open document in which high dpi pictures are linked or embedded on apple silicon

    Can't open document in which high dpi pictures are linked or embedded on apple silicon

    Files for replicating bug : https://we.tl/t-P3NRtsd0Ue
    or https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/973a7a70-f913-472a-64d1-474ceb6b6959

    Procedure to replicate bug : Open “ImportFileInside.ai” on Mac studio M1 (apple silicon) machine and change the links inside from “FileLowDPI.ai” file to “FileHighDPI.ai” file. It doesn’t work and show an error message but works on Intel based Macs.

    4 votes
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  19. Enter key does not commit a change in a panel / dialog / field

    Transparency panel in Appearance window does not react on Enter in Illustrator 27.0

    After the latest update, this bug is spotted. In Appearance window -> Opacity panel (either stroke or fill) -> enter desired opacity -> hit Enter/CR -> no reaction (expected: apply value and close the Opacity panel). The TAB button however still works (the value applies). Other panels work as they should and react Enter correctly.

    OS: Mac OS 13.

    20 votes
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    Completed (Comments Open)  ·  AdminAnkit Goyal(Illustrator Team) (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    I am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our latest release – 27.0.1 which is available worldwide now.

    Going forward, our goal is to fix as many top User-Voice bugs as possible and as frequently as possible. Given the nature of the fixes, some of the bugs will take a longer time to fix, but we are on it.

    You can update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html

    Thank you for all the feedback. Keep it coming!

    Ankit Goyal

    Illustrator Team

  20. Pfadwerkzeug

    Das Pfadwerkzeug funktioniert bei mir nicht,es kann nicht angeklickt werden da es grau ist, es funktioniert nur das Pfadwerkzeug Vertikal jedoch benötige ich das "normale" Pfadwerkzeug. Arbeite am Laptop.

    1 vote
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