Offset path not working 1 in 20 cases. When I type a word, expand it and then try to create an offset path, I cannot turn the preview of the offset path. When this happens and I confirm the offset path, I cannot ungroup the the original text and the offset path. When I try to ungroup it, the text becomes the original again. It is very frustrating. I've tried to turn of the GPU preview, I have turned off my mac several times and I have reinstalled the Illustrator itself. Nothing seems to work. I used the offset path a lot of times without crashing, now I cannot use it anymore. Thanks for your time and help.

I have a Macbook air M1 with MacOs Monterey 12.2.1, Illustrator up to date 26.2.1 and for months I had been having an issue that happens anytime, when I want to Save as a file nothing happens or when I want to open a file directly from Illustrator nothing happens as well. And when it's a new file without a name it only let me saves it to Cloud when I close the doc. And whenever this inconvenient happen I have to close illustrator a re-open again the program and it's annoying because I'm waisting time and also I had lost work too. I had try several times to uninstall re install illustrator, keep updating my software and the program as well but it keeps happening all the time is just like it works fine for a moment and then it happens and it doesn't let me save my work. Can you please help fix this issue, I'll really appreciate. Thank you!

Illustrator 2022 (26.2.1) freezes for up to 5 minutes when GPU Preview is enabled on file load, zoom, switch. The CPU usage rises to 99% during the freeze and a system level interruption is observed at the end of the freeze that lasts up to 10 seconds. A memory leak takes place after every freeze even after all files are closed. Only closing Illustrator entirely releases de the abnormally allocated memory. CPU Preview is not affected by this.

The tested systems are:

Setup 1:

Windows 11 64-bit, 21H2, 22000.652
Intel Core i7-9700F
32 GB RAM - DDR4-2666 - Dual Channel
Nvidia Geforce RTX 2060 6GB - Nvidia Studio Driver 512.59
3840 x 2160 / 10bpc @ 60Hz
512 GB SSD NVME 1500 MB/s

Setup 2:

Windows 11 64-bit, 21H2, 22000.652
Intel Core i7-11800H
16 GB RAM - DDR4-3200 - Dual Channel
Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 Mobile 6GB - Nvidia Studio Driver 512.59
3072 x 1920 / 8bpc @ 60Hz
1024 GB SSD NVME 3000 MB/s

If I copy the art in one document and paste it into another document, I will get the "Save changes to the AI document before closing?" prompt when I attempt to close the document from which the art has been copied, even though I have made no changes.

AI never used to do this to my recollection. It's a nuisance and causes doubts when I've been distracted from one task, only to come back and have to verify whether any changes have actually been made.

The majority of the time, no changes have been made but to be on the safe side, I have to verify each time.

Normally if you open an SVG file with an image xlink:href pointing to a ai/pdf file it links and shows the file where the image is. However, if that image is inside a symbol (I found some issues with <defs> too) it does not link and is missing entirely.

Broken:

<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" viewBox="0 0 400 400">
    <use xlink:href="#symbol" width="400" height="400" />
    <symbol id="symbol" viewBox="0 0 400 400" >     
        <image width="400" height="400" xlink:href="linked.pdf" opacity=".4" />
        <image width="400" height="400" xlink:href="linked.png" opacity=".4" /> 
    </symbol>
</svg>

Working:

<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" viewBox="0 0 400 400">
    <image width="400" height="400" xlink:href="linked.pdf" opacity=".4" />
    <image width="400" height="400" xlink:href="linked.png" opacity=".4" /> 
</svg>

MacOs Monterey 12.0.1
Adobe Illustrator 26.2.1

When you hover over a swatch or tool & leave the cursor there for a second, the name of the swatch/tool always showed along with keyboard shortcuts for many of the tools.

I was searching the Pantone colors & two colors came up. Rather than just one quick step, I had to do several.

What should happen:
I hover the cursor over the colors for a second to see which was which. Then I pick the one I was looking for.

What happens now:
I hover the cursor over the colors & nothing shows up. I had to click on the swatch, then open the color window & see which one it is.

For someone who uses Illustrator most of the day every day for work, this is really annoying & messes up my workflow. I'm also trying to explore & get used to the new version of Illustrator. Little stuff like this creates soooooooo much frustration.

The Find/Replace function is not replacing the string I am requesting. Maybe one or two items of many will change.

We work with hundreds of serial numbers at a time, and the working function is
essential to timely delivery of our services. We depend on this to change several serial prefixes at a time. Now I have to individually change each single serial number manually instead of just Finding/Replacing the prefix.
What is going on with this product? I've never had so many glitches to deal with until this product (latest version) went to Cloud. Please, please let us go
back to an earlier version/set-up. I do not have time for this.