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)
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Training videos do not open
I have just started to use AI and I want to watch every training video which is provided. Unfortunately, when I click any of them, just blank page comes and I cannot do anything else.
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Illustrator crashes if you search in the file explorer to relink/change image
Windows 10 Pro (22H2)
Illustrator 28.0 (64 bit)When you try to relink/change an image you get the file explorer window.
Then you click on the search box and it freezes, only option is to cancel and return to Illustrator, but the program is frozen and the only solution is to kill it via the Task Manager.1 vote -
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…
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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 -
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.
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Error with app.executeMenuCommand('Adobe Stroke Palette')
en_US
In the Japanese version of Adobe Illustrator, when I execute a script that selects the Window > Stroke menu, an error occurs. It executes correctly in the English (North America) version.
![mrap.png](mrap.png)
Script to Execute
try { app.executeMenuCommand('Adobe Stroke Palette') ; } catch(e) { alert(e) ; }
Actual Result
The following error occurs.
エラー: an Illustrator error occurred: 1346458189 ('MRAP')
Expected Result
Stroke panel is displayed.
Steps to Reproduce
- Uninstall any non-Japanese version of Adobe Illustrator that is installed
- Launch Creative Cloud.app and set "Default install language" to Japanese in the Preferences
- Install and launch Adobe Illustrator
- Execute the…
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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 -
Dragging Pallets from monitors with different magnifications causes problems
I have two monitors on my desktop. Both are 4K but one is set to magnification 100% and the other set to 175% for easy reading. When I run Illustrator on the 100% monitor and the pallets slip over to the 175% monitor, the pallets enlarge to 175%. Dragging them back to the 100% monitor leaves them at 175% magnification (which is much bigger than everything else).
The magnified pallet still takes up the size of the regular un-magnified pallet, but the contents are too big to work and there are no scrollbars. So the Pallet boundaries are resized, but…
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Plugin menu items in Select menu appear above saved selections without a divider
Plugins can add their own menu commands in different menus.
Specifically in Select menu, they get treated weirdly.Normally, without any plugins installed, the bottom of Select menu looks fine, like this:
Save Selection...
Edit Selection...
Update Selection ← this is a new command added recently
<end of menu>When at least one saved selection is added, Ai adds a horizontal separator and list saved selection under it:
Save Selection...
Edit Selection...
Update Selection
————————————————
My Amazing Selection
<end of menu>Again, descent.
But with plugins onboard it looks like the attached image.
All plugin items are placed under the…4 votes -
Registration point and boundaries of a certain symbol jump when a document is opened
- Open the attached document (and review the steps from the GIF)
- 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
- Double click the second symbol to edit it
- The symbol opens and jumps into the middle of its giant boundaries, and the registration point moves as well
- Exit the mode
- The symbol is now displayed in its intended place, has normal boundaries, has the registration point in the same place, has a normal thumb...
- ...but if you make other changes in a doc,…
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Hidden clipping mask still contributes to exported image
I had a design with two clippings mask applied to it, for layout and previewing purposes.
When time to export a final image comes, I hide the top-level smaller one, and leave the larger one at the bottom to clip my design.But when I review the exported image, I realize Illustrator removed the some elements of the design, despite me seeing them on canvas. It took a live brush and deleted some parts of it even!
Take a look at the file attached.
1. Open it
2. Study the layer structure, notice a hidden clipping mask. Note the design…3 votes -
1 vote
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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…
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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.
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The ignoreWhite property of tracingOptions does not work
Illustrator v 28.0 - Image Trace option check box for Ignore White has been replaced with Ignore Color and an eyedropper option. While I think this is a good addition for manual use, it appears to have somewhat broken the ability to use image trace properly in javascript as the change has made the original "tracingOptions.ignoreWhite = true" no longer work. I suspect there is now an additional option/variable responsible for the color to be ignored's selection but it doesnt appear to be refferenced in any of the current documentation. I've tried adding the method for Abutting (also undocumented) as…
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Enormément de latence
Je rencontre des problèmes avec illustrator. Mon ordinateur est équipé de Windows 10 et d'une carte graphique NVIDIA RTX A4500 à jour. Depuis la version 28.0 de l'application, celle-ci met beaucoup de temps à se lancer et lorsque cela se produit, je n'arrive pas à accéder à l'écran d'accueil où je peux choisir le type de plan de travail que je souhaite utiliser. Je suis contraint d'ouvrir directement un fichier depuis mon explorateur de fichiers, sinon l'application ne fonctionne pas. De plus, une fois que j'ai ouvert un fichier, il y a un temps de latence d'au moins 30 secondes,…
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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.
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1 vote
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Illustrator gets minimized when toolbars get touched at Mac Sonoma 14.1, with application frame disabled
By updating to MacOS 14.1, In Illustrator 2024 28.00, as soon as you touch the toolbars, they disappear. Keeping the "Application Pane" active does not give the error. Can it be solved. A thousand thanks!
23 votesApple has seemingly fixed the problem with their MacOS version. Please update to check if this get it resolved for you.
Comment back if it still happens for you with MacOS 14.1.1 update installed.
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Erratic Page numbering in 'Show Print Tiling'
When printing a large artwork covering several A4s, the page numbering after selecting 'Show Print Tiling' is erratic. As you can see in the attached file, there's two times 25 and 27, but 21 and 26 are missing. This is an issue if you want to avoid printing blank pages. I have to manually count to get the correct page number.
1 vote
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