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  1. 1 vote

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  2. Where to begin?

    The progression of Illustrator over the last 2 years has become maddening. Im sure this will never be read but having come to the end of my tether i need to say something somewhere. Firstly, at work, i use the same size image and format to start 99.9% of all my work. Yet every time i open illustrator, i have to put thoise dimensions in manually, in the recent section is just has 3 standard sizes (one of which is only ever used in the US, i am not in the US)

    Secondly, every time i open illustrator it reverts…

    1 vote

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  3. 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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  4. The grid doesn't show in the GPU view.

    The grid doesn't show in the GPU view.
    Appear temporarily, just while using the Pen tool.

    Illustrator (Desktop) 27.8.1
    macOS Ventura 13.5
    iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2020
    3.8 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i7
    AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 16 GB
    64 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

    1 vote

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  5. Envelope Distort, Layers, and Illustrator Performance Bug

    I've recently come across a bug with the envelope distortion tool. The bug happens when I use the Make with Warp effect on text. When this is applied, all the layers and sub-layers get frozen with no ability to see the thumbnail preview or to open or close any of the layers. This also affects the ability to hide or preview any layer, lock or unlock, and/or select anything in the layers.
    This also causes Illustrator to run very high ram while causing unresponsiveness and difficulty in processing and sometimes the inability to save files.

    So far, the work-a-rounds that…

    2 votes

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  6. Bullets are forced when pasting a text

    Please take a look at the GIF.
    I paste a text (using Paste without formatting) into a mixed selection, made with Select All command. The text has both bulleted and non-bulleted paragraphs.
    I expect it to NOT have bullets enabled, since the first paragraph in the selection does not have it.
    Instead, Illustrator forces bullets for the whole pasted text.

    8 votes

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  7. Horizontal Scroll **** + mouse wheel

    On mac OS, Illustrator version 27.8

    Scrolling horizontally using SHIFT key + mouse wheel, is broken, and appears to be an obvious mathematical error.

    Expected behaviour is for the view to scroll left or right.

    Actual behaviour is that is works at some zoom levels, say 300% or 400%, but at higher zoom levels it barely scrolls a few pixels, and at 100% or less, it scrolls the entire page or worse for the smallest increment of the mouse wheel.

    It seems clear that the zoom amount has been factored into the scroll amount inversely by accident.

    This is a…

    3 votes

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  8. Reopening files and all images have been rotated 90 degrees

    Reopening PDF files that have been worked on the day before and all images have been rotated 90 degrees.

    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz 3.70 GHz
    32GB RAM
    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super
    Windows 11 Pro (22H2)
    64-bit op system

    1 vote

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  9. Livetracing Bitmaps gives results with random shades of black

    Up until recently, if I used the Livetrace and Expand command on a bitmap it would produce results with only pure white and pure black, as you would expect. Now it randomly assigns values to every piece of what should be black. Instead of 100% black they are 99.29% or 99.67%. Normally I would select one piece, select all by color and move it. Now I need to click on every single piece and apply black to them. Very tedious.

    2 votes

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  10. Share does not support opacity mask

    The new Share for review does not display correct if there is opacity mask. I had open distressed texture tutorial from the Discover Panel and was eager to test Share for review … result was a black screen since this was below the group that had an opacity mask.

    I added other element they were visible but not the elements that had opacity mask. Releasing Opacity Mask and the review works as normal.

    2 votes

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  11. Deselect Artboards command and hotkey problem

    When you pick the Artboard Tool, you enter a special 'artboard mode', and it modifies the behavior of standard 'object mode' commands.

    For example, pressing Cmd/Ctrl + A (Select All) will select all artboards instead of objects.

    But for some reason pressing Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + A (Deselect All) does not deselect all artboards, but selects them all instead.
    And if I try to call it from the menu, it will deselect objects instead of artboards (if I have any object selected) or just be inactive (if I have no object selected).

    This is hardly consistent and makes deselecting artboards…

    11 votes

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  12. ライブペイントオブジェクトにオーバープリントブラックを適用した際の問題

    ライブペイントを適用したオブジェクトに対してオーバープリントブラックを適用するとライブペイント設定が消える。

    macOS11.6
    Illustrator CC2022以降

    再現手順
    1. 線や麺の組み合わせでライブペイントを作成し着色する。
    2. ライブペイントオブジェクトを選択し「編集→カラーを編集→オーバープリントブラック」を適用する。
    3. ライブペイントに対して指定した処理が消え、閉図形外で保持されていた線も幅0.5pt、K100の黒に変化する。

    期待する結果
    ライブペイントオブジェクトに対してオーバープリントした際、閉図形外のK100の線等以外にオーバープリント属性を適用せず、ライブペイントオブジェクトの状態を保持する。

    実際の結果
    ライブペイントオブジェクトに指定した塗りなどの情報が消え、元から持っている線幅等の情報も一定値に変化する。

    代替処理
    ライブペイントに対する「ブラックオーバープリント」は行わない。必要なオーバープリント指定は手動で指定するか、ライブペイントオブジェクト自体を拡張してから「ブラックオーバープリント」を適用する。

    7 votes

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  13. 2 votes

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  14. Text shifts when moving text frames which use Every-line Composer

    As per this thread at forums:
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/every-line-composer-bug-text-shifts-when-moving-text-frame/m-p/13992952

    Ai will recalculate justification each time a text frame with Every-line Paragraph Composer is nudged, either with arrow keys or dragging.

    Although it’s clearly just moving, and should not trigger recalculation, Ai does it (I can think only of one case when it should happen — when objects with Text Wrap enabled are present and intersecting the the moved object — and they aren’t and don’t).

    The text wobbles a bit and it's slow, to recalculate this every time.
    Why does it happen? InDesign does not do this.

    2 votes

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  15. GPU performance not detected (unavailable)

    AMD RX6800M: GPU Performance not detected by Illus, unavailable driver, not supported etc, while also the driver and the GPU appeared in the system information on Illus???
    Updated driver done, Reinstalled driver/programs done, forces use GPU done, meddling with performance done wtf???
    Number of Displays: 1
    Number of Drivers: 2
    Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
    Renderer: AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
    DXVersion: Unknown
    Active Display Name: \.\DISPLAY1
    PrimaryDisplayAdapterIndex: 0
    Display Adapter[0] VendorID: 1002
    Display Adapter[0] DeviceID: 1638
    Display Adapter[0] SubSysId: 16c21043
    Display Adapter[0] Revision: 196
    Display Adapter[0] DedicatedVideoMemory: 496
    Display Adapter[0] DedicatedSystemMemory: 0
    Display Adapter[0] SharedSystemMemory: 7887
    Display Adapter[0] Attached Monitors: \.\DISPLAY1
    Display…

    2 votes

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  16. Fail to export. Transparency: Other options?

    Illustrator fails to export artwork correctly when "Other Options" showing under Opacity in Appearance palette. This artwork was created via legacy 3d extrude. It was also 'pathfindered' and 'eyedroppered,' the latter with Appearance checked.

    Attaching screenshots showing state of palettes and result in legacy Save for Web dialog. Same result in Export for Screens. Also attaching source file.

    1 vote

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  17. "Selection" automatically jumping to "move" when clicking on an object and move action isn't retained

    Adobe Illustrator Version: 27.7
    Operating System: Mac OS Ventura 13.4.1

    Regardless of the file I'm working in, when I use my selection tool to select an object, upon moving my cursor the object starts moving like I'm clicking and dragging it (this is after tapping once on the object and letting go on the track pad). Then, when I move the object and click on the trackpad again, the object moves back to its original position and Illustrator makes an error alert noise.

    I have uninstalled Illustrator a few times, downloaded older versions from CC, and restarted my machine numerous…

    1 vote

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  18. Illustrator desktop version 27.8 Error message [UKCO] after update on 8-3-2023

    I get the following error message upon starting up Illustrator desktop.
    "The operation cannot complete because of an unknown error. [UKCO]"
    The app opens and I can create a new doc but the message keeps popping up.
    For now I'm reverting back to a previous version.

    27 votes

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  19. HEX References don't copy first time when you click on them!

    It's a new bug. But every time I click on the HEX panel in the Color palette, and press 'CMD+C' to copy, it deselects it the first time I do it, so every time I have to do it again. IT'S INFURIATINGLY TIME-WASTING.

    A similar thing happens in Photoshop, when you click on the 'Opacity' in the top of the layer palette. When you clicked on the word 'Opacity' it used to highlight the percentage so you could type your own, or 'Shift+down-arrow or 'Shift+up-arrow' to increase or decrease the opacity, or just type your own in. This doesn't happen…

    2 votes

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  20. Illustrator often fails to build a smooth blend for paths with mismatched number of anchors

    Take a look at the file attached and watch the images attached.
    Two curves are blended: one has 4 anchors, another one has 5 anchors.
    The blend Ai build has weird irregular slits in the middle.

    If you expand the blend and select problematic anchors, you’ll see that positions are correct, but some handles get interpolated wrongly.

    This happens often in many other scenarios.
    The current workaround is to add more points to blend, trying to guess and control which point get paired with another.
    Another workaround is to cut curves in pieces and blend in chunks.

    13 votes

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