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  1. Dialogue Boxes not opening

    I am running Illustrator 26.5 on macOS Montery 12.6 and no dialogue boxes are opening. I have to restart Illustrator in order to save, export, etc. Once I force quit, if a file has been recovered, when I got to save that file, Illustrator crashes, and I am unable to save (as the cycle just continues).

    2 votes
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  2. Inconsistent units

    This has been a bug for a long time. Can we have consistent units shown throughout the palettes? Preference is set to mm but palettes show px.

    13 votes
    6 comments  ·  Other...  ·  Admin →
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  3. 26.5 Can not change text box's language in the Character Panel

    When I highlight text or select a textbox I can not change the language in the dropdown menu located in the character panel. When I am editing, all my textboxes and either English: USA or Ukrainian and I can not change them. My default is English: USA but for some reason half of my text is labeled Ukrainian and the Auto Spellchecker is saying every English word is misspelled.

    1 vote
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  4. v26.5 on Mac OSX is very slow, generally.

    v26.x is generally way slower than v25.4.8, but some features, like freeform gradient, are unusably slow. It takes couple of seconds to recalculate even a simple gradient with just 3-4 points. Same goes with applying wariable width stroke profile to multiple objects or a nested group. In 25.4.8 those tasks are instantaneous, in 26.5 they can even cause "spinning beach ball of doom" and take minutes to resolve.

    MacMini 2018, OSX Catalina

    1 vote
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  5. Text center alignment off

    I'm on the most up-to-date version of Illustrator (26.5). Whenever I try to center text within a box, the x and y coordinates are slightly off for the text. For example, say my box is at 100.5 px on the x-axis and 100.5 px on the y-axis. When I center the text over the box (using Align Objects tool), the text box coordinates are 100.6904 px, 101.2729 px. Before I updated Illustrator, the text coordinates would always match the box coordinates. Even though the numbers are only off slightly, it is visibly noticeable that the text isn't perfectly aligned.

    2 votes
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  6. Copy and Paste Appearance into Photoshop Not working

    Update: I just noticed that this problem only occurs when I've applied the appearance effect to the entire layer as opposed to each individual stroke.

    When I edit a brush stroke appearance on illustrator, that appearance doesn't carry over when pasting into Photoshop like it used to. I've tried turning on ACIB preserve appearance, but that doesn't work. The only workaround is if I expand the brush stroke (which is getting tiresome because I do this quite often).

    Another issue: When working on one layer with multiple brush strokes, I attempted to expand that one stroke, but every single stroke…

    1 vote
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  7. Right align does not work with right justified text

    When text is right justified, the right align tool does not align the text properly.

    1 vote
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  8. Illustrator changes Tiny SVG headers

    (1.) Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0.19042 and Illustrator 26.5
    (2.) open file, then "save as" > SVG Tiny 1.2
    (3.) SVG header contains: xmlns:x="&nsextend;" xmlns:i="&nsai;" xmlns:graph="&ns_graphs;"
    (4.) previous SVG Tiny 1.2 headers never contained the xmlns information in (3.)
    (5.) see uploaded files

    Please do not advise me on how to use (or not use) SVG files. It is just about the program (Illustrator) changing its settings for SVG headers.

    1 vote
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  9. Localization bug with variable font panel

    As shown, this is a variable font with 3 axes, the second axis is named "Italic", but it is incorrectly displayed as a localized text. I'm sure there is no localized name for this axis in the font file.

    The font file can be downloaded from here: https://symphosizer.wearecollins.com/fonts/ABCSymphonyDisplayVariable.ttf

    1 vote
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  10. Overprint Preview + Show Grid + canvas matching color = white canvas

    If you turn Overprint preview on, enable grids, and set the canvas color to match the UI brightness (in Preferences > User Interface), you get a white canvas instead of usual and expected dark.

    Turning grid off makes it filled with the matching color again.

    It makes SOME sense, but does not really help with anything and makes some users wonder about 'how to fix it'.

    10 votes
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  11. When a plugin is removed, the toolbar which had its tool gets completely empty

    If for some reason I get a plugin removed form the Plugins folder, Ai wipes the entire tool panel which had the tool associated with the removed plugin.

    Even worse — when a plugin is returned back to the folder, Ai won’t restore the panel! It stays completely broken and empty. Each next launch Ai seemingly restores it, but the next launch it’s empty again. Resaving the panel does not help.

    So you have to rely on backups — manual backups, because, again, Ai fails at properly backing up these automatically.

    9 votes
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  12. When a crash happens, the Recent Files lists get reset to the state they had on launch

    File > Open Recent Files list and a Recent files at home screen don’t get recorded somewhere safe as soon as a document gets opened.

    So each time Illustrator crashes (and sadly it’s a ordinary way and the only reason for Illustrator to get relaunched), both lists get lost — Illustrator shows them in the state they had when the program was closed successfully.

    Illustrator should update and store these lists as soon as they change and don’t loose them on crash.

    20 votes
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  13. apply shadow effect on this file, the app crashes

    whenever i use and effect (shadow) in this file the computer automatically crashes.

    been doing a file that it includes this chart, but whenever I save the file,
    it automatically crashes. all of my work is lost.

    even the technician encounters the same thing

    1 vote
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  14. Delete Artboards command can’t be recoded in actions

    You can’t force Illustrator to record a deletion of artboards in an action, whatever method you use — a button in the panel, a panel’s menu, with or without Insert Menu Item workaround.
    How stupid is this.

    EVERYTHING is Illustrator should be recordable.

    11 votes
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  15. Voreinstellungen fehlerhaft dargestellt

    Hallo!

    Meine Voreinstellungen erscheinen fehlerhaft. Es wird nur ein kleines Fenster geöffnet und ich kann nichts wirklich erkennen, auswählen oder ändern.

    Gibt es Lösungen dazu?

    Gruß, Anna

    4 votes
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  16. Font weight lost in SVG export

    When exporting to SVG the code seems to have lost the font weight atribute. We are exporting in bold and the old epxort used to include the code font-weight="700". The new code has ommited the font weight.

    2 votes
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  17. Cursor won’t change when a tool is picked using keyboard shortcuts

    Selected tool icons do not change when using keyboard shortcuts. For example: zooming in (Z) and then selecting Direct Selection (A) keeps the zoom icon, which is disconcerting to say the least. You're not sure you've selected the correct tool, or have to click the mouse to make sure (doing so resets the icon to the correct tool).

    I've noticed it on 26.5. I rolled-back to 26.4.1 and experienced it there too. I'm running a new MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021), Apple M1 Max chip 32 GB.

    I've attached screenshots of various tools that fail to switch.

    39 votes
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  18. Share for Review Greyed Out

    I used Share for Review in Beta a number of times successfully last week on a few proofs but I just opened a file to use it again and the feature is now greyed out, as is the option to open a window for "Comments".

    I have reverted back to the regular Illustrator to continue using this feature but preferred the Beta, as the regular version requires you to upload the file and assets to CC cloud and the proof quality is terrible. The Beta, when it was working, was more consistent with how the feature works in InDesign but…

    1 vote
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  19. File overwrites without warning when exporting to PNG

    When you Export a file as a PNG, check the "Use Artboards" and select a specific artboard, Illustrator overwrites your file without warning. This is not consistent with exporting to SVG.

    2 votes
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  20. Object with gradient glitches when applied opacity - multiply

    RGB mode preview glitches on object's multiply blend mode.

    Illustrator v26.5

    1 vote
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