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  1. Buggy lines from tool windows

    When I expand some tool windows to the work area the drop shadow from the window remains when the window is closed. This shadow is persistent when I close Illustrator and it is seen over all programs and desktop. It even persists when I restart explorer.

    The only pattern I seem to find is that it only appears with the toolwindows popping up from the "More options" buttons.

    Is it possible this is problem with Illustrator itself of should I search elsewhere for a solution? I have never had this problem before with any other software after year and years…

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  2. Application Frame menu please for Windows Illustratör-Indesign-Photoshop!

    Illustrator, InDesign Application Frame menu please.

    Illustrator, InDesign, MacOS operating system in Photoshop has Application Frame menu.

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  3. Improve Large Complex File Handling

    Performance with large files is sluggish & frequently enters the "Not Responding" state. This wastes my time & causes frustration. Files with this behavior include those with many linked or embedded images or complex vector graphics such as expanded brush strokes. However, I cannot find an explanation for this slowness. During these periods, my total RAM usage does not go above 40% & CPU usage does not go above 20%. GPU usage spikes to 100% occasionally but quickly returns to near 0% so this does not seem to be the cause. Opening & saving files takes a very long time…

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  4. Type tool broken - insists on being anything but normal type

    Unable to select the regular type tool. I get type on a path. This is a deal breaking flaw.

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  5. tools & palette windows keep blipping in and out

    Every other click, all of my palettes that I have open will blip off, then I have to click somewhere on the document to get them to blip back up again. Every. Other. Click! How can anyone draw with this going on?

    Coworkers and I all working on same IMacs with most recent OS Mojave and just updated to 23.0.4 this morning and its still happening. Please fix it.

    Far and away, I have been using Illustrator since 2.0, seriously, and it just gets less and less reliable with every update. Very disappointing.

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  7. Characters in Type on a Path appear rotated

    When trying to type on a path around a circle, the preview shows the letters rotating abnormally, but when converting the text to outlines or printing the type, it corrects itself. Would be fine, but I can't design what I need without the preview first.

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  8. Color slider don’t work with touchbar

    Colors behavior on touchbar mac powerbook pro doesn’t work.
    I change the color sliders, but don’t get any color.

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  9. X and Y in values in the transform don’t reflect the position of 2x identical boxes, -they are in obviously different position on alert boar

    X and Y in values in the transform don’t reflect the position of 2x identical boxes, -they are in obviously different position on the art board...the reading is incorrect. It’s up to me to manually manage the alignment. I tried using ALIGN, The align option is useless. I HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR AGES. I always trusted the the NUMBERS, BUT NOT LATELY. The X and Y readings in transform are NOT TO BE TRUSTED. Hence great stress. Please FIX the BUG. LOST MY FAITH ..., I wish I could go Back to OLD BUT STABE CS6...CS6, CS6*. …

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  10. initializing Creative Cloud Libraries

    Something went wrong. Libraries frequently states "Something went wrong initializing Creative Cloud Libraries".

    I have to frequently restart creative cloud (CRTL+ALT+R).

    I will be working on a PDF(with cloud working), save exit PDF, open PDF only to find i cannot access my cloud files. Super annoying!

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  11. Illustrator have weird display problem halfway during my work.

    I've recording down what had happen to my AI recently. I have no idea why this happen, and i don't know the keyword to search for an answer to solve this problem so I decided to post it here. This had happen a lot recently almost everyday and at least happen twice or thrice a day. This had already happen for at least one or two weeks. And the properties panel also is unviewable because everything is squishing together, unviewable and unuseable. (for the properties panel unviewable problem, I didn't get the chance to took a picture before Ai crashed.)…

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  12. Unable to set maximum number of files to be opened

    Upon opening program, error displays "Unable to set maximum number of files to be opened." I did research suggesting to open terminal and typing "$ ulimit" but I get "unlimited" as the output. The forum then suggested to report this bug here.

    System: Mac Pro Late 2013
    OS: Mac OS Mojave (10.14.4)
    Product: Adobe Illustrator CS6, part of the Design Web Premium Suite

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  13. Settings in French / préférences en français

    Ai 23.0.3
    Win 7 Pro x64
    Xeon E5-1650 v3 / 80 Go RAM / SSD 256 Go 850 Pro

    TRANSLATION
    We can't read 2 settings completely, too many characters.
    1 option is too short: Rayons d'arrondis, for this one, the tooltip is helpful. Previous version of Ai use: Mettre à l'échelle les ... and it was better for to understand.

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  14. Heavy upload to adobe.io (amazon) without files opened

    During one week I left Illustrator opened.
    During this week, Illustrator upload 21 Gb of data!

    How that's possible?
    What data?

    My post in public forum:
    https://forums.adobe.com/message/11085595

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  15. Distribute Anchor Points not always working

    When all Anchor Points of a Path are selected, Ai automatically assummes an Object selection, stopping the possibility to make use of the Distribute Anchor Points function.

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  17. ILLUSTRATOR 2019 IS NOT WORKING!!! I CANT WORK!!!!

    WTF!!! updated system, creative cloud... ALL!!! and I can't work on illustrator!!! PLUS HOW MANY ILLUSTRATOR ARE FCKING being installed???? I have THREE in my dock!!!

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  18. Direct Selection tool not working correctly after image trace

    After using the image trace tool and selecting either high or low fidelity, sometimes the direct selection tool stops working correctly. Although you can still use it, it doesn't highlight the points when you actually click on an object. Once you create a new project it works but it stays broken in the old project forever.

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  19. Gradient Annotator tool is not visible for some objects but it is for others

    Gradient Annotator tool is not visible for some objects but it is for others

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  20. swatches are not saving

    My swatches are not saving to my library after closing the program and have to remake them. My brushes are doing the same thing. They are also not there when I open a new document during the same session that I have made/saved the new swatch or brush. I looked to update my program but it appears to be up to date.

    I have adobe illustrator cc 2019

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