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  1. in Illustrator 22.1 clicking the button that resets the workspace does NOTHING. It looks like my "normal screen mode" is broken. Adobe illu

    Your bug reporting experience stinks! Tiny window to compose my message in, having to do a huge amount of scrolling. Your company culture is going south with probably Marketing managers driving these bad decisions...

    Koen, UX Director at my company, 60 seats

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  2. Ilustrator Crashes when printing to laser cutter.

    Hello,
    I typically use illustrator to print to our Epilog Mini Helix 24" Laser Cutter/Engraver. When printing, you go into setup, select the laser, then go into it's preferences to configure laser-specific settings. When you hit "Print" it sends the files to software provided by Epilog: Job Manager.

    This is an annoyingly repeatable problem, as I am not able to laser cut anything from Illustrator. It crashes every time.

    However, in the past couple days this has suddenly stopped working. No matter what file I try to send to the job manager, the whole program crashes when I hit "Print."…

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    I am closing the ticket due to lack of response.
    Please get in touch with us at sharewithai@adobe.com or any of the other support channels – helpx.adobe.com/support.html . Please give a reference to this post so that we can identify you.

    Thanks
    Anish Kumar
    Illustrator Team

  3. Isolation mode only works for a sub-group when double-clicked, option greyed out on right-click dropdown

    I have the latest version of CC. I have a simple group containing a filled path and a more complex sub-group of objects. I can right-click the whole group and isolate it from the rest of the document by selecting "Isolate Selected Group" from the right-click dropdown, but when I try to further isolate the more complex group inside, the option on the right-click dropdown is greyed out.

    Typically I prefer to have the "Double Click to Isolate" deselected from the General Preferences because I often mistakenly enter Isolation Mode when I don't want to be because I've accidentally double-clicked…

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  4. Windows 7 Suddenly has Multiple Issues with Illustrator

    Creative Cloud in Windows 7 - The start window no longer displays the correct recently used files. The program locks up unexpectedly and once locked will not allow me to save my work. I must use the Task Manager to get out of the program and then start over from the last saved point.

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  5. Failure to Generate opaque color on shape layering

    WinOS10

    When working in illustrator the artwork appears correct. When I go to export contents to jpeg illustrator incorrectly generates a semi-transparent result when I look at the jpeg file. This is incorrect and I'm claiming this as a bug since I don't see this when rendered in illustrator. The result does not match rendered image.

    Example 1 is a snip of a portion of the image from inside illustrator. Note that the shape lettering is opaque as expected. When I go to export to a jpeg I end up with a shape that is now semi-transparent...a big no-no.

    Please…

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  6. freezes when drawing objects

    Whenever I try and draw an new shape or object illustrator freezes. I have tried updating, uninstalling and reinstalling and nothing has fixed the problem. Have to force close the program to leave.

    macOS X version Yosemite 10.10.5
    Illustrator CC 2017

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  8. Problem rasterising unicode-named spot colors

    If you make a spot color named not in English, assign it to a path and then try to rasterize it with "keep spot colors" option checked, the rasterized image will miss that spot color. It will be converted to process colors instead.

    Renaming it to English name immediately fixes the problem. Adding a single non-English letter (I tried Russian) returns it back.

    This can be easily tested with separation preview panel that hides unused spot colors. Tested on Mac with the latest Illustrator, also tried on older Illustrator CC - behaviour is the same.

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  9. Basic functions not working in Illustrator. Shapes don't have the "smart circles" to resize objects. Working in current version on CC

    All of a sudden with a current Mac upgrade Illustrator has gone south. Drawing shapes now doesn't allow for smart reshaping, can't select paths, some files just won't allow ANY changes at all. Working on current CC version, 2018

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  10. Tools all become 'locked' requiring reboot (of Illustrator, not OS)

    Windows 10, March 2018 Illustrator (latest).

    This has happened maybe five or six times now, I think only since the latest update, apparently random occurrence (or I can't spot a common theme). Working on an unlocked layer, all drawing tools get a 'not available' symbol next to them. Can select objects in the layers panel but nowhere else. The only fix is to restart Illustrator - just closing and reopening the document (or indeed another document) does not unlock the tools.

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  11. Registered trademark glyph gets randomly swapped to its alternate in text with Gotham Medium font applied when navigating the document

    Weird Glyph problem going on. Basically we have registered "R"s on our artworks, and on some occasions the glyph is applying superscript to the superscript "R" making it half the size it should be. Font is Gotham Medium using CC 2018 macOS High Sierra, Suitcase Fusion. Even weird that its changing when I scroll around the artwork to the smaller "R"? any ideas as I'm lost. This was happening also in CC 2017

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  12. new document screen missing options in illustrator windows 10

    Illustrator new document screen missing loads of options on windows 10. only showing mobile web and print profiles no video etc. Also recent items missing

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  13. corrupted image shown on screen

    Im working and every time I move an object around the image gets corrupted, I need to zoom in or zoom out, but its impossible, it looks like pieces are missing from the vector images. I just bought a newMac book pro, in my previous computer I did not had this issue. Please fix it its impossible to work like this

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  14. Linked Files

    When placing a linked file, it only shows the first artboard no matter which one I select.

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  15. When corner radius is set to 0px, it reverses to 3px

    I have a rectangle, with 3px rounded corners. But when I try to set it to 0px for one specific corner, it is reverted to 3px (not in the input field, only on the look of the rectangle).

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  16. Illustrator File Loading Problem

    When opening a file Illustrator makes the program window really small then loads the entire file before giving the error message "Not enough room for the document to open" this is extraordinarily inefficient and very embarrassing when sitting with a client, especially seeing as though they are being charged for the time!

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  17. Screen rendering issue w/ Illustrator CC 22.1

    If I have the "GPU Performance" enabled, my screen goes crazy with just glitches and artifacts everywhere. As soon as I deactivate the GPU rendering, everything is going to be normal again.

    My specs :
    Macbook Pro 15" mid 2014
    2,8 Ghz Intel Core i7
    16 Gb ram
    mac OS 10.11.6
    NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB

    I use a dual monitor setup (laptop + an external 23" 1080p monitor). The issue described above only occurs on my 23" (non retina) monitor. I found a temporary trick: I have to drag the affected window on my laptop screen (where everything…

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  18. Start-up speed

    Illustrator takes 7 seconds to launch on an M.2 SSD - as I have to relaunch the application multiple times during the day to improve performance and reset a number of bugs, this is not really a speedy enough launch time and it needs improving.

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  19. no es posible establecer el numero máximo de archivos que se deben abrir

    Al abrir mi Illustrator me aparece un mensaje de error "no es posible establecer el numero máximo de archivos que se deben abrir illustrator", esto ocurrió de un día a otro, el día anterior lo cerré normalmente, apagué mi mac y al día siguiente al abrir el programa me apareció ese mensaje.

    ¿Que debo hacer?

    Necesito ayuda!

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  20. Panels stuck under menu bar when using two monitors

    When Ai is displayed on a secondary monitor, if that second monitor is off and than on again, all panels get moved back to the primary display, some of them being stuck under the Mac OS menu bar — where it becomes impossible to move the panels again. Fixes include choosing a fresh unused workspace, but repeating the sequence damages that workspace. Also workspaces saved while using a second monitor don't honor that layout when selected again.
    Please fix! Thank you.

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