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Can't finish previewing. Could not complete the requested operation.

I applied a pattern to a stroke by accident and received this error. I'm using v25.0.1 on a PC with 16 gb RAM and a dedicated graphics card.

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  • stewart commented  ·   ·  Report

    Got the same problem on MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 after downloading newest Illustrator CC.

  • Steve Edwards commented  ·   ·  Report

    Got the same problem on one of our Macs (2013 MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2.8GHz i7,, 16GB 1600MHz DDR3, Iris 1536MB running 10.13.6). Got 3 other Macs running Illustrator and haven't had the same issue on those yet.

  • digitalsherlock commented  ·   ·  Report

    same here. iMac Mojave.
    have to use it for work! please fix it asap.

  • lilee designs commented  ·   ·  Report

    Anyone experience this? Solve this? It is happening to me as well.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes, this is happening ALL the time for me too! Is there a fix?

  • Jesse commented  ·   ·  Report

    Same problem here! Fix this bug!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    After around 10 minutes work on a file - and I'm working on a simple design for a logo, the screen turns grey and a message appears saying 'Can't Finish Previewing.' The it crashes and quits.

    This has happened at least a dozen times in the last 24 hours.

    I've restarted, uninstalled and reinstalled Illustrator 2019. I've deleted temp files. I've created a new, clean file and still it is happening.

    I'm on the latest OS X.

  • Kyle commented  ·   ·  Report

    I couldn't take it anymore. I finally rolled back to v22. Just gonna hang tight until they fix this.

  • Giemme commented  ·   ·  Report

    Stesso problema anche da me in fase di apertura file.

  • Andy Witt commented  ·   ·  Report

    24GB iMac 27" - ridiculous failure on the simplest of files.

  • Lé Gill commented  ·   ·  Report

    Half way through a simple task in Illustrator CC 2019, all my work switches preview to "outline" and an error message keep showing: "Can't finish previewing."

    This really sucks!

    This version is RUBBISH!!!

    Better switch back to CC 2018.

  • Rockie Kwan commented  ·   ·  Report

    2019 CC always appear attached and then auto quit the software. I have never seen this in 2018CC, how I can back to use 2018CC , I'm using creative cloud to update 2019CC, it's rubbish for me.

  • Thomas Koch commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's also on Windows 10 with more than enough RAM (128 GB), dual Xeon, dual nvidia GTX 1080ti.

  • Nuri Pazol commented  ·   ·  Report

    +1 experiencing this issue on:
    MacOS 10.14 iMac
    3.2 GHz Intel Core i5
    32 GB 1867 MHz DDR3
    AMD Radeon R9 M380 2048 MB.

  • Dave Karras commented  ·   ·  Report

    It's real bad... running an late 2015 iMac 27" with Mohave, 32 GB RAM. Can't even work in a simple two-color logo .ai file with a few vector shapes in it for more than a few minutes without the "cant finish previewing" error and subsequent crash.

  • Mick commented  ·   ·  Report

    Same issue. I thought it seemed to be happening more when working with gradients, but it seems to be doing it all the time now.

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