Reproducible crash > flatten transparency w/ text to outlines, then direct selection
I've been getting a lot of crashes after flattening a linked PDF and then selecting an area with a significant amount of vector outlines (i.e. a few paragraphs of text or a complex drawing). Illustrator instantly crashes when I make the selection with the white arrow direct selection tool.
I can send you an example PDF and AI file that contains a full explanation of how to reproduce the crash. To be clear, it's not just this PDF file – I'm getting crashes with many different PDF files from various sources when I perform similar operations on them.
This is a new problem that I did not experience on older Illustrator versions.
Justin Penner
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Try to reproduce it, but on my Windows machine, does not happen for me... I try to select larger chunks, smaller but more chunks, a lot of large chunks — still is stable, nothing crashes. When it does for you — do you get a crash reporter window? If yes — do you send a report? If yes — do you use the same email you have for this account on UserVoice?
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Justin Penner
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Here are the files. I couldn't upload them on the original post for some reason.
