Artboards & Content are displaced after saving and opening a file
After saving & opening a file with multiple art boards, many of the artboards and/or their content is shifted around the canvas. I already tried all kinds things, even creating a new file and copying everything over. The bug happens again and again – and it's unpredictable, sometimes it's just one element, sometimes it's half of all the content.
Working with Version 29.8.1, the file is in large format mode, Mac OS 25 (latest). Not saving on a cloud synced folder.
When saving the same file into Adobe Cloud, the bug doesn't seem to occur... at least for the last few times I tried. But actually I don't want to save them there.
Also, when saving onto hard drive, sometimes a dialog appears that the file was changed outside of Illustrator (which is not true).
See attached file (blurred): the grey boxes on top come from the artboard on the bottom and the red ones from the artboards below.
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    We have fixed the issue and it is available in latest pre release and beta builds. We are going to release it soon.
Please note that existing files would not be auto corrected with this fix. But the fix would prevent any future occurrence.
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       Robert
    
 commented Robert
    
 commented@monokano I think Akshaya referred to the version after that (30.1). I haven't tried it myself, because I downgraded to the version before the bug for now. 
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       monokano
    
 commented monokano
    
 commented2026 (30.0.0) 
 This bug is also occurring in the official release version. It has not been fixed at all.--- 
 このバグは正規リリース版でも発生しています。全く直っていません。
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       monokano
    
 commented monokano
    
 commentedThis bug is still occurring in the current latest version 2025 (29.8.2). Since this is a critical and serious bug, it should not be left unaddressed - a bug fix update should be released for 2025 (29) as well. --- 
 この不具合は、現在の最新版である2025 (29.8.2) でも依然として発生しています。これは重大かつ深刻な不具合であるため、放置すべきではありません。2025 (29) 向けにも修正アップデートをリリースすべきです。
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       Philip
    
 commented Philip
    
 commentedThis is the worse bug for illustrator that has ever happened 
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       monokano
    
 commented monokano
    
 commentedThis bug appears to be avoidable by disabling ‘Save in Background’ in Preferences. --- 
 このバグは環境設定の「バックグラウンドで保存」をOFFにすると回避できるようです。
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       Claudycat
    
 commented Claudycat
    
 commentedThis happens to me if I create more than 1 artboard. So now I am having to do separate files with 1 artboard each so that the problem doesn't happen. Not ideal though. 
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      Branca Goddard commented Same has happened to me, it's so frustrating. Could you please let me know if this issue has been fixed please. 
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       Rachel Tight
    
 commented Rachel Tight
    
 commentedThis has been happening randomly for me too. Not all documents but some of them, and for my colleagues too. It's really not ideal as we have to supply files externally and need to ensure they are correct. 
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       idcuptab
    
 commented idcuptab
    
 commentedWhen adding a new layout, I moved the layout position, but the graphics did not shift. After saving and reopening the file, some graphics shifted incorrectly. 
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      Can be related to this bug: 
 Thumbnails & Quicklook preview has incorrectly positioned pictures
 http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/50570631
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      Richard Walker commented I have exactly the same issue! 
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      chris carr commented After closing Illustrator file and reopening art work has moved. Illustrator is not fit for purpose! 
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      chris carr commented After closing Illustrator file and reopening art work has moved. Illustrator is not fit for purpose! 
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       Dan Mason
    
 commented Dan Mason
    
 commentedThinking about this some more, and as the issue has continued to happen for me, I think it might be to do with resetting the document's 0x0y position using the document rulers. When I create multiple artboards in a document, I reset the rulers' 0x0y positions to my active artboard by double-clicking in the top left of the rulers strip around the edge of my artwork area. The reason I think this may be the triggering action is that the distance and direction of the displacement of objects varies from document to document. This checks out as I often create many copies of an artboard to experiment with layouts and variations, then delete the unused/rejected designs leaving only the artboard that's approved, wherein I reset the rulers to zero in that artboard. 
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       Dan Mason
    
 commented Dan Mason
    
 commentedI'm creating graphics using documents with multiple artboards containing a mixture of vector graphics, images, point type and area type. All looks correct upon saving and closing. When the file is reopened the contents of all area type objects have moved out of their text boxes. Everything moves by the same distance across the work area (and sometimes out of the boundary of the work area altogether). It only affects area type boxes, point type and all other objects not affected. A small adjustment to the size of the area type box causes the type to snap back into the box. Mac OS Sonoma 14.6, Adobe Illustrator 29.8.2. 
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       Federico Estrada
    
 commented Federico Estrada
    
 commentedAfter last update (29.8.2) text is now appearing outside of the text boxes and other elements move outside the artboard bounds after reopening files. 
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      S. Gail Highhat commented The same problem just happened to me, after packaging the file. I closed it for a few minutes, then opened it to make a PDF and it was all wrong. I can't share my client's files, but my screen looks just like others I've seen posted: all text is shifted up and to the right, while the actual text boxes are in the original, correct positions. I'm on Mac OS 14.6, Illustrator v29.8.1. UPDATE: Thanks to a suggestion in an Adobe Community thread, I was able to "fix" the problem by resizing each text box slightly until the words popped back into place, then immediately saved a PDF to lock in the edits. UPDATE 2: Today, the issue mutated to affect vector patterns with clipping masks...but not all of them. Some patterns shifted out of view but were still contained in the clipping masks, which didn't move. Others were fine. And all of the text shifted like before, but this time, up and to the left. Resizing the enclosing boxes worked for text, but not for the patterns. 
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      F J (CrowTRobot85) commented also have the same problem, with linked files as well. They are cut off or shifted around. I can also tell that theres a problem because the file size is drastically different then what they normally come out to. 
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       Robert
    
 commented Robert
    
 commentedI've sent a file by email, thanks. 
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      Nichola Dos Santos commented I have been having the same problem all week, its ok with old files but anything new I create with multiple artboards when I close and reopen some but not all arwork has shifted down and left, some ends up on top of the artwork that hasnt shifted. If you space bar the file and preview it it looks fine, its only when you open does it all move. Please help! 
 
          
