Swatch panel and gradient panel won't open at the same time. Can't change color of gradients.
Just upgraded to Illustrator 30.0 and now the swatch panel and gradient panel won't open at the same time. Can't change color of gradients. I've tried resizing, stretching... everything. This wasn't a problem until the upgrade to 30.0.
Erik
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Yes, I can replicate this.
I made my window’s height to be exactly like yours (seems to be 995 px — how large is your screen size actually?) and build a dock made of same panels (with Recent Colors disabled in both Color and Swatches panels, and no Presets for Gradient panel).
Now, the height of the Gradient panel with two more options recently added (Method and Dither) is too large to allow Swatches, even with its minimal height, to be opened with Gradient at the same time... just barely!
So Ai has to collapse it and expand the one above to take its height in the dock — the Color... The only way to force Ai to display both at once now is to minimize the height of the Color panel, or change the layout of the dock (like removing Character and other below)...So It’s not exactly a bug, but an a side effect of changes made to the panel layout.
Erik, can I treat this report as a 'Make Gradient panel more compact' request then?
