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  1. Tools not snapping or showing blue line path or anchor points

    The Pen and Direct Tool are not snapping or showing the blue line path when drawing with the tools (Pen tool, Curvature tool, Direct Selection Tool) I have googled forums to see what the issue and it seems to be something that happens when the software is updated every so often or something like that, and shortly before I encountered this issue about 10 minutes ago my software got an update... please fix this :(

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  2. Expanded pucker/bloat effect is a circle or ellipse in SVG

    Windows 10, Illustrator 23.0.1

    1. Create a circle or an equilateral rectangle.
    2. Apply the Pucker & Bloat effect; either one will do.
    3. Expand appearance. Check that the effects are now regular paths.
    4. File > Save As > SVG Result: Either check the saved SVG or view the code. The shape that was a circle will be generated as a circle, the rectangle will be an ellipse.

    Expected result: The SVG displays the paths as they appear in Illustrator.

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  3. Dragging multiple groups by text anchor deselects other groups.

    See attached video. With multiple groups selected, clicking and dragging by one of the group's text anchor deselects all other groups. Only the group with the selected text gets moved.

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  4. Bug: Cannot scale a horizontal line via center box handle

    Hi,

    in Ai CC2019 I cannot scale a horizontal line via the center box handle. The only way to it, is to use the direct selection tool (A).

    see: https://feek.d.pr/drpiNK.gif

    == feek

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  5. ILLUSTRATOR CRUSHES WHEN I CLICK ON THE BRUSH TOOL.

    Illustrator crushes everytime I click on the brush tool. I have reinstalled the Illustrator and its not working. I am using a hp z800 running windows 10 with Nvidia Quadro K2000 as my gpu. Please Please Help

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  6. blendtool

    Hi Adobe,

    I downloaded the new illustrator, 2019 version. Happy to see that the eyedropper tool can adopt colors from images again.
    However the BlendTool seems to be different. In earlier versions it was possible to ajust the line on which you blended certain shapes... It appeared between the shapes as a loose vector line. This line is gone now, the only thing I can ajust are the shapes which I blended.. Can you guys fix this again in an update?

    Thanks! Bjorn.

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  7. Guides disappear until file is reopened

    I've created an isometric grid for illustration and converted the grid lines to guides. When I leave my document open for a while (maybe an hour or more) and come back to it after a lull in activity, my guides seem to be gone. The "Guides" item in the "View" menu is grayed out, and the keyboard shortcut Cmd+Shift+; to toggle guides on and off does not work. Nothing is hidden or locked in my document. Closing and reopening the document immediately fixes the issue, with guides toggling on off when prompted. There's clearly a bug here, figured I should…

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  8. Wacom incaccuracy when resizing objects

    Wacom (Intuos5 - L - newest drivers)
    Clean OSX high sierra
    MBPPRO mid2015
    New illustartor

    There is some bug with precise operating with wacom.
    I can't resize simple object with bounding box.

    When i try to do this, in 99% cases object is rotating instead of resizing.

    When i use trackpad - there is no problem.

    cc, cc2017 / 18 / 19 Still innacurate precision.

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  9. Toolbar panel won't stay long & skinny when docked

    The toolbar panel on the left, when docked to the left side of the screen, will not stay long & skinny (after pressing the double arrow) when I close and reopen Illustrator. It always goes back to short & fat. If I undock it, Illustrator remembers the orientation just fine. This happens even when I save a new workspace.

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  10. Centering guides

    Illustrator CC 2019 - 23.01:
    When guides are grouped it is impossible to center this group in de page by using the "alignment on artbord tool". This was working until Illustrator 2017.

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  11. Using the direct selection tool on a path, whilst holding ‘shift’ to drag causes crashes/can’t preview.

    Mac Mojave 10.14.1 > Illustrator 23.0.1.

    This issue does one of 3 things:

    

1/ the path repeatedly snaps back to the origin (Annoying).

    2/ the path extends vertically top to bottom off the artboard causing ‘cannot preview’ issue. Although this is fixed with an undo and selecting view using GPU/CPU. (Really Annoying).

    3/ Illustrator hangs and becomes unresponsive (basically hammers my system resources) and I have to force quit or it just crashes. (Ridiculously Annoying).

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  12. Draw Inside Object problems

    I am working on an Apple Mac OS Sierra Version 10.12.6.

    In Illustrator I can't use the draw inside objects, Draw Normal and Draw Behind are enabled, not Draw Inside?
    Thanks, Pam

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  13. Can't change corners or terminators for pattern brushs

    Using Illustrator CC 2019 (23.0.1 64 bit) on Windows 10 Pro
    OS: Windows
    Version: 10.0
    System Architecture: x64
    Built-In Memory: 16253 MB
    I am creating a custom pattern brush with simple shapes and when I try to change a corner or terminator in the brush properties the drop down flashes but does not persist in order to allow me to change it.

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  14. ctrl key to change the size of an object

    The ctrl key is supposed to make a square arround my selected object which lets me change the size of the object, but this function randomly stopped working.

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  15. Opacity Mask is acting funky. I paste in place an object. Exit Opacity Mask, and it's gone when I go back.

    Having a bug where I paste in a graphic and neither clipping, nor invert work with my vector object. I then exit the mask to go back to the artboard, and when I go back my art is gone. I've updated all the apps for CC. Thanks.

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  16. resizing

    In Illustrator 2019, when resizing an object using the W value and the H value it does not resize symmetrically keeping it centered on the xy axis like all previous versions. This is something I have relied on to keep everything centered within that shape or object. Why did this change or is it a preference that I need to select?

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  17. Box Tool not in Inches and making weird shapes

    I'm trying to make specific size boxes in INCHES with my box tool. But it's only coming up in points and when I do make a box, it makes it a trapezoid shape. This new Illustrator 2019 is so buggy, it's not even funny!

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  18. Compound shape bounding box issues

    MacOS Sierra (10.12.6)& illustrator 23.0.1

    A compound shape of multiple objects should be acting as a single object so its bounding box should maintan the same (as group's does) but it keeps resetting after any rotation.

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  20. The rotate tool seems to have disappeared from the toolbox overnight.

    The rotate tool seems to have disappeared from the toolbox. It's normally next to the scale tool & paired with the reflect tool but it's not there now. When i click on the 3 dots at the base of the toolbox it says its with the scale tool. When i click on the little triangle to open this tool to see the other tools it's paired with, it's unresponsive.

    1. iMac. Mac OS Sierra.
      I updated Illustrator to 23.0.1 yesterday. The rotate tool was there after the update.

    2. Opened file i was working on yesterday & went to click on the…

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