Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs
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- Details of your operating system
- The version of Adobe Illustrator (desktop)
- The steps you were taking when you experienced the issues
- Your expected result and the actual result
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46 results found
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Eliminate the "sticky" selection tool
The latest 27.8.1 version selection tool acts like a magnet after an object selection and will often drop/release the selected object with wild and random predictability. It's a horrible bug. Unfortunately, I have to use Illustrator in my job. This is nothing like I've seen in all the decades of using Illustrator. Lots of UNDOs. I'm going to revert back to the previous version.
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Selecting a shape selects multiple unrelated objects
I'm trying to select a shape on my artboard and it automatically selects multiple objects even though they are not grouped or linked together in an way. Also, an object is getting selected even though I'm trying to click another object on the artboard. There seems to be some kind of margin around that object but it is just a shape that I created, no clip mask or anything of that sort was applied to the object. Is there a way to figure out what actions were applied to an object when clicked? If not, that could come handy.
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Objects keep being selected after clicking another object
Everytime I try to select an object it stays clicked (or the previous selected object) and starts dragging objects, which makes the work impossible. This happens 100% of the time with a mouse and rarely with the touchpad. This happens both in my M1 macbook air and pro (14) with different mice.
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Selection and Direct selection tool behaviour errors
The issues have to do with what items are selected, and which properties are displayed in panels (appearance and attributes) when using the selection tool and the direct selection tool on various configurations of item.
Please see the attached AI file for a thorough QA breakdown of this issue (s).
The most impactful error can be seen when using the Direct Selection tool on an item(path or text) in a group which contains only that one single item.
The expected behaviour should be the same as for any other usage of the direct select tool: it selects the item within…
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Small objects rotating instead of scaling when grabbing corners of bounding box
New laptop has forced me over to Win11 & the latest suite. Illustrator 26.3.1
When trying to grab small objects by their corners to scale, it rotates.
Expected result - Being able to scale!
Actual Result - Rotating, immediately putting the object at 45 degrees.An old thread from 2018 ("Rotate vs scale") claims this may have something to do with scaling on high res monitors but was marked solved without being solved. This new laptop has a 4k screen.
If you hover the cursor juuuust inside the corner it works, but anything outside and it's forcing rotation.
If I…
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2 votes
Please get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html . Since this is not a generic issue that we can reproduce at our end, we will need someone to look into your machine to figure out what is going on here.
Warm Regards,
Ashutosh Chaturvedi | Sr. Quality Engineering Manager – Illustrator -
Add an option to constrain Illustrator to only move the selected object
In Adobe Illustrator, it's frustrating that when I select an object and attempt to move it, the software sometimes selects and moves a different nearby object instead—even though I clicked precisely on the one I had already selected.
I would like an option to constrain Illustrator to always operate on the currently selected object, ignoring nearby objects unless I explicitly reselect something else.
This behavior would be similar to Photoshop's "Auto-Select Layer" toggle, where users can choose whether to transform the currently selected layer or automatically switch to a different one based on the click location.
Such an option would…
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オブジェクトをバウンディングボックスで拡大縮小するときに、斜め拡大と縦横の伸縮拡大が逆になってしまう
使用環境
ソフトウェア: Adobe Illustrator 2025
バージョン: 29.0.1特定のファイルを使用している際に、選択ツールを使ったバウンディングボックスでの拡大縮小操作が正しく動作しない現象が発生しています。他のファイルでは正常に操作ができるものの、特定のファイルにおいてのみ、斜めの拡大縮小と縦横の拡大縮小が逆になってしまい、期待通りの変形ができません。
バグが起こった手順:
1. 特定のファイルを開く。
2. 選択ツールを使用してオブジェクトを選択し、バウンディングボックスの角または辺にカーソルを合わせて拡大縮小操作を行う。
3. 通常であれば、斜めの拡大縮小（角をドラッグ）と縦横の拡大縮小（辺をドラッグ）が正しく行われるはずですが、問題のファイルでは、角をドラッグしても縦横の拡大縮小に、辺をドラッグしても斜めの拡大縮小に変わってしまいます。
ソフトを終了して、環境設定を初期化して再起動することで、一時的に問題が解消されることがありました。
しかし、一定期間使用していると再び同じ現象が発生してしまいます。1 vote -
Selection incorrectly grabs bounding box
In Illustrator 2024 and earlier, drawing a selection box would not grab bounding boxes. In AI 2025, if I draw a selection box that happens to cross a bounding box, it will select the object(s). Proper selection ignores bounding boxes, otherwise it becomes difficult to select without accidentally picking the wrong objects. I've deleted and lost artwork several times in the last week, due to selecting bounding boxes of circles that are off screen when I'm zoomed in.
I cannot seem to find the switch to turn this off, and there is no mention of this in the new features/changes…1 vote -
Sometimes a selection cannot be canceled
Sometimes it is not possible to deselect a selected object - even if you lock the corresponding layer or take other measures to deselect it. In such cases, only restarting the application helps.
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Aparece el error: No se puede completar la operación debido a un error desconocido. [STEX]
Al mover, seleccionar o utilizar el creador de formas en un elemento me aparece el error, ya probé actualizando el programa, eliminandolo y volviendolo a descargar, eliminando caché, reiniciando la computadora, etc.
Lamentablemente el problema persiste.1 vote -
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…
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Selection Tool Stops Functioning
The selection tool stops functioning when Illustrator has been open for a while. It will work as expected and then it will stop functioning, either not allowing me to select an object or group at all, or it will allow the select but then nothing happens when you try to click on a corner of an object to either move it or resize it. Opening and closing the file does no good. I have to close Illustrator and re-open it and the tool will start functioning again. It seems like a memory issue.
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Arrow keys stopped moving selected objects
Selected objects are not moving with arrow keys (this was working fine earlier today). In the history panel it shows the actions as "Move" when I press the arrows, but the objects do not move with this method.
I had not changed any settings, verified the layers were not locked, tried it with a single object and got the same result. I tried this on both my Mac keypad and my bluetooth keyboard, so it isn't an issue with the keys themselves. I restarted my Mac twice and it has failed to resolve.
Additionally, objects have also been randomly selected…
1 voteThis got solved by changing the Keyboard Increment parameter in Preferences > General back to a normal value.
Since it’s the first field that gets active when the dialog is called, it seems like it’s very easy to change it accidentally. It’s not the first time this is reported, so if it happened to you — please try to see if you can recreate the problem intentionally.
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Unable to select rasterized grayscale images
This has been a bug for a while now...
When trying to select/drag rasterized Grayscale images (rasterized in Illustrator), the image is unselectable — the only way to select the image is to go into Wireframe mode and click the bounding box. This doesn't seem to be the case with RBG or Bitmap rasterized images, only grayscale.
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Can't resize anything
It is such a basic thing, but it's not allowing me to redimension anything, texts, images, whatever; i cant redimension it with the selection tool or anything like i normally used to
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Item cannot be selected nor deleted
Like the title says. Makes this bloated and over-rated tool even more frustrating to use.
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"Selection" automatically jumping to "move" when clicking on an object and move action isn't retained
Adobe Illustrator Version: 27.7
Operating System: Mac OS Ventura 13.4.1Regardless of the file I'm working in, when I use my selection tool to select an object, upon moving my cursor the object starts moving like I'm clicking and dragging it (this is after tapping once on the object and letting go on the track pad). Then, when I move the object and click on the trackpad again, the object moves back to its original position and Illustrator makes an error alert noise.
I have uninstalled Illustrator a few times, downloaded older versions from CC, and restarted my machine numerous…
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Can't resize objects, issue with selection tool
Can't resize objects like images or text boxes once they have been placed. Could only use scale and rotate for resizing items. Seems the selection tool isn't working as it should, or it's illustrator itself. I've seen this seems like a recurring problem over the years
1 voteThis often happens when the bounding box gets accidentally turned off, presumably with the Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+B hotkey. You can turn it back on with this key or do it with the View > Show Bounding Box command.
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Can NOT see what is selected!
Selecting an Object or text no longer gives any indication that it is selected! No handles, no highlighting. I updated to 27.5 and it seemed like it worked for a few clicks, but has reverted back. I can't see that it is a setting, and can't seem to get the expected behavior back. It is ridiculously difficult to work on a file when you have to just assume something is selected!!
1 voteIt happens if you accidentally toggle the View > Show Edges command with Cmd/Ctrl + H hotkey.
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