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  1. Actions ignore dash settings

    When action is created to change line to eg. Dash 20pt, Gap 20pt, Align dashes to corners and path ends and action is run on a file, Illustrator changes only Dash size and ignoring the Gap size and aligment of dashes.
    Another action crated to scale all in a file disproportionaly and action is run, it does not scale disproportionaly - ignores disproportion values.
    Actions cannot be trasted (used to be very good in pre CC version).

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  3. Surface Pro GPU Issues

    Hello. Been having problems with fonts showing up with 'scratched' edges on Illustrator CC. I've cleaned up caches including font cache and have installed previous Illustrator version 15.3 and still the same issue. Please see attachment to view problem.

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    This issue is fixed by Intel in their latest driver update (15.46.02.4729 – released on 11 JUL 2017 ) available at – https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/26941/Graphics-Intel-Graphics-Driver-for-Windows-15-46-?product=88358

    This update cannot show up driver search, as it might take some time for Microsoft to get it integrated in their Surface Pro driver updates. Microsoft prevents installing driver directly from Intel if you try the installer directly, however latest driver from Intel can be installed with steps listed in section “Update video adapter device drivers” > “Intel (Surface Pro devices)” in below link

    https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/illustrator-gpu-performance-driver-update.html

  4. Incorrect (reversed) text order when copying text from PDFs without Illustrator editing capabilities

    pre - TLDR:
    Illustrator no longer preserves the visual reading order when copying fragmented text from PDFs without editing capabilities, instead using an incorrect internal sequence.

    Incorrect text order when copying text from PDFs without Illustrator editing capabilities

    MacBookPr 2024 - macOS Tahoe 26.3
    Adobe Illustrator 2026 - 30.3

    Hello,

    I would like to report an issue in Adobe Illustrator that seems to have been introduced in recent updates.

    Initial situation:
    When opening a PDF that was not saved with Illustrator editing capabilities, it is expected that continuous text blocks are split into multiple individual segments or lines. This behavior…

    10 votes

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  5. Swatches disappear in Swatches panel when switching between documents

    I've got two documents open. An RGB one, and a CMYK one. When I CMD+TAB between the two, all the current swatches disappear. I have to click on a different 'view swatches' button to make them appear. This happens EVERY TIME. I just updated to the latest version of Illustrator thinking it would fix it, but it doesn't.

    10 votes

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  6. Persistent Toolbar Rich Tooltips

    Tooltips are particularly buggy when using more than one monitor, they tend to persist and keep animating whilst users are attempting to focus on what they are doing within the interface.

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  7. Select Unused Swatches does not select the second black swatch in Grays color group

    — Create a new Print document with default swatches.
    — Delete ALL the presets: brushes, symbols, graphic styles...
    — Now Open Swatches and run Select All Unused command from its flyout menu.
    White and Black are not selected (expected in a way).
    But notice that 'C=0 M=0 Y=0 K=100' is also not selected.
    So when all the selected swatches get deleted, this black duplicate stays, and the color group stays, and you have to delete it manually — each time.

    I tried to understand what forces Ai to keep it.
    As I said, not presets remain, and I redefine the…

    10 votes

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  8. Hitting Escape while editing a field does not cancel the value but applies it

    I don’t know why nobody reports this...
    If I input something in a field and I want to abort and return to the previous value, I hit Escape.

    Sometimes the first Escape closes the suggestions dropdown (like in browsers), and only the second one restores the previous value.

    A LOT of apps follow this rule except browsers:
    Affinity Designer, Inkscape, CorelDRAW, Blender...
    Non-design ones too: MS Office, Google Docs, various text editors... A LOT.

    Some apps keep the value entered, but don’t apply it, and put the old one back when an object get reselected — Xara does it.

    Some…

    10 votes

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  9. GPUプレビューモードで高解像度2階調の埋め込み画像の表示がおかしくなる。

    macOS13.6.6〜13.6.7
    Illustrator ver.28.5

    再現手順
    1.1200ppi程度のモノクロ2階長画像を用意する。
    2.IllustratorにてGPUプレビューの状態で1.の画像を配置
    3.配置した画像を埋め込むと表示が反転する。

    期待する結果
    埋込前と埋込後で表示がかわらない。

    実際の結果
    埋め込んだビットマップの表示が反転される。

    現状の回避方法
    埋込んだビットマップ画像が存在するドキュメントではCPUプレビューかオーバープリントプレビューで表示を行う。

    これはGPU表示における不具合です。PDF保存などを行うと正常に保存されますが、GPUプレビューが使えない状態というのは作業性が悪くストレスがたまります。

    10 votes

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  10. Scaling proportionally not working with Use Preview Bounds enabled

    Very weird issue happening at the moment. I was working on a file and realized some things which were supposed to be proportionate were not. I double checked and actually Illustrator was not scaling things proportionally!
    Video to show what happens.

    So far I've uninstalled Illustrator and re-installed it. Seems like keeping Preview Bounds off is the only thing that works. If you got any ideas please let me know :)

    Thank you <3

    10 votes

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  11. [ExtendScript] Document.artboards wrongly returns artboards of active document

    1. MacOS 14.2.1
    2. Adobe Illustrator 28.0
    3. To reproduce:

    (a) open two documents with differently named artboards

    (b) run this script

    for (var i = 0; i < app.documents.length; i++) {
        for (var j = 0; j < app.documents[i].artboards.length; j++) {
            $.write(app.documents[i].name + ' artboard ' + j + ': ');
            $.writeln(app.documents[i].artboards[j].name);
        }
    }
    

    Expected result:

    demo1.ai artboard 0: ALPHA
    demo1.ai artboard 1: BRAVO
    demo2.ai artboard 0: CHARLIE
    demo2.ai artboard 1: DELTA

    Actual result:

    demo1.ai artboard 0: ALPHA
    demo1.ai artboard 1: BRAVO
    demo2.ai artboard 0: ALPHA
    demo2.ai artboard 1: BRAVO

    Note that Document "demo1.ai" is active. If I make demo2.ai active, I…

    10 votes

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  12. Error with app.executeMenuCommand('Adobe Stroke Palette')

    en_US

    In the Japanese version of Adobe Illustrator, when I execute a script that selects the Window > Stroke menu, an error occurs. It executes correctly in the English (North America) version.

    ![mrap.png](mrap.png)

    Script to Execute

    try {
      app.executeMenuCommand('Adobe Stroke Palette') ;
    } catch(e) {
      alert(e) ;
    }
    

    Actual Result

    The following error occurs.

    エラー: an Illustrator error occurred: 1346458189 ('MRAP')

    Expected Result

    Stroke panel is displayed.

    Steps to Reproduce

    1. Uninstall any non-Japanese version of Adobe Illustrator that is installed
    2. Launch Creative Cloud.app and set "Default install language" to Japanese in the Preferences
    3. Install and launch Adobe Illustrator
    4. Execute the…
    10 votes

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  13. Select Next Object commands in the right-click (context) menu are broken when in Isolation Mode

    Illustrator provides two ways to access Next Object commands:
    1. From Select menu
    2. From the context menu, Select submenu

    However, they work differently.

    If you use #1 commands, they behave as expected — Ai properly selects the objects at the current scope level (if we are isolated), by stack order in Layers.

    But if you use #2 commands when isolated...
    These commands, despite having the same names as the command from the top bar menu entries, rely on the object being clicked. But even knowing that (and it’s not an obvious thing to figure out), the result is weird.…

    10 votes

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  14. Abnormal selection after executing an action in a script.

    According to the person in the know, this has been occurring since version 25.4; it was normal in 25.2.x.
    When an action to duplicate an object is created and executed by specifying the action in the script function doScript(), the execution completes with the duplicated object and the original object selected at the same time.

    Although it is logical to perform all processing in scripts, there are situations where it is unavoidable in the process.
    In addition, this is clearly an abnormal situation.
    We would like to see an improvement.

    Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

    〈にほんご / Japanese〉
    スクリプトでアクションを実行後、選択範囲が異常

    識者によれば、バージョン25.4以降で発生している。25.2.xでは正常だったとのこと。…

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  15. Text selection issue with threaded text frames

    Trying to select text in the second column of a threaded text frame is impossible. The selection always jumps to select the text in the previous text frame. In the video example I uploaded - I'm simply trying to select just the top paragraph in the middle column - but it keeps highlighting the text in the linked text frame on the left column. I can never just select the top 3 lines in the middle column.

    10 votes

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  16. V26.5.1 Path re-open after using pathfinder tool

    V26.5.1

    The steps you were taking when you experienced the issues:
    1. pen tool to do a open path
    2. close the path using "add to shapes" in pathfinder
    3 use pen tool to start a new point, the previous closed shape will reopen and join the new point

    Your expected result :
    using pen tool to start a new point should give a single point, not joining the previous closed shape
    the closed shape should remain closed

    10 votes

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  17. Clipping mask for a layer doesn’t move when dragged in real-time render mode

    If you move art with its layer-level clipping mask, Ai will draw it as if you move the art without the clipping mask. See the GIF attached.

    10 votes

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  18. When a mesh object is set as a key for aligning, the edge of it doesn’t look bold

    When you click an object to mark it as a key object for aligning, Ai draws a fat bold edge around it. Works fine, but not for meshes. Need to be fixed.

    10 votes

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  19. textRange.words counts words wrong in a wrong way

    If you try to calculate a number of words and store them for later using textRange.words and a punctuation marks placed one space after the word, as demonstrated in the video, Ai cuts words in wrong places, resulting words being trimmed.

    This breaks all scripts that rely on this method.

    You have to rename 'words-bug.txt' into 'words-bug.js' and 'words-bug.pdf' to 'words-bug.ai' to test it, since UV does not allow to upload these type formats.

    10 votes

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  20. Applying Recolor to selected instances of a symbol recolors the original symbol

    If I want to change colors for selected dynamic symbols, using Recolor will affect not local colors, but the original symbol.
    This makes little sense. If I wanted to change the original symbol, I'd edited it and made the changes directly to it. If I have a selection, I mean to change symbols in it only.

    To workaround it I can isolate my selection by locking/hiding objects I don't want to affect and use Select Same commands to recolor parts of symbols one at a time.

    10 votes

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