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  1. Can’t select an object under a locked object

    I'd like to be able to work on an area that is under a locked layer.
    Currently I can't select anything that is under it. Selection tools just want to select the object on top that it ain't allowed to select... Can't it ignore it? It is locked.

    Maybe there is a paramaeter somewhere about it, but I didn't find it so far.

    Example of use : You have a reference image/object that you put on top with multiply or darken mode and some transparency.
    You could say put it under your working layer and ask you working layer to…

    8 votes
    13 comments  ·  Selection  ·  Admin →
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    Resolved (Comments Open)  ·  AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    This most probably happens because of the 'Select and Unlock objects on canvas' option being enabled in Preferences > Selection & Anchor Display section.

    It allows to 'select' and unlock all or chosen objects directly on canvas. If you wish to have this option split into two — one for unlock widgets and one for having an ability to 'select' locked objects — please upvote a corresponding feature request here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/48753221

  2. Shift-clicking a swatch in Control bar to show alternate color UI no longer works

    Shift-clicking a swatch in Control panel no longer opens the color mixer.
    Clicking a swatch in Control panel then double-clicking the swatch no longer works.

    Apple M1 MacOS Sonoma 14.5
    2024 Illustrator 28.6

    8 votes
    20 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
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  3. 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…

    8 votes
    4 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
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  4. Aligning doesn’t work for groups with strange empty unselectable objects inside, imported from SVGs (originally made with Illustrator)

    Several objects were made in Illustrator and exported to SVGs.
    Later they were imported back into Illustrator.
    Please take a look at both the GIF and the file atached.

    When one tries to select all the top-level groups and align them to left — it doesn’t work.
    Aligning to center and to right works, but once these get aligned to right — aligning to center stops working too.

    When exploring layers, it’s clear that these groups have something else inside besides rectangles — but only in Layers, not on canvas. These can’t be selected or changed, only rearranged, renamed, deleted.

    …

    8 votes
    0 comments  ·  Align, Distribute  ·  Admin →
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  5. Width tool not working right: can’t adjust widths at the first point of the path

    Have a fairly simple shape inside a radial repeat x 12. That shape has about 4 width adjustments. And one of them has a hard adjustment, from wider to smaller, but it acts really weird and can't make it a smooth width. It doesn't have two width adjustments on top of each other, and I can't delete the width adjustment. This has happened twice in different files, made separately but with similar processes. Can't seem to find a way to fix this besides deleting and starting over.

    Windows 11
    Intel i5 13600k
    iGPU
    32gb ram
    Adobe Illustrator version 28.5

    8 votes
    4 comments  ·  Strokes  ·  Admin →
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  6. Objects from CC library placed in document, then embedded, do not respond logically to alignment commands.

    I've encountered this on three different apple machines over 2 years. Currently:
    1. macOS Monterey 12.7.5
    2. Illustrator 28.5
    3. Create graphic (ex. a logo) and add it to a CC Library. Place the Object in a new document. Embed it. Use direct select tool to select bounding box and delete it (so logo can be selected to change fill color, for example). Try to align object to either key object or artboard. It's likely the logo will move errantly left or right.
    4. I expect align to work as with a normal (non library) object.
    5. Video attached.

    8 votes
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  7. Paragraph Styles in Illustrator are Hot Garbage

    Adobe, fix this already. Don't waste any more time investing in AI **** until this kind of stuff is fixed.

    8 votes
    2 comments  ·  Type, Fonts, Text  ·  Admin →
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  8. Enclosed mode does not work when inside of an isolated group

    新的内部选择对隔离模式的选择无效，见视频

    8 votes
    1 comment  ·  Tools  ·  Admin →
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  9. Save As not working, a black dialog is displayed

    When I save the document a black window appear and no data showing

    8 votes
    6 comments  ·  File Save, Import and Export  ·  Admin →
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  10. レイヤー名に改行コードが入っている場合、MacとWindowsでレイヤーパネルの表記が異なる。

    macOS Ventura 13.6.3、Windows10／11
    Illustrator ver.28.2（以前のバージョンも同様の挙動）

    1.テキストエディタ等から改行を含むテキストをコピーする。
    2.Illustratorに移り、新規ドキュメントを開きレイヤーパネルを選択する。
    3.レイヤー 1を選択しレイヤー名をダブルクリックするかダイアログを表示してレイヤー名にテキストエディター等でコピーした改行を含むテキストをペーストする。
    4.Macでは改行がZWNBSのように扱われ表示されます。Windowsでは改行として扱われ改行以後が折り返され上部だけがかすかに見えます。

    期待する結果
    プラットフォームが違ってもレイヤー名の表示がおなじになる。

    実際の結果
    MacとWindowsでレイヤー名の表示が異なる。

    これはレイヤー名に改行コードが入ってしまうという特殊なケースでの挙動の違いです。しかし、レイヤー名をテキストエディタ等からコピーしてきてペーストするというシナリオは考えられることです。プラットフォームの違いで表示が異なるのは問題です。
    理想を言えば、レイヤー名に改行が混ざっていた場合は改行コード自体をドロップしてしまうのが良いように思います。Windowsの折り返して読めない部分が生じるのはダメです。

    8 votes
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  11. Inside / outside strokes get silently expanded when you create a pattern with them

    Try these steps:
    1. Create a shape (like ellipse or rectangle)
    2. Make sure you have Inside or Outside option chosen for Align Stroke in the Stroke panel
    3. Object > Pattern > Make (or drag the ellipse to the Swatches panel)
    4. Check the contents of the pattern.
    The stroke gets expanded!

    However, if you copy an object with an Inside / Outside stroke and paste it into the pattern — it doesn’t get expanded and stays live... until you commit editing — only then Ai warns you non-cnetered strokes will get expanded.

    Perhaps Ai should drop a message…

    8 votes
    1 comment  ·  Strokes  ·  Admin →
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  12. Dimension tool prefers to snap to or edit an existing dimension instead of starting or completing a new one

    Take a look at the GIF.
    I need to measure the width of one square, and then measure the overall width of both squares.

    I create the first dimension with no problem.
    However, when I try to create the second one, Ai plays dumb.

    When I click the leftmost point, the tool thinks that I am to EDIT the existing dimension (although I am clicking and not click-and-dragging, and I am clicking an endpoint of it, and not in the middle!)

    Well... I can lock the first dimension (which would require me to abort, select the first one, lock, and…

    8 votes
    0 comments  ·  Tools  ·  Admin →
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  13. Illustrator 27.9 Adobe PDF Preset will match what it was last modified to.

    This seems new to 27.9 and removes confidence in save presets.

    Steps to replicate:
    1) Save file as Adobe PDF format
    2) Select [Smallest File Size] from presets.
    3) Check Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities (note it now says: [Smallest File Size] (Modified))
    4) Click Save PDF
    5) Save file as Adobe PDF format
    6) Select [Smallest File Size] from presets.

    Notice the Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities is now selected. Also notice the preset name hasn’t changed to say it's (Modified).

    2022 Mac Studio M1 Max, Illustrator 27.9

    8 votes
    19 comments  ·  File Save, Import and Export  ·  Admin →
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  14. Layers’ colors get messed up when moving objects in and out of sublayers

    When moving an artwork onto another layer the indicator-color changes as expected. If the new layer however is nested in another layer, and the artwork is moved from the nested layer onto the parent layer, the indicator color remains the nested layers color.
    This can be fixed, by closing and opening the childview of the parent layer.
    Also this does not apply, if the artwork is moved directly onto the layer and not between existing artworks on that layer.

    01 - Artwork is moved onto a new layer
    02 - New layer is nested in an parent layer
    03 -…

    8 votes
    5 comments  ·  Layers  ·  Admin →
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  15. Slanted instances are not properly sorted

    When a variable font has ***** axis and right leaning instances (common oblique styles) the Oblique instances gets sorted before the Romans on the font menu dropdown. See attachment.

    According to the OT spec, right leaning instances must use negative values, so I‘m guessing Adobe’s font menu is sorting instances by slnt coordinates in ascending direction when it should be in the other direction.

    This is not only bad and uncommon for users but is also pushing font developers to make fonts against the spec just to circunvent this situation. Plase fix.

    Note. All the fonts tested have proper STAT…

    8 votes
    2 comments  ·  Type, Fonts, Text  ·  Admin →
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  16. Bullets are forced when pasting a text

    Please take a look at the GIF.
    I paste a text (using Paste without formatting) into a mixed selection, made with Select All command. The text has both bulleted and non-bulleted paragraphs.
    I expect it to NOT have bullets enabled, since the first paragraph in the selection does not have it.
    Instead, Illustrator forces bullets for the whole pasted text.

    8 votes
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  17. Editing a repeat object unhides unrelated objects

    When editing a repeat object in isolation mode then after exiting the isolation mode, other (unrelated) objects that were formerly hidden, get unhidden.

    8 votes
    6 comments  ·  Repeats  ·  Admin →
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  18. Action "Save" is recorded as "Save As".

    Bugs posted in the Japanese forum.
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0-discussions/%E9%9A%8E%E5%B1%A4%E3%81%AB%E4%BE%9D%E5%AD%98%E3%81%97%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E4%BF%9D%E5%AD%98%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%81%AE%E8%A8%98%E9%8C%B2%E6%96%B9%E6%B3%95%E3%82%92%E6%95%99%E3%81%88%E3%81%A6%E3%81%8F%E3%81%A0%E3%81%95%E3%81%84/td-p/13259222

    When a user creates an action in the form of recording work, the "Save" is recorded as "Save As".
    The user must replace the command with "Insert Menu Item" to work around this glitch.

    I have confirmed that this has been reproduced since version 23 (CC2019), but it seems to be a bug that has existed for a long time.
    This is not good.

    <にほんご>
    ユーザー作業でアクションを記録すると「保存」が「別名で保存」として記録されてしまう。
    「メニュー項目を挿入」でコマンドを差し替えるしか対策がない。
    手持ちのCC2019以降で再現を確認したが、もっと以前から不具合があった可能性がすごい高い。

    8 votes
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  19. Repeat object has no indication of selection when bounding box is off

    Repeats is broken right from the start and you are not even planning to improve it... OK, not improve it, but just to make stable, as it was supposed to be.

    Here in the GIF, I have Bounding Box turned on, and it seems it works OK.

    Then I disable bounding box (which is normal for me and a lot of other users). Again — AI allows to turn if OFF, and everything works without it just FINE — except for Repeats and area type text (but this is another tale).

    Now, when I select both objects, the repeat object…

    8 votes
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  20. Scripts ran via actions do not select properly

    Dear developers,

    A few days ago I wrote a simple script which uses pathfinder to unite paths. This works perfectly when the script is ran via File > Scripts. But when added to an action and ran the script seems unable to select the proper layer and thus fails to run pathfinder.

    For a detailed rundown, analysis and files please visit the community forms post: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/script-ran-via-actions-does-not-select-properly/td-p/13032773

    Technical details:
    - Microsoft Windows 10 Pro version 10.0.19043 Build 19043;
    - Adobe Illustrator 2022 version 26.0.3 (64 bit)

    Kind regards.

    8 votes
    1 comment  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
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