Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs
When reporting a bug, please provide a detailed description with the following:
- 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
- Upload your Illustrator file or a video (screen recording or gif, this helps us most to reproduce the issue and resolve it)
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Big Sur
Updated Big Sur and Illustrator about the same time one of them is no letting Illustrator open at all, entire day lost
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Cannot Export Print Quality PNG from Illustrator 2021 Mac OS Catalina
Every time I try to export my large print quality files from Illustrator as .png, I get an error message. The Operation Cannot Complete Because of an Unknown Error [!now] I am trying to maintain the 300dpi quality because this is how my printer accepts files. (As .png.) My Illustrator file is 10000 x 10000 pixels at 300 dpi. I have tried it as 150 dpi and all of the export settings and always get the error message. I see on your forums that this has been going on for many years and that I'm not the only designer to…
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Align Object Buttons missing from Touch Bar
I have a 2016 Macbook pro with a Touch Bar and with this last update of illustrator the align buttons aren't showing up on the Touch Bar when I click on the align icon. "Align to" is showing up but none of the actual align buttons. I used these buttons all of the time and it really speeds up my workflow.
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AI files opening as old versions
Illustrator is intermittently not properly saving my files and is opening old versions of the AI file.
This is my workflow:
Create design and save AI file. Save PDF file and send to client. Receive amends, open AI file and amend + save. Save PDF file and send to client.
Repeat until the design is approved.
At this point I open the AI file and prepare the print files for production.
However, the AI file is opening as an older version and does not have the latest amends saved. This is costing us £100s in incorrectly manufactured items.
PLEASE HELP!!!
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Quick Preview on Mac is not Working
On Mac with the new Big Sur update, my Illustrator files show up as just the Illustrator logo and it does not preview any artboards.
Also, when pressing the spacebar, a wheel starts turning, then just the logo pops up. There is no file preview it seems after the Big Sur update.
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Page selection when opening a PDF
This is should be beyond trivial to correct, and there are users all over the place asking for this in a different issue report:
Please fix the UI for page-selection when opening a PDF in Illustrator!
Browsing through the thumbnails at the top of the dialog should automatically select that page to open below. It is bad UX to scroll through the pages to find the one that you want and then have to manually enter it below---I can't think of a single reason to have these UI elements disconnected (as they presently are), and there's no reason not to…3 votes -
can't highlight width and height cells or file name when creating a new document
Why did you take away the ability to easily highlight the document name, width or height when creating a new file? Super irritating.
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The Stacked Bar Graph tool doesn’t add up correctly in Illustrator 2021.
I’m designing a publication with lots of data. These figures have to be absolutely correct, since they’re economical and official. I noticed that the Stacked Bar Graph tool doesn’t produce bars of equal length and doesn’t align on the right. There are notable differences even though all my data add up to 100 and have three decimals.
What a shock, if anything should be correct this is it.
It’s not about this utterly backward graph tools which are unchanged over the last 20 odd years, it’s not about Illustrator not being able to use multicore on the Mac. None of…
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Unknown error when exporting to jpeg or PNG
I am trying to export my work to a Jpeg or PNG to work on photoshop but i keep on getting and unknown error. Please help I need this fix so i can complete my work. this is URGENT!!
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Recolor artwork modal panel stays in place
The new recolor art modal panel doesn’t remember it’s previous position and always appears in the center of my window. Is this expected ?
If it could be non modal and docked in my custom
UI I would appreciate too.3 votes -
Crashing when trying to save file
Sometimes when I'm trying to save my progress on a file, it crashes and doesn't create a recovered file or anything. I've lost a lot of work.
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software crash
Crash on trying to delete drop shadow effect. happened 4 times in one day. lost lot of work progress.
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Everytime I open Illustrator the toolbars are missing
Everytime I open Illustrator the toolbars are missing, even if I redefine the mode (classic, essentials, layout) they still don't appear. So everytime I have to go to window and add manually, which works, but if I close I have to do it all over again.
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Dragging Live Corners Rotates Object Instead of Rounding the Corner
OS: Windows 10 Pro 1909
Version: Illustrator 24.3Expected result:
Hovering over a live corner and dragging it should let me round the corner.Actual result:
Dragging a live corner more often than not rotates the object instead. Only by making sure my cursor is hovering as far away as it can be from the corner, but still showing the curve icon and dragging can I consistently get the right behaviour. Otherwise it rotates the object instead.This has been something I've experienced since at least March, and there's an Adobe Support Community post about this same issue from April…
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AIX file opens as blank white square
Working in Windows 10 Pro and Adobe Illustrator 24.3
Hi, I've recently run into the issue of not being able to open AIX files in illustrator despite having logged in to ArcGIS Online. Now, when I open an AIX file I'm just given a blank white square without any of my layers. I haven't had this issue before, so I'm wondering what is causing it. Any help would be appreciated. File I'm trying to open is attached as well as a screen grab of what I'm seeing when I try to open it.
Thanks!!3 votes -
Pathfinder tool functions not working
I am using Illustrator 2021, which just auto-updated, running on Windows 10.
The Pathfinder tool's functions (Unite, Minus Front, Intersect, and Exclude) are not working just after Illustrator 2021 updated. The Intersect subfunction still produces a "The filter produced no results" error box, but none of the other functions do anything.
In the attached image, the two ellipses are supposed to get merged into a lumpy shape, but they don't.
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Visual glitches in 2021 version
see middle blue circle. happens when zooming in and out (white speckles move)
3 votes -
Palettes and toolbars disappear
When I open Illustrator, all palettes and toolbars disappear from the canvas. I have to call them anew each time.
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1 bit TIFF files still importing inverted after all these years
It's been a while since I needed to import a 1 bit tiff file into Illustrator (maybe two years?) And I was so surprised to see this problem still occurs even in version 24.0.3
Does anyone know a fix bedside inverting it in Photoshop before importing it?
This is a no go, because when people open the file who aren't experiencing the the problem, it's wrong again.3 votes -
When copying text in Arabic or Hebrew, Illustrator messes up the characters.
Somehow the text gets flipped into Jibberish. Even when Arabic fonts are used such as Adobe Arabic. This causes the world to be filled with jibberish Hewbrew and Arabic.
3 votes
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