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AdminIllustrator Engineering
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Hello All,
We’ve implemented a fix for the previously reported issue in the latest release, version 29.0.1. Please check this update at your end and share your observations.
Your feedback on the effectiveness of the fix is crucial for us to ensure stability and quality.
Regards,
Aishwarya G Gadodia
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AdminAvinash Singh Kotwal
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Adobe Illustrator's Multithreading Journey Begins!
Dear Illustrator Community,
I'm thrilled to announce that we've embarked on an exciting journey to bring multithreading capabilities to Adobe Illustrator. This significant undertaking will enhance performance and responsiveness across various aspects of the application.
While this is a complex process that will take some time to fully implement, I wanted to share our progress so far.
Our Approach
We've strategically begun by focusing on the most computationally intensive operations—those that typically take more time and block the main thread, resulting in slower response times while you work. By moving these operations to separate threads, we aim to significantly improve your overall experience with Illustrator.
It's important to note that you may see more noticeable impact in some areas than others initially. However, we want to assure you that this is just the beginning, and we will continue this journey to bring improvements across…
An error occurred while saving the comment Stuart Chesters
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This thread makes me chuckle, as it reminds me of herding cats or as a Yorkshire friend of mine says, 'It's like pushing fog up a ditch with a rake".
That said, I'm glad that we keep on reminding those with the power to make a difference that their product stills falls woefully short and we care about that.
The point I wanted to make was I was genuinely excited as I read through @Seth comment from July 5th outlining what should be possible and a way forward. If only. How great it was to dream for a while about that parallel world where Illustrator got the developer love and dollars it deserves.
I'm also wondering in a genuine attempt to explore alternative solutions, what experience others have had in trying to jump ship to Affinity Designer?
Wishing this community patience, reliable recovery of illustrator crashes and ingenuity in finding work arounds. We're creatives after all!
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@Egor, Thanks for the insightful and helpful view behind the scenes and so delighted that this is getting some attention. If there's a plan then I'm all good with that too. I expect most of us here really love Illustrator as a tool and want it to get the coding love and attention it deserves.
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I now hate gambling with updating illustrator. If it's currently working in a relatively stable fashion and I know how to work around all the myriad stupid things that don't work properly (like editing gradients from the gradients window or unreliable copying of text - 2 of the most annoying at the moment) then I don't bother. It's such a massive pain in the neck and loss of productivity to have to reset keyboard shortcuts, profiles, workspace layout and settings when you roll back a version. It's like admitting defeat if they make it easy to do. A recognition that updates don't necessarily improve user experience, or heaven forbid introduce a new problem like the recent super zoom in and out effect that made it utterly unusable.
I feel for the volunteer testers who flag these things as the guy who reported that issue during beta didn't get his feedback responded to and we get a know about broken 'update'.
Shame as it's juts another slow drip of annoyance for the faithful monthly funders. Grr!
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I'd love to hear from someone who has made the switch from Illustrator to Affinity Designer. I'm too invested in the Adobe infrastructure for other software in their suite to save myself any money by switching but I'm at the point I'm considering switching just to make my creative experience quicker and smoother and more reliable. I'm so gutted as I love illustrator and have years of experience but they clearly have no intention of taking advantage of multi-core performance.
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I was initially under the impression that the Mac SoC version of Illustrator had been designed to take advantage of the architecture and therefore would make a better effort to use multiple cores.
I was excited to try but, my M1 Mac Mini from last year with 8GB memory was a big let down. It starts up faster but made no noticeable improvement for me (Dell XPS 17 9700 with 64GB and GTX 1650Ti for comparison) and if anything seemed a little slower panning and zooming large files.
Since the M1 never seems to take advantage of multi cores in Illustrator (my daily workhorse) or even make full use of the cores or GPU when creating video in Premier Pro it gets no love from me. In fact all my daily tasks take longer on a MAC mini. What was all the fuss about?
Maybe the new Mac Studio will be better but I'm guessing that'll only be because of the faster single core performance. I so wanted to find a Mac that was better than my now fairly average laptop, but for the stuff I use it for there's no significant gain. Illustrator being the main culprit along with PowerPoint for creating slide show video . Both of these have a subscription model and both seem incapable of taking advantage of multi core processing while taking advantage of my regular subscription stream. Software development today leaves a lot to be desired!
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The latest Beta 28.8.0.37 now has this function back.
You can enable the mode using a button in Control Panel or in Properties, with the Artboard tool picked.
The option automatically enables Scale Strokes & Effects option temporarily.
As always, you can hold Shift to resize proportionally.
Please test it and comment back!
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The latest Beta build 29.0.0.9 now allows us to create a gradient from selected swatches, using two ways:
- Select swatches you need (use Cmd/Ctrl to select several) and drag-n-drop them onto the gradient strip in Gradient panel.
- Select swatches you need and choose the new 'Gradient from Swatches Selection' command from the Swatches panel’s flyout menu.
In both cases new gradient stops will be spread uniformly, using the current order of swatches in the panel (not the order of selection).
If you have artwork selected in the document while doing this, the gradient will be automatically applied to it.
Please try the feature and comment back.
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The most recent version finally has the Object > Distribute menu added.
Now both Align and Distribute commands can be accessed via menu and have assigned keyboards shortcuts to them.
The order of the commands though seemingly matches the one the panel has: horizontal first for Align and vertical first for Distribute. If you find this odd and want to change it — vote here: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/45855823-sync-the-order-of-align-and-distribute-menu-comman
Also, Align To and Distribute Spacing commands are still missing in top menus, so please keep voting here to make them added too.
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Starting from the February 2024 release, version 28.3, this option is no longer enabled by default for new documents. If you had hyphenation enabled in an existing document, Ai will respect this.
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At the moment everytime I want to use this it is less than helpful as I can't colour it and have limited options for the actual bullet.
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The fix for this issue has been rolled out with Illustrator 27.3.1 release available through Creative Cloud Desktop.
Please update to 27.3.1 version to ensure you do not run into this issue.
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Likewise. Workspace, keyboard shortcuts, preferences all need restoring despite Adobe saying they'd remain. I usually don't upgrade versions for a good while as the new one is always buggy in some way lately. That'll teach me. At least a month in the wild before considering it now.
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I am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our latest release – 27.0.1 which is available worldwide now.
Going forward, our goal is to fix as many top User-Voice bugs as possible and as frequently as possible. Given the nature of the fixes, some of the bugs will take a longer time to fix, but we are on it.
You can update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html
Thank you for all the feedback. Keep it coming!
Ankit Goyal
Illustrator Team
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Thanks, everything I need to know about the new upgrade answered here. I always come and look at the issues and bugs before installing a new version of AI. I couldn't care less about all it's new bells and whistles all I've ever asked for and want is it to run stable and fast. Any hint that's it's slower and more buggy and I'm staying with my current laggard and somewhat stable version.