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An error occurred while saving the comment So it’s not crashing, but something else then... How does it look? Do they appear and vanish? or just never show up? Can you record a video, please?
What windows are affected, but New Document? 'Every in-app' is rather non-descriptive...
You say 'saving settings' — is it one containing the settings for the chosen file format, like JPEG Options?If you still have a link to this old post by another Brazilian user —can you share it?
An error occurred while saving the comment Clara, when it does — do you get a crash reported dialog? Do you send the reports to Adobe? If you do — do you use the same email the you use here at UserVoice?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Same for me. The path gets caught up when the Pencil tool is used (even when it’s not previewed while the mouse key / pen is held), but not for the Brush!
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An error occurred while saving the comment The team 'fixed' the behavior that allowed us to 'overprint' the grid when Overprint preview mode was enabled.
Now the grid won’t be displayed above opaque objects when Preferences > Guides & Grid > Grids in Back is enabled.
The image shared is the correct and expected behavior — and this is what team thinks.However.
I hate it personally. I’ve been using the Overprint hack to display subtle grids above everything since pre CS era.
Disabling Grids in Back to display grids above artwork is horrendously loud — lines are too prominent!I made a request about making Grids-in-front more useful a while ago — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32403802
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An error occurred while saving the comment I found several workarounds, and the best one is to use dummies (like no-stroke-no-fill circles) along with actual objects.
It definitely has flaws: it becomes harder to edit the guiding path, the steps and quantized, it looks rather noisy, aiming the actual objects is hard.Another method would be using several copies stacked... When only one object is placed on a path, Ai allows to position it freely. The downside is editing all copies of the guiding path simultaneously. In the GIF I use Glue Mode of the PathScribe plugin tool, but without it’d be rather painful.
Finally, Transform effect can be used to reposition objects. Looks tangible with the Stylism plugin, but hardly effective without it.
An error occurred while saving the comment Two more related requests:
1. Allow to Move All objects and adjust their Spacing from both ends in Objects on Path — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/48987941
2. Add an option to measure gaps between objects in Objects on Path by their bounds, not between centers — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/48987905An error occurred while saving the comment Agree!
For me it jumps with 1 pt step, not even a half a point.
And actually it jumps for me in with 0.35 mm step, because the team believes everybody in the world uses fraction of an inch, and PostScript’s points, being the foundation of Ai, should also be a it’s rigid coffin. I do not care about points, and don’t want to see them anywhere.
I suggested having a slow drag mode, so we can hold Cmd/Ctrl while dragging the slider, to make it go with 10 times smaller increment. Ideally, the value should be customizable (if not from within the UI, bowels of Prefs file will do).
And surely we just need a filed somewhere as well to edit the value directly, or even a way to double-clik the slider handle to enter it right there on canvas.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Andy, does this problem still happen to you?
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An error occurred while saving the comment A related older report:
No x- and y-values for rectangles in the top menu bar
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/40749193An error occurred while saving the comment Margot, I added you as a voter to the request for full customization of the Control panel here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/41107240
This and asking for your screen size again is the only thing I can be helpful with here...
At least know you are not alone with this problem and the the team knows about it as well.An error occurred while saving the comment Margot, recently the team added the long-awaited artboard background color options (requested here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31386253)
So now each artboard has 2 more controls: a dropdown menu and a color chip.
These now take space in the Control panel, and it seems like these push out the Width and Height controls out of the bounds!
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I happens when the width of the screen is not wide enough to fit all the elements the Control panel can display. Some blocks, especially from the Transform section, get omitted.
To workaround this without purchasing a larger display, one can open the Control panel's flyout menu, untick some options, like Align, and check if the section needed returns. If yes — then please vote here for a feature that would allow us to change the order of blocks in Control: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-feature-requests/suggestions/40231882-allow-us-to-chose-order-of-controls-in-control-pan
An error occurred while saving the comment A related report:
Artboard width & height removed from upper tool bar. PUT IT BACK
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/50699138An error occurred while saving the comment Hey, it might be because there are too many blocks in the Control panel and the Transform section is omitted. Try to open Control panel's flyout menu, untick, say, Align, and check if coordinates return.
If yes, then please vote here for a feature that would allow us to change the order of blocks in Control:
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An error occurred while saving the comment Jemima, if this is still happening, can you share a screenshot of this behavior, please? A video would be even better. You do mean the Align panel, not the Align block in the Properties panel, right?
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An error occurred while saving the comment John, were you able to find the Rectangle tool, I wonder, or do you still have the problem with accessing tools?
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It seems like the Size/Leading, Tracking, Baseline Shift values in Preferences > Type got changed... If it is the issue — please upvote it still and leave a comment. It’s not clear yet why it happens.
An error occurred while saving the comment In Preferences > Type — what do you have as top three values: Seize/Leading, Tracking, Baseline Shift?
Having these set to 0 (or rather to the smallest allowed value), due to the Prefs corruption bug, was the reason for this behavior previously, reported here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/50353824An error occurred while saving the comment By any chance — do you have the Wacom driver installed? There was a report recently that it has problems when installed at Sequoia, suddenly with text...
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An error occurred while saving the comment @Milosz, I explained the problem in details in the comment below from the earlier report yours one got merged into, along with several workaround available for us at the moment. I agree! But I don’t think personally the team could provide any fix for this soon... the problem seems to be inherited in the core approach to corners — each one must be separate from another, and they can’t share adjacent points... The more attention we pull here, the higher the chance to get it fixed.
An error occurred while saving the comment I see what is happening, and can explain why it happens...
Ai’s approach to round corners is a peculiar one...
It doesn’t know if a corner was rounded, it keeps no tags for these, but it can detect arcs — and when it sees one, it draws a widget, calculating the reformed curve while you drag it or change the value numerically.
For some reason Ai’s solution does not allow to make two arcs meet in ONE point. Try to round two adjacent corners of a square, then click the merged point and drag it — you’ll see it’s actually two points. A tiniest gap should exist for the algorithm to work, it seems (although I have no idea why).
In this case, the logo was built without native widgets, and the circular arcs B and D have don’t have the Tiniest Gap... but when you start editing a corner with a widget, Ai converts the path into the one that can be edited with the rules established. And if two arcs can’t share a point by the rules, for Ai it means it’s not two arcs then, but only one rounded corner for a curved path. It makes it a not exactly 90°, and it makes the point shift.
To see what I mean, try to click the widget in the center of D and drag it into zero.To workaround the problem, select the shifting point before rounding corners and press 'Cut path at selected anchor points' in Control (or use Scissors with Smart Guides enabled) — this would force Ai to keep it when making a new rounded corner. When finished, press Ctrl+J to close the path back.
Another method would be to use a free Round Any Corner script by Hiroyuki Sato (https://shanfan.github.io/Illustrator-Scripts-Archive/) or Dynamic Corners plugin by Astute Graphics (https://docs.astutegraphics.com/vectorscribe/dynamic-corners)
An error occurred while saving the comment Not seeing it happening, but this feels familiar...
Do you happen to still have the file? If not — can you reproduce it from scratch?
In any way — can you tell how the larger rounded corner was created?An error occurred while saving the comment Here is a file provided by https://x.com/onthehead with a very simple test file.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Can you try to isolate the problem into a test file and provide the exact chain of steps to follow to reproduce it, please?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yes, this is a lesser known way to create layers underneath.
...to be honest, it’s good you mentioned it, because I always treated it as a bug and dared not to speak about it, so it won’t get 'fixed'.
Because the Grid in Overprint Preview WAS fixed, and now I don’t have a way to have subtle grids! :)An error occurred while saving the comment A related request about Appearance:
Cmd / Ctrl or Alt + New Fill/Stroke button in Appearance should add one below current fill/stroke
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E-mails don’t really like large files. Uploading these somewhere and sharing a link is a safer option. Hope the amount you sent is enough.The 'reopen the file with linked tif, the linked just gone without warning as usual' — do you mean the linked image just vanished? or do I get it wrong?
> working with embedded or rasterized design more fine with me because I need to drag a lot and fast enough to layouting
So is it fast or not? :D Well, the team put some effort recently in handling images, placed or embedded, so yes, it can feel faster.Saving as .ai with PDF-compatibility is basically the same as exporting a .pdf with Ai-compatibility.
Exporting to a PDF with no Illustrator compatibility should be slower than saving a native Ai file without a PDF copy.
Is this what you see?An error occurred while saving the comment @onenower, yes, by placing these individually with File > Place — if the PDF-compatibility option was checked when saving them.
There’s a separate request to teach Ai to place its own .ai files without the PDF-stream embedded here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/49230251An error occurred while saving the comment Working in 1:10 scale is a common workaround, and the Large Canvas mode I proposed to try basically does the same thing, but internally.
The current maximum canvas size is 2¹4 points, exactly 16384 pt, approximately 227 in / 5766 mm. Large canvas is 10 times larger.
There are many downsides to it, unfortunately (reported here at UV too), so by 'try' I mean in, it won’t be a bulletproof solution.Also, embedded images are slower to save in general, linked images should operate faster.
Unchecking 'Create PDF Compatible file' when saving decreases file size and save time significantly too (but it would mean no placing into Ai, Ps, InD, etc.)
But treat it all just a generic advice... In my practice, I’d move each design into a separate file... and would assemble them as links onto a single canvas as scaled copies, if I ever need an assembly.What you create is LARGE, especially in 1:1 scale, and a ton of textures!
So yes, again, please Package the file with the textures included and send it to the team (sharewithai@adobe.com. It won’t instantly solve the performance problem, but in the long run it would help them to test and fine-tune the app to be able to run better with a file like yours.The configuration is Intel Core i7-12700F 2.1 GHz, 32 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 11 Pro — thanks.
As for the PDF problem — it IS intentional.
When you save a PDF with the 'Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities' enabled (the [Illustrator Default], [High Quality Print], [Press Quality] presets have it enabled by default), the full copy of your original document gets written into the resulting file, as hidden PGF block, alongside with the PDF stream. So, when you try to read the file back, it would be 'opened' rather than 'imported' (this is what would happen if you uncheck the option). This way Ai keeps the original layout in full, to maintain the editability — and this is what you see. Remember, artboards in Ai are not pages, they can nest, overlap, etc. — and is used a lot in map making and other design tasks. So if you want a PDF to be EXPORTED — uncheck the option... but be prepared the file would be harder to read back in the very same state.There’s a separate request for this, but there’s no easy solution to sit on both chairs at once:
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32252662
Please upvote!An error occurred while saving the comment I don’t think I got the part where you say about rasterizing the contents. Do you mean it happens for you without you wanting it, and that you have to rasterize to continue working? How large are these apparel designs? Have you tried working in Large Canvas mode? (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/add-and-import-files/start-a-new-file/create-files-on-large-canvases.html)
The team tries to study different workflows and adapt Illustrator to real-world cases.
If you can, please share this particular file with the team — send it over to sharewithai@adobe.com (and mention the link to this very request, http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/50719064).
What are your full OS and hardware specs (including GPU)?There is an ongoing work to make Ai multithreaded, step by step, component by component, and you can follow the news here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/20423296
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An error occurred while saving the comment By any chance — do you have the Wacom driver installed? There was a report recently that it has problems when installed at Sequoia, suddenly with text...
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An error occurred while saving the comment Info panel is now used to display an area of the selection, so while in this state you are seeing it as empty, it looks differently when used, with values in it...
It doesn’t mean it’s good though, I agree, because it looks like the margins for the fields are too large! Voted.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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I remember this:
https://github.com/WestonThayer/Bloks
Old, crude, complex to setup, but it was before Figma