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An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment Debbie, unfortunately, not yet.
The bug is known, but the solution is not hat simple, it turns out.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Does this behave any differently if you choose to use CPU mode instead of GPU?
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An error occurred while saving the comment When this submenu is focused (the first time after launch), Illustrator builds the list of the currently installed fonts, converting it into the menu structure (since menus are handled by OS). This is not an effective process, since menus are not designed to hold this many items... for me it takes 17 seconds, and I have ~900 fonts. How much do you have installed?
Ai has a dedicated dropdown menu in Character panel and other places that handles huge lists better... but I get the problem is about accessing the top menu, its other items... I learnt to not focus it through years :) I understand this is a workaround, but I really have no idea if Ai team can cheat the OS.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I can confirm that.
But this happens not because of this is a library item specifically, but because of the way you get rid of the 'bounding box', as you wrote it
It’s not a bounding box — it’s a clipping path. When you delete it the way you did in the video, you get a clip group without a clipping path, and Ai goes mad working with this construct!Take a look in the Layers panel.
An embedded item from the library gets not a one, but TWO clipping paths, wrapped into each other (there is a dedicated request about not adding these: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32168584).
This happens because Illustrator uses the PDF copy of the original placed artwork when importing an asset, and these clips get created (as funny as it sounds within the context) to maintain positioning and dimensions... and PDF format is used to allow assets to be readable across all Adobe applications that have access to libraries.Typically, if someone tries to align a clipping group with no clipping path, Illustrator will fix it, converting to a simple legal group (but not immediately — the first try will be off, just like in your video).
But in your case you have not one, but two groups nested!
So Ai never fixes the broken clipping, because the second clipping obscures the first flawed one.This is a mess, and it should be definitely fixed.
The workaround I can advise you for now to avoid this behavior is to stop deleting the clips like you do, and use these steps:
1. Object > Clipping Mask > Release command, as a hotkey (typically Cmd/Ctrl + Opt/Alt + 7), several times,
2. then Shift-click the actual artwork with Selection tool to remove it form the selection,
3. then Delete the clipping fluff.VectorFirstAid panel from Astute Graphics plugin bundle has a dedicated Remove Unnecessary Clip Groups, for this and similar cases, and I bet there were some free scripts for that as well...
By the way, native Select > Object > Clipping Masks command, followed by Delete, will not make clip groups into groups automatically. But again, unless you have to many of them nested, Ai will try to covert them the first time you do anything with them.
Finally, take a look at a short GIF attached for clarification.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Brandon, do you mean mobile in general, or for a specific platform and/or format?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Exactly.
That’s why when multiple Artboards were introduced and Release Artboard command was removed, I had to make a small script that does it.
It allows to create an artboard sized rectangle, either for the current artboard only or all of them at once.That’s why I presumed a script can be built, since I made one already :)
But I don’t have time to modify it to fit your task perfectly, since it needs to read a color from swatches it will use for the 'canvas' background.
Anyway — feel free to use and modify it. If you do change it — please share it, so others can benefit from it.
Just rename it from .txt to .jsx (UserVoice does not allow to share naked scripts for security reasons)An error occurred while saving the comment Makes sense.
A workaround with custom written script comes in mind... the one that would create actual rectangles and keep them selected for easy deletion... After all, I already use scripts to export stuff often. But that’s not a universal solution, but just a workaround.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Am I getting this right — you want to have a built-in way to set the color of the canvas, visible in exported images without artboards included?
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An error occurred while saving the comment There is a dedicated feature request about an ability to select all the objects Global Edit finds:
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/38097442Would you mind me merging this request into it?
I share a workaround there in a comment you can use to still do what you want.
An error occurred while saving the comment There is a way to workaround this:
1. Show All
2. Start Global Edit
3. Hide Selection
4. Show All
Works also with Lock instead of Hide.
Unfortunately, requires nothing useful hidden and locked for it to work.I thought about a simpler trick, with Global Edit, Delete, Undo, but it does not work for this... but it works as intended, really, dropping a Global Edit mode on undo would be a not healthy thing!
And this means there is a way for a script to do this job. Will see how it goes.
An error occurred while saving the comment There should be also a way to convert these pseudo-symbols into real symbols: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/35768314
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An error occurred while saving the comment Please also add caption to this command. It's quite difficult to notice at Control panel.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Jessie, there is a way to create these — the Polygon Tool. Lower the number of sides to 3, and that will give you the perfect equilateral triangle, with no extra points and self-overlapping. Does this work for you? Please comment back.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Chris, am I correct saying this happens when you open the files from the Explorer, but doesn’t if you use File > Open or Recent?
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Mockup feature is now included in latest Illustrator releases
An error occurred while saving the comment Gabru, on your screen it is shown, but disabled.
I am guessing you have only the image selected and nothing else, correct? Otherwise the contextual taskbar would have shown Group button, and not the Image Trace one, like you has.
Mockup feature works differently. You either have to select both the art you want to put on the image, and the image itself, or open the dedicated Window > Mockup panel and have the art only, to apply it to one of the supplied images in the panel’s gallery.
You can read more about the workflow here: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/create-art-mockups.htmlPlease comment back if it works for you.
On the other hand, I really wish to know why were you thinking you need only the image selected... how did you expect it to work?An error occurred while saving the comment Ganesh, this is the Beta feature and it is available only in the Beta version of Ai for now. Are you using the Beta version (available from the Beta section in your CCD app) or the main release?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Huh, I completely missed it. Alas, the site is down. Ai, however, is still up. Hm...
An idea is an interesting one, and I bet a lot of folks would love to play with it, but after 5 years since the post there are other methods and tools available — and little demand expressed here at UV...
Voted, since I’d love this to exist. Still, what was the request? 'Make this from the box'? 'Look what I made?' -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Ellen, would you mind recoding these both on video, so the team can follow the steps exactly?
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An error occurred while saving the comment 1. Can you please share the test file with these two shapes? If no — can you show screenshots of the Appearance panel for the target object selected, both before and after sampling?
2. If you open the Eyedropper Tool Options dialog (by pressing Enter while the tool is picked, or by double-clicking the tool’s button in the toolbox) — do you have all the options checked, including both Appearance ones? Does the behavior differ if you leave them disabled? -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Nestor, you can close it using View > Perspective Grid > Hide Grid menu command, or by closing the widget with small X button, WHILE having Perspective Grid Tool picked up.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I’ve checked this in Corel Draw and Affinity Designer as well.
Both ignore spaces! So I think it should be a new default even (I know, scary...)An error occurred while saving the comment When Ai does not ignore the space in the end of the line, we are forced (I am!) to strip these in the end of each line when we split text into sections (just to make sure the spacing would be correct). It means that when we reshuffle text, we had to add spaces back. And Ctrl/Cmd-arrows put the cursor after the space, so this constant add-delete routine is error-prone.
I’d say LTR should ignore spacing added the right end, while RTL should do the vie versa, correct.
And (both 'alas' and 'sure') Ai has to give it as an option, because I can imagine some folks are just used to that and imitate wrapping with these, or something else... Tabs, as we know, are extremely broken for non-left text alignment, and Text Wrap is somewhat undiscoverable (and is pretty slow sometimes, compared to InD’s one).AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment Is this still an issue?
If yes, can you please check the Eyedropper’s settings and see if it has top two (or at least one) 'Appearance' checkmarks set?
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An error occurred while saving the comment There is a beautiful free script that allows to do exactly this:
https://github.com/creold/illustrator-scripts/blob/master/md/Item.md#resizetosize
The idea with the eyedropper to do that is interesting, but I myself rather prefer the dedicated Copy/Paste commands, or an option in the Transform Each dialog, or a Match Key Object approach... Eyedropper is a complex tool for many to learn (and quite problematic!), and I am afraid this would make it even more unstable.These are the related requests:
— Match Width or Height to Key Object — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/35740054
— An ability to resize all selected objects to a specific size — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/33252640
Debbie, can you check if this happens with a latest Illustrator build? Especially if you use transparency?