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The team is exploring the ways to increase the limit.
An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment This happens when the goal font size of the scaled text object goes beyond the maximum allowed value — 1296 pt.
Why Illustrator prefers just to fall back to the original size when it happens and not cap it at 1296 — a mystery I know nothing about.
Hence I add a vote.And some believe that the limit is just dated, and it should be removed. You can also vote for it here: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/31773148-allow-type-to-scale-larger-than-1296-pts
An error occurred while saving the comment 'Volunteer lawyer' :D
I like that!
Sadly, I am not 15 anymore. And surely I am not going to persuade anybody it’s OK to have this limit. I just know why it exists.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yes, this is an intended limit for text size.
That’s PostScript limitation, as far as I know.There are many requests to make it bigger, like the one for InDesign — https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/31850848-please-allow-font-size-larger-than-1296-pt, or this one for Illustrator — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31773148.
Vote there, if you want to.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Free Distort works with live text alright, it stays live and surely distorted.. but only the effect, not the tool! As for the Perspective — indeed it gets outlined or just ignored, depending on the way you manipulate it.
An error occurred while saving the comment I personally do jobs like this in Photoshop, using vector smart objects (link or embedded) wrapped in another smart objects, to allow perspective distortions. This is fluid enough workflow, and I prefer using Ps over Ai, because the photo is a raster image in the first place, and the result will be raster too. Ps allows much more control than Ai would ever have, even if this got implemented. Shadows, color correction, night and lighting and volume imitation..
I vote though, to have it noticed, because it's not that easy to work with perspective, and distortion options are limited.
Have you tried Illustrator’s Perspective tools for this job though, Claudio?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Carsten, can you elaborate on this a bit more and show an example?
Is this something like Tangent Line Tool from Astute Graphics can do? -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Are you having the 'Zoom with Mouse Wheel' option enabled or not? That is do you zoom in with Alt+Wheel or with the naked wheel?
Can’t confirm both ways on Windows 10 with 27.4.1.
When you switch back to Ai — do you see underscores in menus’ names (like F in File, E in Edit, etc.)? -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Once upon a time one company in my home city had a logotype with spikes like this, white Arial Black letters with a red offset. It’s been like this for years, ugly and stupid, but one day I had a chance to work with them and was able to persuade them to fix it. They believed the computers are infallible, and 'that’s how it makes it, so it’s the truth’. I made a demo for them, revealing the flaw of the algorithm. Happy end.
Well, the actual problem is garbage, of course, there should be a way to disable those spikes.
But there is a descent workaround I use for decades now — instead of a stroke behind the fill, I use a second fill behind the first one, with an Offset Path effect applied to it. It does NOT produce spikes (and it leaves no holes inside when expanded, which is a nice bonus).
While this one should be fixed, I urge you to do it with an effect instead :)AdminEgor Chistyakov
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In the latest versions the chosen option for symbols sticks once you select Static instead of Dynamic ands stays like this for each new symbol we create further: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32371252
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An error occurred while saving the comment Steph, is this still an issue for you?
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An error occurred while saving the comment It is possible to achieve this with a script.
There are many variations of this, but I like this compact one by Oleg Krasnov:app.preferences.setBooleanPreference('ShowExternalJSXWarning', false);
(function () {
var n = "scaleLineWeight"
, m = "scale strokes"
, state = app.preferences.getBooleanPreference(n)? 0 : 1;
app.preferences.setBooleanPreference(n, state);
return m + ": " + (state? "on" : "off");
})()Save it in a text file with .jsx format.
Then you can put this script into the dedicated Scripts folder, record an action to call it, and assign a hotkey to the action.
Once it’s set up (and backed up! actions can be lost on updates) — it just works.The request is a legal one, sure. Voted.
An error occurred while saving the comment Stephen is right with the workaround, but I say this here and there: an action which has only one operation recorded is a bad action, a consequence of Illustrator’s inability to assign direct hotkeys to panels’ menus.
I believe every command in Ai should be assignable to a hotkey.
Here is the request you can upvote about this: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31609237AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment I understand it might be too late for a reply (4 years passed) — but is this still a problem for you? I know the ~ key does not work for those who uses keyboard layouts other than English quite often, but you are form the US, I presume. Please correct me.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Is this still a problem for you? I checked it and no problems happen for me on Windows with blurring a shape filled with a Pantone color from a Coated library...
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An error occurred while saving the comment A valid request, voted.
I know a specific script that does respect clipping masks when calculating bounds, but it it is no about replacing symbols specifically, but about resizing to a certain size...
But then there is a paid plugin, FindReplace Art by Astute Graphics, it does the thing you want for sure.
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An error occurred while saving the comment A dangerous setting, but definitely should be an option.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I see. So these are the Pantones you are trying to add.
Can you try the same with other library swatches, other than Pantone spots?
I suspect it’s because it’s Pantone specifically: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/pantone-color-books-illustrator.html
And surely it’s not how Ai should handles this, if it's the cause.
Can you check it further?An error occurred while saving the comment Grace, can you please record a short video of this behavior?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yann, Ai provides several methods to export PNGs. Which one does crash Ai? Do other methods crash it?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Can you share this test file here, please?
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Also there is a report about Illustrator falling back to the initial font size when scaling a text over the maximum value: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/42111295
While the limit is obviously a legacy thing, that behaviour is not.