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The latest Beta Build 29.6.25 has this bug fixed. Please update and see if it truly works as expected
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An error occurred while saving the comment I see!
Please take a look at these two existing request:
1. Use Key Object to allow precise control for in-back and in-front level changes — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/20554729
2. The Ability to paste an object precisely where we want it to be in the layers panel — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/41403613Also, perhaps these two amazing scripts could help?
I have these assigned to hotkeys and use them daily, for the similar task you have:
https://github.com/nimbling/Nimbling_Scripts#send-behind--bring-in-front-of
The only problem with these is to know for sure which object is the selection is above.
Other than that — these are amazing.An error occurred while saving the comment Kait, if you select something and use Paste in Front/ Back, Ai would paste the clipboard contents in front of the topmost / at the back of the bottommost objects in the selection (if you have Paste Remembers Layers option disabled in the Layers panel’s flyout menu — it is disabled by default)...
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An error occurred while saving the comment Lawrence, in your CCD open Apps, and in the right Installed Apps column find the Illustrator version you need, hover and click 'More actions' (...) button. Choose 'Get add-ons', and then add the 'Mockup feature components'. Usually it should happen automatically when you try to create a mockup the first time, but something went wrong... Please comment back, no matter if it helps or not.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Still doesn’t happen. Maybe it’s a file?
Can you copy this circle into a new document, check if it still misbehaves there, and share this file here?
UserVoice seems to experience problems with attaching .ai files for now, so please rename it into a .txt file to bypass it.An error occurred while saving the comment Can’t reproduce it, perhaps something differs when I try.
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An error occurred while saving the comment This is strange... Can you please record a small video of how it looks?
Do others cursors appear for other tools?
If you double-click a type object with the Selection Tool — does it start editing the text?
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An error occurred while saving the comment David, please package both and send directly to the team via sharewithai@adobe.com
Mention the link to this report, so they can track it back here — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/50581817
It seems to be a part of the larger problem, and every bit of data counts.
Just to clarify also... are these files located on a local disk? not-cloud managed, not over a network or on a NAS?An error occurred while saving the comment Seems like a related problem:
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/50633909An error occurred while saving the comment Yes, I can see this at your screenshots, but not within the file... and if there is no difference between GPU and CPU Preview, it probably means it just struggles with rendering in general. The GPU is integrated in the iMac’s M3 chip, AFAIK...
I’ll try to bring some attention to it. Have you ever noticed this with other files at all?An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks for the file, studying it.
So far all the shadow applied to all rectangles seem to be rendered fine for me (although I’m at Windows 10, with a different GPU).
When a shadow vanishes like this — does the effect still get shown in Appearance panel? Does it appear back if you toggle View > Preview on CPU?Two circles missing images (Francium and Radium) are not clip groups when I study them in Layers... no images are there. I noticed though that those clip groups that do have images are made of a grouped ellipse and an image — never heard of it being a problem, but perhaps clipping an image with a grouped ellipse can lead to images vanishing? Are you sure you had the images for these two elements in the first place? Odd...
Alos, just wanted to mention the atomic weight for Francium has parentheses (while others elements don’t), and the Sodium’s rectangle has smaller corner radii than other elements.
If you can, please try to check how the file behaves in Beta build — it’s available in your CCD app and will get installed next to the general build (be warned though that it will rewrite your .ai file association).
An error occurred while saving the comment David, please share a test file (with images included, using File > Package), and the spec of your computer: OS, GPU, etc.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Here’s a script made by me and Sergey Osokin.
Rename it from .txt. to .jsx after downloading.The script would process the whole document and do these things with clip groups found:
1. Convert all filled clipping masks into filled compound clipping masks — it would make them clickable and draggable
2. Move all filled compound clipping masks to the bottom of their groups — this would fix the problem with them being moved to the tops of their clip groups and prevent selecting other children
Compound clipping masks without fills are ignored, as well as unfilled clipping paths.Upvote this related problem to have it fixed someday:
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31558588AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment Here’s a script made by me and Sergey Osokin.
Rename it from .txt. to .jsx after downloading.The script would process the whole document and do these things with clip groups found:
1. Convert all filled clipping masks into filled compound clipping masks — it would make them clickable and draggable
2. Move all filled compound clipping masks to the bottom of their groups — this would fix the problem with them being moved to the tops of their clip groups and prevent selecting other children
Compound clipping masks without fills are ignored, as well as unfilled clipping paths.Upvote this related problem to have it fixed someday:
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/48267722An error occurred while saving the comment There is a workaround, but I have no idea about the nature of it.
If the clipping path is a compound path (even if it has path within) — it CAN be dragged.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment I have a rectangle clipping mask around a circle (doesn't really matter). When rectangle has no fill, I click it and nothing gets selected — expected, fine. But when I fill my clipping mask and try to select it by clicking the colored area — it does nothing. It works for everything, except for colored clipped masks :) You have to drag over the edge only. It doesn't matter if you clipping mask is over or under (in this case, btw). It should work.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Smoothing a selected portion of a path converts the extreme points in the selection into sharp from smooth.
Here I have a path with all the points being smooth (all handles are at 180°), but one portion of the path is particularly bumpy. I want to smooth only this portion.
I select it (using Lasso), I make sure these are smooth, I pick Pencil, hold Opt/Alt, drag the slider... and it makes the selected portion of the path connected to the rest of it in the sharp manner. There is no tension at the star/end points, it just flops.
While this can be useful, being blind like this, I’d love for it to at least give me the choice. An option, perhaps?An error occurred while saving the comment Eliza, Opt/Alt in Illustrator never toggled the Eyedropper for Brush and Blob Brush... I just checked it in several older versions (up to CS, just to be sure). Perhaps you are confusing it with Photoshop? There is actually a dedicated request about it: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/39243472 — and I added you as a voter there, based on your comment.
An error occurred while saving the comment Ben, Smooth is a new feature, and it was no there 10 years ago. You probably confuse it with Simplify, which is still there and works as it used to.
An error occurred while saving the comment I am checking it in the latest Beta, and I don’t think it’s a major difference.
Ai still does not highlight the portion of a path that is going to be smoothed while you hold the mouse button/pen down, and there is no way to definitely make targeted point just vanish.
If you are done with it and take no more feedback, it’s fine. But if there is still room for improvement, I’d live to have more feedback on it. Like why do we have to release the key to see the result in the first place? -
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An error occurred while saving the comment A similar report, but with a long stroked line with a variable width:
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/50688200An error occurred while saving the comment Yes, I can confirm. I attach the test file.
Illustrator’s GPU preview has a lot of problems with thin objects... especially apparent when the stroke weight is zero, http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/46443136 -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Seems very similar to this recent report:
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/50652128
...as well as many others. Ai struggles with long thin objects with non-uniform or inside/outside strokes...Can you paste it into a new doc and share it here, please?
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Excited to share that the requested functionality is now available in the public builds starting from V 28.3.0.
WIth the new Enclosed Mode, you can now select ONLY those objects which are completely INSIDE the marquee.
To activate the Enclosed Mode, just press 'E' ONCE after you start doing the marquee with the Normal Selection Tool or Group Selection tool.
Please note that,
1. The button E acts as a toggle, which means you just have to press E once, to get into or out of the enclosed mode.
2. You have to press E only after doing the marquee, pressing E in empty canvas will invoke the Free Transform tool or the tool the shortcut 'E' is assigned to.
We made a lot of effort in building this capability, so please try it out and let us what you all think!
An error occurred while saving the comment Illustrator today allows to make Enclosed Selection Mode a permanent option, with with the Select Objects only within Marquee option, in Preferences > Selection & Anchor Display, as was requested here and in a separate request at http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/49503929
But I still can’t use it fully today.
I isolate often, and Selection tool does not allow to use Enclosed mode when isolated. For some strange reason it requires the Group Selection tool to do so, as if my scope stays at the document level, and I’m no in isolation! Make Selection tool work in Enclosed mode in isolation, please.An error occurred while saving the comment An now there is also a separate request about making it a permanent option we tan toggle to change the default behavior: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/49503929
All who clearly asked about this in the comments for the original request got added as voters to this branched request.
As usual, if you feel this matches with your idea about how it should work — please upvote it.An error occurred while saving the comment There is a separate request now about having it the CAD-way, when a direction of the marquee toggles the mode: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/49489604
I added all of those who clearly messaged it was they preferred method as voters.
If you feel this is something you like as well — please upvote it.
I personally don’t see why Illustrator, being a professional tool, should offer only ONE of FOUR methods we all came up with in the comments.An error occurred while saving the comment Another third-part solution would be Area Select Tool from ESKO’s boostX plugin pack:
https://docs.esko.com/docs/en-us/boostx-for-ai/16/userguide/home.html?q=en-us/common/bx/topic/to_areaselect.htmlAn error occurred while saving the comment Here is what I think.
1. Users need a way to permanently toggle the mode. It is clear, if you read comments below.
2. Users need a hotkey slot to toggle the mode.
3. Users need hotkeys to toggle other modes in Illustrator:
- Transform Pattern Tiles
- Scale Stroke and Effects
- Scale Corners
- Use Preview Bounds
4. Users need a way to toggle these on the fly, when a transformation has already started.
5. Some modes have hotkeys, but are impossible to toggle after dragging has started:
- Smart Guides
- Snap to Grid / Pixels / Point / Glyphs
6. Illustrator requires us to hold standard modifier keys (Alt/Opt, Shift, Cmd/Ctrl) all the time until the mouse button is released, unlike Photoshop. This is both useful and confusing (and the request even exists(http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/44954005), 1 vote)
7. Professionals are 'speedrunners'. Illustrator desperately needs to introduce more modifier keys(http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/34616848) for many tools, to help the professionals to be productive — the same way Illustrator introduces contextual panels.
8. There is an established workflow third-parties developed to toggle modes for tools (not one developer, not two, but many at once) — use letter keys one can tap or hold. This method works.
9. The method is yet unfamiliar to basic Illustrator users.
10. The method requires some in-app education, in a way it doesn’t distract professionals but helps newbies.
11. Illustrator has been requiring a method to inform users about possible modifiers for many decades.
12. All competitors and third-party developers solved this problem many years ago. They use hints near cursor / a dedicated panel with a column view / a dedicated panel slot to display hints. There is a request to introduce one for illustrator(http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32403871), reviving the section at the bottom. Another request directly asks for a panel(http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/40470892).
13. Without a panel/section, it’d be hard to educated people about the enclosed mode. People got fed up with rich tooltips and 'Try this' and 'This is new' popups really fast, since they interrupt the workflow (the one in Photoshop can’t even be closed!), so there should be a calmer way to do it.
14. The panel makes sense if you introduce other keys to control other modes along with the Enclosed Mode or soon enough. These can be:
- T for Transform Pattern Tiles
- S for Scale Stroke and Effects
- C for Scale Corners
- P for Use Preview Bounds
- U for Smart Guides
- G for Snap to Grid
- X for Snap to Pixels
- O for Snap to Point
- L for Snap to Glyphs
- etc., you get the idea
15. Another key like this exists already, it’s ` or ~ (tilde), and it allows many things, including temporarily Transform Pattern Tiles. This key is broken(http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/41072941) — it works poorly on non-English keyboards (including me). The new mode-toggling method could solve it.
16. We need a way to both toggle modes temporarily and permanently on the fly. This can be easily done with distinguishing 'hold' and 'tap'. If a user holds the mode key — then the mode works only until the mouse key is released. If a user taps a key while holding a mouse button — the mode stays toggled permanently.
17. Both methods require clear on-canvas confirmation.
18. `Opt/Alt` is as good as `E`, faster to learn, but will cut off all the things above. But — you can use both. It’s a normal practice to allow different methods to regulate an option (take Scale Stroke and Effects we can toggle in three different places).
19. You can solve many more issues at once with this. Limiting it to only 'good-enough' solution and cutting off branches that can grow into other solutions is the exact way that led Illustrator to the condition it currently stays in.
20. You definitely need to learn to highlight objects that are going to be selected — as a separate option, for all the selection tools, including Direct Selection. Third-parties solved this, so can you.An error occurred while saving the comment Yup, Alessandro, it’d be. The team knows about this, and thanks for speaking about it.
Have no idea though if they will add it and when.An error occurred while saving the comment Sure Ai should have it.
Meanwhile, there is Super Marquee Tool from the AstuteGraphics plugin pack that allows to do exactly that and much more. If you need this right here and now, I suggest trying this solution.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Well, I agree, but leave Shift alone, it's as good as it is now, it adds/subtracts from selection. Same for Ctrl. May be Alt?
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An error occurred while saving the comment It’s tough to say without the file shared, what went wrong with this one.
The size of the rectangle is unknown. The Transform section in the Properties panel shows the size of the artboard, rather than the selected object...
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An error occurred while saving the comment I wonder if you are still having problems like this today. The artboard limit is 227" today, and can be larger 10 times in the scaled Large Canvas mode...
But your 2 50" wide artboards should have not exceeded 227... the screenshot doesn’t show both on canvas though, so perhaps it was a huge gap between them? Tough to say now. -
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An error occurred while saving the comment When creating a web-intended document, Ai assumes it has a resolution of 72 ppi. Pixel is point in Postcript, and point is a physical unit, a 1/72 of an inch.
Changing the resolution in Ai when exporting always means resampling.
So if you create a 6535×4730 px document, and try to export it using 300 ppi, Ai would scale it up 4,16(6) times (300 / 72), treating it as a multiplier/coefficient, rather than an arbitrary value that gets written into the image — and it makes your 6535×4730 into 27229,16(6)×19708,3(3) px. This is far beyond the limit Ai has! And I’m not sure if you meant to do this.
Images for digital media care not about the resolution... And PNG was designed to Web. If you intend to create for printing — it’s better to use real-world units.I’d like to learn more about the workflow you had (have?)
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An error occurred while saving the comment Kik, this feels like a GPU bug.
Does it go away when you enable CPU preview instead, with View > Preview on CPU?
Anyway, please provide your full OS and GPU specs, so that the team could try to reproduce this at their side using a similar setup.
Ideally, having this actual file could help as well — please send it to sharewithai@adobe.com (and mention the link to this report for tracking it back here — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/50687483) -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Just to clarify — so it NEVER works if you add Shift, but works without Shift after a first failed attempt?
Or does it always work without Shift added?An error occurred while saving the comment I personally don’t have this problem... But it’s not the first time this bubbles up :(
1. Holding Alt while dragging an object to copy / duplicate it doesn’t works — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/32365747 — nobody replied if it was fixed for them
2. Alt-Drag to Duplicate (and Shift to align) Only Works Intermittently — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/31354873 — was fixed in 2020, and no-one upvoted this since then — but if fits your description with the Shift held additionally
3. Click-drag fails... snaps back — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/44914921 — this one I was told is under review, but I never got a confirmation from the team it was fixed. Does this one feel like a same problem to you?An error occurred while saving the comment In Illustrator, unlike in e.g. Photoshop, we have to hold Opt/Alt all the time while trying to duplicate.
Is this what you are observing?A discussion about the difference in modality paradigms Ai and Ps have:
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An error occurred while saving the comment Works smoothly for Rotate and Scale tools, but not for Direct Selection. The pattern moves, but not WITH the object, not WITHIN it, like before.
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@Akshaya, yes, there is.
Holding Opt/Alt with Shift seems to be broken, again (not for me though):
1. Older report 1, Holding Alt while dragging an object to copy / duplicate it doesn’t works: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/32365747
2. Older report 2, Alt-Drag to Duplicate (and Shift to align) Only Works Intermittently: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/31354873 (marked as fixed in 2020)
3. Recent report: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/50612417
@Jason, does your issue feel the same as in the video posted by Tay, here in the report above?