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The issue no longer happens in the latest Beta build
An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment Chris, what about other methods to zoom in? Opt+wheel? Just the wheel, when 'Zoom with Mouse Wheel' option is enabled in Preferences > General? The actual separate Zoom tool, picked from the toolbar (Z)?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Not good. For some reason the canvas doesn’t get updated in the Preview mode it seems.
I have several questions!
1. Does it work in CPU Preview mode?
2. Would you tell this happens with clip groups only?
3. Can you reproduce it from scratch in a new file?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Karen, that is exactly why there is no eyedropper icon anymore — because that was not the eyedropper :)
The manual (https://helpx.adobe.com/ru/illustrator/how-to/recolor-artwork.html) states:
'Experiment fearlessly — you can always get back to where you started by clicking the eyedropper icon.'So it’s been Reset all the time, but with the confusing icon.
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An error occurred while saving the comment When I need to add colors used on canvas as global swatches, I select the artwork, press New Swatch Group button at the bottom of the Swatches panel, and tick 'Convert Process to Global' option.
The name is confusing a bit, since it can be read as if the process colors were opposed to global ones... while these are not spot colors.
The method works, and the only downside is that it would add duplicates for already existed global colors — and these are immune to be found automatically with what Ai offers form the box.The question though 'who needs non-global colors at all' is an interesting one :)
Again, I’m personally strictly against killing non-global as a thing. I’m pro to having an option to have global swatches as a default choice... but not enabled by default.To answer — I don’t like having all the used colors in my panel. I want to keep only those colors there I care about and need to control.
I often use random colors on canvas I don’t care about. If I later choose to care about one, it becomes tricky, because Select Same commands are useless for both Fill and Stroke and can’t handle complex appearances.
The Recolor dialog doesn’t allow to convert a found color into a global swatch (there is a request about it — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/40961173), it can’t actually change global colors (http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/43795632), and Find/Replace Color (InD style) doesn’t exist (http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46591144). So many problems...
So I use different ways to solve it when it comes, including Magic Wand and scripts (specifically this one — https://github.com/creold/illustrator-scripts/blob/master/md/Select.md#selectbyswatches)Hmm, it’s still not an answer, right? :)
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An error occurred while saving the comment I still don’t get how do you create swatches.
If you drag (you say you drag) colored objects into Swatches, a pattern swatch is created... not swatches.And no, making global swatches by default is not what is to be a universally desired method :) I agree there should be an option to toggle this, but please don’t think that everyone wants to create global swatches by default. I personally prefer globals, that’s true :)
The idea about a 'global switch for globals' is a good idea! Perhaps a script can be made to do that until the team makes one...
An error occurred while saving the comment If you press Ctrl+Alt+Shift new while clicking the New Swatch button in the Swatches panel, Ai will create the swatch as a global swatch, with no dialogue asked. Also, if you just click the New button, the 'global' option is set by default — if you set it before, it’s sticky.
Ctrl+Alt will create a spot with no dialogue, and Alt does the same for a regular swatch.
A hotkey, however, if you assign one, calls a dialogue, there is no way to silently create a global swatch with one hotkey only, you have to hit Enter immediately after.How do you create a swatch?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Lennert, I’m a bit confused.
Expand Appearance would have worked only if you applied Round Corners as a live effect, via Effect > Stylize > Round Corners (or through the 'fx' button in Appearance).
But the image shows you apply rounded corners as a parametric transformation to the live shape, which is your star — either from the Transform panel, Control or Properties — all three provide these controls.But your guess is correct nonetheless.
In 2024 Ai converted the star into a full-fledged Live Shape you can customize after the creation — and this is why Ai tries to keep the radii you provided, even with the object gets sheared.
To force it stop doing this (since you want these to be sheared), you need to tell Ai you want this star to be treated as a path.
There are two fast ways to do it:
1. Object > Shape > Expand Shape would force Ai to drop the additional info it keep about the star, making it a mere path
2. Pathfinder > Unite would do the same, outlining the the only object you have selected with the path, ripping the live state off
After this you should be able to shear it as before Live Shape Star happened (it was requested here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32360224).The same behavior happens with live Polygon — but not rectangles! these do get immediately expanded when sheared, just like ellipses.
In fact, sheared Stars and Polygons are weird — we can change the radii, but not the side count, it immediately rebuild the shape without the shear angle applied! This should be its own bug report.
So I can’t treat my own answer as a full solution :)
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An error occurred while saving the comment Ben, there is one (almost), even though it might be even more confusing to teach.
It’s the Object > Flatten Transparency dialog.
Drag the slider to Vector 100, to avoid rasterization as much as possible (make sense for raster-based effects).
Check Convert All Text to Outlines (if you wish to).
Check Convert All Strokes Outlines (this should work as Expand).
Your patterns won’t be flattened — this would require Expand > Fill, and then using Pathfinder Crop (for each object) and Merge (if you want to fuse objects of single color)...But.
When I teach, I tell people about contacting the printing shop in the very first place, asking them for a specific preset they use, and following the guidelines provided when exporting a PDF :)
There’s usually no need to MANUALLY do these things with Outline, Expand, Expand Appearance(unless you are know what you are doing) — using a PDF preset handles it.
Outlining fonts... this is controversial. Adobe sees outlining as a VERY obsolete practice... I remember this discussion specifically — https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/subset-fonts/m-p/9361431 — but Dov Isaacs was saying the same things all over the Web (along with 'Ai is not a general PDF editor'). It’s been a long time since then. Today, if a printing shop needs outlines (killing hinting and making the process slower), they can most surely do it themselves, better than any student (unless the staff is unqualified).If you still need a silver bullet... I’d advise using actions. There are custom tailored scripts I remember of. This would certainly require understanding how Outline, Expand-s, and Expand Appearance work.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I see some logic behind both variants. Someone could 'sculpt' the text with invisible paths... at the same time, no-fill-no-stroke works just as fine :)
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An error occurred while saving the comment Picassa, do you mean Ai on iPad (since you said 'on tablet') or the desktop app?
If you try to use Save As instead of Save, and pick a different folder and/or name — does it help?
If not — does it help to copy and paste the artwork in a new document and then save? (you can try to tick 'Paste Remembers Layers' option in the Layers panel’s flyout menu to keep the structure, if it’s spanned more than on one top layer).
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An error occurred while saving the comment Does it work in any other app? With no app at all (with desktop visible)? Does it work when Ai window is visible but not focused?
When you say nothing happens — do you mean nothing gets pasted? In Ai or in any other place? Please tell more. -
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An error occurred while saving the comment While the Search field is now focused by default (requested here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/50114175 ), this is reported to be not a desired behavior for those who liked the Keyboard Increment field being focused: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/939477/suggestions/50255313
If you have any comments to add, please do, it means a lot to the team.
An error occurred while saving the comment There are several related requests:
1. Add Search in Preferences and make them user friendly: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/42476344
2. Command Palette / Panel / Bar: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/36568675
Kyle, would you mind me merging your request with the #1? -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Raju, please share a test file for the team to review.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Indeed! Hovering over the clipped content treats it as a target, not its clipping container.
It’s ignored even if I hover over the path specifically (even if I assign a stroke to the clipping mask).
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An error occurred while saving the comment Declan, please tell more: describe in details, record a video if necessary...
Reverts how? To the last saved state, while you work? Or the previously saved documents revert to older states when opened? Do you use cloud docs or local ones?
'Expanding shapes and sizes' — what do you mean exactly? Expanding a stroke? A blend? Or just resizing them with the bounding box (the frame with markers on sides and corners)?
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An error occurred while saving the comment I can’t say it behaves the same way for me... Bob, would you mind to record a short video to show how it misbehaves at your side, please?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Tommy, are you still seeing these problems with fonts missing in the latest Ai builds?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Somehow you’ve got your bounding box disabled.
You can enable it back with Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+B hotkey or via the View > Show Bounding Box.
This mode can quite useful when one intentionally toggles it, but can indeed be frustrating.
There are many reports like this, but it’s not clear yet if it gets disabled on its own or is it just a hotkey getting slipped.An error occurred while saving the comment Isabeau, can you please record a small video of you trying to reproduce the behavior?
I have my guesses why it happens, just want to see exactly how it looks. -
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OK, another question then... does this happen with CPU Preview?
And again, if you have 29.6.1 installed — does it happen there?