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An error occurred while saving the comment A., I wonder if the problem still haunts you. Is it any better?
An error occurred while saving the comment This definitely requires sharing the file, sending it to sharewithai@adobe.com, with the video, showing you trying it, changing options, snaps and stuff.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yes, AI should get one.
Meanwhile there is this beautiful ContrastChecker free script by Sergey Osokin: https://github.com/creold/illustrator-scripts/blob/master/md/Color.md#contrastchecker (you might need to update the page to make the images load properly). -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret, you upvoted a request that got merged into this one 3 years ago, now mentioned here as a comment, previously titled as 'Saved Presets are not available despite having tab names "Saved" in the New Document Window', starting with 'Users should be able to save presets for documents they use regularly...' — you can find it below.
There is a similar request regarding 'preset items' and not 'presets as in Ps': http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/20446633 — and I think there was a confusion with the recent status changes for these two. Trying to get more details.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment This tab is designed to store downloaded presets from Adobe Stock, as stated here: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/create-documents.html
But sure, nobody gets that! 'Saved' ≠ 'Downloaded'.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Have no idea :( Again, I can’t tolerate this new dialog myself.
Thanks for the heads up...An error occurred while saving the comment Ah, the flawed modern File > New...
As noted in a comment on forums, toggling it to the legacy one can be a workaround.
I can’t reproduce it, but when I watch the video in the other comment, I notice this happens when the assumed orientation changes, and this makes the buttons for it blink back and forth rapidly — as if Ai tries to swap the values from the height field to the width one and stops in the middle — and it looks as if it restores back the previous value!Brian, can you make several experiments to see if it’s what it is?
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An error occurred while saving the comment I’m afraid yes, you’d have to stick to the older build :(
I informed the team about the wrong resolution written in files, and was told they are going to review it, but got no further confirmation so far. When it happens, I or another moderator will update the status of the report.
Pretty sure no discounts exist for something like this :/An error occurred while saving the comment I see now, thanks for sharing the file.
When exporting your JPEG, please try to change the Antialiasing method: from 'Type Optimized (Hinted)' to 'Art Optimized (Supersampling)'. This should make the small details stay in the final image, just the way you had them. Please drop a comment if it helps!The only help article that mentions the difference is this one: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/add-advanced-formatting-to-text.html
It says:
— Art Optimized (Supersampling): Default option that rasterizes all objects, including text objects, by the specified resolution and applies anti-aliasing to them.
— Type Optimized (Hinted): Applies anti-aliasing that is best suited to type. Anti-aliasing reduces the appearance of jagged edges in the rasterized image and gives type a smoother onscreen appearance.An error occurred while saving the comment I am able to reproduce the wrong resolution written, but not the detail loss. That’s why I ask for the file. The team would need it to run tests anyway. You ca leave only one part of it, the one that matters.
An error occurred while saving the comment Still don’t get it.
I can clearly see the difference, some fine details are missing in the one made with 2025. Also, the newer image indeed had 96 ppi written into it. But when I open it in Photoshop, it says it’s 150!
But again, I can’t make it happen from the scratch.
Can you please share the original file you used to generate these images?An error occurred while saving the comment Nope, works as intended for me.
Can you please share a test file that behaves like this for you?An error occurred while saving the comment Can’t replicate this. Can you please provide more detail? What method do you use? Export As, Export for Screens?
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An error occurred while saving the comment What other settings do you need though?
An error occurred while saving the comment John, the spellcheck follows the language set in the Character panel. If the language doesn't match the one used in text, all words would be treated as mistakes. Make sure these match, but don’t hold your breath — Spellcheck is pretty broken in Ai: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/49505702
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An error occurred while saving the comment I’ve also changed the title to better reflect the core problem.
I made a simple test with a 700×500 mm document. I put a rhombus 500×400 mm, set the Raster Effect Resolution to 300 ppi, applied a Drop Shadow (black, 100%, 0, 0, 10 mm), remove all presets (swatches, brushes, symbols, graphics styles) and saved three copies:
1. default one: with PDF compatibility enabled, compression enabled, profile embedded — 11.6 MB
2. one with your settings: no compatibility, no compression, but with a profile — 173 MB
3. and one with compression, but nothing else — 520 KB (K, not M)
If I change the resolution to 72 ppi, the option 3 makes it 127 KB.
If I also hide the object — it’s 121 KB (an empty thumbnail difference).Sadly I don’t have any insight knowledge on the compression, but why do you disable it? I understand why ignore the PDF-bloatability, but compression...
If you open a file with no compression in a source editor, you should see a ton of mostly-NUL data after the %AI5_BeginRaster line.
So it seems like the raster is being written anyway in the PGF layer of the document, and the effect is not described solely by the parameters... but it seems also the compression is what actually makes it stored like this — or we are just lucky with the compression of the image here.I agree on the generative mayhem, and the permanent bug-fest, but unless your print workflow demanding uncompressed files, I see no reason to disable the option. Please tell more why you need it disabled.
An error occurred while saving the comment Paul, I’ve split the report back, since it seems now the main problem is note the tearing...
Sadly, I can’t move the comments back, so here are these quoted:Hi Egor, the artboard is 700x500mm - though the same thing happens with an artboard much smaller.
I'm not using 'Create PDF Compatible file' at all - I never use that. So the drop-shadow information is effectively a vector in that file. It's obviously a bug as even if I dropped in the dropshadows as image files - I wouldn't get a 450MB uncompressed illustrator file.. Or wait over 30 seconds for it to save.
And my 300dpi exported PDF is less than 15MB, so rasters never need to get as big as 450MB.
Basically I have a relatively simple file with 4 dropshadows in it and each instance is adding around 400MB to the file, making it over 2GB, even if I rasterized the entire file at 300dpi and saved it as an uncompressed TIFF is wouldn't as large as my illustrator file with ONE dropshadow (uncompressed).
Now… compressing it helps, but it's still takes too long to save and is obviously compressing that 3GB down.Note2: If I set the effects to 72dpi in Document Raster settings, then I get a drastically reduced file - but then that shows that illustrator is not saving this information as vector (what could be simpler than remembering the colour, the offset and size of blur) but somehow rendering these dropshadows as images.
I've included my save settings that I've used since the beginning. I've been using illustrator since 1989 so I'm pretty au fai with the software and its bugs. But the fact that this happens in the last four iterations of illustrator along with the broken shadows is pretty annoying. I do wish bugs were given as much attention as whatever new generative AI bloat we get added to justify the subscription. But here we are.
Thanks for the response.An error occurred while saving the comment The issue with the broken shadow is known.
The size though is a direct consequence of the way these effects work — they are raster-based, and are computed using the resolution you set up in Effect > Document Raster Effects Settings dialog. In most cases the parameter should not exceed the resolution you are going to use to export your final image.
When you save a file with the 'Create PDF Compatible File' option checked (and it’s enabled by default and is not sticky — requested here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/36926863), the full copy of the resulting raster gets saved into your document. So the larger the shape, the higher the effect resolution set, — the heavier is a file.An error occurred while saving the comment Paul, the attached file got lost, it seems. Is it a simple .ai file?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Brad, Damian, does it help to disable GPU mode?
If it does — can you please provide the exact full spec of your machine?
OS build, GPU model, driver version?
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An error occurred while saving the comment I suggest it works in CPU mode, but not with GPU?
Would you mind sending the original file to sharewithai@adobe.com, so the team can test it on their side?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Perhaps it’s too late to advise anything, but what about saving it as a PDF? Or into a cloud?
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The latest Illustrator release - v29.3 now offers 'Preview Missing Fonts' functionality to improve your experience when working with files that contain unavailable fonts.
If you open a file with missing fonts, Illustrator will now render the text correctly in Preview Mode on the artboard, even if the fonts are not installed on your system. This ensures the files appear as intended without requiring immediate font installation.
For more details and help, please see this article: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/illustrator/using/find-missing-fonts.html
An error occurred while saving the comment While this mostly works now, there is a request to be able too see them as substituted anyway, mentioned in Discord:
https://discord.com/channels/634884897185595412/1341865281206747218/1341865281206747218Please allow to choose if we need to prefer the way these are treated, for all / some missing fonts.
An error occurred while saving the comment And another way to place a PDF with outlined fonts: https://note.com/sttk3com/n/n81b2e87c275e
An error occurred while saving the comment Also relates to this freshly added request by Adam:
Place embedded pdf Link with Option to Convert all text as outlines
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/45690283An error occurred while saving the comment There is also another way to get outlined fonts in imported PDF — to apply a fixup in Acrobat.
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An error occurred while saving the comment These are NOT the presets we meant AT ALL.
This is about the OTHER request! — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/35253820 — that one!In THIS request however what we want is to be able to fully customize (that is add, remove, group, sort) the list of items displayed in File New dialog and other places like the dropdowns in Control!
An error occurred while saving the comment Related request:
Customize page sizes and templates on Home screen
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/35789275An error occurred while saving the comment Hello again, Hans.
'There is no clear way to do that’ means that Illustrator does not provide a clear way to include our own presets to this list.
To have something appear in Templates, you have to put in in the designated folder, something like %AppData%\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 26 Settings\en_US\x64\Templates'Why can't you just add common social media templates as well' — I can’t add anything, I am not an engineer, I am a mere user with the badge and some knowledge :)
The Saved tab is not meant for user-saved presets... yeah, it’s stupid, I know. It supposed to have downloaded and imported templates.
The help says: 'Quickly access templates that you've downloaded from Adobe Stock (Saved tab)’ — https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/create-documents.htmlSo it’s not the functionality that is missing, but the name is wrong and misleading.
An error occurred while saving the comment There is no clear way to do that, but you can save a prepared document as template and later quickly create a new one using File > New from Template.
Not the perfect solution, but does it solve the problem for you?AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment Răzvan (and others), this small script can help you:
https://twitter.com/onthehead/status/1358592875827585027?s=20An error occurred while saving the comment Rob, you can save your own document profile that will have the size you want, swathes you want, grid you want and so on. Save in in your Ai profiles folder and pick it when creating a new file.
An error occurred while saving the comment I would say even 'Allow us to set our own presets and delete unwanted'
An error occurred while saving the comment I can edit document profiles, but I can't make presets for sizes I use and get rid of unwanted sizes in New document window.
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An error occurred while saving the comment This method is still far more superior:
https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/75097/how-to-repeat-a-gradient-multiple-times-in-illustrator-and-photoshopPlus I can’t but mention the Gradient Forge panel, but it doesn’t respect the selection order too.
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Hello all,
This functionality is now available in all the public builds starting V29.0.
To use this functionality, simply select colors from your swatches panel and click on 'create gradient' in the swatch panel options.
Please try out this feature and let us know what you think!
An error occurred while saving the comment While the function works, there is no way to create a gradient respecting the selection order of swatches — the gradient will always use their order in the panel. I wish it worked! If we need the direct order of swatches, we’d just selected like this.
An error occurred while saving the comment Joreld, what should happen then?
Should this new gradient be immediately applied to the objects you have selected in the artwork? — since you say specifically 'choose two or more colors in the artwork'.
Or should this gradient just get added to Swatches, but not to change the current color of the selected objects? With or without a dialog to set a name for it?Do you want this function to sample fills only, or strokes as well?
What should it do if selected objects have both a fill and a stroke specified?What if selected objects have gradient fills themselves?
What it’s a freeform gradient?What order of colors should this feature use? By z-order of selected objects or their arrangement on canvas?
What if you don’t select these on canvas, but select actual swatches in Swatches — should it work as well?
Please try to answer these.
An error occurred while saving the comment Sorry for offering scripts. Read about the problem you are having in another post. What seems to be the problem?
An error occurred while saving the comment Most things plugins do (especially paid ones) are desired to have form the box.
But to be fair — some plugins go more specialized than Ai can allow them to have for the majority of users.
If the plugin you have in mind is Gradient Forge by Astute Graphics — totally worth it.Also, there are free scripts that can help to achieve similar results, like this one:
https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/75097/how-to-repeat-a-gradient-multiple-times-in-illustrator-and-photoshopAnyway, the request is pretty valid, and I upvote it.
An error occurred while saving the comment Laura, this looks exactly like an operation Gradient Forge plugin can do. It has Swathes to Gradients and Artwork Fills to Gradient commands.
The plugin is paid though, but worth trying.There are several scripts solution that do the same thing:
1. https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/75097/how-to-repeat-a-gradient-multiple-times-in-illustrator-and-photoshop (even 2)
2. https://github.com/mhulse/illy-gradAn error occurred while saving the comment Another method for this would be the Gradient Forge plugin panel.
An error occurred while saving the comment Joreld, you are welcome. It does not mean Ai should not have it by default :)
An error occurred while saving the comment There are some external script solutions that can help you to do what you want:
1. https://github.com/mhulse/illy-grad — will create a gradient from multiple selected swathes in the panel
2.https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/75097/how-to-repeat-a-gradient-multiple-times-in-illustrator-and-photoshop — there are two different solutions in comments with slightly different functionality that use colors of on-canvas objects
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An error occurred while saving the comment There are several script solutions to create a gradient from the selected colors:
1. https://github.com/mhulse/illy-grad — creates a gradient form selected swatches
2. https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/75097/how-to-repeat-a-gradient-multiple-times-in-illustrator-and-photoshop — two similar scripts with slightly different options to create a gradient from selected colors on canvasAnd sure both methods should be available by default, I agree with you here. Voted.
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As reported, the fix is now in the released 29.5.1 general build
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Yes, the native way to do that is something Ai needs.
Meanwhile there are several methods we can use today:
1. A free set of Adjust Two Handles script by Seiji Miyazawa (onthehead / 3flab): https://onthehead.com/ais/path006/
2. A paid plugin PathScribe tool from Astute Graphics: https://docs.astutegraphics.com/vectorscribe/pathscribe-overview (it has a separate 'Shift-Clicking Equalizes Handle Lengths' option
3. There is also a free script from Toshiyuki Takahashi (gau): https://github.com/gau/reshape-to-symmetrical-segment — but it equalizes adjacent handles instead