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This problem is reportedly fixed (finally!) in the latest Beta Build 30.5.0.18. You can update and test if it’s truly gone.
However, please not there are some known issues with this particular build:
- Opening recent files from Home Screen Recent section is not working (opening recent files from File > Open Recent Files works fine).
- Generative Expand does not open its own HUD when used after Generate Vector, Generative Shape Fill, or Sketch to Vector. Instead, the previous tool's HUD is displayed and Generative Expand remains inaccessible. Workaround: Ungroup the generative content first, then apply Generative Expand.
- Half of Astute Graphics plugins can’t get loaded. Both teams are now aware of the problem.
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oh HECK YEAH this will save me some hassle
well once Astute's stuff is working again, I can't work without them, thanks for that caveat Egor <3
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oh god I get this all the damn time when I cut and paste, there's just so many things that get broken this way when they pass through the copy buffer
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There used to be a great book that came in a box along with the CD of the program. Most of the mass of the box you bought at the store was the manual.
A lot of that book used to be online in the help section.
But it's been vanishing, and so much of how this program works only lives in archive.org and in the heads of people like me who've been using it for a couple of decades. It's pretty absurd.
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It's 2026 and we still have to do this.
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It's 2024 and we still have to do this.
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Wait a second, the desired behavior is what I see *all the time*, clipped points outside of a clipping mask are invisible to both the Selection and Direct Selection arrows, and I kinda hate this behavior - I feel like used to be able to manipulate clipped points directly way back in the days of Illustrator 8, and this changed *somewhere* in the intervening decades.
I also mostly work with smart guides and object highlighting off so I never see what's in the video, that is super annoying and I would probably want a switch to hide clipped paths from highlighting on hover if I kept them on, ow.
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I just explained how to kludge up conical gradients in CS5 and paused to think that it's been fifteen years since that version, and we still don't have conical gradients.
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oh and until Adobe decides to implement this somewhere in the next decade, here's another workaround that's *slightly* less hassle than the mesh trick:
1. draw a box with a horizontal gradient
2. effect>rasterize it, probably a high dpi, no need for anti-aliasing or adding a border OR object>expand into a bunch of shapes
3. make this into an art brush
4. draw a circle with this brush
(ideally the rectangle is the same height as the width/height of the circle)
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hahahaha I am here upvoting this one after explaining the mesh trick to someone on a forum :)
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fwiw:
Keyboard shortcuts: menu>other panel>new layer with dialogue *always* creates a new layer below the layer currently targeted to draw in (shown by the little white triangle in the upper right of its entry in the layers panel).
I know this because this, or custom scripts that make sets of layers, is pretty much the only way I make new layers any more. :)
Sometimes I think it would be kinda nice if this created a new layer above/below the current one based on the current Draw Above/Below state. Then I ask myself what it should do if that's currently set to Draw Inside and I don't have a good answer for that.
(It might actually only *almost* always create the new layer below the current targeted layer, I feel like sometimes it shows up above and I have never been able to nail down any consistent pattern in this happening. Usually I'm not even looking at the layers panel when I'm making layers this way anyway.
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I am just gonna note that any attempt to fix this should probably be tested against multiple paths grouped from across multiple, nested layers, like this:
Layer 1
- selected path
Layer 2
- Layer 2a
--- unselected path
--- selected path
--- unselected path
Layer 3
- Layer 3a
--- a bunch of unselected paths
- Layer 3b
--- some selected paths -
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Oh wait actually there *is* a progress indicator of a sort, the preview window's title gets some text added with the export status. Is that enough? Once I know about it, yeah. It'd be nice to have something more...bar-like... (maybe put a progress bar on the app's icon in the Dock, like exports used to when they were blocking?) but there's a whole lot of other issues to fix that'd impact my daily work a lot more. :)
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Moving an object within blend now works as expected.
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I'm just gonna add a note here that this only happens when real-time preview is on, which feels like something potentially really helpful in narrowing down where to look for the problem!
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Good morning, here is some extremely unexpected behavior when editing a blend with real-time preview on. History is absolutely spammed with 'undo' operations while you're moving a sub-object of the blend, and when you let go, it moves twice as far as you dragged it.
More details in the attached file, original report is at https://www.reddit.com/r/AdobeIllustrator/comments/1nia2zk/blend_wont_let_me_move_objects_where_it_should/
- reported on 28.9.1 on Windows 10, I repro'd it on 28.9.1 on Sonoma.
As a further note, although my repro file doesn't have a spine for the blend, this does *not* happen if you drag around the blend spline with real-time preview on. You also don't get a real-time preview of the changes, curiously enough.
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oh this is a nice one, I'm so inured to this annoyance that I've never even though tot ask for improvements but NOW I WANT IT.
inner/outer glow too, probably a few other native effects, it should be easy for plugin devs to hook into this too, Astute's Stipplism for example
I might suggest that maybe the shadow/glow/stipple/etc color chip belongs on the *effect's* entry, that'd make a pretty clear distinction between it and the main fill/stroke chip without having to create a new kind of color chip in a different shape.
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all hail Astute's Live Effect Parameter Editor :)
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Some scripts may even spam multiple 'undo' entries, I have a script I wrote to change the stroke weights of selected paths and it gives you one 'undo' for every path. Four paths? Four undos. A 'script' icon with a title of the script's name would be *so* much better.
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also how about a button in the Control window, the Properties palette, the Contextual Task Bar?
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really just 'esc' to exit it would be great, as would a UI at the top similar to isolation/pattern edit/symbol edit/etc, consistency is nice
I'm back here because I still really want this, a lot of my opacity masks are done with Astute's Opacity Brush which makes smooth organic opacity masks *super* easy but when I want a non-bitmapped opacity mask, or to draw more precise shapes, I'm using the traditional way to make and edit the mask and it is such a HASSLE.
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Oh and also it would be nice if entering/exiting an Opacity Mask could be recorded in actions.
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This is obviously not fixed and requires further inspection.
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I'm going back through my uservoice history and this one is... kinda fixed? But only kinda.
You can align a gradient stroke to the inside or outside but you're restricted to having the gradient go "within" the stroke; going "along" or "across" are ghosted out when the stroke's aligned inside/outside the path, and enabling one of those when the stroke's centered on the path will ghost out the inside/outside options.
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I think vector would be great too, we have the whole pile of "Photoshop effects" that can take paths or bitmaps as input and output a bitmap. Wikipedia tells me they were added in Illustrator 7 and haven't changed a single bit in the 29 years since then.
Most of the existing effects only generate greyscale and would be like 6000% more useful if you could use them as the opacity mask of another fill/stroke but that's probably gonna require a lot of reworking of the Appearance palette.