Rasterizing vector artwork and yielding good results can be a tricky process. Much of it depends on how the artwork is designed, sized and positioned in relation to the target pixel grid and its resolution level. This matters a great deal when designing graphics for things like LED-based variable message signs.   If you are doing large format printing work is there a reason why you're having to convert the vector art to pixel form before printing? What kind of large format RIP does your shop use? ... View more

You can install some older builds of Adobe applications via the Creative Cloud Desktop App. But the versions offered go back only so far, usually just whole version cycle. In the case of Illustrator the earliest version offered is 28.0. If you open the apps tab in the CC Desktop App you should see tiles for each application. A three dots icon in the lower left corner of each tile will open a flyout menu. One of the options is "other versions". ... View more

If you're going to create a graphical element to turn into an art brush you'll get the best results (least amount of distortion) by getting the path length of the target path first and then creating that graphics element to match that path length.   Certain shapes, such as arrow heads that are incorporated into the graphic, may still end up being distorted in relation to how much the target path bends. Other methods, such as attached object blends to paths, can work. In some cases multiple methods may need to be used to build up the final result. ... View more

How complex is the artwork you're trying to generate with AI in Adobe Illustrator? ... View more

I think the Type & Typography forum would be the place in Adobe Community to talk about typeface combinations (good, bad or meh) as well as other opinions and observations about the use of type in graphic design.   Unfortunately there isn't a lot of activity in this specific forum, which I think speaks to the larger problem of so many people just winging it when it comes to using type. I work in the sign industry and I see some of the most horrible use of type in that field of graphic design.   Regarding Bruna and Baskerville, I'm not sure those two work great together. There are several versions of Baskerville. I like the old Berthold "BE" version that was bundled with Adobe Illustrator a long time ago. It has more of a slab serif feel. If I'm going to pair a sans serif typeface with Baskerville I'd probably go with a more geometric looking typeface like Futura or Proxima Nova. ... View more

My first suggestion would be to try resetting the Adobe Illustrator Preferences file. That can be done by pressing and holding Option+Command+Shift (macOS) or Alt+Ctrl+Shift (Windows) when launching Adobe Illustrator.   If resetting Preferences doesn't work you could try applying the version 29.1 update or even installing a different build of Illustrator. ... View more

That's strange. I'm unable to recreate the error in Illustrator 29.1. The only thing that happens when I alt-click the text object with the eyedropper tool is the type reduces in size, but the typeface remains the same. Illustrator 29.1 has some type bugs that are about to be fixed in the next update. Which version of Illustrator are you using? ... View more

Adobe doesn't have any affiliation with the Pantone Connect software, so it wouldn't be listed as an app (or plugin) to load in the Creative Cloud desktop app.   I've seen other complaints about the Connect plugin (particularly when Pantone first released it). It's a little surprising they apparently haven't bothered to create a version of it that runs native on Apple Silicon CPUs.   Some users have been installing the oldest version of Adobe Photoshop that is still available to download in the Creative Cloud Desktop app. Then they're copying the Pantone ACB files from that application and pasting the files into the appropriate swatches folder for Illustrator. To get Photoshop 22.2 in the CC desktop app click on the three dots icon and choose "other versions" in the flyout menu. The color books included in that version of Photoshop are out of date. They won't have newer colors that are available via the Pantone Connect plugin. ... View more

The type bug is fixed in the beta release. Hopefully that fix will roll out to the regular GA release very soon. ... View more

The issues you described do not sound like normal Adobe Fonts behavior at all. The problems could be caused by different factors. Sometimes simply signing out of Creative Cloud, rebooting the computer system and then signing back in to the CC account can clear up issues, such as font styles that strangely go missing.   Most likely the system font cache file has been corrupted. This web page gives details how to clear the cache on MacOS and Windows systems: https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/kb/troubleshoot-fonts-illustrator-indesign.html   It's possible for any unusual firewall settings to hamper or block the Adobe Fonts service from functioning. This can come from network settings or firewall software included with anti virus application suites.   Third party font management apps can indirectly cause problems.   Finally, having too many fonts synced at one time (such as thousands of fonts) will create a performance burden. Even with fonts that are locally installed in the computer's operating system it's not good to have thousands of them installed. ... View more

The problem could be a conflict between Illustrator and the Canon printer. Are you printing artwork directly from Illustrator or doing something else, such as printing a PDF created by Illustrator but using some kind of printing app Canon provided with the printer? A situation where a print job is being color managed twice is as bad as no color management at all.   A lot of consumer printers and office laser printers often have limitations at printing the kinds of PDF-based artwork Adobe Illustrator can generate. If the printer doesn't have an Adobe certified PDF print engine it may struggle printing objects that have transparency or complex clipping masks or clipping groups. ... View more

If you want deep blacks when designing and printing in CMYK you'll need to use a "rich black" formula. A black that is only 100% K will indeed print as a dark gray rather than a deep black. A CMYK-based formula such as C:75-M:68-Y:67-K:90 will yield a deeper looking black when printed. By the way, that's the standard mix you'll get by opening the Fill and Stroke color picker and dragging the sample to one of the bottom corners in the color box.   When experimenting with rich black formulas it's very important to take into account the kind of paper or other media being used for print output. The total ink number should not exceed what the specific paper stock can handle. The C:75-M:68-Y:67-K:90 value adds up to 300. That's good for magazine stock. For newsprint the formula needs to be a lower value between 220 and 270. With too high a value the black will bleed. The C:30-M:30-Y:30-K:100 formula is popular for that, but certain CMY values may need to be tweaked a few points up or down to offset any color cast.   Do not use a 400% value where all four inks are ramped to the max. I once received some customer art that turned out to have a CMYK black with all four inks set to 100%. The Roland VersaCAMM large format thermal ink jet printer we were using back then simply printed the black as is. Wet ink was literally dripping on the vinyl print.   The magenta color cast you mentioned may be a quirk in the Canon printer's color management settings. Some printers also have a difficult time printing a true gray. The Roland printer we used long ago was terrible at printing grays (there would either be a faint green or red cast). The latex-based printers we use now do a much better job. ... View more

The maximum work space size in Illustrator is 227" X 227". 90 artboards in UHD resolution probably isn't going to fit within those limits. If the work is saved in EPS format the work space limits may shrink dramatically depending on what version of EPS is used. If it's an early version the size limits may be less than 100". You may have to divide the art boards across multiple documents either way.   EPS also has serious limitations, such as no native support for transparency effects. Illustrator can perform some trickery, appending AI data to EPS files to get around this, but the trick only works if a modern version EPS file is re-opened in Illustrator. If the file is merely getting sent to a printer for output it would be better using PDF. ... View more

Can you just start over. Or create a light application for drawing vector graphics without all the million panels. By @mranthony Adobe Illustrator has a variety of stock work spaces that can be applied to the user interface at any time. The UI can also be customized pretty extensively to show panels or other tools that are or are not needed. Panels, tool bars and even documents can be dragged over to a second computer monitor. Plus the Tab key can be pressed at any time to make the whole UI disappear or reappear. I would much rather have this kind of flexibility in Illustrator rather than have the development team "start over" creating a "lite" application. Many people use Illustrator differently. It would not be right to force a minimalist style UI onto everyone. Also none of us want to risk the kind of mess that happened when Apple went from Final Cut 7 to Final Cut X. That's what "starting over" with a new code base, user interface and feature set can do. Some of us have art files dating back 30 years or more and want compatibility maintained with them. ... View more

On the web site, did you press the "Pretti to Unicode" button above the text area when writing the copy? It looks like that button is not pressed in the default setting. If the text was set in Unicode it might copy and paste into Illustrator successfully. ... View more

Is the website where the Nepali text is being created generating the text in Unicode? My guess is there is a mismatch between how the type is coded on the web site versus how the Pretty font is being rendered in Adobe Illustrator. ... View more

If your computer has a graphics board from NVidia it should either have the GeForce Experience app (now deprecated) or the newer NVidia app. Those apps offer some settings controls for the graphics board as well as provide push notifications when new drivers are released. The NVidia app can be downloaded here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/software/nvidia-app/   A few paths with several dozen anchor points doesn't sound like a burden at all. It should be easy to compound those together in one logical object to hold a gradient fill. ... View more

I think it would be very difficult creating vinyl graphics that can accurately wrap around a vase all in one printed piece. If even the print could be made in a manner where the 3D object was deconstructed into a flat plane the actual installation would be tough.   Wrapping anything that has compound curves, be it old school curvy vehicle fenders, a motorcycle helmet, etc is going to be a challenge. The vinyl has to be heated and stretched using a heat gun, but the very act of doing so creates inaccuracies. Very often such objects are wrapped in layers of vinyl. There may be a background layer. But then there will be separate pieces of print and cut graphics applied over it. With a vehicle wrap some things can be "cheated" in certain locations on the vehicle. A lot of bleed is worked into the design that can be trimmed away. Creating a pattern that seamlessly wraps all the way around and meets accurately on both ends is usually something we stay away from doing. ... View more

Whenever I use the "Save As" command and choose SVG I always see a large SVG Options dialog box. The "Export As" command brings up a smaller SVG dialog box with seemingly fewer options.   I can't seem to find a setting in the current version of Illustrator to force the SVG Options dialog box to show itself if it isn't making itself visible in a Save As operation. There isn't a "show options" button when choosing SVG in the Save As dialog box. The Preferences dialog box doesn't have a setting there either. ... View more

Another idea: download a trial of Astute Graphics' plugins and use their Phantasm plugin to generate a vector-based halftone effect. Then a CMYK color, even a "rich black" CMYK mix, could be applied to the halftone dots without having to mess with non-standard JPEG images. https://astutegraphics.com/plugins/phantasm ... View more

Are you using the current 29.1 version release of Illustrator? There is a known text bug where users try typing lettering into an existing text string and the new lettering is set in a default font. The bug you're describing could be related to it. I would suggest either downloading and installing a prior build of Illustrator (a previous release can be installed alongside the current version) or downloading and installing the Illustrator Beta. ... View more

If your computer has a graphics board from NVidia they just released a new driver update. I typically use the Studio driver rather than the default Game Ready Driver.   If the gradient is filled across multiple paths (I assume they're compounded together) are those multiple paths simple in nature? Or do the paths have lots of anchor points? Also how many paths are being filled with the gradient? A few paths compounded together, such as the letters in a couple or so words, shouldn't be a problem. But if it's dozens or hundreds of objects compounded together it could be a bigger burden. A vector-based halftone effect where hundreds of dots are compounded together into one object with several thousand anchor points would be an example.  ... View more

I don't think Vector First Aid will fix lines that have somehow become thinner after applying the Flatten Transparency command to a placed PDF. The Flatten Transparency dialog box has options that allow line strokes to be left intact or expanded. I would probably leave the strokes still live and not expanded and then adjust the stroke thickness.   Vector First Aid is going to best at getting rid of unnecessary clipping masks and clipping groups. It can also get rid of duplicate paths that have no fill and no stroke. That can be very common in placed PDF content. It can also rejoin anchor points on a path that are broken open yet in the same coordinate location (two points on top of each other). Generally I go on a line by line basis in Vector First Aid, fixing one issue at a time rather than merely clicking the "fix all" button. ... View more

That sounds unusual that a gradient would cause the computer to hang. My first guess would be the computer's graphics board has a driver issue.   Are you working on a project that is large in size? I've seen people do large format design work yet make the mistake of using default 300ppi raster effects settings, but that usually only affects pixel-based effects such as live drop shadows rather than vector-based gradients. ... View more

In the Save As dialog box usually when you choose SVG in the file format drop down menu and click OK it should bring up a "SVG Options" dialog box. That's where that SVG Profile can be chosen (such as regular SVG or SVG Tiny, different version numbers, etc). The dialog box also has additional advanced options for other settings. ... View more

If the game hosted on Steam would have live font data inside of it I have doubts any typefaces from Adobe Fonts would work. Actual font files would have to be packaged into the game. Adobe Fonts data is somewhat hidden in the computer system; it isn't readily visible like font files in the Windows Fonts folder or Font Book in OSX. Even if the Adobe Fonts data can be accessed there are legal restrictions on using it.   If the Unity app is running on the computer locally and is rasterizing any lettering into pixel based images, so there isn't any actual font data in the game, then I think that would be okay. Letter shapes on their own cannot be copyrighted. But typeface names and digital font data can be copyrighted. ... View more

Do the glitches appear on print output? I've seen strange GPU preview glitches sometimes on the line strokes of paths if the path is bending too much between two anchor points. Adding additional anchor points will often clear those glitches. Updates to a graphics card's driver might help too. ... View more

Have you tried saving the SVG files in different flavors of the format, such as SVG Tiny 1.1? I ran into issues not too long ago using the stock settings for saving SVG files (doing vinyl cut-only jobs using Onyx Thrive). Changing from regular SVG to SVG Tiny helped in that specific case. ... View more