I don't often see font menu previews in Illustrator and Photoshop displaying anything besides Latin letters unless it's a Chinese-Japanese-Korean font near the bottom of the list. At the Adobe Fonts web site I'll sometimes see font previews in other non-Latin character sets if I have the language settings set to "all" rather than "English." ... View more

In the case of the Poppins typeface, Hindi could be the primary character set. One of the typeface designers, Jonny Pinhorn, has designed a few other typefaces for the Indian Type Foundry. Depending on settings in Illustrator and Photoshop Preferences the fonts should be displaying Latin characters. Is "Show Indic Options" or "Show East Asian Options" checked on in Preferences? ... View more

I think Polymath from Oh no Type Co is a somewhat workable alternative to Neutra. Some other alternatives available thru Adobe Fonts: Figtree, Gotham, Objektiv Variable, Proxima Nova. ... View more

I agree fake small capitals look hideous when they are artificially applied to text objects. I would rather do without a small capitals treatment with lettering set in a certain typeface if I had to click a button to crudely fake them. Native small capital character sets are one feature I usually look for when I am considering buying a copy of a certain type family.   Variable fonts can make it a little easier to fake a small capitals look; just use the weight slider to adjust the thickness of the small caps letters to look more in balance with the weight of the large capital letters. But even with those steps the results can still look a bit off kilter.   The reasons some type families do not include native small capitals in the italic styles has to do with style conventions or philosophies in page layout, particularly for long documents like novels. The thinking is small capitals should get an upright-only treatment.   As for the Alegreya type family, it has been pretty common for there to be differences between the font files available for a typeface at Google Fonts versus the same type family at Adobe Fonts. Sometimes that would be a good thing; I'd find weird bugs in the version I downloaded from Google Fonts versus the one available at Adobe Fonts. The situation can run vice versa too. I wish Google did more work testing their fonts in various graphics applications. ... View more

Normally CMYK-based artwork translates into RGB fairly easily since RGB has a significantly wider color gamut range. HOWEVER, if the artwork contains any unusual fills or effects the colors can shift dramatically. Transparency blending modes in artwork are a major stumbling block. If objects have varying levels of transparency and the blending mode is something other than normal (such as screen, multiply, overlay, etc) the colors will shift seriously when transferred from one color model like CMYK to another color model like RGB. It's likely the original CMYK artwork will need to be pasted into a RGB-based Illustrator document. The fills would have to be adjusted as best as possible before placing it into After Effects. The process may be do-able. It's not as bad as trying to take RGB-based Illustrator artwork with lots of transparency effects and moving it into a CMYK document. ... View more

I think it would help if Illustrator had alignment functions that allowed a selected text object to be aligned to other objects via its baseline. Currently this has to be done manually with the aid of Smart Guides or other snapping functions. Aligning text objects via the letter's physical shape (aka glyph bounds) work's only so well. The approach is fine with clean, sans serif typefaces like Helvetica. A live dummy letter like "E" can be scaled to desired size (using font height options) and aligned to another object accurately since the bottom and top edges of the letter are perfectly horizontal. Actual type can replace the dummy "E" once it's in the right position. Most other typefaces that are not geometric or "grotesque" in nature routinely have parts of glyphs overshoot below the baseline and rise above the cap height line (or even fall short of the cap height line). Script typefaces are especially challenging in that regard. I thought it should be simple for graphics software to be able to size and position lettering in font files according to capital letter size or lowercase letter size since font files have built in dimensions for baseline, cap height line, x-height (lowercase), ascender and descender. Just take in the defined distance in UPM numbers from the baseline to cap height line and use that. I assumed sign making applications like Flexi used this approach. After opening some existing font files in font editing software I learned many fonts don't always have their glyphs aligning with those boundaries. Some fonts have the tops of their capital letters undershoot the cap height line by considerable distances. The type designer probably had good reasons to set those dimension lines like that. Unfortunately it complicates the situation for sizing and aligning letters according to physical glyph size. ... View more

That figures. In the appearance panel it's easy enough to remove the black fill and then add the desired fill. ... View more

It sounds like an issue where more than one fill or effect is applied to the text object. When the text object is live and selected what does it look like in the Appearance panel? ... View more

What market trends are you citing that point to many people adopting Linux? In professional, paid graphics work-flow environments the vast majority of us are stuck having to use computers that run either Mac OSX or Windows. It's not just Adobe's software that is enforcing this situation; it's all the other industry-specific applications many of us have to run. Some of those industry specific apps confine people to a specific platform. I work in the sign industry and many of its best apps only run on Windows. Most of the best large format printing RIP applications only run on Windows.   Next to none of these industry specific apps natively on Linux. And of the applications that do run native on Linux, which of the many Linux distros are they supporting? It's possible to emulate certain Windows applications on Linux. But when the apps have intense activation protocols that usually blocks the emulation attempts.   I think Adobe has a difficult enough time just keeping up with all the unpredictable stuff Apple and Microsoft do with their operating systems. There is pretty much zero chance whatsoever Adobe will drop support for either Mac OSX or Windows in favor of Linux. Adding Linux to the development burden would be opening another big can of worms.   If Linux was just one single, solid distro there would be a better chance for the platform to gain more support from creative applications. But that's not the case. Until the Linux platform can figure out what it wants to do Windows and Mac OSX are still going to dominate the general purpose personal computing market. ... View more

If the design studio in question is using Adobe Creative Cloud applications they should just sync the same fonts as you did rather than attempt to ding you with an extra service charge. I would call them out on this issue big time. I suspect someone at the design studio was sleep walking and automatically assumed something when they received artwork assets with live text objects in them. It's possible since it's a web related project they don't want to work with the coding methods of implementing Adobe Fonts into a web design. Or they don't know how to do that. It sounds like they want to get regular web font files they can upload. ... View more

The regular upright style of Minion 3 Std Regular has 3152 glyphs while the Regular Italic style has 2690 glyphs. The italic style does not have a native small caps character set. This sort of thing is actually somewhat common with text oriented type families. Native small caps character sets will be exclusive to the upright styles while the more "cursive" italic family is confined to using the regular lowercase characters.   You can see the difference by visiting the MyFonts web site, searching Minion 3 and examining the glyphs table for the regular and italic styles there.   Unlike Minion 3, Minion Pro has italic styles that do contain native small capitals. Funny thing: the italic styles of Minion Pro have more glyphs (1864) than the upright styles (1690). But Minion Pro supports fewer languages than Minion 3. By the way, the Minion Variable Concept fonts included in Adobe Illustrator have a more limited character set (no true small capitals is one limitation). ... View more

Is there anything on the upper most layer above the Text layer that could be affecting the ability to copy text attributes? What happens if you move the Text layer above everything else in the layer stack? ... View more

In regard to visible banding in gradients: this can be caused by other factors aside from Illustrator's capability or lack thereof to import images with 16-bit color channels. The computer monitor and computer's graphics board can be a culprit. Generally GPU-based Preview will look better than CPU-based Preview.   In print output, it makes a big difference for the printer or large format RIP application to have an Adobe certified PDF Print Engine. I see very little if any banding at all in gradients output by our large format printers. Our office has a large and fairly expensive office laser printer/copier; its print output of Illustrator AI and PDF files isn't very good because the printer lacks that Adobe PDF print engine. Gradient fills may show visible banding and any objects with complex clipping and/or transparency effects may exhibit yucky discolored box syndrome. ... View more

Since this old thread got bumped it's worth giving an update on the capability of Illustrator to import CorelDRAW CDR files.   Illustrator's CDR import capability is worthless to anyone who currently uses CorelDRAW.   The past few versions of CorelDRAW cannot save down to file versions earlier than 15 (aka version X5). Earlier versions of CorelDRAW that can save back as far as 10 will not run on Windows 10 or 11 (or Mac OSX either). By the way, version 10 of CorelDRAW was released back in November of 2000.   I don't understand why the developers at Corel (or "Alludo") decided on severely limiting how far back CorelDRAW users can save CDR files. Illustrator can save AI and EPS files down as far as versions 8 and 3. Newer versions of CorelDRAW won't open or import old CDR files made before version 6; so that's another problem for anyone who has a lot old archive CDR files. Illustrator will open any AI file, even if the file was created back in the late 1980's. When people export paths from Photoshop they're essentially saving an ancient version AI file.   Even if someone had CDR files that could technically open in Illustrator the import capability was pretty iffy at best. I can recall having to completely remove a Creative Suite installation and reinstall it after trying to open a CDR file directly in Illustrator; the attempt at opening the CDR file damaged the Illustrator installation. The only work-able solution for anyone needing to move artwork from CorelDRAW over to Illustrator is to use Corel's Illustrator export filter. Other export formats like EPS could be used, but the AI CS6 export filter tends to deliver the least bad results.   Various things in an Illustrator AI file exported by CorelDRAW often have to be repaired once the AI file is opened in Illustrator. Sometimes items like gradient fills can get messed up. Corel's AI export filter will rasterize any gradient fill that has levels of transparency in it. That's no good. The line spacing in live text objects will be screwed up when the Corel-generated AI file is opened in Illustrator. The only fix for that is creating a new Illustrator document, and from within that new document making similar text objects with the same type styling as those in the badly affected document. The fixed text objects are copied/pasted over into the Corel-generated AI document. Then the eye dropper tool can be used to copy those repaired styles onto the badly glitched text objects. That process can waste a good chunk of time.   Oh, but it gets even better. The current version of Illustrator (29) and the beta version of Illustrator (30) will not even open an AI file exported by CorelDRAW if the file has any live text objects.   When the file is opened Illustrator displays a dialog box saying: "Illustrator could partially read this file. We recovered as much of the file as possible, but some content might be missing. Open to view the recovered file." When the file is opened the document is just blank. Nothing comes in at all. The only solution around this is by having a copy of Illustrator 28 installed. The Corel-generated AI file will open there (with the line spacing in text objects all glitched of course). Once the Corel-generated AI file is re-saved in Illustrator 28 it will open in Illustrator 29 and the beta 30 version. Illustrator 28 is available to install for now, but it won't be once all the new CC apps are officially rolled out at the end of this month.   This is a really bad work flow problem. CorelDRAW has been popular in the sign industry for decades; many of us in this industry have to use that app and Adobe CC apps together (CorelDRAW stinks at generating files for large format printing work). CorelDRAW is also popular with screen printers and people who do embroidery work. The app also gets used in some other niche fields. The developers for CorelDRAW need to do some serious improvements on the app's AI export filter. But the developers for Illustrator obviously changed something in how Illustrator reads AI files between AI versions 28 and 29. We're basically getting to the point where there is hardly any way to move artwork from CorelDRAW into Illustrator. If Illustrator is going to have any sort of CDR import capability the import filter needs to support modern CDR versions, not a version released 25 years ago. Finally, I'd also suggest this problem is definitely not solved. I don't know if that should mean a new discussion thread regarding CorelDRAW to Illustrator work flows or changing the solved/unsolved status on this thread. ... View more

What is the size of your document? Is it something meant to be printed, post on the web (or some other purpose)? ... View more

If the billboard company cannot activate fonts (or just refuses to do so) then the type objects in the project may have to be converted to outlines. If they can accept After Effects project files I don't understand why it would be a problem for them to activate typefaces from Adobe Fonts used in the project. Also, I don't know why they would suggest Adobe software being a problem for their billboard displays. Just about any make of LED-based variable message sign or billboard display is going to take file general purpose image or video file formats exported from applications like Photoshop and After Effects. They're not going to upload PSD or AEP files directly to the display. ... View more

How much body copy will be on the page? If it's a modest amount of copy a wide variety of typefaces could work, even semi-squared technical looking typefaces like Eurostile or Transducer VF. If the body copy is more than a couple of paragraphs, or spans multiple columns then it would be more appropriate to use a serif typeface specificially oriented for longer passages of text. ... View more

Within Adobe Illustrator you can change the size of user interface items in the Preferences dialog box.   Also, the Windows OS affects the size of user interface items with its own settings. Go to Settings>System>Display and scroll down to Scale & Layout to check settings there. ... View more

Do you happen to have a graphics tablet attached to your computer? Every once in awhile I'll encounter a situation where I'm panning or zooming the view and the zoom or hand tool will get stuck. If I disconnect the tablet and then reconnect it the tool will finally let loose give me back the selection cursor. ... View more

I've been running the v30 beta build for the past week or so; I haven't seen an assertion failure error with it. ... View more

Other than trying to print out the equivalent of a Pantone swatch book, why would any design need as many as 27 spot colors? ... View more

Adobe can try to fix things on their end. But another variable you have to watch is the large format RIP application handling the PDF on the other end. Not every RIP application is going to honor large canvas settings in a PDF. I find it safer to design the Illustrator artwork at a certain defined scale, such as 50% of actual size or 10% of actual size. When I bring the PDF files into the RIP application I'll scale the artwork up to full size there. ... View more

KemelyenSC04, you don't have to tell everyone else you're leaving. And if your very rude behavior were to continue you wouldn't be staying for long. This is a moderated forum. Trolls delivering personal insults and attacks won't be tolerated.  ... View more

That's not very much RAM, considering the computer has an Intel-based Core i3 CPU and an integrated graphics chip. How old is the computer?   I'm still wondering why the "Other Versions" option is missing from the flyout menu in the CC Desktop App when you click the three dots icon in the Illustrator app panel. I wonder if signing out of the CC Desktop App and signing back in might restore that option. Even if the "Other Versions" option is working it will only show Illustrator versions going back to 28.0 (the 2024 release). ... View more

How much RAM is in the computer system? 8GB is the minimum required, 16GB (or more) is recommended. ... View more

Yeah, InDesign does not create edit-friendly PDF files. Technically Adobe Illustrator doesn't do so either; when the option "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities" is checked when saving a PDF out of Illustrator it really appends Illustrator .AI data to the file. Depending on the artwork being saved the setting can make a huge difference in terms of file size. Anyway, PDF files generated by InDesign can be a real mess when opened in Illustrator. It's better to just edit the original .INDD document if possible. ... View more

Since this interesting old thread was bumped I'll add my 2¢. In some respects it does make sense to have a logo fit neatly into some sort of grid to communicate to others that the design wasn't just thrown together in some kind of slap-dash fashion. It would show deliberate thought into how the logo was constructed. But! Be careful about making the parts of a logo design fit absolutely to a grid. It's possible to arrive at an end result that looks dull or even a bit odd. Various optical illusions can occur in designs. The parts may be perfectly sized in terms of math, yet the parts can end up not looking right. Type designers battle these problems when designing letters and other glyphs, which is why you'll find some letter strokes are thicker than others and why parts of letters will overshoot the baseline and cap height line. ... View more

I think what you're seeing is a path rendering glitch on screen. If a path segment is bending between two anchor points in too much of an awkward or demanding way those rendering glitches can occur. I'll sometimes see errors like that when I'm manually drawing paths and adjusting the anchor points. Instead of the line stroke being uniform small portions of it will thicken and even flatten into a polygonal appearance. The glitches are just visible on screen; I haven't seen them print (my experience may differ from others). But the glitches are still disturbing to see. One solution to the problem is adding one or more anchor points along the curve between the two original anchor points. That will make it easier for the computer to render the path on screen. ... View more

I don't think it's possible to install Illustrator CS2 from a retail box CD-ROM disc. The activation servers were turned off years ago. For a limited amount of time registered CS2 users were given access to download-able installers that did not require activation. Even if someone has one of those activation-free installers it's not likely the software would work in a newer operating system such as Windows 11. I don't think CS2 even worked with Windows 10 and Microsoft is about to end support for Win 10. ... View more

Issues like bounding boxes around gradients are one of many possible artificafts of importing PDF files into Illustrator. I can't recall ever seeing this problem when exporting native Illustrator artwork as a PDF file. ... View more