Illustrator used to export a jpeg and include the document's bleed settings when I checked "use artboards", but now it is not including the bleed. Is this a setting that's been changed in one of the updates recently? I can't find any settings about it, but it's really frustrating to have to include bleed in the artboard size now just to export a jpeg when all of our previous and current files are set up using the bleed settings. ... View more

I've come across something I can not figure out. I've downloaded a stock illustration for a project I'm working on that is somehow using gradients, but... they're not gradients. Confusing, I know. Let me try to explain... As you can see in the above screenshot, when I try to change the "original" shape to be a flat color, it will convert to a flat color (the gradient bar in the flyout panel is still blue, but the fill is magenta) when I hold shift and eyedrop, like normal, but it still appears as a gradient. More curiously, when I try to change the shape (by moving the points individually) it still holds the original gradient shape, but behind (around?) it is the flat color. I really don't understand what's going on here. I've found a workaround to continue my project, but I'm very curious to figure out how this is happening. Do you know? ... View more