I think I'm just going to do it the hard way: develop some hand-drawn brushes of the appropriate length so that there's no repeating pattern in individual strokes, then manually duplicate them across the drawing area, using a different brush for each one. It'll be a pain but worth it in the end. ... View more

In the case of the tile square it repeats regardless of the magnification. ... View more

Thanks for your reply @Semaphoric . Yeah, that's the thing, the pattern has to be that small because it's the backgroundk and the source/inspo image has it that way (it's an 18th-century illustration). I think what I might end up doing is to create a line pattern to fit the print area using the blend tool, using a hand-illustrated brush to make the lines look hand-drawn. Still, there has to be another way, I'm thinking. No way I'm the first person to deal with this issue. ... View more

Yes, the new Bridge is an absolute mess. I've seen Adobe really s—t the bed over the decades, but this has to be the worst, most embarrassing software rollout from them I've seen yet. All of my settings have been wiped out, even when I revert to previous versions, the interface, as you say, is butt-ugly (did the developers go into a collective coma in 2010 and just wake up or something?), and I can't even search for files by type. I need a birdseye view of all .ai files I have across multiple folders, but this is evidently beyond the abilities of Bridge... in 2023. Adobe has a long history of foisting defective software on its paying users, but this one really takes the cake. An absolute failure on every front, a new low for Adobe. ... View more

How on Earth is this a correct answer if it hasn't worked for anybody? ... View more

Wow, that's great, thanks so much. I'll just need to learn Chinese first. ... View more

Hi there! As Ton Frederiks says below, there is already a solution, which he provided in his reply below. Best of luck! ... View more

Already figured it out with Monika Gause's help, above. As usual, there was something glaringly obvious my brain wasn't perceiving. Thanks, though! ... View more

Ah, you see, I knew there was probably something obvious I was missing, I just needed someone to point out my stupidity with the right question, lol. I was indeed saving the ebook versions using our prepress settings for print graphics, ie I was thinking on auto-pilot. I just verified by working with a few of them, and all is well when saved with other settings. Thanks so much for your help! ... View more

File/Document Color Mode/RGB (originally in CMYK mode). I actually see the colors change subtly, so I know it's changing. Save. Close. Reopen. Check document color mode, and it's CMYK.   In case it helps, I'm running Windows 10 x64 latest build, just updated Illustrator an hour or so ago, but the issue existed in the previous as well as this version. Thanks. ... View more

Lol! I love these Adobe non-answers. "It must be your fault." "You're obviously doing something wrong." Then, when it's obvious it's yet another instance of Adobe face-planting, it's "Uh, you can report the issue here." The one thing you won't find here, of course, is an actual solution. ... View more

Absolutely, 100% not true. I am not able to do this at all. Premiere Rush is turning out to be yet another ill-advised clunker of a program. I mean, seriously, how do developers at Adobe live with themselves, putting out such embarrassingly defective software year after year after year? If I conistently turned in such poor work to my clients, I'd be out on the street in a week. ... View more

I've been using Illustrator to filter fonts, the only solution I've been able to find so far. ... View more

Solution? From Adobe? BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! ... View more

And those limitations apparently persist in 2021, almost into 2022. Yet another reason to uninstall Bridge. For my purposes, it's a slower, clunkier version of Windows Explorer, a real digital paperweight. What can one say but Adobe. ... View more

2019: Adobe: "Great suggestion, we'll definitely review for future versions of Bridge!" 2021: ... View more

PS: Ah, I see now -- I should be using Global edit instead, thanks! ... View more

I'd was trying to make it and its many duplicates selectable through Select>Same>Shape so that I don't have to select each leaf individually to make edits to them. ... View more

Obviously that isn't a solution that you pointed to. The same issue is apparent in Illustrator as well. Please don't link us to articles that are functionally identical to each other; please tell us instead how to disable these unwanted and unasked-for intrusions, or tell us what steps Adobe is taking to fix this bug. ... View more

Ok, Shrishti, it's now almost July, has the Illustrator team still not figured this one out? I'm a professional graphic designer with 22 years of experience, I don't need these ridiculous training wheels under tight deadline conditions. Why has Adobe proven so thoroughly incapable of addressing such simple issues? Is this sort of thing part of the overall gameplan? Did somebody on the team see Microsoft's Clippy and think "Wow, our products really need something just like that!"   Fix your mess, Adobe. ... View more

I appreciate your replies. I'll give that a try.   As mentioned in another of my replies above, using the suggestion of saving the AI artboards as a multipage PDF with X-4 settings, then extracting the pages of the resulting PDF as separate files in Acrobat, results in individual PDFs that don't contain the other artboards when opened in AI.  ... View more

Thanks very much for your replies. ... View more

Thanks. I'm working in AI on a file with multiple (72) artboards and exporting as separate PDFs. As mentioned above, the only reason I opened the exported PDFs in Illustrator again was because I noticed the file size of each was larger than expected, leading to my discovery that each exported graphic contains all of the other 71 artboards.   Is this something that AI does on purpose, and if so, what is that purpose? Or is Adobe not aware of this? ... View more

Perhaps I didn't make myself clear, sorry. I create the files in Illustrator then save/export them as PDFs for the client to review, since they don't have Illustrator and since press-quality PDFs are their preferred format. Their company policy dictates that each file be separate rather than in one multi-page PDF.   I originally opened the exported PDFs in Illustrator to check on them because I noticed that the file size of each export was larger than it should have been (each image is very simple and in grayscale, all vector with no raster elements, each with a max size of 3.75" x 6.61"). I was simply wondering why every other artboard was still part of each file. This is a project with 72 separate graphics, so I think you can understand my concern and curiosity on the subject.   At any rate, using the X-4 settings did indeed work when I extracted the pages as separate files, so thanks for that. ... View more

I'm creating artwork in Illustrator in a file with multiple artboards which I'm then exporting to pdf for the client, whose company policy calls for separate graphics files when submitting for review. For the review process I'm using the Press Quality settings. ... View more