Re: Oddity using the tab key in the 'Color' window

Ton Frederiks

Hi Simon, if this happens regularly and is repeatable, you may want to report it at UserVoice: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/

Ton Frederiks

Can you check if there is a color selected in the Appearance panel below the blue fill?

Ton Frederiks

Good to hear that helped. If your using a trackpad you may have rotated it by accident. You can turn that off in Preferences > General: Trackpad Gesture to Rotate View

Ton Frederiks

Perhaps your Artboard View is Rotated. You can set it to 0 degrees at the lower left of your screen, or use the Escape key.

Ton Frederiks

You can try if Resetting Preferences helps. There are several UserVoice report about drag and drop not working, sometimes resetting prefs helps.

Ton Frederiks

Can you check the document color profiles, are they the same?? In Potoshop as well as Illustrator you can show it at the bottom of your document window.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 19, 2025

As Monika mentioned, the units are determined by the document you open or create. But it is easy to right click the ruler and change the unit.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 17, 2025

You can use Object > Envelope Distort > Make with Mesh to distort overlapping lineair gradient objects and move the mesh anchor points. Don't forget the Envelope Options to distort the gradients.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 17, 2025

It is working again in the latest beta versions.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 17, 2025

Good to hear that helped.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 17, 2025

Did you read the pinned reply?

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 16, 2025

You should copy the .acb files (which are the color books), not the .aco (which are Photoshop Swatches files).

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 16, 2025

There should be a Presets folder containing a Color Books folder.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 16, 2025

See also: https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-collaboration-experiences-bugs/assets-in-cc-library-appear-with-a-white-background-because-of-that-white-graphics-are-not-visible/idi-p/14851451

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 16, 2025

And if you want to recolor a pattern, just fill an object with a pattern and use Edit > Edit Colors > Recolor Artwork... to change the color (a new colored version of the pattern will be added to the Swatches panel).

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 16, 2025

Please give a detailed example, with what you get and what you expect.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 16, 2025

Select the text object with the Selection Tool (V). Set the Fill to None. In the Appearance Panel, add a new fill. Select a gradient for that fill. And you can vote here: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/32914009-add-ability-to-apply-gradient-to-text-without-usin

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 15, 2025

Yes, an RGB black in an RGB document and a 100% K black in a CMYK document does not get darkened. Just try it.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 15, 2025

That feature request has been moved from UserVoice to here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-collaboration-experiences-ideas/selective-sync/idi-p/14213616#comments (on Nov 06, 2023), it has 158 replies, all dated Nov 06, 2023, the date that the posts were moved from UserVoice and all posters became Legends and FeedbackCommuniyMembers

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 15, 2025

You can create your own:

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 15, 2025

According to the specification: “ColorBurn: Darkens the backdrop color to reflect the source color. Painting with white produces no change”. That also means that a full Red, Green, Blue or Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black background cannot be darkened and will show no change.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 14, 2025

We are not gatekeepers and don't decide what feature requests are accepted and how the Adobe apps work. Who isn't in favor of a smooth working together of Adobe apps, but as Monika suggested, UserVoice is the place for those feature requests.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 13, 2025

"you couldn't even import images into Illustrator when I started" It was always possible to import images in Illustrator, even in Illustrator 1.0

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 13, 2025

If all you need is the size, then Alt drag a white box from the library and Object > Artboards > Convert to Arboards will do.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 13, 2025

Flatten image is a Photoshop option. To export as jpeg you can keep your layers as they are.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 13, 2025

Well, it seems that when working with complex appearances, copy, paste, pick-up, apply and delete the pasted object is the fastest way. Maybe someone can come up with a better idea.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 13, 2025

The best color mode for web is sRGB. To convert your colors to RGB/HEX you need to set up your color settings for you region and choose the General Purpose setting. When you start with a new document based on a Web Preset, you can fill in CMYK values in the Color Picker that will be converted to RGB/HEX.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 13, 2025

Is that really stroked or are these objects close to each other? Maybe you can merge them into a single shape with the Pathfinder or dragging with the Shape builder tool.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 13, 2025

You can try to double click the library item. It will open as a document and you can drag the artboard with the Artboard tool to another document.

Ton Frederiks · ‎Oct 13, 2025

Did you keep the Shift down while dragging? Also check the settings of the eyedropper tool (double click the tool)?

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