Apologies... the top headline is where the redraw errors begin to show if you look at the changes as zoom out: "TENNIS POINTE" - may be the font? -- ++ Collin Venuto 215.939.6684 sr. graphic designer ... View more

Aligning objects and the alignment tools in general are probably Adobe Illustrator's most anemic features. The lack of being able to intuitively select an object, then select another object, click align vertically or horizontally and have that object align to it (key object) fails across the board. Also, why is there still no feature to take two objects and center them on their axis via [X/Y] with the click of a single icon (+ button). This is so counterintuitive, it isn't even funny... yet I've been ignored by the Adobe tech team (pre-release team) for the last decade. ... View more

Dictation by default is OFF, so yes it is and will always be off on my mac system preferences. Dictation was not the issue. AI is just not running smoothly as it should. I'm on a 5k imac with 40gb ram and a 4.2 i7 quad core. There's no reason a vector based program should run this slow. No reason at all. My old HP laptop ran Illustrator CS2 faster. That's sad. ... View more

I never use dictation, so that surely was not the issue. The software was just laggy. Period. ... View more

EXACTLY!!!! ... View more

Hey, while we're at it, let's convolute some more functions, Adobe. Who the heck do they have working on this stuff? As inane a concept as Apple making you plug a first gen "pencil" into the Lightning port on ipad Pro. Nothing pro about that stupid concept... then they abandon 1st gen owners of their product by not making the next iteration backward compatible. I'm so sick of these bloated corps taking advantage of designers who spend good money and have remained loyal over the decades. More and more I'm seeing independent software devs offering Open Source design tools. May have to go that route. It's as if Adobe just doesn't care what designers / illustrators / users think about their products as they continue to make poor UX choices. ... View more

I'm running 23.01 AI cc on a late 2017 27" iMac w/ 4.2ghz i7 and 40gb of DDR4 ram — Radeon Pro 580 / 8gb vram. Not the most robust cpu, but solid. Illustrator AI cs2 ran better on an HP laptop. Anyhow, Illustrator CC with GPU enabled still runs like a two legged turtle in a mud race. This thing is crawling even if I turn to pixel preview or CPU preview in hopes to degrade what is drawn on screen to speed things up. Outline mode is still slow slow slow... even though they claim to have fixed it. Sad that in late 2018 they still can't get Illustrator to operate efficiently. It's vectors for all sake... 1's and 0's. Ha. C'mon Team Adobe. Let's get it together... what is going on with the rendering engine. How about some ultra low res preview modes to get this thing moving quickly. ... View more