Are you talking about the graph function one? Seems to work fine here. ... View more

Looks to me like antialiasing is adding light pixels at the edge of the stroke for some reason. What colour is the background? Is the stroke CMYK black or a rich black? Does it change if you use GPU preview?   ... View more

Are those existing lines selectable, or part of some linked/raster file? ... View more

Can you show some comparisons -- with the relevant object selected and visible in the appearance and layers panels? ... View more

I would probably:   1. Create the map with only individual country colours 2. Create a copy of the map in front/on a layer in front, remove fills, add in striped fills for occupied countries only ... View more

The file is corrupted in some way. The simplest outcome would be that you have backups or use a file system that creates a version history, like Mac OS Time Machine.   Failing that, you could try this method. I have not encountered this situation in a long time so have no experience with it: Repair damaged Illustrator documents ... View more

If the problem is applying those transformations to other objects containing the same pattern, you could save it as a graphic style. Otherwise I don't think there is a simple solution. ... View more

I should apologise for being rather sharp in my first response. The problem is not your question, but with video tutorials that make everything look effortless and don't explain what Illustrator is actually doing.  If no one explains fundamentals to you, then you can't problem-solve if things don't turn out exactly as you expect. ... View more

I'm not trying to troll. You understand that the effect is producing copies of the object, right?   You can use this effect to create a 'good enough' block shadow under these circumstances:   1. Your output is going to be raster (JPEG, PNG etc.) 2. The number of copies is sufficiently high that they won't be evident given the PPI of the raster output   It frustrates me that the internet is full of people promoting this and blend tool methods as a catch-all block shadow creator. It's useful for that in very specific circumstances only. ... View more

Why would you expect 15 copies of a pointy shape to produce a smooth line? ... View more

I feel like this is a bug or oversight. Click 'new artboard' and it'll happily create artboards on a new row after reaching the edge of the canvas, but 'duplicate artboard' can't? ... View more

I know everyone loves a complaint thread, but if no one is willing to go into detail about any of the issues they are experiencing then how will any of them get resolved? ... View more

'Feathered' in what way? ... View more

Can you share an AI file pre-Exclude? ... View more

Can you share an example file? ... View more

Please show the appearance and layers panels for the selection. Not sure about your workflow either -- you rasterized text, then image traced it? What did it start out as? Why was it necessary to rasterize it? ... View more

Do you have the circle in front of the image and both the image and the circle selected? ... View more

I don't know what your goal is. What are you trying to produce? ... View more

It very much matters what size the artboard is. Your PNG will be your artboard size x 4.1666 at 300 PPI.   If that's a small number, you'll see relatively larger pixels. ... View more

As Monika said, but just to clarify: there are no other fill options available from the Properties panel. ... View more

As I suggested, it's probably either because I'm opening on an older version of Illustrator or the PDF file. Either way, shape builder works as expected at my end. ... View more

In the file you shared the whole construct is in a clipping mask, though I wasn't sure if it was an artefact of saving to PDF or me opening it in an older version. If it's not, try releasing that first. ... View more

At the bottom of the tools panel there are fill/stroke icons: Whichever one appears 'on top' is the one currently targeted. You can change which one is targeted by clicking on them (or performing other actions, such as adjusting stroke alignment as you discovered above).   A bug was introduced in the most recent Illustrator update -- as such, whichever appearance (stroke or fill) is currently targeted is the one controlled by the colour sliders in the stroke and fill controls in the Control bar and Properties panel. The Illustrator team are aware of the bug and intend a fix in an upcoming release.   Bugs are unfortunately an expected part of using the newest major releases of software. I'm happy for you that this is your first such experience. ... View more

It's the issue Ton linked in the post above. ... View more

Is this using the stroke and fill in the Control bar?   ... View more

Can you share the file? ... View more

Not sure why Pathfinder doesn't see the shapes as contiguous. Shape builder does even with gap detection off. Give that a try. ... View more

Your example AI screenshot is zoomed in 400%, so presumably it's quite a small artboard? I'm not sure what you mean by 'zoomed out weirdly'. It looks like the PNG file is cropped to the text object, so saved with 'Use artboards' off? ... View more