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Kurt Gold · Dec 13, 2025

Beautiful view, Peter. The giant bat on top of the pole apparently feels good as well.

Kurt Gold · Dec 13, 2025

As a beginner you may also explore the capabilities of clipping masks, compound clipping masks, the Shape Builder tool, Live Paint, Pathfinder, the Shaper tool and sometimes even the Eraser tool.

Kurt Gold · ‎Dec 11, 2025

I do not disagree, but in the Character panel there are a lot of options to filter and in the latest Illustrator version you can create custom font libraries. Currently not perfect, but promising as far as I can see.

Kurt Gold · ‎Dec 11, 2025

Jacob, the real mystery was that the engine (or the entire construction) was not anchored at all. I always wondered how that actually worked. By the way, the skiers had to manually latch onto the tow rope with individual handles, which often caused some comic situations when beginners used the drag lift.

Kurt Gold · ‎Dec 10, 2025

Peter, you are right that it was not overly massive, but you are wrong that it could not pull skiers up a hillside. It is an ancient mobile drag lift engine that was strong enough to pull about 40 adult skiers up a pretty steep slope at the same time. You unravelled the mystery. Congratulations.

Kurt Gold · ‎Dec 09, 2025

Can you share a sample Illustrator file with some instructions that may explain what exactly you want to achieve?

Kurt Gold · ‎Dec 08, 2025

Nothing was dragged with the belt and it was not able to drag it in, Jacob. The belt was just an operational safety mechanism, as Peter probably assumed. The steel cable is not quite visible, isn't it?

Kurt Gold · ‎Dec 08, 2025

Loosely speaking it pumped something, but it was rather dragging something.

Kurt Gold · ‎Dec 08, 2025

No video, but a comparison: Transform Effect Axis - Comparison (zipped .ai file) Check the Appearance panel to see the difference.

Kurt Gold · ‎Dec 08, 2025

Just a rather vague assumption: Can you check if it gets better by disabling the "Save/Export in Background" option in the File Handling section of the Illustrator preferences?

Kurt Gold · ‎Dec 07, 2025

Transform Effect – Axis at Anchor Point (zipped .ai sample file)

Kurt Gold · ‎Dec 06, 2025

It is not a fog machine, although it was certainly befogged many times, Peter. A predatory bird repeller is of course another exciting idea, but unfortunately it isn't something like that.

Kurt Gold · ‎Dec 04, 2025

I can also confirm the issue in Illustrator 30.0 and 29.8.2. The graphic style definition does not get transferred in this case. It's a shortcoming.

Kurt Gold · ‎Dec 03, 2025

Sergey Osokin generously provides a script called "Resize to Size". You may give it a try. Resize to Size

Kurt Gold · ‎Dec 03, 2025

You are manually scaling the point text object, such that it exceeds the maximum allowed font size of 1296 pt in normal documents. Illustrator will then revert to the initial value (in your sample case: 555 pt). You can decuple this limit in large canvas documents.

Kurt Gold · ‎Dec 03, 2025

Filipe is probably referring to a behaviour that once was there although it should not have been there according to Anshul's statement in this thread: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/keep-selection-after-undo-ctrl-z/m-p/14960098 Sometimes kind of useful by accident, but basically not intended.

Kurt Gold · ‎Nov 29, 2025

In the latest version of Illustrator (30.0) you may also use the Perceptual method in the Gradient panel. I'd probably prefer Ton's advice, though.

Kurt Gold · ‎Nov 28, 2025

You're right, Robert. Drinks mentioned that as well. It's indeed a tedious bug.

Kurt Gold · ‎Nov 27, 2025

I'm not quite sure about your progress and I'm not going to advise in detail, but as some kind of visual instruction and inspiration I'd recommend to look at some paintings from painters who had a passion for trees and forests. For example: - Ivan Shishkin - Caspar David Friedrich - David Hockney - Gustav Klimt

Kurt Gold · ‎Nov 25, 2025

A jaybird still broods over what it is it is resting on.

Kurt Gold · ‎Nov 25, 2025

Well, then I'd rather assume it is better to create the entire chart in just one application, either in Excel or in Illustrator. Your approach might be a bit too complicated as far as I can see.

Kurt Gold · ‎Nov 25, 2025

> "while I am able to copy the line, I can't get it to scale to the x and y axis of image B in the Illustrator file." What does that mean? For some reason it's not possible to scale the object? Or don't you know how to scale it?

Kurt Gold · ‎Nov 24, 2025

Illustrator has the capability to set a key object when aligning and distributing objects. Unfortunately, there is no equivalent for Pathfinder operations currently.

Kurt Gold · ‎Nov 24, 2025

You can select your objects and then click on the object you want to define as the reference object. Is that what you are looking for?

Kurt Gold · ‎Nov 24, 2025

I can reproduce the issue in Illustrator 30.0. Activating the Eyedropper tool (temporarily) disables Smart Guides. I would say it's a bug.

Kurt Gold · ‎Nov 23, 2025

I think the main culprit are the clipping paths that are parts of the various brush elements. Probably the brush will work correctly if you create the brush elements without any clipping path.

Kurt Gold · ‎Nov 23, 2025

What exactly do you mean by "Transform Box"? Some modal dialog? Or something else? In your screenshot I cannot see anything like that. Can you clarify and show this "Transform Box"?

Kurt Gold · ‎Nov 20, 2025

Yes, Ton, it's a serious issue that may cause a lot of trouble. As far as I can see there is no reliable and reasonable workaround to prevent it.

Kurt Gold · ‎Nov 19, 2025

Anubhav, good evening. Not quite sure who you mean by Te_co, but you probably just want to get a sample file for inspection. Here you can download one that contains a text object with three paragraph styles. Unstable Paragraph Styles Please scale the text object in that file with the Scale tool, the Free Transform tool or scale it by using the Transform panel. Then you may report what you see and if you think that it is an expected behaviour or an unpleasant bug.

Kurt Gold · ‎Nov 16, 2025

Yes, I can confirm the issue also occurs in Illustrator 29.8.2.

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