We never use RGB. Did you try dragging the black? It reacts differently than clicking... Can anyone confirm this bug? paul ... View more

Try This..... Drag the black patch (between the none and the white swatch lower left corner of color palette) to an object on your page. Now read the CMYK values. WTF? Why do the sliders change to Cyan88.01% Mag76.05% Yellow69.35% Black96.22% paul ... View more

Affinity Designer doesn’t even come close to Adobe Illustrator! ... View more

Seriously!!!??? Fixed??? BTW Solutuion #2 is misleading...not a fix, just a switch to enable solution #3. Well, for the people on earth... or all affected CS5 users/artists that don’t code for a living.... Enjoy your "unbillable" hours of ripping out Ai code, for each individual file. I thought I purchased this program for creating graphics and pkg design ....well... no script, no patch, no fix. Sorry guys....I think your aim is good however, you’re missing the target. [head shaking in disapointment] Over and out. ... View more

Today, our studio(150 AI users strong) is still dealing with supplied Ai files with this crippling bug/corruption/virus! As I stated/adapted in an earlier post, the procedure by kuongchin6600 has worked on every file thrown at us. And we have some heavily affected files! Symptoms of not printing, not being able to save, slow responding,  several times the normal Ai file sizes, and unexpecting crashes add to the already heavily stressed design/production staff. We have mandated that every user has the Brushes palette open for early detection of the bug. With thousands of Ai files on our servers, budgets/deadlines don’t allow 10-15 minutes per file altering code that will cause missing text or improper colours on a major campain!? By our standards, these are very serious alterations that cannot be risked or passed onto released production. It is a very difficult task to keep everyone  in, and outside our studio informed of the damage of a casual cut and paste in Illustrator. I find it curious that Adobe hasn’t chimed in here.... wonder how many calls on their customer support lines have been misdiagnosed? I know of three other agencies/suppliers dealing with this. So in the hopes of saving others from losing their minds/clients or lost revenue....I will repost the fix. Goodluck. 1) Unlock all layers and elements and "Show All" 2) Make sure "Paste Remembers Layers" is on in the Layers palette 3) Select all 4) Open a new blank document 5) Drag the contents of the infected file to the new blank document 6) In the new document, check that the palettes are clean. 7) Save the new document with a new name. Click Use Compression only in options. 8) Close the infected file without saving it 9) Delete or quarantine the infected file and notify Project Manager. ... View more

Thanks Nil, Less corrupt files? Like a little bit pregnant? I can assure you we were on our knees at one point. Sorry Nils, I we just have a few other issues with illustrator in the studio right now, so I do appreciate your efforts. As I said...The 10 steps have been working great for us. And a $35,000 dollar investment to upgrade to AiCS6 to fix a bug is not a realistic approach. Thanks again to all who have contributed to what may have been a game ender for some of our clients and suppliers affected. cheers paul ... View more

So I am confused.... in Post 16 from kuongchin6600 on April 2011 is the procedure that our studio adapted to clean our files (as the code editing method was unreliable and time consuming), now a year and a half later some engineers are getting credit? Hmmmm....Kudos to chin6600 ... View more

In Step 3.  we found that copying/pasting was the culprit. We selected all then dragged contents to new document to ensure clean pallettes. ... View more

The above PDF method flattens the layers, which you may not want to happen. The drag to a new document is working fine for us. thx ... View more

After a couple of weeks there are still some painful anomalies in the files. Some text changing to black instead of K/O etc. Not sure if this is a result of removing critical data in textwrangler? Still scary moving forward and trying to keep infected files separate from finals. Hope we don’t have egg on our face at the printers!!!! Still no word as to a cause anyone??? ... View more

Mike, I finally got the files cleaned up. Alot of experimental selections of in Text Wrangler paid off ...thanks! I did notice quite a few references in the code to "ARTPRO" (which I removed)....Hmmmm could it be a careless use of plugins from a production shop? thx paul ... View more

Mike If I delete the everthing between those two lines, there is not much left of my file after opening. How far down in textwrangler should i dig? There are approx 14 of the %A15_End_NonPrinting lines in my file. Which one is causing the problem. Thousands of bogus brushes and symbols keep regenerating as well as deleted global colour These damn files are really starting to be viruslike, I hope there is a real fix soon!!!! ... View more