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I need a version of Illustrator that is no longer available through the “Other Versions” option in the Creative Cloud program. I need v28 because a critical plugin I use no longer supports v29 or v30. Google searches tells me that support can provide downloads for older versions.

When I copy and paste my CAD/shape from one illustrator document to another, the scale of the swatch pattern in the CAD/shape gets smaller. I have checked the document settings and everything seems to be the same.What could be causing this?

En este PDF hay imágenes que se ven oscuras. Todas la imágenes proceden de SVG rasterizados en Illustrator con fondo blanco. Las que se han rasterizado con Illustrator 2026 se ven mal cuando se abre el PDF en Illustrator, en cambio las otras generadas con versiones anteriores se ven correctamente. El PDF se ve correctamente en Photoshop y otros lectores PDF.Si se guardan los cambios el PDF generado queda mal, con las imágenes oscuras.A qué puede ser debido?

How do I send files to my cutting master 5 program with the 2026 adobe illustrator?  I am unable to link to it now.

I got an PDF from a customer. I selected the black and gave it the value 30/30/30/100. and saved it back to a PDF.After printing, the black was not black, but grey. When I opened the file in Acrobat, it was also grey. Opened back inIllustrator again, the black was as specified above.What is going wrong?You can check the file in the attachment, but only in version 30+. Lower versions import the PDF instead of opening it, and the grey wil show immediately. Any help or suggestions are welcome.

When I'm working in a file and have my Library palette open, things are good for about 5-10min. Then the Library palette freezes and I can't open or close any of the folders I have in the Library. Same thing happens if I close a file and then reopen any file after about 5-10min. I have reset preferences, signed out and back in the cloud, and uninstalled and reinstalled the app. This also is happening with Photoshop but I'm more concerened with Illustrator since I use that every day. Can anyone help me with this situation - it started about a week ago. Thank you!

AI-generated logoCreated shapeI’ve had a request to recreate the look and feel of an AI-generated logo. I am really struggling to find a way to get the color treatment from the attached image. Also, the logo I’ve created is not expanding or letting me “Draw Inside.” Any suggestions? 

With the latest update for Illustrator if I click on the filter tab in the Font Menu, Illustrator freezes for a few minutes. If I'm patient it will continue where I left off. This happens every time I access the filter tab to sort by characteristics (script, hand made, serif..etc) Anyone know of a way around this?

This is getting ridiculous. It has gotten worse with every update. From version 30.1 it has constantly corrupted the save preview with any placed images. Even placing photoshop files does not work. The placed image will either be completely out of place or just will not show up in the preview unless you embed the image. Place the .AI file in Indesign? Nope, the image isn't there. You have to manually embed it every time which, besides being an annoying extra step, it just bloats the file size. I am also getting “there is not enough memory” errors when placing small photoshop files. I have reset the Illustrator preferences and that did not help. Please stop adding all kinds of useless features and get this program stabilized and reliable again. 

Basically, title. Using alt +  mousewheel to zoom in and out is very laggy and slow (5-10 seconds to update). No issues on previous version or using zoom tool. Issue persists with animated zoom disabled and enabling "zoom with mousewheel". Navigating the document with mousewheel causes the same issue.

Hi, my name is William, I have issue when I tried to open Adobe Illustrator since 3 months ago. It's always not responding. Sometimes, it takes few times untill it opened. I tried to update to newest version (currently v30.0), but the problem is still exist. I have updated to newest MacOS Tahoe 26.0.1. I am using Macbook Pro M2 Max with 32 GB RAM. I have tried to reinstall, restart, and do a clean installation, but nothing works. I have no issues with other Adobe Product when opening application, only with Adobe Illustrator. I attatch screenshot of application below.Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thankyou so much.  

Why has Adobe not seen it fit to include a QR code generator in Illustrator? Currently, getting QR code "images" into Illustrator is a pain in the a##. Adobe please wake up.

I gotta tell you this is ridiculously frustrating. I searched the community for this issue and found exactly the same problem 7 years ago. I have Illustrator 2025 (Mac), and when I select text and paste it into any other program (Mail, Thunderbird, TextEdit) it is not editable. Instead it pastes as an image, so you can not insert the cursor any place in the text and edit.2026 Adobe - its 2026The old threads mention this as a bug in 2017. This is such a basic function, and yet I am at the forums seeking help. The suggestions in 2017 are ridiculous. Why should I have to paste text into a web browser or InDesign, then copy it again?  What a waste of time (and money).If you have a suggestion I am all ears, and I do appreciate the advice. Thanks, CThis is pasted to Mail, completely uneditable. 

I am immensely frustrated and disappointed. I have been an Adobe user for over a decade and am professional Graphic Designer. I am absolutely frustrated as to what is happening with my fonts. I never know what fonts are offloaded from my computer and when. This morning I used a font (New Atten) and when I went to go back and edit the file just a couple of hours later, the font had been fully offloaded. BUT if I go to adobe fonts, it still shows the font as active, so I have to remove the font and reinstall it and this freaks adobe out and it will sometimes take hours  (2-4 HOURS) for the font to re-install on my computer. Fonts aren't supposed ot offload unless you haven't used them in six months, but mine are offloading when I haven't used them in a few hours. I know I can get this fixed by uninstalling and re-installing my creative cloud, but I have to do this on a weekly basis, which then means all of my fonts are re-installed and uninstalled, taking hours again. It sucks

character window in illustrator gets blocked by other expanded windows. In illustrator, I keep an expanded panel on the far right (for properties, character, align, etc.) and collapsed panel(s) to the left of it (for color, layers, glyphs, etc.).The problem is:If I have a window expanded on the 'collapsed panel', like 'layers' for instance, and I want to use the 'font family' drop down menu in the character window on the expanded panel, the fonts window opens up BEHIND the layers window so I cannot see them. I have to exit out of the character window, collapse the layers window and re-enter the character window. VERY frustrating and time consuming.Solution:When user clicks on the "Set the font family" drop down menu, it should be layered above all windows/panels since that becomes the "active" window.

Hello. I've been experiencing an issue in the latest release of Adobe Illustrator (29.8.1). After creating artwork in the centre of the canvas and inlcuding text boxes I've encountered an error where the text moves outside of the box diagonally and moves the other objects with it. If I click on the text the text box is selected, but in its original position. It's only after resizing the text box that the text itself reverts back to appearing in the box. This has been an issue before, in earlier version, but this is now moving non-text objects away from their original position. I've had to correct two artworks that have had this error already. The only trigger I can think of is when the artwork is saved under a new filename after being created - for a duplicate file as an example. Please see the screenshots below for further context.

Had a curious printing glitch occur recently, with an advertiser using a Google font (‘Anybody’, specifically) in their advertisement. The process was as follows:Client supplied PDF, but not the right size for the publication, so it was opened in Illustrator to adjust the size and make a couple of other amendments they requested. Output as a new PDF to our printers’ preferred spec. PDF placed on final page in InDesign, output to the printers’ preferred spec (I know refrying isn’t ideal, but it’s common enough in this sort of context) Publication goes to press, and some of the text set in ‘Anybody’ has gone adrift, most importantly, the client’s URL is missing most of the second arch of the ‘m’ of its .comThe PDF looks OK, the PDF prints OK in-house. Probably would have helped if I’d outlined all the text before final output, but wasn’t expecting any problems - the client had supplied artwork they’d used elsewhere, with no issues.‘Anybody’ is some form of Multiple Master - a font type t

Hi everyone, This happens every time after I’ve been working on a file for a while. When I switch to Outline Mode, the lines appear buggy and messy across the entire canvas. Restarting Illustrator resets it, but the issue always comes back after some time. For clarification, these files sometimes contain only simple geometric shapes and lines, with no custom downloaded brush strokes. Sometimes there is text, sometimes not. I’m viewing Outline Mode using GPU Preview. I’m currently using MacOS M3 Tahoe 26.3, but I’ve been experiencing this issue since Sequoia. I’ve tried resetting Illustrator preferences before, but the issue still returns after a while.  I’m not using any plugin.  Hope someone can help. Many thanks! During outline mode 

Hello, I'm using a program that requires an earlier version of Illustrator, version 28 to be exact. It requires requesting a link because it's not directly available from the Creative Cloud. Could I please obtain it? thanks you

I have two objects on my artboard and I want them to be a specified distance apart.  I usually use the Align tool and then Distribute Spacing to specify the size of the gap between them but it is currently not letting me specify the size of that gap.Select both objects Click one object to make it a key object Open align panel and look at the Distribute Spacing section - the box to enter the distance is blank and won’t let me type anythingnote: the vertically/horizontally distribute space buttons work fine, I just can’t set the distanceI am using Illustrator 2026 v30.2.1 on Windows 11 

I’m an Ai newbie (only a few months of inconsistent use)and I’m trying to create an inverted version of this design so we can use it on a dark-colored t-shirt. I used a set of images from Adobe Stock and rearranged them, as you can see. I’ve tried the knockout/offset path method, but each element of this design is group of paths and/or compound paths (we’re talking dozens for each little picture, such as the cow) and… I just can’t sort it out. This is the method I have been trying

Did anyone else have ‘View using GPU’ break in Illustrator 30.2? Although a supported GPU is showing in Performance prefs and GPU+animated zoom are both turned on, the ‘View using GPU’ is greyed out in the pulldown menu and zooming is back to the old drag selection box.I downgraded back to 30.1 on the same machine and it works fine.   

Fresh Windows 11 Pro 25H2 installation (26200.7840), fresh Adobe CC installation, fresh everything. Illustrator (30.2.1.1) hangs whenever I try to quit the application. Can only force quit / kill the process. This also happens when I click the (NEW) Templates link on the Illustrator Home Screen. The home screen area hangs and becomes unresponsive. You can still use the application’s main pulldown menus and even create a new document and do things but the homescreen layer remains hung.Things usually seem to be less responsive with interactions that try to reach some server in that bloody bloated inline browser, for all the bloatware the new UI is drowning in. I don’t even use them, I noticed when I was trying to troubleshoot. I would completely remove those slapped on features if I could but there doesn’t seem to be an option to debloat it.The core application does function and do all the rest it is supposed to do. All the generative bloatware, those panels that request a connection to