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Dec 1, 2023 11:29 AM UTC
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Adobe illustrator 2024 bugs (appearance/eyedropper)

Hi we have updated Illustrator on our MAC OS Monterey, and we discore a lot of bugs in this version

 

concerning the appeareance : what is shown in appearance window doesn't correspond to what is visible on the drawing

 

concerning the eyedropper : it doesn't work, we have to "ungroup" all objects to have it working well... even object that were not "grouped".

 

Very strange. Does someone experiment this also? Thanks to adobe to correct this soon!

 

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Participant
Nov 1, 2024 1:37 PM UTC

same here. can't pick colors form linked or embedded files anymore.

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Ton Frederiks
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Nov 1, 2024 2:16 PM UTC

Double click the Eyedropper in the Toolbar and uncheck Picks Up Appearance or try to press the Shift key during sampling.

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Aug 3, 2024 1:05 AM UTC

I am having the same issue with eyedropper, and fill color in general. It is always empty, even when the "set foreground color" is filled as if the shape filled correctly. Even when MANUALLY applying a fill. I have to ungroup objects (even when there is only one object!) in order for color to apply. This is a terrible bug and is a huge problem for my workflow. 

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Monika Gause
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Aug 3, 2024 8:57 AM UTC

@hulmerous  schrieb:

 I have to ungroup objects (even when there is only one object!) in order for color to apply. This is a terrible bug and is a huge problem for my workflow. 


 

This is not a bug. It's how the eyedropper works.

It can apply different things at different levels of the object and that is how it's supposed to work. It cannot know whether you just want to fill all objects in the group or apply an appearance to the group.

 

First of all you need to check what is currently applied to your group. Use the Appearance panel for that. 

You possible need to delete something that got applied by accident.

Then, when you want to apply a new fill to all objects inside a group: focus the fill. Select the group. Hold down shift when pickung up the color with the eyedropper tool.

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Aug 29, 2024 7:39 AM UTC

Nah. Like I said I have been using Illustrator for over a decade. Only with recent updates (within the last year) has it stopped working correctly. Of course I have checked all the settings of what is checked for the eyedropper. 

 

"Hold down shift when pickung up the color with the eyedropper tool." No, that does not work.

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Doug A Roberts
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Dec 1, 2023 12:01 PM UTC

Can you share examples of these scenarios with screenshots?

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Participant
Dec 11, 2023 9:43 AM UTC

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Participant
Dec 11, 2023 9:47 AM UTC

The eyedropper (on Illustrator 2024 for MACOs Monterey) doesn't work well. It doesn't drop anymore the colors coming from a picture, and for most vectoriel objects, you have to "ungroup" your object (even if it was not grouped initially) in order to have it working. This use to work on previous version, we are 3 colleagues to have this problem. Is it a bug?

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jane-e
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Dec 1, 2023 11:58 AM UTC

@Marianne29013497mbem 

 

I've branched your post from an unrelated thread about dialog boxes closing for you.

 

 

Jane

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