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Tormod5E91
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Jan 16, 2025 8:22 AM UTC
Question

Fill and Stroke on startup/new projects

Hi,

 

Im going nuts trying to fix this.
Whenever I start a new project in illustrator my fill and stroke is automatically set to white and black.
I do not want any stroke color set on a new project, just white fill.

How do I set this as a standard?

Thanks!

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Ton Frederiks
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Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
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Jan 16, 2025 9:00 AM UTC

You can change the default Graphic Style in the New Document Preset you are using to base your new documents on, like Print.ai, Art & Illustration.ai, Web.ai.
Open the profile you want to modify from:
Mac: (User)/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator version number/language folder/New Document Profiles
Win: C:\Users\....AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator version number Settings\language folder\x64\New Document Profiles
Create an object with no stroke, and alt-drag it to the default graphic style to overwrite it.
Save the file.
I prefer to have set my Preferences to Use legacy “File New” interface to make it easier to select the presets.

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Tormod5E91Author
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Jan 20, 2025 5:52 AM UTC

Thanks, but for some weird reason there is no "adobe illustrator" forlder here on my mac:

Mac: (User)/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator version number

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Ton Frederiks
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Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
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Jan 20, 2025 9:13 AM UTC

Did you go to the correct library?

In the Finder select Go > Go to Folder > ~/Library/Application Support/

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Doug A Roberts
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Doug A RobertsCommunity Expert
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Jan 16, 2025 9:00 AM UTC

Edit the New Document Profile you use at this location, or create a new one and use that:

Create a custom new document profile

In the file, create an object with the attributes you want as default. Alt-drag it over the Default Graphic Style. Save the file.

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