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Hello -I was wondering, in Illustrator,when a drawing is made up of “solid” shapes like the illustration below, is there an easy way (in other words, is there a function) to convert the solid shapes into paths/outlines (so that I can easily play around with the thickness of the outline)?If not, is there a way to script this with JavaScript?Thank you.    - Dimitri

"Adobe Illustrator issue:There are some white squares appearing on vector character. How can I fix this?" 

my work- printing designs for large print sizes like billboards, booth designs, web design, video editing, after effects bit of 3D, want to future proof for atleast 6 yearspurpose of getting mac- portability, better workflow, industry integration, designright now I am super confused between two configurations in max chip I am leaning towards a 14 inch max with 36 gb ram but somewhere I am thinking that this amount of ram will lag in the future and affect my professional workflow, like 4k video exports, 3d renders or adding effects to big size illustrator files (somethings I face issue in my current windows laptop with 16gb ram and rtx 4070 laptop), then getting a 48gb ram in 14 inch what the apple salesperson advised me to avoid due to heating issues he suggested 16 inches for this configurationnow with 16 inches my portability will suffer and a 48gb ram is way over my budget to affordlooking for cases where you face problems with 14 inch macbook pro max so I can make an informed choic

Hi there,I’ve noticed two major workflow issues in Illustrator 29.7.1 and had to downgrade to 29.6.1:Please restore text kerning with [Alt + Left/Right] in text fields.Please restore the steps per keyboard highlight when opening Preferences with [Ctrl + K] These changes disrupt established workflows for many long-time users.Thanks.

Hi !Is there a shortcut similar to the one in C4D that allows you to quickly find the layer associated with a path ?

I couldn't open Illustrator Beta v28.0, it said it was damaged, and now the app has disappeared from my creative cloud. How can I resolve this? 

I accidentally clicked on the "View Outlines" voice in the View menu. I am not sure about the name of the voice since the language preference on my software is set on italian. Everything beside the page I am working on is now white and I can't seem to find the same voice or one that says how to hide the outlines in the View menu.. does anyone know how to turn them off?

Trying to save a document in Adobe illustrator when saving document will process up to 30% then stops.With saving in a different file format the document will save after illustrator states it has stopped responding then it will re-engage with the save.I have updated the software to the latest version. I have also uninstalled and reinstalled software and none of us has fixed the issue.Please can you advise

Hi, i'm curious, does anyone else using Windows 11 having copying problems in illustrator ?I'm experiencing severe lag in copying live text! I need to hit 'copy' anything from 3 up to a dozen times for it to finally copy something! This seems to only apply to live text for me, not for paths, and it is only an issue in Windows 11, not on my other system which runs Windows 10. It also makes no difference which font i'm using.Quite frustrating! I'm wondering why it would even be an issueD 

Forever - and I mean FOREVER - I've been able to hold down the command key and the space bar to get the MARQUEE ZOOM tool which I use ALL THE TIME. Now suddenly - I guess in the hopes that it justifies the absolutely ridiculous 20% increase in the price of CC in a market where graphic artists are getting replaced by ADOBE'S AI - the marquee zoom either no longer works at all, or Adobe pulled another Adobe and decided their terribly inefficient version of the zoom should now be the default and in order to go back to the way it's worked SMOOTHLY and FOREVER - we have to come to the site here in the hopes someone can tell us what is happening and which magic boxes we need to check or uncheck to get it back to working the way IT'S ALWAYS WORKED. I swear if they gave out awards for companies who make life hard for their customers - Adobe would win every freakin' year. Anyway, is there a kind soul in the room (not as frustrated as I am) who knows what happened to the MARQUEE ZOOM option

Hi everyone!I’m having an issue in Illustrator: I can’t resize text boxes from the edges — the same thing happens with photos/images. When I try to drag from the sides or corners, nothing changes. I’m not sure if it’s a setting I accidentally changed or if I’m using the wrong tool.Has anyone experienced this before? How can I fix it so I can freely make text boxes and images smaller or larger from their edges?Thanks in advance!

I have made this little script to quickly add margins to an illustrator document and am posting it here to anyone that might find this helpful.   The script will bring up a dialog where you can enter the sizes. Checking the equal box makes all sizes the same as the first. You have the option of using Millimetres, Inches or Pixels for your units and a last option to apply to all artboards or just the active one.   The script then adds the guides to a locked layer called 'Margins' for convenience.   There are two versions for your taste- The first creates 4 seperate guidelines. The second creates one rectangle guide.   #target illustrator var docRef = app.activeDocument; var artboardRef = docRef.artboards; var workingLayer = docRef.activeLayer;   //window var win = new Window('dialog', "Add Margins"); this.windowRef = win;   //panels win.fieldpanel = win.add("panel", undefined, ""); win.radiopanel = win.add("panel", undefined, ""); win.radiopanel2 = win.add(

In preferences, confirmed that a compatible GPU exists. Also the animated zoom checkbox is checked. I have updated the graphics driver. But still animated zoon does not work.OS is Windows 10 64-bit and Illustrator version is 27.0. Animated zoom worked in previous versions of Illustrator. I have restarted Windows and Illustrator a number of times. Can anyone suggest what is wrong?

It shows on and off. Please see the screenshots.Sometimes, it doesn't appear, and then it shows up randomly.

Is there a reason why Adobe has not included a Magnetic Pen Tool in Illustrator?  Thanks

What kind of bug is this? It automatically changes the size in AI when I open it. If I close it without saving and open it again, the file is already changed and never reverts to the normal file.

How would you go about counting the number of characters in a line?"The door closed slowlyThere was no water"For example, the first line has 19 characters and the second line has 15 characters.

Offset Path & Outline Stroke  comes under Effect & Object. Is there any difference? 

Hello - I made an Adobe Illustrator Javascript,To summarize it, it "copy-paste" some values/data from a .csv file.With one of the textfield, I don't know why but the "All Caps" option/setting (from the "Character" palette is turn on.I don't know only why that specific textfield.  tried already a lot of thinngs… But I dn't understand why.Would it be possible to avoid it by turnning "off" that option via Javascript?Can this option (so from the "Character" palette be "reach" via Javascript?Below in this message I saw already some stuff, but nothing seems to work.  I tried it via: var textRange_DC = textFrame_DC.textRange; textRange_DC.characterAttributes.allCaps = false; textRange_DC.characterAttributes.capitalization = Capitalization.NORMAL;but it doesn't work,After I tried something like: // Try to turn off All Caps using the menu command app.executeMenuCommand("allCaps"); // Try to change to lowercas

Hi, every time I try to edit a pattern, Illustrator shuts down. Restart, reinstallation didn't help.Does anyone have the same problem? Bests!

Hello guys, Im having the same problem:I create a Circle shape, add Pucker and bloat effect, than Expand appereance. But when I want export the object as an SVG, it gets exported as a basic circle. Whats the problem ?The resulting SVG = What am I doing wrong? Illustrator cc 2019.

Hello team, We work on SVG files with some standard structures while am editing the file using ADOBE illustrator CC the entire structure is changed for your reference we have attached the original and edited version screenshot please check Standard<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 29.6.0, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 9.03 Build 0)  --> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd" [<!ENTITY ns_flows "http://ns.adobe.com/Flows/1.0/"><!ENTITY ns_extend "http://ns.adobe.com/Extensibility/1.0/"><!ENTITY ns_ai "http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeIllustrator/10.0/"><!ENTITY ns_graphs "http://ns.adobe.com/Graphs/1.0/">]> <svg zoomAndPan='disable' onload="Figld()" onclick="SVG_OnClick(evt)" onmouseover="SVG_ShowAltCon(evt)" onmouseout="SVG_HideAltCon()" version="1.0" xmlns:x="&ns_extend;" xmlns:i="&ns_ai;" xmlns:graph="&n

I'm writing code to move the contents of a layer to another layer. Moving pageItems alone works fine, but when sublayers and pageItems are at the same level, I don't know how to move them while preserving their order.   As far as I know, the only way is to retrieve pageItems and layers separately, which results in two clusters after moving—like beer liquid and foam. How to solve this problem? (function() { if(app.documents.length <= 0) {return ;} var doc = app.documents[0] ; var srcLayer = doc.layers[1] ; var dstLayer = doc.layers[0] ; var pageItems = srcLayer.pageItems ; for(var i = pageItems.length - 1 ; i >= 0 ; i--) { pageItems[i].move(dstLayer, ElementPlacement.PLACEATEND) ; } var sublayers = srcLayer.layers ; for(var i = sublayers.length - 1 ; i >= 0 ; i--) { sublayers[i].move(dstLayer, ElementPlacement.PLACEATEND) ; } })() ;   Update:Added the test data (.ai) and before/after image.    

using Mac with sequoia and the latest version illustrator 2025 in sept of 2025.For the past several months, when I drag or place a scan (jpg or tiff) into illustrator (2025) the image automatically shrinks down to 12% of actual size.   It's not because of resolution that I can tell. The actual pixel dimensions of the jpg are not matching up and I can see that by looking at the pixel dimensions in bridge and then comparing to the pixel dimensions in the links advanced panel. In this panel it's showing the size is only at 12% of actual size. Trying to then get the jpg to 100 percent size involves having to copy the correct dimensions and transform the jpg up to the correct size. Why is this happening and can I fix it? Is it a setting somewhere? 

In this example how it is known to the app that knockout is the stroke? because two images have been grouped.Knockouttime 0.57