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Hey, i've been using VariableImporter 8 for a while now, and i have a Quetion regarding. This Script uses Data From A Ms Excel File exported as CSV file, and uses that to add data into Adobe Illustrator file at the precise  area and fonts. i really love this Script. But i've been facing this issue in this, i have to 'make text Dynamic' every time i have to add new data into my excel file. Can you pls guide me though that ? How  to connect the file, that could auto update in illustrator as well ? pls help.

I have been an Adobe Illustrator user for alomost 40 years. It has never been so frustrating to get answers to a very simple question. I want to enter a very short phrase in Hebrew into a document I am designing for a customer. When I asked for instructions on how to type in Hebrew (I have many Hebrew fonts installed) I am simply told to "Show Indic Options." THAT CHANGES NOTHING! in either character or paragraph windows. The online Adobe Illustrator instructions simply DO NOT APPLY to my current CC subscription (I have the latest version of all CC apps). What seems to be the problem?

Well, this morning when I make a new file, Illustrator opens the window full screen and without the ruler visible.  Illustrator used to remember the last New window state. I am now having to resize it, set the zoom, and show the ruler EVERY TIME I make a new file. Please fix!!

Hey folks. SOMETIMES, when I try to rearrange the colors in my swatch palette, they don't stay where I put them (in list view). It seems intermittent, so I think it could be some settings on my side. I tried to do a screen recording and it worked as it should, which reinforces that it's probably operator error. I just can't pinpoint the settings that need to be turned on or off... 

Everytime I have made a post or read about Adobe products glitching out, the immediate question by Adobe is "WeLL WuT CoMpUtEr & OS ArE U uSiNg?" (like that should matter for the products to work correctly). Well now, here I am with a BRAND NEW computer, Mac Studio Display and Mac Mini with M4 Pro chip and 20-core CPU bought last week, and I am still seeing the same stuff happening that I did on my 2017 iMac. When I am clicking on my Illustrator window to work on it and/or move it, it falls behind my Chrome window, or other program windows, so I can't see anything unless my those windows are not covering the screen entirely. Screen recording attached. This makes me nervous for the other products, especially After Effects. Is that still going to crash my computer, even if it's brand new? Does anyone else have experience with this?

Hi... I'm new to this processs.. so I may be using improper terms... so looking for guidance to meet my goals.I'm using Illustrator to design artwork for a keychain tag that I will dye sublimate.My first print, the colors are 'off'.. e.g., the blue I used is very muted, and the green I used is nearly grey.. the yellow is fine, but the orange/red is more red than orange.I imagine I need to tweak my colors based on the actual output.. but no idea how to go about that process... is there some calibration process by which I converge on the right colors based on the final ouput on my media?Any good vids or tutorials on this process?One other note, in order to get the images into the software I'm using for cutting, I'm exporting the illustrator to a PNG for printing from another software (Cricut Design Space)... what additional caveats do I need to be aware of?Thanks!

Does anyone else have a problem with the colors changing to way duller than they are supposed to be? While either moving the screen or turning layers (that have 100% opacity) off behind? As stated in this post (https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/illustrator-window-falls-behind-other-open-program-windows-so-you-can-barely-see-it/m-p/15482721#M452010), I JUST bought a new computer, so everything should be operating at the best efficiency, yet I'm having major problems with Illustrator. I have a Mac Studio Display and Mac Mini with M4 Pro chip and 20-core CPU and the latest version of Illustrator. Not only does the Ai window fall behind other windows while I'm working (just happened again), now the color is dulling out. I have attached a screen record for reference. Why is THIS happening?

I want a STOP sign in PNG file formet with Transparency Grid. I made a STOP sign as Transparency Grid in Ai & export it as a PNG file. But file is not with Transparency Grid. How to make it?         

I am having so many problems with new Illustration, is not showing properly a file with multiples artworks. It shows me messages that I do not know what the mean.. This new Illustrator so far is a bummer. I am not sure if the file is corrupted or not.. cause it shows everything so wrong. It moves the grafics away from the artworks is a total mess. It gives super strange percentage in "view", look the mess in the rulers. Also I have problems with saving files. Please can anybody give me tipos & and help?

Hi,Here a little issue that I find very irritating.When working on several Illustrator files, Export for Screens options tend to be linked to the file (Artboard names, formats, folder to export) as far as I can see. But the "Prefix" at the bottom right of the Export for Screens panel keeps updating based on the latest file used to export. So I keep retyping every time the prefix I want to use for the specific file I am working on, when it seems to me that the Prefix should also be linked and saved based on the file you're working on...Any solution for that? And if not, could it be included in a future update?

Goal: I want to translate the text within an .eps file. To achieve this, I am using Python along with Ghostscript to extract text from the .eps file. However, instead of readable text, I am getting garbage or encoded values (e.g.,  㻨㻯㼍㼞㼞㼕㼑㼞㻌㼠㼞㼡㼏㼗㻪, 㻨㼀㼛㼣㼕㼚㼓㻌㼠㼞㼡㼏㼗㻌㻔㼍㼘㼘㻌㼣㼔㼑㼑㼘㼟㻌㼘㼕㼒㼠㼑㼐㻕㻪, 㻟㻜㻠㻡㻤㻢㻱 ). How can I extract the actual text from the .eps file so that I can translate it and then reinsert the translated text back into the same positions in the .eps file to produce a translated version? I have also attached the source .eps file for reference.    

屬性面板中原本有"疊印填色"與"疊印筆畫"我現在無法找到這個選項

Oii, já é a terceira vez que isso acontece sem nenhum motivo aparente, ontem salvei a arte, e fechei o illutrator, hoje abri parra continuar a arte e os triangulos dourados sumiram da arte.Anexo 1 ( arte quando tinha os triangulos dourados )Anexo 2 ( illustrator aberto hoje já sem os triangulos )preciso saber pq isso acontece

Hola a todos, mi nombre es Lolitengo un tema con "guardar" en la v 29.7.1 de Aitermino de trabajar un archivo, vamos a llamarlo archivo A, le doy guardar y cuando quiero cerrar me pregunta infinitamente si quiero guardar los cambios. Aunque de ok sigue preguntando y no me permite cerrar.Intento con "guardar como" sobre el mismo archivo A y automáticamente cambia el nombre del archivo B de la ventana contigua.Vuelvo sobre el archivo B doy a "guardar como" coloco su nombre original (B) y lo toma.Peero ... si cierro el archivo B automáticamente cierra también el archivo A.cuando abro el archivo B automáticamente abre el A también.y si quiero cerrar el programa me pregunta nuevamente si quiero guardar los cambios en el archivo A. Doy a "Sí" y lógicamente me dice q no se puede completar la operación porque no hay archivos abiertos y pues sí no había archivos abiertos pero me sigue preguntando si quiero guardar los cambios en A.

Good afternoon, I'm now searching this support forum for the fourth time wondering if there are any answers for the recovery problem. This has been happening since I started as a professional designer in 2023, and the fact that I see it still as a problem is insane to me. The answers I see most often as remedies aren't actually fixes in any way. .aishm files still don't open on Mac and I've seen reports that they don't work on Windows either. Many users have suggested downgrading to an older version so it saves as .aid instead is simply silly. This is a program that we pay $500/year or more to use, and not being able to use the features that we pay for are absolutely unacceptable. Many people chide users with this problem for "not saving enough," and even though it is best practice, again, they're telling us not to use a feature that WE PAY FOR because it doesn't work. It's 2025. Every other application has some sort of autosave feature, and I nearly guaruntee that power users would ra

What am I doing wrong? I have a load of lines that I want to distibute evenly but the button doesn't seem to be doing anything. They're all the same apart from the colour & they're all in the same group. I know Illustrator can be quite fussy about some things, but I can't figure out which thing it's being fussy about now. Is it that I am selecting via the group node & illustator sees this as a single object & it has nothing to distribute it with? Surely it's not expecting me to select each of the lines separately? What if there were ten thousand? That would be very silly. But obviously I'm not getting it so can anyone help? 

Hi everyone,I'm using a MacBook Pro M4 (2025) with the latest macOS and Adobe Illustrator (v2024/2025). I'm facing several serious issues with Illustrator:"View using GPU" is permanently greyed out3D and Materials effects throw errors or fail to applyWhen I embed any image, 3D effects completely stop workingSome keyboard shortcuts randomly stop respondingGPU preview is missing completely, even though the M4 supports Metal 3 and is fully functional on other apps What I tried so far:Clean install of IllustratorResetting preferencesCreating a new user accountFull clean macOS installInstalling older Illustrator versions (2024, 2023)Notes:I’ve tested the exact same files on other MacBooks (M2 & M3), and everything works fineThe problem seems specific to M4 or how Illustrator detects the GPUThe issue with embedding images breaking 3D seems unique to this device as wellAnyone using an M4 MacBook facing the same GPU/3D issues?Is Adobe aware of any compatibility limitation with Apple M

i work eight days a week, and trying finish some project during the labor day weekend, any agent availble? The font Interstate used to work, then now doesnt show properly in Illustraotr Need to understand why  

When I draw a path with a calligraphy-brush (Wacom Cintiq Pro), sometimes the path jumps to a new position at the moment when I finish drawing. I have tried changing the brush settings. This will only help when I apply the new settings to existing paths. But the new ones will still have the same symptom. The brush size is set to "pressure", the angle and roundness are "fixed". Does anyone have an idea how to solve this? 

Ctrl+Shift+Z is assigned as REDO in Illlustrator (latest) however it doesn't work, but if I use the menu, then it does.I tried reassigning they shortcut key by clearing, and redoing it manually, but it won't take, if I try any other Ctrl Shift Key combo, it works, whether conflics arise or not, but I can't set it back to Ctrl+Shift+Z unless I reset to defaults, and even still it won't work unless I use the menu. SPECSIntel Core i9-14900HXNVIDIA GeForce RTX 406064GB DDR5 RAM1TB SSDAll latest Adobe/Win11Pro/and video driversDELL SE2419HR 24"

Es ist traurig was Adobe mittlerweile abliefert.Ich habe tägliche Abstürze im Illustrator und eine miese Performance. Es wird auch nicht besser.So viel Geld für ein mangelhaftes Produkt?Indesign ist bereits aus meinem Portfolio verschwunden. Wirklich schade was aus Adobe geworden ist. Warum soll ich euch noch beim Fehler melden u. korrigieren helfen?----------Bekommt das in den Griff oder halbiert eure Preise.Ansonsten ziehe ich die Linie und kündige! Robert 

   Hi, I need to get this gradient printed for  booth wall design including the ribbed glass texture, working on a CMYK file is not bringing out the colour vibrancy for this, how do I make sure the gradient looks bright?And what is the case here if I use spot colours, do printers needs to have special printers for spot colours ?Stuck on getting the right bright colour range, help out!!

What is the link between specify object number in expand & final result? If I selected 2 final result has 4 separate images. Video also uploaded.   

Hi In the previous version of illustrator when I open preference dialog its help me to change the keyboard Increment fast as showing in the image below but the last update bad because it has a search bar In my openion the previous is the best because its fast to change the keyboard Increment and not change the general unit as the last one  

While printing (ai to PDF) new lines are getting generated which is not showing in During creation of circuits/lines in Adobe illustrator CS5. Even before printing, those unwanted lines are not in visible but after printing we can able to see the extra lines in phocopy. Please support to reslove this issue