Questions

Yesterday I was working with a layout and looking over fonts. Today I go back in and start working on a new project and for some reason the character window is now different.  I can not change the width of the tab, and when I go to look at the fonts I can not see the example only the names.  It was VERY helps to see what I was looking for before I would choose.  Did it seriously change overnight?

I'm really hoping that someone knows of an obscure setting somewhere in Illustrator that will help this to work for me!I use the pencil tool all the time and was very excited to see the new Live Preview functionality.I have discovered that this works in a bit of a strange way for me.I have a Microsoft Surface Book 2 (touchscreen) and a Surface Pen.The Live Preview works if I use the mousepad, or my finger on the screen, but not if I use the pen on the screen. The same goes for Touch mode in Illustrator which I thought might make a difference.I've attached my Pen (and Pencil Tool) settings here.Many thanks!Becki

Hi! I have a document that's getting some colors inverted when I save to pdf using the preset provided by our printer. We've saved this document the same way many times in the past using the same preset with no issues, so I assume it's something to do with the latest illustrator update.So the preset I'm supposed to use has the color conversion set to "convert to destination (perserve numbers)" with the destination as "US Web Coated (SWOP) 2".If I change it to no color conversion the colors are fine. Things I've tried: There was a document that was placed on the artboard that had a spot color in it, I deleted that and deleted the spot color swatch. I restarted illustrator, then restarted my computer. I tried having a colleague save the file. I copied all of the artwork and pasted it onto a new artboard. I tried just recreating some of the elements without using the eye dropper. I've attached some pictures to show what I mean. It's only on some text and shape objects, and

Hello, i dont know how it happened but when Im trying to open an .ai file in illustrator im receiving this message(1) and the artboard is only like this(2). Please help, i dont want to start over with my design.

Hi everyone, How can I fix it. My Illus isn't show blending effect correctly on nomal mode preview but can show on CPU mode.______macOS : Sequoia 15.6Illustrator : Ver. 29.6.1 

Hello,I recently bought IPAD Air 13' M3 with pencil pro to draw with AI. Unfortunately when i;m using the pencil (the brush works fine) the line lags behind the pencil and after a while it also becomes wobbely. Any idea how to solve this issue (change in settings perhaps)?  

I am surprised Adobe would release this version of illustrator. It is full of bugs to the point that it is unusable and it's the first time I've had to revert back to a previous version of illustrator to be able to use the software. Adobe should do a better job of testing before they release. I have the same swatch isseus as others. I also have a constant profile mismatch warning dialog that pops up in the middle of an open document when I edit a global swatch or in many cases it just pops up randomly and I must click cancel over and over before it will close only to pop right back up. I also can't change the name of an artboard in the export for screens window. I can change it and it will look as if it was changed until I export and then it will use the previous name when saving no matter how many times I change it will look as if it changed but does not. These are just a few of  the bugs that have made 29.7.1 worthless. I have a suggestion for Adobe… how about focusing on provid

Hello,Je suis confronté à un souci que je n'avais pas avant.Quand j'utilise le mode "dessin intérieur", ma forme de base disparait dès que je crée un tracé. Je sais que ma forme de base se transforme en masque, mais jusqu'à présent, la base dessous restait visible. J'ai utilisé cette fonction bien des fois. Je ne comprends pas pourquoi elle est invisible maintenant. Ai-je fais une fausse manipulation quelque part?

Hello everyone, I am trying to create this watercolor object / effect.  and I've tried using Artistic brushes, but as you can see I am not even close &#x1f605  The original object is made of 2068 paths (Says Document info) I believe that there is some relatively easy way to achieve this, do you have any suggestions?

Is there really no way to scale a group that contains elements that are hidden & have those hidden elements scale with the rest of the group? I have a logo that's built of many elements & includes contruction lines & other reference objects.Leaving aside the pain of having to switch all of these items on & off individually, it's incredibly difficult to scale & position something when you can't just see the bit you want to see. Layers in a folder in Photoshop scale, whether you can see them or not. Why is this not the case in Illustrator? Or is it? Am I missing something?

Updated this morning to Illustrator 25.3 - as soon as the update was done this scripting error began appearing (every 30 seconds). .. Personally went back to 25.2.3 which has solved this issue.        {Renamed by MOD}

Hi. Is there a way to "instantiate" the copy(ies) of an object when the copy is done through Transform FX? In other words, say I have an object I copy 2 times in Transform FX where I have applied a horizontal shift of 1 in. Can I turn those two copies into actual objects, as exact duplicates of the original object (to which the Transform FX was applied)?   The only way that comes close is via Expand Appearance but that creates altered copies of the original object, not exact copies. So it is not what I am looking for. By "altered copies", I mean for example that any live FX applied to the original object are expanded and not maintained as live FX when the copy is expanded.   This is for CS4 but answers for any version are welcome. Thanks.   <Title renamed by moderator>

This problem is happening with the current version of Illustrator, version 29.01, but it started happening in the previous 2 or 3 versions.  When I first launch Illustrator, then use the stroke color option in the appearance panel, the box appears at the extreme opposite side of the UI.  It doesn't happen if I use the fill color option, and it only happens once.  The first time I try to use it after a fresh restart.  But it happens 100% of the time after a fresh restart.  When it happens, I have to wait a second, then click the stroke color option again, then maybe once or twice more to "fix" it. I'm using a Windows PC running Windows 10.

Dear all,I am a music engraver and I am working on a complex contemporary work which needs a lot of vector drawing for special playing techniques and other non-standard notational elements.So far, everything has been smooth sailing but today I have stumbled upon something that worked until 5 minutes before and is not working now. The graphics are created in Illustrator and then exported as SVG to be placed in the software Avid Sibelius (which supports only SVG as vector format). Sometimes, though, I need to export the SVG from Sibelius or Dorico, two music notation software, clean it in Illustrator, re-export it in up to SVG 1.2 Tiny standard (the maximum that the QT framework appears to support), and re-import it again in Sibelius. Attached below you will find three files. The "4-b1_3-DB" and "4-b5_7-DB" ones work flawlessly. They have been exported from Steinberg Dorico through a feature called Graphical Slices which lets you draw a rectangle around something and export jus

AI crashes a when working on SVG and I use the Direct Selection Tool.  i have an apple mac 2024 with m4 chip and 32 gb of ram 

so this issue says it is from the adobe server end and i am not able to troubleshoot it fom the end looking for solutions and i am using a mac system. 

I can't package this illustrator file.It has been saved and the package menu item is still grayed out.Why?Is it because I have Creative Cloud library items linked?What is the point of CC if its always restricting features? 

Every time I save a file, a duplicate is being saved.filename.aifilename-01.ai??

Am I crazy, or is there still no way to convert/change all points in a project to "hard" or "remove all handles" at the same time? As soon as you select two or more points, EVERY tool, command, extension or possible trick is disabled.  Disabled tools menu or right-click commands that are disabled:Pen tool/option click to reveal convert anchor point tool - only changes one pointConvert anchor point tool istelf and with shift CRight click / path / ...Object Menu / Path / ...All tool bars "Corners toolbar extension in toolbar". --  0 px doesn't remove handle The "workaround" that somewhat works is to use the "Simplify" command, which you have to....1. Slide the bar left or click settings icon 2. then need to click into the 2nd level of that menu to  "convert to straight lines" 3. drag corner point angle threshold: carefuly slide this slider left and right to get straight lines but not to remove any edges4. click check box "convert to

Hola espero que alguien pueda ayudarme con esto. Hoy al abrir mi archivo de illustrator me ha saltado este mensaje (adjunto imagen): Illustrator solo ha podido leer este archivo parcialmente.Hemos recuperado la mayor parte posible del archivo, pero puede que se haya perdido parte del contenido. Ábrelo para ver el archivo recuperado. Se ha borrado el 99% de mi trabajo y no sé cuál ha sido el motivo. En la miniatura puedo ver todo lo que era mi trabajo pero al abrir todo se ha borrado. ¿Existe alguna solución para recuperar el trabajo? Si es así estaría muy agradecida por vuestra ayuda... Muchas gracias, 

After updates in Illustrator became so slow that it is actually no longer usable. Even after reinstalling. Some older versions are also very slow.I have a very fast computer with a lot of memory. What can be going on?

Hi, I am completely new to Illustrator.  I have an object that used to be a .png file that i have vectorised and opened in Illustrator. I have added one object in Illustrator. The issue I have is the the color is slightly different from other objects. It sounds easy to change it... I have tried the eye dropper, and copied in the color I want. But it is still slightly different. I am going crazy... I have tried to attached the .ai dokument here, but it does not work... Can somebody help med fix the golf club handle of the left person to have same color as the rest of the outline of the body? I have attached a jpg with an arrow. I am sure you see if you open...  I am happy to email the .ai dokumet  Thank you for helping a beginner out. And please let me know what I have missed

Hello! I have Adobe Illustrator 2025 and I am exporting a PDF with a portrait layout as a DWG for Autocad. Opening the file in Autocad, I get a landscape layout. Here is a screengrab as I export the PDF in Illustrator. Is there any way to fix this? Thank you. 

Je cherche à ré afficher les repères de fonds perdus (rouges) qui ont disparu.Merci d'avance pour votre aide,Benjamin

Hi, I've been having problems with Adobe Fonts in Illustrator for Windows. Over the last few weeks, it has been taking about 15 minutes to load all the fonts I installed from Adobe Fonts so they function properly in Illustrator. However, since last week, I haven't been able to make them work on my laptop—neither the fonts installed on my computer nor the ones from Adobe Fonts.I've already tried logging in and out, activating/deactivating the toggle in the Illustrator preferences panel and in Creative Cloud, rebooting my PC, installing and uninstalling both Illustrator and Creative Cloud. I also erase all Adobe files using the Cleaner Tool, but nothing works. Today I tried copying and pasting the font files directly into the Illustrator fonts folder on my PC, and that worked, but Adobe Fonts still don't work. The Fonts function works on another PC using the same account—though I don't usually use that PC, I just tried it to check—and it worked perfectly.Sorry if I misspelled anything; E