Questions

Lagging when dragging/moving photos and art

As shown in the figure below, all black boxes in the second text box need to be changed to the "true color+stroke" style in front of the first text box.Is it possible to only suck on the style once (with strokes and coloring) and apply it multiple times?I need one at a time now, it's so slow.I feel that if you don't jump out of the text box, you won't be able to select new text content again 

I’ve been using Export As → Use Artboard frequently to export SVG, but somehow today when I tried to export, contents outside of the artboard also kept getting included in the exported files. I tried Trim View and exporting JPG, and both showed the correct output. The only issue seemed to be with exporting SVG. In the Export for Screens view, I also unchecked “Include Bleeds”, but faced the same problem.What could’ve caused this? Is it due to some corrupted settings? Or somehow the layer not being cropped is mis-configured? (Though I don’t know why that would only affect SVG export...)

Opened a DXF file in Draftsight to confirm size. When opened in Illustrator 2026, the size is not accurate. When opened in 2024 and 2025, the size is correct. Tested on  different computers and the results are the same. What should be .044 inches in size shows up as .0474, which is not acceptable. Opening in Affinity Designer2 or Corel, the sizes are correct. Working with a part that is only .414 in diameter, any inaccuracy is unacceptable. Original DXF file was created in inches and I have tried all possible options to achieve the correct sizing in version 2026 without any success. Opening and placing produce identical results. Scaling is not an option, as the results produce closer values, they too are not exact due to the percentage factor limitation.Bottom line, newest version or Illustrator is inaccurate and any other program that can handle DXF files works just fine. Fortunately I discovered the error after producing 3 new parts. Never had issues and I failed to verify the size o

HiI’m having issues moving and/or dragging items. Once I open a new file, or any existing file. And try to create an element, text block or draw something, it lets me for a few clicks but eventually it stops letting me move or scale items completely.  I’ve tried multiple things: resetting my illustrator preferences, updating computer drivers, installing an older version of illustrator, restarting my computer, checking my app permissions, it’s also not my mouse or mousepad, it’s just happening on Illustrator. Nothing seems to be working.

I don't know what the enhancements are in 29.6, but there is a bug with rotating and scaling illustrations that have gradients. Radial gradients suddenly scale drastically in a non uniform fashion when moving in rotation or scaling in constrained x or y axis.       <Title renamed by MOD>

I moved all the guides to a new layer.But I noticed that the path shapes were moved along with them.I saw that someone used pathItems.guides, but it seems that's no longer supported?var d=app.activeDocument;var pl = d.pathItems.length;for (i = 0; i < pl; i++) { //d.pathItems[i].locked = false; d.pathItems[i].moveToEnd(mylayer);} 

Hi everyone.I want to unlock all guides and move them to the “myGuids” layer.I’ve been searching for information for ages, but haven’t found much.I used:var d = app.activeDocument;var item = d.selection[0];alert(item.constructor.name);And to my surprise. it output: “PathItem”—which just made me even more frustrated

The last time I exported a DXF DWG file to be used in Solidworks was about a year ago, it worked fine just like it did for the last decade. Something has changed in Illustrator within the last year. Solidworks 2017 can’t recognizes exported DXF DWG. I had to install and use Autodesk DWG TrueView to repair exported files from Illustrator, which works after “repaired”. 

We had talked about this before. I am puzzled by the behaviour of Illustrator.Say I have a 1in line with a 1pt stroke at 90deg. I apply Transform FX in which I change three entries: rotate set to 10 deg, copies set to 30, and reference point set to middle bottom. First, I place the Transform FX below Stroke and Fill for the line. Then I move Transform FX above Stroke and Fill. I notice a position change in the result on the artboard. Why?This is for CS4 but I guess it applies to any edition.PS: Not that I expect Monika to chime in, but I do!  😉 

Estou criando uma faixa de 8 metros de largura, porém o Illustrator me permite criar pranchetas de até 5 metros e pouco.Qual o procedimento para aumentar esse tamanho?

The past couple months, I’ve had issues with a particular Illustrator file on my work laptop. It would often get stuck mid-save, causing me to lose the file. But since it’s on a network drive that’s regularly backed up, I was able to restore from a backup. I’ve tried moving it offline to my desktop and it would still get stuck saving.However, now my Illustrator won’t open at all and just freezes once the main window appears but before the Home screen appears. This problematic file seems to work just fine on my work desktop though. I’m able to open the file and save it just fine. It’s only on my laptop that the file gives me problems. They should both be on the same version of Illustrator as well, but like I said, I’ve had this happening on and off for months now.What should I do to troubleshoot? Would it help to provide the file for possible corruption? The laptop is a Dell DA16250. The desktop is a Dell Precision 3630. It’s a powerhouse and I’ve rarely had issues with it.

Mismo archivo derecha Acrobat izquierda Ilustrator si abro el archivo en otro equipo en ambos coincide como el de Acrobat

I often receive PDFs that need to be translated into other languages. I need to delete the original text.However, the PDFs provided by clients have already been converted to curves, and the densely packed text is all converted to curves, with each character as a separate object.There’s just too much of it, the layers are a mess, and there are different backgrounds as well.I’ve tried using the “Select Similar” tool, but it always selects completely unrelated text, so I’ve had no choice but to delete them one by one. I’ve noticed a pattern: some characters are positioned on top of a specific object’s background.Is it possible to use the background below as a selection boundary to select the text above it?Is there a script or any clever workaround for this?Thank you very much.I’ve provided just a small sample; in reality, it’s much more complex than this. 

Ik sla mijn Illustrator bestanden altijd op als pdf met bewerkingsmogelijkheden. Maar sinds de installatie van de nieuwste versie Illustrator kan ik de pdf niet meer openen alsof het een AI bestand is, maar worden ze gekoppeld weergegeven als images. Zo kan ik ze dus niet meer verder bewerken en ben ik al mijn bronbestanden kwijt.De koppelingen openen, opent ze in acrobat, daar heb ik ook niets aan.

When I am trying to use the Mockup tool, I will place an image and then place the Vector Logo on top, select both items, and ask Illustrator to CREATE MOCKUP.  When the mockup is created, Illustrator is putting a white box behind the vector file, on top of the image. See attached images

This seems to work a little differently than in InDesign.I can't figure out which line is causing the problem.var d = app.activeDocument;var items = d.selection;var item = d.selection[0];var sel = items;//layer name and colorvar ln = "Text";var col = [249, 138, 9];//If no layer is specified, a new layer will be created.var myLayer = d.layers.getByName(ln);var lsl = app.activeDocument.layers.length;if (!myLayer.isValid) { var myLayer = app.activeDocument.layers.add({ name: ln, layerColor: col });}//move select to myLayerfor (i = 0; i < sel.length; i++) { sel[i].moveToEnd(myLayer);} 

Tenho dois problemas que vem do ano passado pra cá, após as atualizações.1 - Após algum tempo usando o Illustrator o clique com o botão direito do mouse para funcionar e não abre mais o menu de opções que deveria abrir. Isso é resolvido fechando o aplicativo por completo e abrindo novamente, mas é algo muito irritante. Já foram lançadas várias atualizações ao longo do ano e isso nunca foi corrigido.2 - Quando você passa o mouse sobre uma ferramenta ela exibe uma janela com animação explicando o uso da mesma. As vezes essa janela fica travada ali mostrando uma animação, mesmo eu estando trabalhando com outra ferramenta em uma prancheta, só desaparece se eu voltar com o mouse em cima dela.

일러스트에서 자유형 그라디언트가 자꾸 투명으로 보입니다 ㅜ 투명도도 100%이고, 뭐가 문제인가요  

When using freeform gradients the dither checkbox seems missing. Is this a bug or a missing feature? 

Opened a file shows only on Home Screen. Couldn't open it on it’s own window.

When is Illustrator going to work stably and stop lagging after just an hour (or less with bigger files) of work? I have a m1 max with a ton of RAM, but that doesn't stop it from lagging and crawling constantly. Holy moly, what am I paying for?! You need to fix this, I'm absolutely furious!!! [abuse removed by moderator]

The relink button on the Links palette cannot have a keyboard shortcut assigned to it. It should. This would save many people hours of time and frustration. And it would allow many people to use Illustrator for placing art instead of InDesign, which has too many other limitations for serious illustration production work. This is NOT the same as the place command with “replace” selected. The Relink functionality allows you to select multiple objects and update each of them one at a time, from front to back. Place doesn’t do that.When updating a bunch of files, this is the functionality that is needed. I use Replace multiple times a session, sometimes dozens of times in a session, and clicking that tiny button is annoying and slows down my workflow significantly.Adding Replace to the keyboard shortcuts menu is fairly straightforward and could be implemented and tested easily. This would also allow for additional automated testing to be done on workflows that current require manual manipu

Hi there to All,Is there a way to apply a background colour to a charcter style in Illustrator? I’m after an effect like so (please see screen below), which I’m currently achieving by having placed a colour-filled rectangle behind the text. The trouble is that when I alter text (add/ remove some) and the text changes position, the position of the rectangle doesn’t change and I have to manually adjust it. It would be so much chandier if I could somehow integrate it with the text, so it all moves together…Also - is there a way of adding a custom colour into the ‘Character colour’ palette (in ‘Character Style Options’> ‘Character colour’)? (I tried adding it as a swatch first, but it doesn’t seem to work).Thank you!

I would like to create an upside down portrait artboard.let’s say you have two artboards side by side one is normally reading. if it had page numbers they would be at the top of the artboard. I then want to create a second artboard that is rotated 180 degrees from the first one.  So looking at it in illustrator the page number is now at the bottom of the page and upside down.But if you go to print I need the printer to understand that they both need to print with the page number at the top