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Is it possible to clone an object/image in illustrator? Not just copy and paste or use a stamp, but have the user be able to click on the object and have it clone or dublicate, and then move the copies anywhere?

If I use "Object>Path>Add anchor points" it will add anchors in every segment of the path I just need one anchor on one segment. I cannot add multiple points and delete the unwanted ones because it will deform the path in other areas.This picture is just an example, not my actual work. I just switched to Illustrator from Inkscape, there is a dedicated button for this purpose in Inkscape, there must be something similar in Illustrator.Thanks in advance for your help.

Need some help here. When I copy text and paste it into illustrator it pastes vertically and in an extremely long line. I think it's pasting as an object because when I tried to shrink the box then the text shrinks as well. Also wanted to mention that I'm copying a paragraph and when I paste it it pastes only a sentence. Not sure why this is happening when my "paste without formatting" is off and this problem has never happened before until today. 

I can see the bounding box on my object (a square) but as soon as I click the ruler to pull over a guide, the bounding box disappears. That did not happen in past versions of Illustrator. Can anyone help me figure out how to retain the bounding box visibility while setting a guide? I have the bounding box set with a center point. Not using Smart Guides. Screen recording attached.

Every time that i open illustrator this message shows:Error in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Startup Scripts CC\Adobe PhotoshopLine 1:I/O errorAnd my program crashes all the time when i am trying to export an image or when the files have 2 or 3 pictures.Need help! Thank you in Advance 

Being getting this error message every time I try to load an image to Illustrator. A small image, in this case only 227 KB, Geforce 3060 GPU, 32.9 GB free space in disk C:, nothing running in the background.  Illustrator is up-to-date, have uninstalled, removed all preferences then reinstalled. Problem remains. It's often fine when the image is in its original size:Then when I try to scale down the image, it shows "can't finish previewing"and turn white  I have asked a couple of people experienced with the program and they all tell me they have never seen this issue. (the image is my cat that I'm trying to make a key chain of. He's totally fine  

Illustrator 29.3.1/MacOS 15.3.2 When playing an action, it expands.... so that it visibly "walks" through every step.I have the Playback Options set to "Accelerated", so the walking is rapid, yet the action expands and I see the panel highlight every single step of the walk through. Am I missing something?I want to click play, and the action run while it stays collapsed. Is this not possible? I do not need to see the steps as they are performed, nor do I want "Button Mode" - Button mode lists ALL actions in ALL sets as a button, not a specifc set. With even the default set loaded, that's a lot of panel-filling buttons. If Button Mode honored sets, where I could collaps a set, then Button Mode would be okay - but that's not how it's ever worked.

Hi,   When an arrow key is pressed, the object on screen moves by 0.139 inch.   Is there any way to make it move by 0.125 inch?   Hosun  

Illy version 29.1. My artwork has undergone several file revisions over months. Across all revisions I've used clinet specified Pantone colors on objects in the file. From the start, each files has been set to CMYK color mode. In the newest file revision Illustrator changed all the spot colors to CMYK. The Pantone swatches are still in the Swatch window, but the shapes in the file are now all using CMYK color builds. This causesd a color shift on the latest print run. This same thing has happend to other members of my team. Specitic spot colors change to CMYK.  

Hello community.  I followed the instructions here to successfully create a box around my text: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/19824/illustrator-auto-sized-text-box-with-shaded-background I'm able to change the text box color with ease. I'm not sure how to change the type fill color without affecting the text box color. Appreciate the help, tried to look it up but didnt find an answer.

 Is it possible to create an alert like this using extendscript or ScriptUI?Would be so excellent if there was a way to create non-modal alerts like this.

What is going on with strokes in Illustrator? When using strokes, you get weird jagged artifacts, and when converting strokes to outlines, the conversion is terribly imprecise half the time! We use Illustrator because of the precision it is supposed to offer - this has become incredibly frustrating and a time waste! The issues seemingly started when they began introducing the garbage AI tools in the software. I've fiddled with the stroke preferences, the file resolution, and so on, but - no luck.  Has anyone found a solution to the issues?

Hello yall! I've been running to an Illustrator issue, where when I try to open a file it flashes for a moment, and then I cannot see anything... the only fix thus far is to hold ctrl+shift when opeing AI then I am able to see any files. Also, I cannot drag AI files into the main home window to open them - I am recieveing an X when I do this! Anyone else run into this issue? TIA

The type area does not expand using the select tool, yesterday it was working, now its not

i'm using Illustrator and I need to type in Portuguese/Spanish so i need to use accents like áàêEverywhere else on Mac OS if I long press the key I get an accent pop up, like this:In adobe products, this never shows up.Am i missing something here or does Adobe products don't let this native pop up show up?

is there a simpler way to crop an image than to use the 'crop image' tool?

Hola, quisiera sabe si hay algún plan de compra especial que pueda permitir usar mis aplicaciones en varios dispositivos a la vez.

what is the simplest way to get just one instrument out of here, (the circle around is connected) 

why am I not able to ungroup? 

how can I keep all my layers I created and put them all in a clipping group(a bounding box)when I try, all layers go into the clipping group here is a snapshot of the groups I created and then the clipping after that - which all my layers went into 

I drew this Logo in Illustrator, ttransformed them and saved as a SVG File. When I loaded it into my cutter Programm it looked like this, which makes it unusable as the overlapping shapes are recognized. This also happens on the Text. Do I have to adjust some settings or even draw the Logo different?Thanks in advance.

Windows 10 64 bit - Ai CC 2019Each time I save my (CMYK) Ai file as a High Quality print PDF and then preview it in Acrobat DC, I'm seeing this red line surround my artwork. I'm not the most savvy person with Acrobat, so I don't know if this is just something that needs to be turned off or not. I don't see the line while previewing the PDF in Ai. Below is a screenshot of what I see. I'm concerned that my final pdf has to go to a print shop and I certainly don't want this to print.

I've been going through the past, similar articles about trying to figure out which font has been used without any luck.I've opened the file in Notepad but it doesn't give any "font" "text" or "type" information.I've used the Match Font feature and it's giving me matches that look NOTHING like the font I'm trying to match.I've retyped the same phrase and arrowed down through every font available in Illustrator and Photoshop trying to find which one matched without any luck.The original file was created in 2022 using Photoshop and Illustrator. I'm trying to add another line of text now with the same font, and I can't figure this out for the life of me. Can anyone help? Do you recognize this font? The lower case "a" and the uppercase "e" both have difinitive shapes to them that I can't find in a similar font. This is a .jpg of the image I'm trying to work with, but I do have the .ai file on the computer. 

Dear Adobe Community, I'm facing an issue with the online ACP Illustrator exam on Pearson VUE's platform.Apparently I've attempted to take this exam twice already and got stuck at the exact same spot.The online exam uses the OnVUE app, which essentially connects to a VM, part 1 consists of theoretical questions, then part 2 involves Illustrator loading up on the VM with a "Certification Test" panel on the right hand side which is supposed to load up Tasks that need to be completed.Now, when I click on Next to access the first task, Illustrator promptly crashes and a "Please Wait..." screen is displayed. (Just like at the beginning of the exam.)As the proctors suggested, I've restarted the (latest version of) OnVUE app numerous times, rebooted my laptop 3 times, they restarted the session and I also refreshed it - to no avail. Once Illustrator has crashed, there seems to be no way to trigger its load up again in the exam.There has been a strange event also, namely that the Creative

Hi, I'm trying to design an iPhone app page in Illustrator and have to print it out true to the size of an iPhone. The file seems to be extremely big, and font sizes have to be very large. When I go to print, the artboard is extremely big, and I can't scale it to the paper or it won't be true to size.