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Anyone have any idea why is there no keyboard shortcut to cycle through different text cases? There is also no option to add a custom keyboard shortcut for this basic function. Instead it seems the only option is to select Type>Change Case and select from there.This is possible in other Adobe products, but not in Illustrator. It used to be , but is yet another feature that appears to have been removed / broken...

If you scale a text frame in the current Illustrator on Mac (at least), the text in the frame will scale differently compared to the original text frame!I did not find any fix so far ... It does not deal with any unit conversion. Original width of text is 33,537 mm and it get's 87,197,mm, like it should (260% exactly), and text will be scaled from 9,953 pt to exactly 25,878 pt, exactly what it should be.But text will be wrapped in the big size frame and not break until the text frame gets smaller than 81,755 mm! So there is -5 mm(!) buffer. But text will be wrapped in the small text frame completely different. It will break at 36,891 mm, wich is more the +3mm compared to the original width. (and it will be wrapped completely different in Deli-ver with we and the end of the first line versus De-liver in the big frame with we in the second line!) So this issue deals with an unexpected and complete different hyphenation. 

Hi Illustrator team, Can you make a guide layout option, like Guide Layout in Photoshop or Make Guides in Indesign.Illustrator is super powerfull tool and use it all the time for making layouts, but I often find myself spending loads of time fine tuning guides and constructing a layout system, that could be done in seconds uisng a Layout Guide tool.Just litterally copy the Layout Guide tool from Photoshop.Set Page MarginsSet # ColumnsSet # RowsSet margins between columns and grids..... Figma has it....... Indesign has it...... Photoshop has it........ Pretty fundemental to doing layouts if you ask me.

I am doing prepress work where I need to step and repeat deisgns in a grid. However, the designs have objects on different layers (Print, Cut, Clear, White, etc). I need them to stay on these various layers. If I group the obejcts, they all get moved onto a single layer.    Does anyone know of a plugin or workflow that can accomplish this?

I am adding Artboard background color after i have my 3D image on the artboard. when doing do, the 3D image then appears to degrade in quality, meaning it seems more pixulated and lines are not as smooth as when i did not have a background. I tried rendering the image, but it did not help much.  Is this normal? Is their anything I can do to prevent this from happening?

I have noticed that in some .ai documents I have, I can't type a sentence because it writes everythingtogetheterlikethiswithnospaces. When I first write a word and then hit space, you can see how the text bar creates the space, but when i continue writting the bar goes back sticking to the last word ;( it drives me crazy, help!

How to bold text with ctrl+B in Illustrator?  Is it disabled by default or do you have to convert the text to "look" bold manually?

Is it possible to write a script that will do the following? 1. Rasterize multiple selected objects while keeping objects separate (not one image). 2. Keep objects at 300 dpi with a transparent background. 3. Ignore invisible and locked layers.

Hi everybody, Got a new conundrum for you. Still working on my book cover file for the printer, Ingram Spark, but running into trouble figuring out how to lower the TAC/TIC values below 240%. Anybody have a suggestion? Doesn't seem like there are any recent recommendations/posts on this. I did find several folks that said to individually adjust the CMYK sliders for every single swatch. A few problems with this: how do you adjust all the sliders to maintain the same color?this doesn't do any good for embedded jpegs (like my red background leather effect)what happens when you have mutiple layers interacting, like a dropshadow over the jpeg background? how do you adjust the CMYK for both without messing up both color renditions? Here are Ingram Spark's specs for the cover submission:300 ppiPDF COMPLIANCE: Files must be PDF/X-1a:2001 or PDF/X-3:2002 compliant. The PDF/X-1a:2001 setting is found in the Professional versions of Adobe Acrobat 6 or above (listed as PDF/X-1a

I've opened several files that have the same font, a font I got from Adobe that I've used for years, and suddenly the text is highlighted to indicate that the font is no longer recognized. I've restarted all programs, signed in and out of Adobe, and my account shows that the font is installed. My only option is to "remove" it. But it's not showing up in my list of fonts at all. The font in question is Eds Market Script Regular. Other Eds Market fonts are showing up, but not that one. The client wants this font specifically, and it's been on my ads for years, so why did it suddenly stop working? It's not a third party font, either - as I said, it's Adobe. I have the entire Eds Market family installed and this one isn't showing up. In fact, I think there are several others not showing up as well, but this is the one I need.I'm looking in my Creative CLoud app, and as you can see, only a small portion of the fonts are showing up in that. It goes from Eds Market to Expressway. What is goin

I created 3 nearly identical bar charts using no linked/embeded/external art. Everything is just text labels and rectangular objects. Two of the charts are under 500kb but, one chart is 18mb, and I don't understand why. I had intended to email the AI files to the client so they could update statistics in the future. But, this one file is really large to email, and doesn't match the others in size. All files are 8.5x11, RGB color space. Each file has about 20 layers, sharing a common naming scheme between them.No Groups or sub-layers.Show All is grayed-out.The Links panel is empty.I have checked each layer and there is nothing other than the text label and rectangular object.Saving As or Save A Copy results in the same file size.Saving with/without PDF compatible makes no difference. If I copy the contents to a new blank document, then the file size is normal. But, I loose all my layer organization in the process. It's a pain to recreate the layer names and organizat

I have an issue with a shape, it's not got rounded corners, but displays the stroke as if it does, if I turn them up they round as expected, then drop back down as I slide the handle at the corner and as it notes it gets to zero they snap and display as rounded again. I've screen recoded the issue, but I'd seemingly have to host it somewhere to show here. I've uploaded a screen cap, you can see it is 0px above. Thanks in advance!  

I have about 50 files with quarter-inch bleeds that I need to export as .pngs, but without the bleeds. I can't seem to find a setting that will allow me to do this. Am I missing something, or is this option just not available?

Con acciones simples como mover un objeto, da el error de "no se puede previsualizar" después se pone todo en blanco y tengo que cerrar y volver a abrirlo. Es muy molesto, supongo que es por la actualización pero así no se puede trabajar... Ya he probado a desinstalar e instalar de nuevo pero nada, sigue dando error.Just with easy actions like moving an object canvas turns white and "can't preview it" error, therefore I have to quit and start again... so annoying. I guess it's due to new update and also unistalled and instaled is done yet.

I have been using Illustrator for work for over 20 years. This new update has me completely confused. I can't use the pen tool and manipulate the anchors to make curves like I used to. Its taken me 10+ attempts just to select and move a simple item a 1/2 an inch on my artboard. It has taken me at least 4 times as long to create a file for a client than it did with the 2023 update. When I try to drag guides from the top and side rulers, they add wherever my curser clicks on the ruler, not to where I want to drag the guide. Am I the only one? I'm not using the Magnet app, I've seen that suggested in other posts. Im really only doing very basic things to create a tech pack for clients. I feel like a beginner, learning the basics, if I can't figure out whats wrong...... I don't know what I'm going to do? Can I go back to 2023?

Hey everybody, greetings from Berlin.I have a question, can anybody tell me?With my brandnew Surface Pro I obviously cannot run Illustrator. The adobe customers support said that it would "not yet" be compatible. CAN i hope that a version for Surface Pro will be developed? If I have to sell the Surface Pro tablet: what tablets can be used?Thanks, Tb

Hello!I have been working for a while trying to find a way to create a new layer with all the shapes that intersect another group of shapes. Specifically, in my scenario I have the word "SOL" (expanded into shapes, compound path for the O though it doesnt work even with a filled O), and a background floral art design that is composed with a bunch of shapes as seen below.I want to create something like this, but without manually deleting each shape that doesn't appear to intersect the letters. Is there a way to do this? I tried getting ChatGPT to generate scripts that use Illustrators hitTest, but they never worked. ChatGPT also made scripts using Illustrators pathfinder, but they took so long I had to force quit Illustrator. Now my clipping masks arent even working, and are just returning empty letters as you can see below.The following is the hitTest script ChatGPT made. I don't know why this doesn't work, and nor do I know why it would possibly work because I don't know about hitTest

Hello everyone, I would like to ask if anyone could help me with a question about layers in Illustrator. I’m exporting vectors using save as, with a single layer for the project and sublayers for parts of my artwork. When I use  save as, the layers remain, but when I reopen the file and use the standard save on an existing project, the layers become groups inside that layer. Also, when I upload the file to some websites, my layers disappear and all the paths become one big list inside a single layer, causing me to lose all my organization. Would anyone know why this happens?  Thanks in advance for your help!

So, I had an art piece that I was working on... The app then froze and crashed because the anchor points became locked in the same direction after using the smooth tool and attempting to make them independent points. This is a common crash I get, one that still has yet to be resolved. However, this is the second time this has happened, where it will automatically recover another document I had open for colors, but not create a working one for the one I was actively using. Very irritating to say the least. I don't have the complete crash log, but it did have "exception type: exc_bad_access (sigsegv)" as its cause. Again, guessing those anchor points resulted in an invalid action. Still, since I'm overly cautious with auto-recovery files, I created a copy of the recovered file and its folder contents in a different location, in case Illustrator would remove it (and it did, to no surprise). I was hoping there could be a way to fix the possible error in the file, because I do not want

Hi, all I have to send a few holographic stickers for printing, now the colour in srgb looks great but as soon as I convert the colour mode to cmyk the colours are extremely dull which would be a huge problem for holographic printing and in general I have observed the cmyk gamut to be dull because of their nature. How do you guys work around it ? what is the resolution to get exact shiny reflective holographic stickers printed?  what would be the general solution to have cmyk documents looking similar to rgbRGBCMYK

Why does this dropdown menu has no Grop Tool? File is uploaded Logo Design 

scale strokes and effects keeps unckecking!!! why would you ever not want to scale these along with artwork??????Default should always be checked!!! why is this even an option?

Ele fica com a tela preta e somente o menu de cima que aparece.

Hi there, Can anyone help! I'm wondering how the stickers were created with the indented curved shapes?