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I am working in MacOS Sonoma, using Adobe Illustrator. The challenge I am having is that I am unable to find recently created photoshop files that I need to place into illustrator. (I can see all the previous files created days or weeks before when I go to place, however I cannot see files that I have just created when I go to "place" in Illustrator) I known the photoshop files are in the folder. I can see them otherwise. I have tried restarting the computer but that has not work. I am not sure what is causing this problem. 

Is there a way to use the Minus back on the Pathfinder on mulitple serperate objects at once without it just deleting every other object/shape? I've tried everything i can think of such as seperating the top shapes and the bottom shapes into serperate layers and grouping and merging the top and bottom shapes into one shape among other methods. Despite this the Minus Back always gets rid of every other shape selected. I can't use Divide or Trim as alternatives cause they dont subtract as smooth and cleanly as Minus back for some reason. 

I'm having a terrible time with version 29.5.1 on an intel mac mini running macos 15.5. When Ai is completely idle, no file open, it runs at a constant 50-60% cpu and should I touch it like bring it to forground it jumps to 100%+ cpu utilization. This can't be right. Anyone else running into this? If so, any ideas on how to solve or debug further? Thx.

Hi all,Please help. I got an issue that I can not create a new file thru the tab File + New or Control + N. I can only create a new file thru the tab "New from Template" means it had limited option. If you guy got any solution, please share. Thank you!

Hi all, I am having an issue with Illustrator 2021 that seemed to start up overnight. When I try to open Illustrator 2021 I get a "The operation cannot complete because of an unknown error. [CANT]" error message and then once it fully opens, it is just a gray screen and not the normal Illustrator interface. It does not respond to me trying to start a new file or save/save as anything I open. I can open previous Illustrator files and save as copy, but it is very frustrating to have to use these workarounds. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Illustrator 2021 and restarted my computer. I tried clearing the cashes, but could not use any key commands when starting the program due to the error. I have to use 2021 because of certain plug-in licenses that are not compatible with newer versions, and I can't seem to convince anyone with authority at my company to upgrade them. I tried to use Adobe Support, but I guess due to my license being part of a company wide license for Adobe, I

Bonjour,J'utilise quotidiennement Illustrator et je rencontre des difficultés à cause de bugs du logiciel. Tout d'abord, mes formes ne se ferment pas. Comme vous pouvez voir ci dessous, les tracés ne se joignent pas.  De même, lorsqu'après avoir fait un angle avec la plume, je souhaite créer un tracé droit (il faut recliquer sur le dernier point tracé pour supprimer la courbe), cela me fait une ligne en plus, vous pouvez le voir ci-dessous.  Je souhaiterai qu'une mise à jour soit faite afin de corriger les bugs, mais je ne sais pas où le signaler 😞

Would like to see the scrubby adjustment function come to the Character panel adjustments in Illustrator.  For instance, in Photoshop, when you place the cursor over any of the icons in the Character panel (ie Kerning, Tracking, Font Size etc.) and move left and right the number will adjust within the text field.  This doesn’t currently work that way in Illustrator on Mac or on PC, extra steps are needed to select the text number and adjust it. Since Photoshop and Illustrator share the same tool window design it should be an easy feature to bring over to Illustrator. The functionality works in other Adobe products that have a different UI for Character tools like After Effects.  Screen record examples attaching showing how the same action in Photoshop and Illustrator don’t produce the same result.  And besides starting a conversation here, yes I’m submitting this to USERVOICE as a feature request.   In the apps I use this WORKS in:Photo

Boa tarde, Criativos.Como estão? Segue vídeo e fotos de meu relato. Preciso descobrir como deixar todos aqueles padrões de cores visíveis em meus projetos, pois há vezes que eles se ocultam sem eu permitir. Necessito de ajuda!Desde já agradecido

When I search for a specific Pantone color, therused to be a 3 dot dropdown on the colors to allow you to "Add to Pallet" or "Add to swatch" etc. That is no longer available. This only seems to be on searched colors. Has anyone else run into this? 

Boa tarde,Espero que estejam bem!!Segue vídeo da minha dúvida. Eu gostaria do feito brilho externo em laranja sobre o fundo preto, porem o programa impossibilitando. 

Hi folks. I'm greener than grass, and I need help. I have never used any art software and I would like to start. I work with vinyl and I always buy someone elses work to create my products. How do I draw and what instrument(s) should I be using?

So, my latest CC Ilustrator version crashed after I accidentally put the Gassian Blur effect up a bit too high on a circular gradient.All the toolbars, control and panels just simply didn't load up with any new document open - or the software would just crash with a generic message upon launch.I've re-installed the program, keeping my settings from before [swatches, jump list etc], but it's not letting me select my saved Workspace, nor allowing me to create/ reset / manage them. All greyed out. And it only comes up with the artboard and elements, none of the system UI, again.... Any ideas on what to do now? 🤔 🤔

Selection tools have been really buggy ever since update. I will click and drag to select an area and in the middle of the drag it will deselect, or at the end of the drag when I let go it will show all the points and then deselect anyway. I will have to drag multiple times over the same area in order for it to finally select that area. It is extremely frustrating, I have never had this issue in the past. Please let me know if there is a fix for this, my husband is having the same issues (he works on PC, I'm on MAC.) I also noticed that when trying to select text areas to move them they will sometimes change my selection tool to the type tool, this is probably an unrelated issue but I would also like it to stay on the selection tool when moving type like it used to in the past.   

I'm having this issue running Illustrator 2024 (because 2025 is still too buggy to run on my Mac) when saving a file to PDF. When I open the PDF in Acrobat, all of the numbers in the font and any spaces show up as a box with an X. The font is the Adobe font, Gotham. It's an Adobe font, activated in the Adobe fonts in Creative Cloud, and it is still having these issues in Adobe products. 

Windows 11 - Recently updated to 29.5.1 and noticed a dramatic decrease in speed in Illustrator.  Looked at Edit > Preferences > Performance and found the GPU was not detected.  I have an Nvidia 2060 Super.     After many attempts at trouble shooting, I installed 29.3.1 and GPU was working again.   I tried to use the "Administrator" start up, but that also failed.

I am unable to browse through the fonts, it doesn't let me scroll. If i, for example, wanted to edit the spacing between letters of any text, it doesn't let me drag the bar to alter the text.  It's not letting me move objects around the canvas i either really don't know how to work illustrator or there is something wrong with the app, i am using illustrator on an iPad rather than desktop? Should this affect these features please help

Please can someone help as my productivity is going through the floor. I am running a 2019 27" iMac 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 - 64 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 - Radeon Pro Vega 48 8 GB. OS Sequoia 15.3.2.For a few months now I have been having problems with my Adobe CC apps, particularly Illustrator, although it also happens with PS and ID from time to time.When zoomed in doing intricate work (illustrating in Illustrator or retouching/clipping paths in PS) one of these two will hang the system in such a way that I cannot access the dock, but the cursor is still moving about the screen when i try to click on various things. So my Mac is not hanging per se, but everything else becomes unavailable to me. I cannot force quit anything to get back to the finder or any other app and the only way out is to restart. So, I get the option to reopen previous apps when i restart, and it makes no difference whether I do this option or choose any other, but exactly the same thing hap

Hey everyone, I am trying to cut/divide a freeform gradient square into evenly spaced stripes. I used before Object/Path/Split into grid method and it was working perfectly with linear gradient but not with freeform or images. I am stuck.. can someone help me please? Below I attached an image to show what I am trying to do (one on the left side is divided into stripes so I can flip them etc like on the right side)  

I'm using v29.5.1 (64bit)I'm resizing placed images to fit a template, and then embedding the images. This week (the week of 18 May 2025), when I select all of the images in the links panel (shift + LMB), and selected the 'embed image(s)' option from the drop-down menu, some of the images (between one and three images, so far) will be copied in the links panel, with the copy reverted to its original size and orientation, and the rest of the images may or may not embed at all. I can delete the copy without affecting the original.Selecting each image individually to embed works without an issue, but it's sloooooooooooooow.I've also noted that I lose image formatting if I have the text tool selected when I select an image and relink to a different image, but I don't lose image formatting if I use the selection or direct selection tool. (This is an issue since at least v26.)Any ideas?

I have several projects that need 15-20 artboards in one file with multiple unique sizes. Right now, I create each artboard individually working of a long list of typed out measurements . Is there a script or something that would allow me to copy and paste in the measurements for each artboard and then have illustrator create them all at once? It would save me hours of work a week if I can find a way to do this. 

I created a new shape with the pencil tool . But i want them to line up together instead of the light colour shape sticking out at the right.  I tried to use the join tool but there is no achor points near to join the darker shape to the lighter one.  Shape builder doesn't do anything either?   how do i join them so they look like one shape but 2 different colours?   

Hi, I've been experiencing an issue with Illustrator CC over the last few days, where the program crashes after loading the window. I won't be able to interact with anything, and trying to click on anything makes the program become unresponsive; Windows will notify me to close it.  I've tried a few things over the last few days.-  Tried older versions. This allowed me to get into the preferences to clear my files, but once I tried to open a file or create a new document, I would get the same crash.- Used the Creative Cloud cleaner tool. This had no effect.- Uninstalled Creative Cloud and all Adobe Applications.- Deleted most of the files in my %temp% folder that had Adobe in the title.  My next thing to try is a fresh Windows install, but before I do that, any recommendations for things to try, or has anyone had a similar issue in the past? Windows 11, 11th Gen i7-11800H, 16GB RAM, RTX 3050 Laptop GPU Thanks

HolaUna Consulta.¿Existe algún atajo en illustrator para ajustar la vista, al objeto selecciónado?Muchas Gracias Gustavo

Hi all, I am drawing a 2D sketch for my clothing line.  But i have a problem with filling  the colors in. i think i made a bit of a mess with the drawing, but i have really no clue how to solve this. i just have the program a few days and spend alot of time on drawing this. Can someone please help me out? Thanks in advance. Nick,

Currently Adobe Illustrator automatically and arbitrarily converts text parts to outlines, making these parts not editable nor selectable. It's not related to fonts, because that font is on my computer, and, other text parts that has exactly the same font are editable and not converted.It's just because of the code point. For example, in term `∀𝑥`, the ∀ (U+2200) is editable and 𝑥 (U+1D465) is converted to outline. I really dislike this arbitrary behaviour. If compatibility is considered critical, the program should at least give an option to allow us the users to choose whether to convert them to outlines