Questions

Hello, I am having issues with pasting or placing PNG files into illustrator. Everytime a white background is added.  I have used the same files on other collegues computers and they are fine, no backgrounds added.I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling illustrator.I have imported over a collegues settings over mind and that did not work.  Any help would be appreciated. thank you

Hello all, I've been experiencing some odd outcone after converting a file from Illustrator to PDF. The file has multiple images in high res but only this one set of three images get jagged edges after exporting. I tried everything and still the results aren't any good. I put attached an image of the illustrator file on the left and the PDF result on the right. I'm probably doing something wrong when exporting but I tried exporting in all possible PDF Presets, changed image compression many times in different presets, renamed the png files, converted in all types of png's, downloaded the files again... you name it. What is intriguing is why only three pictures are pixalated while all the others are good? Any advise would be tremendously appreciated. 

I am having a major issue with the pen tool. I find that putting anything above the lowest fidelity setting is smoothing the path too much. Yet if you put it on the lowest then it is much too rough with hundreds of anchor points.I want to be able to create lines with details in it, but allow for some slight smoothing, but although there are a number of settings on the scale, it seems to go from rough to very smooth and no inbetween.Is there another setting that may be skewing this effect that I am missing, because it is making sketching extremely difficult and somewhat impossible to achieve the level of detail I need.Thanks.

Hi!I'm taking an online course in illustrator and in one lesson the teacher (using CC) guided us through the process of working with text in 3d.He wrote a word, then made a compound shape of it and expanded it.Later, he applied the Extrude & Bevel effect, and then expanded the appearance.Finally, he ungrouped the word.The result was the word was now in 3d, and every side of each letter was independent and could be edited individually.  I went through the whole process step by step, with Illustrator 2022. However, I did not get the same result with the new Extrude & Bevel effect. After applying the effect, I expanded the appearance and everything became one object, and ungrouping it did nothing. Looking around in the forums here, I realized there was the "Classic" Extrude & Bevel option, so I tried that instead, and it provided the desired result.  My questions are: why doesn't it work with the new 2022 effect?And, is there a way to get that result u

I would love to see Flick Panning (inertial scrolling) implemented in Adobe Illustrator and Indesign, just like in Photoshop. Currently, when using the Hand Tool (spacebar + drag), the canvas stops immediately when releasing the mouse or pen, which feels unnatural and less fluid.Adding Flick Panning would greatly improve the user experience, making navigation smoother and more intuitive, especially for users switching between Adobe applications. Thank you for considering this improvement!

I am very familar with Illustrator (CS4) except I keep having this one issue!!!!  I know how to make new swatches, solid color or a pattern, but have been having problems with making a new pattern swatch.  For example, say it's a basic square with some lines it in, or a plaid pattern or something, I drag it over into the swatch area and it's supposed to create a new swatch in there.  This does not happen more times than most.  When I drag it over it highlights the swatch window black like it is going to recieve it, but then nothing happens.  I've tried expanding the art, rasterizing it, drawing a transparent box on it, trying to somehow make it a symbol first, I dunno.  Can't figure it out.  If anyone can help me, I would be soooooooo happy!  I am working on a brand new macbook pro with 4G RAM and have no other programs open.Thanks for your help in advance!!Joe

i made a circle of stars in adobe illustrator but all the stars are rotated differently. The blend/replace spine video I found online shows it correctly but mine is not turning out that way.  that video was from 2022, maybe something has changed? my shows the stars in a circle and you can see they are all slightly rotated more and more as the go around the circle. they should appear as the star in the center. Thanks in advance for the help

Is the a way to get a pattern to center up the fill.On the left is a rectangle field with the pattern.On the right is the expanded pattern so you can see this is designed so the floret is centered.

I just realized that the special marks / em/en dash / spacing options were reorganized, but I can't find the option »non-breaking space« anymore? I must admit that I usually work with a German UI but changed it to English recently. Am I missing something or did Adobe get rid of this option?

How do I save the color swatches I always work with so they load every time I reinstall Illustrator or when I use a different computer to load my settings? I have many things automated and my shortcuts are also the ones I've used for several years.

I could really use some help.  Any time that I open .pdf floor plans in Illustrator it replaces my font with boxed xyz's.  I am stumped.  The fonts in the document are Arial and Arial Bold, which are downloaded and accessible in Illustrator.  I can use them both if I am adding new text.  I have Googled this issue over and over and come up with nothing.  I have tried highlighting all of the text and replacing it, and that doesn't work either.  I can "Import .pdf pages as links for optimal performance" and the fonts DO come through, but the document is completely locked and I cannot make any edits.

When I try to use the mockup feature a red bar pops up at the bottom of my screen that reads;"We're experiencing high demand please try again in some time."It has been doing this for three days now. HEEELLLLPPPP. thanks.

Hi, As said in this locked thread, the bug in Illustrator which randomly doubles or skips the artboard numbers (so they definitely will not match the exported PDF's page numbers) STILL exists. Today this cost me a lot of lost time and material since I reprinted and cut the wrong 4 pages on vinyl. Illustrator 29.3.1 on macOS Sequoia 15.3.1   

Recently my AI started stalling . Anytime I swiitch to another app - like photos or safari , when I come back to AI it has completely stalled out and won't do anything unless I close the entire app and reopen it.  Very frustrating since I multitask often while using AI. My iPad is only a year old and I've had AI since I got it and this is a new behavior.  My ipad is updated, my Ai is updated, I'm only using 12% of my adobe cloud space. I've rebooted the app and my ipad more times than I can count and it's still happening constantly. Any thoughts?

Video example  I got a "new" 2019 iMac and installed AI 29.2.1. A lot of the times when I select multiple objects, expand objects, merge objects, etc., it has this really annoying behavior where the entire program freezes, a series of vertices get selected/highlighted, and a line runs across the rulers. This totally slows down my workflow and is extremely obnoxious. I've never experienced it in any previous versions! Is this a setting I can disable? Thank you!

In the moon lecture, I can't seem to trim the circles? I click and nothing happens?https://www.udemy.com/course/vector-vision-adobe-illustrator-super-power/?kw=adobe+illustrator+for+graphic+designers&src=sac

I run the Adobe suite on my Intel iMac Retina 5K 27-inch from 2020 (3,8 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i7, AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 16 GB, 128 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Mac OS X 14.7.4, with 400 GB of free disk space). Especially Illustrator (v.29.3.1, but also most of the other Adobe apps) run super slow when it comes to larger files (InDesign and Acrobat don't even need files to be extra large for their very slow UI). E.g. saving a 2.5 GB large AI file takes five minutes or longer while the CPU load hardly exceeds 12% (according to a system monitoring tool). I just wonder: Is it due to a weaker Intel architecture (compared to Apple's M), inefficient software or did I simply fail to configure Illustrator better for higher performance?Does anyone of you experience similar issues or has any advice on improving Illustrator's performance? Thanks! 🙂

Hello all,I am new to this software and trying to work my way through it.Couple issue that I would like to address.1) 16:23 into the video, he say to highlight the star, press alt and it is supposed to change the number of points on said star. After several tries, I can get the star to do about anything, except add more pointsWhat am I missing?2) I have looked in documents for "File Exercises" to follow along with that is mentioned at the 22:53 minute mark. Where would I find those at? TIAAlan

Hi, Illustrator 29.5.15 beta version; Direct Selection tool not select images

Hello! I'm trying to change the colour of certain elements in a design to gold, so I'm selecting all those elements and changing the colour to gold, but when I hit 'enter' it changes it to a grey/silver? I can't work out what I'm doing wrong. Can someone please help?

How can I get objects on different artboards in the same exact position on each one?

¿Se puede fijar un cuadro de texto en un punto específico para que su ubicación no cambie, pero su contenido sí pueda modificarse?

Hi,I have two stay anchor points with handles like this:I just want to join both of them by preserving their handles, so that the result would look like this:Is there any way to achieve this?P.S: I don't have much idea about illustrator as I'm new to it. Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks.