Questions

Why can't I delete anchor points? Is there a fix for this? I read about installing older versions and I tried that. Still doesn't work. How on earth can you have a problem with one of the most basic tools in AI?   {Renamed by MOD}

Hello,i have a simple clipping mask made of a compound path from 4 lines (object, compound), and an image below in the layers:But when i select both and "make clipping path", the only thing left is a small sliver of the image that corresponds to the line of the path, everything else dissapearsAt this point i'm lost on what's going on

I have the issue that objects align to guides in a completely arbitrary manner—sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. I’ve tried all the standard solutions except for reinstalling the software. The guides themselves work, but just not consistently. I’ve had this problem for 3-4 years, and with every update, it occurs more frequently. As a core functionality, this is no longer acceptable. It’s frustrating. Attached is a video that explains more than a thousand words. I hope I’m not the only person on the planet dealing with this problem.

I can't figure out what character to search to strip out extra normal paragraph returns in my illustrator file. ^p has always worked in the past in InDesign. On the pull down, it only shows the characgter for a forced line break.  I've googled high and low... the answer will be appreciated.

Hi, so far i'm in love with illustrator, been using it daily for my school related project. i recently got a lot of project which needed to masking/ clipping mask an object inside an image on Illustrator so my option were either manually tracing the object with pen tool & mask it, or use photoshop to auto select the object and export in PNG. so i want to propose an idea, like how about you guys even improve the image trace function? the new improved image trace will allow us user to use lasso-like tools to cover the object we want to trace into an optimum Auto-traced objects.i'm inspired by the idea of selecting in photoshop with auto-detect object where you can just use the tools to auto detect where we want to select and can let us do whatever we want with the selection, like to mask an image or convert it to functional path and we can convert those path to a shape.With this even improved image trace in Illustrator we can select the area we want and the AI will help us

My selection tool on Adobe Illustrator has just been acting strangely. Whenever I try to resize the object with it, it appears as the direct selection tool and moves the object. Could you help me? 

Subject is pretty much it. Various firings of the "Could not find the linked file" warning, even though i originally created the file in the same Dropbox folder that other machines are trying to access it from. How do I fix this? Thanks.

Quando fecho um arquivo em .png a medida fica diferente do que setei na prancheta do Illustrator, já mexi em diversos lugares para testar onde estou errando e não encontro e não sei o motivo da divergênica.Na configuração da prancheta ele está assim:Quando vejo as propriedades do arquivo, ele fica da seguinte forma:  

Hello Everyone, I am tracing the image shown in the screenshot attached using the "Convert images to vector using Image Trace guide": https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/image-trace.html?x-product=CCHome%2F1.0&x-product-location=Search%3AForums%3Alink%2F3.2.3&mv2=cch Most of the image has been traced - except the areas inside some letters and the leaf as shown in the screenshot. My question is (apologies if i am not using the proper terminology) how do i ensure the red arrow areas within leaf and letters are included when tracing using the "Image Trace Guide"? What specific actions should I include, and at what step in the "image trace" process should i perform these actions to capture these areas?

When not selected.  When selected to move an object, a grey box appears. 

I downloaded this AI file from Adobe Stock, everything is perfect, but I can't figure out how to change the background pink to another color.

Does anyone know why png picture doesn't have transparent background? I have tried to switch from GPU to CPU preview, it doesn't work. I have open transparent grid but still the behind image is blocked.  

Anybody else having 'issues' with the dimensions of objects being inaccurate in illustrator?I've set up a document (CMKY and 50mm x 50mm artboard). Snap to pixel is off.When I draw a rectangle of 50mm x 50mm everything seems good, but when I select the object again the dimensions actually read as 50.003mm. I can change the dimensions either in the control bar at the top, or the transform panel and everything seems accurate, but again if you deselect and re-select the object, the dimensions have again altered to this slightly off measurement. I've heard some people say that Illustrator uses points and mm / inches etc get converted to points and some 'rounding up or down' occurs, causing this inaccuracy. Granted that kind of minuscule change is barely going to be noticeable, but when accuracy is important it seems illogical to round anything up or down. If units are set to mm, then Illustrator use mm to measure and set and calculate dimensions no?I've reset preferences, restarted Illustr

How do we do any kind of subtle text editing in Illustrator? I can't even figure out how to make a few characters bold, and neither can the "help" feature. If the program is not capable of something that simple, I need to hurry and get my money back...

I am following a Udemy class about the last updates of Illustrator concerning AI and I cannot find the window for Text to Vector. I am trying with the Properties pannel, but also, there are only 3 itens listed, SCENE, SUBJECT and ICON, while I can see on Udemy's video, on a older version, that there's also a PATTERN choice... Where are these features?

Help! It seems like whenever I agree to an update the function, Adobe Illustrator gets all scrambled. I updated it today and now I cannot use the Curvature Point tool. When I open AI that tool should be renamed, "Straight or Jagged Line Tool". The line does not even end up on the region I was navigating around with the Curvature tool. The line appears a quarter inch off of the area I am trying to reproduce. I am so fed up with this process. I am trying to finish a major project, and I can't do anything with it because each time I try to update the system functions worse that it did before. What should I do? I need to get this work done. I may not update the system again because I have only seen it work properly after one update. I am very dissappointed.  I read online that I can restore it to a previous version. I tried to do so, but the restoration did not work either. Please tell me how to fix this. Bonnie241539314h01

(The English text below, machine-translated) DE: Hallo, ich habe ein Problem mit Illustrator, das aber auch andere Adobe-Programme wie InDesign und Photoshop betrifft. Es scheint ein allgemeines Adobe-Problem auf Windows-Geräten zu sein, und zwar: Textzeichen werden beim Verändern der Laufweite, z. B. durch Kerning (siehe Video), nicht korrekt dargestellt. Die Zeichen verschieben sich rein faktisch korrekt (getestet mit dem Info-Panel), die visuelle  Anzeige auf dem Monitor ist jedoch fehlerhaft. Dadurch ist professionelles Arbeiten ausgeschlossen. Wahrscheinlich handelt es sich um ein Problem mit dem Text-Rendering, also der Display-Anzeige.Dieser Fehler tritt übrigens nur in Adobe-Programmen auf. Alternative Grafikprogramme wie Affinity haben dieses Anzeigeproblem nicht. Außerdem ist es kein individuelles Problem, das speziell mein Setup betrifft – auch andere Nutzer haben dieses Problem. Dazu ein weiterer Forum-Beitrag von mir, speziell für InDesign. Bisheri

Is anyone experiencing manual scale issues working with created shapes in Illustrator V 29.5.1? Also finding issues with Text to Path. 

I have an array of allPathItems (this is an array of pathItems and compoundPathItems) and I want to export each of the allPathItems as a *.svgI get the right number of SVG files, with the correct names and in the correct place, but each SVG is of the whole document.How do I get one SVG for each allPathItems?So allPathItems[0] is a SVG of that path item and only that item.allPathItems[1] is a SVG of allPathItems[1] and only that item.And so on until allPathItems.lengthvar doc = app.activeDocument; ... for (var j = 0; j < allPathItems.length; j++) { var filename = allPathItems[j].name; var svgFile = new File(doc.path + "/" + filename + '.svg'); doc.exportFile(svgFile, ExportType.SVG, exportOptions, allPathItems[j]); } 

Hello there!I'm just starting to learn the Adobe Suite in school and I've been watching some tutorials on their website. But I can't for the life of me find this feature in Illustrator or via Google.It's from this tutorial video:Adobe Learn - Learn Illustrator Create a flat illustration Here are some screenshots.Any and all help is appreciated.

Hi,Good Day...I am using Adobe Illustrator in Mac and Windows. In Mac I can type AXT Arabic fonts without any problem. But in windows when am typing numbers automatically changed to Adobe Arabic Font and continue as adobe Arabic Font. How can I solve this Issue. If anyone can will suggest will be appreciate.Zaid Al Hilali​Om Nath Jha​How to find Layer Name in Layer Panel​thank you

Hello, does anyone know how to create this type of arrow?Thanks! 

Hello,I have been paying for my Adobe student plan since October, and from the very first month I began using Illustrator, I started experiencing occasional random errors. The app would crash sporadically, and I would simply reopen it. At the time, I didn’t give it much importance since it wasn’t directly affecting my work.However, for the past three days, I have been unable to use Illustrator properly. The issue has become persistent and severely disruptive. Here’s what happens:When I select text, the bounding box disappears or doesn’t show up.The text deselects itself automatically without me clicking elsewhere.When I select a text object, the font name displayed is not the one applied, but the name of the previous font I selected. This incorrect name remains even if I select text with a completely different font.When I try to move a single object, multiple unrelated objects move together as if they were grouped — even though they are not.The blue outline (bounding box) doesn’t appea

We have one computer at our workplace which is being stubborn about fonts but only in certain files. For example we have a text object using the font "Horsham-Bold" (A TTF font). On most of our computers we can edit this text easily, but on one particular computer when we try typing to add more letters to this text, the new letters appear using the font "Adelle-Heavy" (an OTF font) which is a font used elsewhere in the file. We can correct this by reselecting the new text and changing it back to Horsham-Bold, but pressing enter to create a new line reverts it back to Adelle-Heavy.Another odd thing is that the only computer having this problem is also the computer that created the file in the first place. I've looked at some similar discussions on this site, but those cases all seem to involve Postscript 1 fonts, which it doesn't look like we use, and they report the font changing to Myriad Pro rather than changing to another font used elsewhere in the file. Though in another insta

My shape builder tool is not working for some reason. It shows a little anti circle next to the cursor when i try to use the tool. It does not allow me change any options on the tool as well. I tried reseting my settings back to default, restarted the program and tried to make an object on a fresh project but it still did not work. The Shape builder tool is the only tool affected. Can somebody please tell me how to fix this?