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If I have a shape similar to this but more intricate, can illustrtaor create a trap by spliting the distance on the Black area?Thank you

I am trying to accomplish something that looks like the following in Illustrator. What is the best way to go about doing that?

I have been having issues with Illustrator. When I open it it says I have plug-in errors. Following the link the error message gives me, one of the recommendations is to boot Illustrator in Safe mode. But I can find no way to force it to do that. It says I should follow the prompts when opening but I'm not getting any prompts on the opening screen and I can't find anywhere to do it manually. The I.T. person at my office is also having trouble. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I am working with a provided .psd file from a client to use as a background in signage design, as seen in the first image below. The document is in cmyk. We create our signage in illustrator, so I pull the .psd into illustrator and design from there. There are slight color changes from photoshop to illustrator, but nothing to bat an eye at. However, whenever I finish my designs in illustrator and export the document as a .pdf file, if the file is viewed or opened in ANY software that is not Adobe software, it looks like the second image below. Display is not the only issue, because in print we inconsistently get variations of this saturated color. I want to know how I can prevent these inconsistencies and get these cmyk color profiles in illustrator to accurately translate in print, and I don't know why they wouldn't be in the first place. This issue does not occur if we export from photoshop, so I would assume this has something to do with bringing in this .psd into illustrator and th

Hello All! Fairly new to scripting and I've run into a problem. I'm basically trying to make a floating window that doesn't interfere with a user. I have a pretty intensive Modular setup (I think its intensive at least lol). Maybe thats the root cause. I've done some resarch into it but a lot of the posts i see are from like 2012 so im not sure if those are relevant still or not.  Some talked about BridgeTalk -(Not sure what that is exactly. Might need to do more home work on that.) Right now I've tried basically a dialog window with uniquie properties. about 7 versions and the closest i got was being able to intereact with other windows in illustrator but notthing in the actual document. Like I could click on the tools in on left side, interact with the swatch panel, but nothing in the artboard would register until I closed my my UI. Ive tried a Palette window but so far any time i try a palette window. It just closes immediately but I feel like Palette is pro

Hi,I have a collection of items in Illustrator which are a short text surrounded by a color circle. The circle is created via an outline shape in the appearance panel, see below. I have been trying to write a script that can change the fill color but can't seem to access that property. I retrieve the object, a TextFrame, and can access the text color via obj.textRange.fillColor, but can't seem to find how to change the fill color. The documentation didn't seem to provide any methods to access the appearance properties either. I found an old message recommending the OnegaiSDK plug-in to access these, but it doesn't seem to function with CC 2025 anymore (hasn't been maintained since 2019 apparently). Thanks for any ideas!

When I try to generate anything with the generate vector feature, I get the pictured error. I dont have any updates available, and I've tried signing out and signing back in to creative cloud. is anyone else having this issue or know how to fix it?

I am placing a gradient on top of a image (not masking it). And gradient style is like opacity gradient, one colour opacity is 0 and other colour is 100. Also I have kept the transperency to normal. The main problem is when I do the same thing on my 2020 illustrator it is working properly but, when I am doing the same thing in 2024 illustrator it is not working.  The first picture is the 2020 Illustrator and the second is 2024 illustrator. Please anybody help me  

Anyone who knows why? Tried to abort, and install svereal times, but everytime it stops installing at 93 %

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All of the sudden after placing a jpg or creating some basic text I can no longer grab and move it with my mouse. It will only move with the keyboard arrows. I've done the basic fixes but still doing it.

I'm trying to open a cloud document, it gives me this message. Document contains incompatible objects) This cloud document contains objects that are not compatible with the current Illustrator version. To open this document, use the version with which the document has been created. I've tried re-installing an older version of illustrator, updating it to the newest version, downloading the file directly from cloud (says it can't download it) and copying the file and opening it, nothing works. Yesterday it worked normally and then suddenly it stopped. This is a very important file for me, can you recover it? https://illustrator.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:9518f838-6569-4790-92fd-0e5ba9d57531 this is the file

Just recently CS6 Illustrator stopped printing whenever there is test or type on the page.  I can print the artboard to a file and then print the  file (page) but not directly from an Illustrator artboard.  If I remove all of the type on the artboard by deleting the type or hiding the type the art board will print.  Evidently I changed something but do not know what.  I even re-installed Illustrator and that did not help.  I could use some ideas.  My printer is a HP Office jet 6978 and is up to date.

I am trying to open the Align panel to float in the workspace area.  When I go to Windows>Align and click on 'Align'  instead of the Align panel coming up the 3D & Materials panel opens up instead. Is it a bug? Is it something else?  Thanks for help to solve this one.JR 

I'm trying to open a cloud document, it gives me this message. Document contains incompatible objects) This cloud document contains objects that are not compatible with the current Illustrator version. To open this document, use the version with which the document has been created. I've tried re-installing an older version of illustrator, updating it to the newest version, downloading the file directly from cloud (says it can't download it) and copying the file and opening it, nothing works. Yesterday it worked normally and then suddenly it stopped. This is a very important file for me, can you recover it? https://illustrator.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:9518f838-6569-4790-92fd-0e5ba9d57531 this is the file

I'm trying to create a bunch of nested objects within one with negative offset path and then extrude them a certain height based on their opacity, which I already have scripted. Seems like neither has access to scripting.

Hi, I'm using the latest update of Illustrator and when I place any EPS file into an Illustrator document, the resulting vector appears corrupted, it has jagged edges, warped shapes etc. If I open the EPS separately, select the vector, copy then paste into my other Illustrator document, it maintains its integrity. As I work with logos all day long (merchandise printing) this is not a productive workflow workaround. I have tried:- Updating my software (latest version now installed)- Creating my own logo using latest software, same result- Saving old logos created on previous software versions into new EPS files using current software- Saving as alternative file types, including Ai, PDF and SVG. I work with mostly EPS hence my original question, but it is also corrupting the other file types if they are Placed rather than pasted in.It was always my understanding that Place was best practice, and it seems to no longer be working. I have attached an example. Thanks!

Hello, I need to automate Illustrator color separation (inkList) when printing to a file. But the scripting API doesn’t work (printColorSeparationOptions.inkList; InkPrintStatus.DISABLEINK) and just silently ignores the ink inclusion / exclusion settings. I wonder could anyone tell me is there an equivalent API via C++ SDK? Any regarding information would be appreciated.

Hello,I am opening up a .SVG in Adobe Illustrator CC 2019 and I want to create custom classes for paths. Every time I saved the save with some styling Adobe Illustrator creates class names is there a way to edit the names in Adobe Illustrator CC 2019?Hopefully this makes sense.Thank you

how can i cut this little red strip in yellow circle as it is messing with my tracing

Hello everyone.It's been awhile. I need to recreate the yellow hash marks on this tach. Note, the hash marks equal 77 and stay the same throughout, what changes is the space between the hash marks (which are the yellow lines) I'm using a .50 stroke weight.  I have no idea how to get the spaces between the hash to increase in size without increasing the area or any of the hash marks.  I've looked quite a lot on youtube for an answer and I'm not able to find one, although I came close.I've included a jpeg.  The hash need to fit inside the arched rectangle.  I hope that I've explained this problem well enough.Thank you. 

Dear Community,I’m encountering a critical issue with Adobe Illustrator on my Apple M3 Pro running macOS Sequoia (36GB memory). For the past two days, even basic actions like selecting objects have been extremely slow and laggy, regardless of file size.I’m running the latest Illustrator version (29.1) and have not installed any window management apps like Magnet.I would greatly appreciate any advice or solutions you can provide to resolve this issue.Thank you very much for your help!Best wishes,Jaz 

My fonts no longer work since Illustrator was updated to version 2024 and the same with version 2025 .   Worked just fine with the previous version.   Nothing has changed with my fonts and files I use to be able to open without missing fonts now has the fonts missing and I have tried reloading them to font book and still can not get them to recognise them.  Any help would be appreciated as I have an older file I need to update and when the new ones were installed my old version went away so I cant go back,.  thanks so muchDarren

Hello. I am looking for help with how to change the colour of a pattern brush which seems to be made up of images. I have used all of the colourization tools but none seem to allow me to change the colour from green and gone through every tutorial I can find but the colour doesnt want to change. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks

Hi everyone!I’m working on this project in Adobe Illustrator, and I’m running into two issues: Connecting Paths: I need to connect the two top paths so I can apply the same fill to the entire shape. However, I’m unsure how to join them or blend them into one cohesive path.Brush Overlap: I used the Pen Tool to add some elastic lines and then applied a brush stroke to them. However, the elastic lines are overlapping the trousers, and I’d like them to stay within the waistband area without spilling over. Any tips on how I can tackle these issues? Thanks so much in advance!