Questions

using Scripting, I wonder if it is possible to create a panel / window within Adobe Illustrator to show a list of all scripts in a particular folder, so I can choose from and by clicking to start a script or two of them?   thanks in advance Nils

I have tried using Magic wand tool but that won’t work either.I have an 8 colour image which I have expanded and I’m trying to use select same fill colour but it is ignoring colours directly next to it and selecting different ones entirely. 

Hello,I created my own art work in Illustrator. Every time I want to continue to work on it, the Generative A I pops up, it is very annoying. I also noticed it does not come up on all art work. I would like to disable the pop up. Please help!

Hi, my name is William, I have issue when I tried to open Adobe Illustrator since 3 months ago. It's always not responding. Sometimes, it takes few times untill it opened. I tried to update to newest version (currently v30.0), but the problem is still exist. I have updated to newest MacOS Tahoe 26.0.1. I am using Macbook Pro M2 Max with 32 GB RAM. I have tried to reinstall, restart, and do a clean installation, but nothing works. I have no issues with other Adobe Product when opening application, only with Adobe Illustrator. I attatch screenshot of application below.Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thankyou so much.  

I want to sample the red stroke color from an object, but when I use the Eyedropper, it samples the blue color of the object’s bounding box instead.Instead of changing the stroke color to red, it changes the fill color to blue.  

Trying to download my creative suite on my Chrome laptop.   No luck, keeps wanting to send me a link to download on a desktop.   Can it be loaded on Chrome OS?     {Renamed by MOD}

Please help. Don’t know what to do or what I have done wrong to get this message.

Hello,I have a simple star-like shape that I created by using two lines and making 2 offset settings on it. I want to know if it's possible for Illustrator to create a scalable shape from it. Like when you vectorise a path or an outline. (I know it's possible to create stars directly with the shape tool, I just wanted a simple shape to illustrate what I want to make). Thanks for any response !

when I convert my Ai file to a png, the polygons and edges of freeform gradient becom visable, does anyone know how to fix this?! 

Sorry, 59. Why are there 59 folders with names like AIRobin 30.4.0 Settings in my Mac preferences folder?

Hi there, I am trying to see if there is a way to “link” the position for two objects. For example, let’s say I have one text that I can edit. I have another text which I want to place it certain pixel away from the previous text and I want to maintain that distance when the previous text is edited automatically.Let’s say i have one text box at location (10,10) with length of 5. The text should always be 15px to the right, and 2 pixels up, so in this case, it should be at location (10+5+15, 10 - 2) = (30, 8).Now, if the first text changes and the length increased to 10, and vertically moved down 13px, then the other textbox should automatically be readjusted to (10+10+15, 10 + 13 - 2) = (35, 21).I know I can manually update them, but I might have a lot of it and manually updating them could be tedious or prone to error or might have something more complex than just two texts.My question is that is there a way to “link” these objects’ positions such that if one changes, the other will a

I’ve been having issues with illustrator saving files recently. It will take it 10+ minutes to save a relatively simple file and then sometimes the same the file it saves immediately. It won’t let me do anything with the file while it is trying to save it. It just shows me the message “The Document ‘untitled’ is currently getting saved. Try again after the process is complete.” It completely hijacks the file from me while it takes forever to save.

You already have a rectangle, but you don’t know how much it has been rotated. Now you want to insert text into this field at exactly the same angle. How do you do that?

Illustrator has become extremely slow recently overall, but it is especially noticeable when working with text.General UI actions feel sluggish, and anything related to text is much worse:- Opening the Character panel takes several seconds- Selecting text has delay- Changing text parameters is slow- Text-related panels respond very lateIn addition, Illustrator itself takes a very long time to launch and fully load.My PC is strong (RTX 4060, lots of free SSD space, updated drivers, latest Illustrator version), so this does not seem hardware-related.What I already tried:- Updated GPU drivers- Cleared temp/cache files- Reset Illustrator settings/preferences- Disabled GPU Performance- Tested on new empty documentsHas anyone else experienced this recently?Could this be related to fonts, Adobe Fonts sync, recent Illustrator updates, or some known bug?

Hi everyone, my requirement is to delete pathitems that is dashed line, but how do I determine if an item is dashed ? thanks

Without any noticeable reason, typing Polish letters (Right Alt + a/e/c/o/l/n/s/z) in Type tool text editing mode has stopped working.THIS IS NOT A SYSTEM KEYBOARD LAYOUT ISSUE.I am able to type Polish letters in several Illustrator input fields (e.g., Search), but it does not work when using the Type tool. When I try to type Polish letters while editing text with the Type tool, different options/shortcuts are triggered instead.This happened to me once a few years ago, and now I’m experiencing it again. The problem has clearly existed for a long time, and as far as I can see, there is still no fix. In my case, resetting preferences and even reinstalling Illustrator did not help. It seems like the Adobe team does not care.

Hi there,I have a vertical textbox, and I need to use a specific font to type text. As you can see below, this particular font creates extra padding on certain characters, which makes the text looks uneven.I was playing around with different options to see if I can make this gap smaller like so:After some digging online, I saw suggestions about tweaking kerning or tracking, so I tried both but none of them is doing what I want it to do.Changing tracking value simply changed padding under the text:Yes, it looks symmetric now, but the spacing between the numbers and number to + sign is still quite different. Then I tried to use baseline shifting, but that moved the text horizontally.. After playing around for a little bit, I found that you can use Touch Type tool to modify the position of individual characters like so:This achieves what I want to do, so that’s great. The next thing is that I need to be able to replicate this using JavaScript (I have to run this on many instances, so I do

Hello everyone.With the latest update, thumbnails of my recent files are no longer visible on the opening home screen/opening screen of Illustrator. The My Files/Open Recent Files list shows the 30 most recent files  - nothing has changed here and it works. Resetting illustrator settings doesn't help. Turning the GPU on/off does not help. Deleting older version settings/resetting current ones doesn't help either. All methods indicated on this forum since 2019 do not work 😕😕 Some program bug - nothing can be done about it. Has this happened to anyone else? macOS 15.0.1 SequoiaIllustrator 29.0Thx Tom

Hi everyone,I create printable coloring pages for kids and usually export them as PDFs from Adobe Illustrator for my website: [Link removed]Recently, I noticed that some line art becomes slightly blurry or thinner after exporting the file, especially when users print the pages from mobile devices or lower-end printers. The original vector artwork looks perfectly sharp inside Illustrator.I already tried:Exporting with High Quality Print preset Saving as vector PDF Increasing stroke width slightly Testing RGB vs CMYKbut some pages still lose clarity after download or printing.Does anyone know the best Illustrator export settings for printable black-and-white coloring pages so the outlines remain crisp on all devices and printers?Would appreciate any workflow suggestions from people who prepare printable PDFs professionally.

When I import a .psd image in greyscale plus spot colours, only the black appears. The Pantone colours don’t even show up in the list. Is this happening to you too?  This isn’t the case for- CMYK+Spot- Greyscale with a layer- Greyscale with an alpha channel- .TIF Thanks in advance !

Computer didn't crash I just closed an illustrator file without saving it*. Autosave is set up for every 2 minutes and I can see the autosaved version .aid but can't figure how to open it. Thanks for any help on this. (*I accidentally closed it because there is some key combination which I inadvertently do which changes my keyboard from English to French and then  the Z becomes X - so when I do control Z I've actually done control X - wish I knew how I did that).

This continues to happen randomly since upgrading to os Sequioa and it requires a full hard restart.  Wasting hours on restarts and losing work. Illustrator 29.2.1 Macos Sequioa 15.2Mac StudioM2 MAx64GB 

Hi,When i open a PDF in Illustrator the characters become corrupted. It looks like "#D)9! etc.Apples preview and Acrobat shows the text right. But when opened in illustrator everything is wrong. The font I use is plain Arial.Viktor

So I am trying to CNC awards for the end of my robotics season and this one part of one of the awards I am trying to make is having trouble in the CNC router so I need to fix it in Illustrator. The issue is that I have parts of circles joined with most of the award but then there are a few parts that aren’t joined and that is where I am struggling.Here is what I am trying to CNC and the blue that is highlighted is all one path but for some of the circles it stops at half way and leaves the other half not included if that makes any senseHere the semi circles are sitting on the outside circle but I want them to be all one path and not just sitting on top of each other.I know this is probably hard to understand and I am willing to answer all question that will help people understand what I am trying to do. I also attached the file so people can mess around and try to fix it on there own. Thanks in advance for the help. :)