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I have a two collumn text box. I would like the Title to span "all" collumns like InDesign. Is this possible?  I created a workflow chart and would prefer not to use muliple text boxes. ...and please don't suggest I build it in InDesign as a correct answer, thank you 😕😕

I have tried finding the answer to this issue, but my search results don't get me anywhere close. My issue is that I create a file, get every single anchor, every handle exactly the way I want it, close the file, open it later, and all my anchor points are completely out of whack. The only way I have found to correct this is to delete the "infected" anchors and recreate the paths. On some files, this requires hours of additional work to fix something that wasn't broken when I saved and closed the file. Below is the most recent, extremely simple example (only a single anchor effected), but it's been happening with far too many files recently. The path shown is saved in its own file, which I bring into other files as needed. The original file's path is fine. The new file with the path is corrupted every time I reopen it. Both files are "embedded" SVGs. Other irritating things happening recently which may or may not be related, is the pop-up upon saving informing me the file has

Is there any way to get an older version of Illustrator? I can't upgrade from Catalina and am not able to access Illustrator currently. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Hello,I have a picture of a HD bar and shield, black on white background, and it seems as though the image is embedded in the background? When I select the image, it highlights the whole box, and I can't seem to just select the bar and shield. What am I doing wrong? I am trying to turn JUST the bar and shield to vector file.All help and explanation is appreciated. Alan

What are the annoying magenta measurement guides which keep showing up whenever I press the option key? How do I turn them off? They're not smart guides, and I can't find any option under the View menu that controls them.

My illustrator crashed and reverted my file back to a VERY early version. I found the .aid files for the file, but it won't open the file. It says "This is an unsupported file type." I tried to change the .aid file to an .ai file, and that also didn't work. I can see the content in a .txt file, but that doesn't do me much good when Illustrator refuses to open it. Can anyone help?! This is hours worth of work! 

A customer has supplied an Illustrator file with lots of artboards. Attempting to scroll in the Artboard Panel to see the enire list of Artboards causes Illustrator to crash every single time.I don't expect anyone to suggest a solution. I just wanted to point out a persistent functional failure.

When I'm drawing with brush or pencil tool, I can't see stroke line until I release the mouse. I's so difficult drawing if I can't see that I'm drawing. What can I do for solver this? Thank you so much!

Hello everyone,I'm experiencing a serious issue with Illustrator version 29.4 on my MacBook Pro (macOS Sequoia 15.3.2).I’ve been working for several hours on a complex file that contains around twenty layers, with a lot of text content on each. I saved the file regularly (every few minutes), but when I reopened it, I noticed that a lot of data from one of the key layers was missing—it was incomplete.Strangely, I can still see the full content in the file preview thumbnail on the Illustrator home screen, but when the document opens, the information is gone.Has anyone encountered this before?Do you know how to recover lost content from a saved Illustrator file?For context:I’m saving the file locally on my computer (not using cloud storage).My MacBook is brand new, very powerful, and Apple confirmed that it's not a RAM or performance issue.This is a critical project, and for now, I’ve continued working on a separate file. But I’ll eventually need to merge everything, which will be difficu

I have not been able to figure this out - when a file is open in illustrator the colors are way brighter and more saturated than using any other program to open the same file.  My color settings in photoshop and illustrator are exactly the same but still showing different colors.   The image below shows the actual image colors on the left, and how it displays in illustrator on the right When I open a file, a pop up says "your current color settings honor CMYK profiles in linked content but profiles were set to be ignored when this document was created" Anything I create in illustrator saves in the correct colors, but I am having to drag back and forth from illustrator to get an idea of what the colors actually look like.  I did recently connect to a monitor that I felt like had brighter colors and not sure if that could have affected the display on my macbook in any way, just strange that it only seems to be a problem in one program.  Would love

All of my users are experiencing issues with the latest AI 2025 update, it installs fine and even allows you to work on it for around 5 minutes, it will then freeze and the application needs to be shutdown.We have updated our Drivers and tried changing GPU settings on the application itself, none of these have solved the issue.

Does jsx have alternative for this app.executeMenuCommand("join")?Are there method with which is possible to apply join on two or more objects?Or are there any other alternative for this?

I have a few different images inside of the file (.ai), now I want to make each of these images 3000 x 3000 pixels without losing the quality of the image. I have been using Adobe Photoshop to upscale the image, but obviously, the quality is impacted. Thanks in advance!

Hi there! I'm not very familiar with Illustrator, so I apologize if this is very basic.... I'm trying to recolor this periodic table of elements - filling the boxes with different colors. However, because the boxes are just outlines, and layered with text and numbers, I am having difficulty simply filling the boxes with colors without searching for the individual box layer and recoloring. Is there a way to easily do this?  I'd appreciate your help!!Thank you. 

I want Alexander Ladygin Fillinger files to appear in the \\Scripts\Other Script menu and (not File\Scripts menu.) If I copy them under which directory and not in the C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 2025\Presets\en_US\Scripts directory, I can upload them to the \\Other Script submenu.

¿Por qué no puedo ajustar los objetos a las guías como antes? Ahora los objetos ya no se pegan a las guías. Le he dado veinte vueltas, he mirado la configuración, he buscado por internet y no encuentro nada.¿Por qué con cada actualización empeoráis los programas? Cada vez me arrepiento más de pagar la licencia de Adobe.

Necesito formatear mi ordenador, por lo que todo su contenido –incluyendo sistema operativo, programas configuraciones y preferencias– serán borrados, para posteriormente ser instalados de desde cero.Preguntas:1.- ¿Cómo guardar las preferencias del usuario previamente a borrar Creative Cloud a fin de que posteriormente se puedan establecer?Preferencias como:Estilos gráficos Creación de nuevos documentos con características determinadas como el número de páginas, columnas, perfil de color, etcEspacios de trabajoEtc...2.- ¿Cómo reinstalar esas preferencias?Cualquier otra información de utilidad, la agradeceré.

Holaa!!!Tengo un gran problema, me ha sido imposbile cambiarle el area a las cajas de texto en illustrator. ya no se que hacerNo me salen los pequeños cuadrados alrededor de la caja, que son los que permiten que uno pueda cambiar las dimesiones del cuadro del texto. Solo me salen son que estan trasversales. No se que hacer 😞 Ayuda por favor!!

Hi there, I need the ability to draw curly brackets but also able to change the length of it and move the tip freely. Initially, I thought about making a pattern brush or something, but I came across this post (Solved: Multi line bracket - Adobe Community - 11023642), which provides an interesting solution. Basically, the symbols font already have each component of the curly braces, so to adjust the position of the tip by using different number of straight lines.  If i want to change the length of the curly bracket, I can simply add a new bar potion of the text.So far, it's working great. However, in my scenario, I need to be able to control the length of the bracket so my initial thought was to change the size of one of the bars. Let's say, I want the side to be just slightly longer than the left side, so I tried to change the font size of the new bar I just created.As you can see, the right side now is longer than the left side but shorter the last one, so it

Hello, what is the quickest way to REMOVE the blue strokes/outlines leaving ONLY the green, exactly as shown in the attached file, in Illustrator?My file is vector. Shapes are overlapping.So far, I have tried converting the blue strokes to outlines then making a compound shape, but when I do this the outlines come to the front covering some of the green.Is there a simple way to accomplish this?

Hi there, I'm exporting EPS files from Illustrator using the Export for Screens option. I have used a prefix to include in the file name but on export, the name of the artboard is duplicated. For example, the prefix is "group-icon-white-" and the artboard name is "alarm". So the file name should be "group-icon-white-alarm.eps". Instead, it is generating as "group-icon-white-alarm-alarm.eps". Has anybody else experienced this issue? It doesn't happen with PNG or SVG file types, only EPS.

Every time I select the Type Tool then select a location to start the text, the fill color changes to black. I would like to know how to set the fill color for type so it doesn't change when I use the tool. This was not a problem in CS6. Dwight

So when I use my brush tool, after I finish drawing a thin stroke, it immediately becomes thick.  Also even though I have the fill option off, it creates a white fill.  How can I fix this?

I am attaching a file that shows what I am trying to do but fail. How can I achieve what I am trying to do? Thanks

I wonder if someone could help me to make simple script wich take layer's names and making list from them on A4 canvas.Now i just doing screenshot of illustrator list and modifying it via photoshop to print, but it is too small, because each ai file has about 25 - 50 layers.Looks like that:I tryed to modify John Wundes script, wich renders list of swatches, but it seems to hard for my skill./////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Render Swatch Legend v1.1 -- CS, CS2, CS3, CS4, CS5//>=--------------------------------------////  This script will generate a legend of rectangles for every swatch in the main swatches palette.//  You can configure spacing and value display by configuring the variables at the top//  of the script. //   update: v1.1 now tests color brightness and renders a white label if the color is dark.//>=--------------------------------------// JS code (c) copyright: John Wundes ( john@wundes.com ) www.wundes.com/