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Hi.  I’m trying to cut a hole in the “a” letter but instead I’m getting a compound path that is all white.  How can I fix this?  Images attached.

As of March 30th, Adobe made Generative Turntable a reality in the standalone app. If you haven't seen it yet, it basically allows you to take flat, 2D vector artwork and spin it like a 3D object to see different angles and top-down views. A couple of people had commented on the YouTube video, and for their fashion careers, this cuts the costs and time to render a vector drawing in seconds versus hours. The speed is undeniable.When we can generate a 180-degree character turnaround with a slider instead of manually redrawing every limb and perspective, are you feeling empowered by the speed, or do you feel a bit of "creative guilt" over how much of the heavy work that Illustrator’s AI is doing? Please drop a comment with your experience! ~ Love to hear how your process or thoughts has shifted—No right or wrong answers here—just your honest take!

I have downloaded an image from Stock which has a full page of different bird drawings. I only want one of the bird drawings. How do I cut it out so I can paste it onto another document? Sorry Beginner Creative x

i have adobe illustrator 2026 version. My spec- i7 14th gen, 24 gb ram, 8gb 5050rtx. I have a transparent image on top of another image. i created a rectangle, and pick colour with eye dropper and clicked on tha image, even though i can see black colour below the transparent image, it did not pick black colour but picked white. if i remove the transparent image on top of it and then pick colour, then it picks black colour.Before i had 2021 version, it picked black even though it was below the above transparent pixel image as we can absolutely see it. how to get that functionality of color pick in 2026 version.

There is a fundamental issue in Adobe Illustrator that needs attention. The keyboard shortcuts for Arrange  Bring Forward Send Backward Bring to Front Send to Back  simply stop working. They are correctly assigned in the Keyboard Shortcuts panel.They worked before.They are still mapped correctly. But they do nothing. Meanwhile, right-click → Arrange works perfectly. So Illustrator can execute the command — it just ignores the keyboard input.

Hello! Every time I perform an action in Illustrator I get a blue Progress bar. I have read the community posts and saw many people had a similar problem with Illustrator 4 years ago.. I have tried suggested fixes, installing a previous version or disabling the GPU, but that hasn't helped. I am using a new Lenovo Yoga w/24K ram and I am losing my dang mind.

I frequently save large, high resolution PDF imposition pages from Illustrator for digital printing. These pages contain multiple linked PDF files. Using a PDF preset, these pages have zero image compression and they do maintain Illustrator editing capabilities. These pages have typically ranged in size from about 1MG to maybe up to 20MG and I have saved tens of thousands of these files over the years. Up until late 2025, this method worked flawlessly, however with one of the newer Illustrator updates, now when I save a PDF using the same standard preset that’s worked for many many years, the size in 10X larger than they would normally have been. Something changed in the latest version(s) of Illustrator. As a workaround, I have to reopen the same page(s) in Acrobat and simply re-save it, which then shrinks it back to the size it would normally be. I never had to do this until late 2025.This is not an issue with maintaining Illustrator editing capabilities, or removing artwork compressi

In previous versions of the Adobe apps, I became accustomed to running Photoshop and Illustrator in parallel and being able to copy and paste vectors I made in Illustrator directly into my Photoshop documents. Now, whenever I try to run both concurrently on my new Mac Mini, I get a message that my computer is out of memory and it freezes up. I’m wondering if this is due to some new clunky AI features that I could disable, or if the issue has some other solution. I can work around it, but it’s much less convenient.

Hi, I have been experiencing issues when opening .ai files. I think the problems started after the last update. I get a message saying 'Illustrator could partially read this file'. When the file opens I only see one artboard with the content broken apart, similar to what you would see if you opened a .pdf in Illustrator. I have tried installing a previous version and then going back to the latest version but it does not correct the problem. I have copied files to my hard drive and tried to place files into a new file but nothing gets me back my full file. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the file as I have just installed a trial version of Affinity Designer and my .ai files open without any issues. I really need to find a solution otherwwise I will probably have to go with Affinity Designer to open my files. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Dear community, I have problem with an Illustrator (again and one of many). I have created a file and saved it on cloud. Immediatelly after closing it I have tried to open it just to being shown the error message that Illustrator can't open the file as I don't have acces to this file and that I should contact the owner. I am the only owner of license and the creator of it - I literally created that file several minutes ago on the same desktop device. How is that even possible? It shows the file isn't synced - but the internet connection is pretty fine. I must say I thought that saving my files on cloud will be a big relief and a time saver for me, but it's the exact opposite - constantly having all kinds of problems from conflicts with syncing file updates between my desktop devices, through problems with not available autosaving, messing up my text and letters positions, to banning me out of my own files... guess the creative cloud won't ever really compare to an extern

My two Mac laptops are updated to latest Tahoe 26.5.2. Illustrator 2026 v30.7 has not been opening for over a week, even when the 2025 version is closed. I get reference code 224 and "Sorry, Illustrator has encountered an error and needs to close. You will not be able to use Illustrator at this time.”  Only option I’m given is to quit Illustrator. But the older 2025 v29.8.10 is working. What is happening? 

I am trying to make a stroke that goes to a point like a skateboard ramp. Right now I am using the line and the widen tool. I shrank one side down to the middle but it will not let me move past the middle of the stroke. I tried doing the same with a rectangle too but the same problem. I want the shape to be something like this,  

Hi everyone! Is it possible in Adobe Illustrator to adjust the length of anchor handles without affecting their angle? Or vice versa — adjust the angle without changing the length?Achieving this precision manually with a mouse feels impossible, yet it’s so necessary for small optical adjustments, fixing "optical kinks" in smooth curves and customizing fonts and making other detailed edits.Right now, I rely on these clunky workarounds:If the line is straight, I create a helper line and drag the handle along it. If the angle matters, I use a circle for control.But honestly, this is so tedious, and I’m exhausted from doing it over and over. I’ve heard about path scribe, but I can’t afford them right now. My other searches have been fruitless.Are there any hidden settings, shortcuts, or tricks for this in Illustrator?If anyone has encountered this and found a solution, please share!

Adobe generative recolor of a graphism in Illustrator never load, whatever the computer or time. 

Hi everyone,I’m working on a vector design in Illustrator and noticed a strange issue with GPU Preview.Some artwork that uses transparency and a clipping mask shows a white box around it while I’m editing. The box disappears when I switch to CPU Preview, so it seems to be related to GPU rendering.I’m using the latest Illustrator version and have already tried reopening the file, but the issue still happens.Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a setting or workaround that can fix the GPU Preview without having to switch to CPU Preview?

J'ai fait la derniere mise a jour et depuis le pointeur de l'outil selection à un bug! Il pointe pas au bout de la fleche mais a l'arriere de celle ci? C'est tres derangeant et je sais pas comment y remedier?

I am experiencing a serious Japanese text input issue in Adobe Illustrator on Windows.When I use the Type Tool and click on a specific location, the text cursor appears correctly at the location where I clicked. However, when I start typing Japanese text, the characters are displayed at the top-left corner of the document instead of at the cursor position.The behavior is extremely disruptive because I have to press Enter before the text suddenly appears at the correct location.Interestingly, typing Latin characters such as “abc” works correctly. The problem occurs specifically with Japanese text input.I eventually discovered that enabling Preferences > Type > “Apply Inline Input to Non-Latin Text” fixes the problem.This means that a basic Japanese text input setting can become disabled and cause Japanese text to appear in a completely incorrect location, without any obvious indication of what is wrong.I had already: Restarted Illustrator Restarted my computer Disabled GPU Per

I use some extensions from Adobe Marketplace like Scripshon Trees.Sometimes all items in Windows - Extensions become greyed outand I can’t use them until I reload the app.I work on Mac OS Tahoe 26.5.2 in Illustrator 30.6.I will be very thankful to anybody who could help me to fix this.Thanks in advance!

The Ctrl+Y keyboard shortcut (Outline/Preview mode) is unresponsive in Adobe Illustrator when GPU Performance is turned on. Disabling GPU Performance resolves the issue, but this workaround is not viable for large projects due to performance degradation.Steps taken:Confirmed the shortcut works when GPU Performance is disabled Updated graphics drivers to latest version Issue persists across restartsRequest:Is there a solution that allows me to keep GPU acceleration enabled while restoring Ctrl+Y functionality?

I have never used the new ai tools available in Illustrator. However, in the background, they now eat up more ram than the program itself. In an era where there is a massive, expensive, ram shortage, users can not endlessly add more ram to their workstations just to feed features that we are not utilizing. I currently have 32 GB on my workstation. I have never had this issue before.  Please allow users to disable this feature or at the very least, cut off any background processes if these tools are not actively being used.     

My computer has a snapdragon processor, meaning both Illustrator and InDesign isn’t fully developed for my computer. Instead I use the beta versions of both. But yesterday the illustrator beta disappeared from my creative cloud app, and I can’t find any trace of it. It also happened with inDesign back in December, so I guess here I am again. 

When I work on a new project, sometimes the AIC file simply stops autosaving. For whatever reason, it falls out of sync - which, for me, is not the issue. I guess it's understandable that sometimes files get corrupted, or are too big, or something in the sync fails. I don't understand the technicalities behind it, but I can understand it happens.My issue is, the fact that there is no BIG pop up alert that disables my screen and lets me know "Your file has stopped autosaving, if something crashes now you will lose all progress", is crazy. For some reason the File Recovery feature doesn't work with AIC files that have fallen out of sync, it only works with local files. And that also depends on whether it managed to save a recovery before crashing. So essentially, if I use the cloud, and something crashes (which lets be honest can happen often even on my quite powerful PC), I am sure to lose progress - and with it time and money.This, along with the fact there is no longer an AutoSave fea

If I had a rectangular text box sitting on top of a rectangular shape, I used to be able to use my direct selection tool, select the bottom anchor points of both the shape and the text box, and resize them together. Now when I select them both, the shape changes size but the text box remains the same shape and size and just moves the entire box with the shape anchors. What gives? Is there a setting I need to change or has this been updated away? It is especially usefeul for odd shaped text boxes with multiple anchor points that has become increasingly frustrating to have to click each anchor point of the text box instead of dragging and selecting all points.

I’m reposting this as it appears my previous post has disappeared, hoping a mod can take a look at an error log?My illustrator keeps on crashing when I hit ‘print’ on the print dialog box. It’s not every time and happens on complex files as well as basic files across multiple printers.Two of the most recent error logs can be found here. I’ve tried a complete re-installation of Ai but still have the issue and I don’t get the issue from inDesign. ThanksColin