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The type area does not expand using the select tool, yesterday it was working, now its not

i'm using Illustrator and I need to type in Portuguese/Spanish so i need to use accents like áàêEverywhere else on Mac OS if I long press the key I get an accent pop up, like this:In adobe products, this never shows up.Am i missing something here or does Adobe products don't let this native pop up show up?

is there a simpler way to crop an image than to use the 'crop image' tool?

Hola, quisiera sabe si hay algún plan de compra especial que pueda permitir usar mis aplicaciones en varios dispositivos a la vez.

what is the simplest way to get just one instrument out of here, (the circle around is connected) 

why am I not able to ungroup? 

how can I keep all my layers I created and put them all in a clipping group(a bounding box)when I try, all layers go into the clipping group here is a snapshot of the groups I created and then the clipping after that - which all my layers went into 

I drew this Logo in Illustrator, ttransformed them and saved as a SVG File. When I loaded it into my cutter Programm it looked like this, which makes it unusable as the overlapping shapes are recognized. This also happens on the Text. Do I have to adjust some settings or even draw the Logo different?Thanks in advance.

I've been going through the past, similar articles about trying to figure out which font has been used without any luck.I've opened the file in Notepad but it doesn't give any "font" "text" or "type" information.I've used the Match Font feature and it's giving me matches that look NOTHING like the font I'm trying to match.I've retyped the same phrase and arrowed down through every font available in Illustrator and Photoshop trying to find which one matched without any luck.The original file was created in 2022 using Photoshop and Illustrator. I'm trying to add another line of text now with the same font, and I can't figure this out for the life of me. Can anyone help? Do you recognize this font? The lower case "a" and the uppercase "e" both have difinitive shapes to them that I can't find in a similar font. This is a .jpg of the image I'm trying to work with, but I do have the .ai file on the computer. 

Dear Adobe Community, I'm facing an issue with the online ACP Illustrator exam on Pearson VUE's platform.Apparently I've attempted to take this exam twice already and got stuck at the exact same spot.The online exam uses the OnVUE app, which essentially connects to a VM, part 1 consists of theoretical questions, then part 2 involves Illustrator loading up on the VM with a "Certification Test" panel on the right hand side which is supposed to load up Tasks that need to be completed.Now, when I click on Next to access the first task, Illustrator promptly crashes and a "Please Wait..." screen is displayed. (Just like at the beginning of the exam.)As the proctors suggested, I've restarted the (latest version of) OnVUE app numerous times, rebooted my laptop 3 times, they restarted the session and I also refreshed it - to no avail. Once Illustrator has crashed, there seems to be no way to trigger its load up again in the exam.There has been a strange event also, namely that the Creative

Hi, I'm trying to design an iPhone app page in Illustrator and have to print it out true to the size of an iPhone. The file seems to be extremely big, and font sizes have to be very large. When I go to print, the artboard is extremely big, and I can't scale it to the paper or it won't be true to size. 

I have six illustrator files from 1993 that I had saved from a class I took then. I wanted to send the images to someone, but when I tried to open them, all I get is text files. I tried online conversion, but since the images are so old, they don't have suffixes and adding suffixes did not work. I refuse to give in to not being able to convert them, so does anyone have any suggestions?

why a lot of things like create object mosaic are grey and not working in illustrator 

When I open I got this error mesage. How to fix it? 

I wonder if anyone can assist. I want to change the size of a bounding box without scaling the image i.e the image must stay the same size and bounding box shape and size can change. (similar to cropping the image).  Can anyone tell me how to do this?

Hey guys,My selecttool is not set correctly anymore. I can only select my files like this, I would like to resize. Can someone please help me?Kind regards,Romy

When I open any Illustrator file I get the alert below. How can I fix the problem?  

Hi everybody, I have a logo which was text but I turned the text into shapes. I am trying to modify the points on the shapes but I have found that the anchor points are in fact not just one shape! It’s hard to explain but when you move or delete an actor point you have to move three layers of it. The shape is repeated underneath twice. You can change the colour of one of them so I have turned it red in this example. The grey bits appear to be two shapes stuck together. Can anyone explain what is happening and how to make it just one shape? Thanks.

I’m reaching out to request help recovering a corrupted Illustrator (.ai) file that is critical for my job application portfolio. The file was saved successfully in Adobe Illustrator and closed without any errors. However, when I tried to open it the next day, I received the following error:"Illustrator could partially read this file. We recovered as much of the file as possible, but some content might be missing."This project is extremely important for my career, and I’ve already tried all available solutions listed on  I try- Renaming the file extension to .svg and reopening- Attempting to open the file as a PDF (error: file is damaged)- Importing into InDesign (failed with “can’t open”)- Checking the Illustrator recovery folder (no recovery files found)- Using Convertio and other online file converters (failed) 

Can someone please explain to me why Illustrator keeps doing this? As soon as I rotate anything in a group, it get's displaced. I'm freaking out how many bugs Illustrator has these days. https://vimeo.com/1041170783/d92bcc8dbc?ts=0&share=copy

I'm having issues with this one illustrator draw project, it does not appear on either the desktop or mobile creative cloud apps, it only shows up on the mobile creations page on the creative cloud assets website, when I try to open it or create a link the error messages in the screenshot appear and it won't convert to fresco as well, I can rename and duplicate the file but same problem occurs for the duplicate. Is there a way to fix this?

After several vendors have come back asking for missing fonts, I realized Illustrator was not packaging one particular font—Helvetica Neue LT Std 57 Condensed, but it's packaging the Bold Condensed version just fine. I've updated, uninstalled-reinstalled Illustrator, rebooted, and done everything I can think of, and nothing seems to want to package the one font. Doesn't matter the file. I thought I fixed it once (after an update), but it went right back to the same issue. When I've searched for anyone else having this issue, it's usually mentioned that it's due to it being an Adobe font. That's not the case here. My co-worker isn't having an issue. So it's gotta be something specific to me/my settings. Anyone have any thoughts as to what could be the issue? It's quite frustrating since we use that font in all our slugs. 

En Illustrator 2025 para macOS, al hacer clic dentro de campos numéricos (por ejemplo, ancho, alto, grosor de trazo, etc.), la selección de texto no se resalta visualmente. Es decir, aunque los números se pueden seleccionar, no se muestran en azul como ocurre en Photoshop u otras aplicaciones, lo cual confunde al usuario, ya que no hay forma visual de saber si se está seleccionando correctamente una parte del número.Este problema ocurre tanto si se selecciona todo el número como si se quiere modificar solo parte del valor (por ejemplo, el decimal). Probado en macOS  Sonoma, tanto en modo claro como oscuro.En versiones anteriores de Illustrator sí se mostraba la selección correctamente.Espero que puedan corregirlo en una próxima actualización. Muchas gracias.

HiUsing the dimensions tools today the values text is being written backwards. i.e. mm 100 How do I switch this around? Thanks

Attached is a video that shows several moments when I drag a shape near the edge of the viewport, and it jumps. Resulting in me placing the object in the wrong location. How do I turn this off? Thanks.