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I'm trying to design something but I can't for the life of me figure out how do something nor do I know the correct wording/term for what I'm trying to do which makes looking it up really hard. I'm trying to place one object into another one but make still seem legible by seperating it from the second object its placed into. I wish to do this by using Object #1's outline and using it to hide/push away from Object #2. Here's a close example to what I'm talking about notice how the obects inside the flage has an outline thats separtating it from the flag it's inside of? I want to do something like that. I could just use the erase tool and do it manually but I want know/learn how to do it the right way and make it more clean than it would if I did it myself. Even just telling me the correct phrasing for what I'm attemping will help alot.

whenever i use the inflate tool in illustrator, the image turns to white. it only works when each object is individual, but even then, the background turns white. I am not sure how to fix it. im using illustrator '23. pls help 🙏

When will Arabic support for text be added to the 2021 version of Illustrator?

How can I create a HUD style/shape like this picture....

Hi,I just got a Wacom tablet and was using it on one of my projects. When I try to use the eraser on the pen, it leaves a weird bubble mark where the eraser was used. So I tried the eraser tool to see if it was just my tablet acting up. When I use the eraser tool it does the same thing. I made sure that none of my shapes had a fill color and its worked fine before so I don't know what to do. I've attached pictures to illustrate my problem. The first is when I use the Wacom eraser and the second is when I use the eraser tool in AI. Please help!

Every time I have saved a file on ai after I make changes to a file, lately it creates multiple new files rather than just resaving the original file under the same name. For instance, if my file was named "JoeShmo_NewPckgDesign.ai" and I saved it 3 different times throughout the day, it will not override this same file and save it with the new changes under this name. Instead, three completely new files called "JoeShmo_NewPckgDesign 1.ai," "JoeShmo_NewPckgDesign 2.ai," and "JoeShmo_NewPckgDesign 3.ai" show up on my desktop....? Therefore the file with the highest number becomes the latest edition, rather than the actual one I am working on in ai. This is making me unsure which files I should be deleting. How do I stop this from happening? I am running out of storage on my computer and this new feature is NOT helping....

Hey everyone!I just wanted to share something that completely changed the way I work in Illustrator — the Width Tool (Shift + W). I've been using Illustrator for a while now (mostly for logo design and vector illustrations), but for some reason I always overlooked this tool until recently. Now, I can't believe I ignored it for so long!The Width Tool lets you adjust the thickness of a stroke at specific points along a path. It's super intuitive — just click and drag anywhere on the path, and it creates these width markers that you can tweak. You can get really organic, hand-drawn line effects without having to expand strokes or mess with shapes.Here’s how I used it recently:I was working on a minimalist fox logo and wanted the tail to have this swooshy, dynamic feel — thicker at the curve and thinner at the tip. Instead of creating multiple shapes or brushes, I just used the Width Tool on a single stroked path and got exactly the look I was after.Bonus Tip: After tweaking with the Width

I'm not sure if this bug still exists in the latest versions of Adobe Illustrator. It's not critical, but it's annoying and can waste time while you're trying to figure out what's wrong. The issue is that when a project contains a lot of guide lines, and you delete one or several of them using Direct Selection instead of Selection, only the lines are removed—while the anchor points at the ends of the guides, as seen in the screenshot, remain.This doesn’t cause any issues during regular work, but when you try to export a large-format image—for example, 5 meters wide at 150 dpi or higher to PNG—the program would crash every time.Experiments showed that for some reason, Illustrator seemed to treat those leftover points as part of the artwork and couldn’t handle the load, especially on a canvas size of 5780×5780 mm, even if your design was much smaller on one side. Of course, this depends on the complexity and size of the project, the number of elements, etc. If your layout start

Pie chart only works in greyscale which is not very usable.If I switch it to RGB or CMYK and apply data to it all sections are are made with foreground color, effectively making a solid circle. This seems like a bug. I can't find information on anybody else having this problem.

Hi there,  I googled this issue and found the member "GAMBOT" having a similar experience with objects randomly duplicating themselves. I followed the suggested solution of resetting Ai preferences, restarting Ai and even rebooting computer. This has not fixed the problem.  When I press ANY key (e.g. Z to zoom in and out to view my work) or click of the mouse, objects and even texts randomly duplicate themselves and are unable to be deleted. Unless, I manually select the object(s) and Edit > Clear. But the objects or texts still manage to repeat the process of duplicating themselves and are unable to be deleted. Please check video link to see what I'm talking about: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vepP08D2smoq_OYREHwOKh2szdMI6iPL/view?usp=sharing  Any suggestions? Is this a hardware issue with my computer? A software update needed for Mac? A new keyboard?  Mahalo

The latest Illustrator doesn't show the anchor points unless I move the cursor exactly above it and the handles can't be

Hi Adobe team,Could you please consider adding the ability to rotate the canvas in Illustrator the same way it's available in Photoshop? It's incredibly useful for drawing and refining shapes from different angles.Also, it would be great if we could pan the canvas using the Spacebar while actively drawing, just like in Photoshop. Currently, this breaks the flow and makes precise drawing more difficult.Thanks a lot for considering these improvements! Daniel

I have Artboard Options Presets that have inaccurate names (I'm learning the app and made errors), and I would like to delete them, as they confuse me. The dimensions are for Bluesky but the preset label is for Twitter. How can I delete these Presets? I'm using Illustrator 29.3.1 for Mac. Thank you in advance for your help. 

Does anyone know how to export a PDF to DWG to proper scale?

Hi there,I have a Spot colour setup in my library for cutting dielines. However time to time it removes the "Spot" values and changes the spot colour to regular process. Causing dielines to be shown in print. Has anyone else had this issue? Or any solutions?Thanks,   

Normalmente, eu crio um arquivo com várias pranchetas com tamanho diferentes e na hora de finalizar eu exporto tudo junto para ser mais prático. Notei que os arquivos em JPG, PNG ou PSD estão saindo com 1 pixel a mais do tamanho original. Exemplo, a prancheta tem 600x600px e o JPG exportado está com 601x601px. Alguém sabe o que pode estar acontecendo? Valeu!

I'm currently running Adobe Illustrator 2025 on a MacBook Pro using OS Ventura 13.2.1. As of today, Illustrator immediately freezes for upwards of 8 minutes and starts running over 100% of CPU when trying to open a 33.2MB file. It's not remotely the largest file I have (I have files over 8GB that load just fine) has no linked or embedded files, and I haven't made any changes to the file before thie started happening yesterday, but it's the only file that does this. I restarted Illustrator and restarted my computer and this hasn't made it stop. Any ideas?

We have an Adobe Illustrator file that was created 10 years ago by a third party. We're looking to update or recreate the character to match today's technology advances. Currently, the image is very blurry when zoomed in. Any ideas on how to accomplish this in house? We have all Adobe products. 

When I copied and pasted a figure from Graphpad, all the fonts in the figures messed up. How to solve this problem? Thanks!

Ive been using spacebar and mouse shortcut for zoom for years and its stopped working - any ideas?

Hi. Can I create bags patterns with this app?

Hello Community!  My Adobe Illustrator crashed on my mac and all the files I had opened that weren't saved are gone. Trying to go back find them, but unable. I know Adobe has a great feature where it auto saves adn"recovers" files in Recovery cache. But, everytime I close the app and open it up it shows the files are recovered and I click "OK" to try and retrieve them, but nothing happens.   Any help would be great, I took a lot of time working on these files. Thanks,Carl

A script for Illustrator that selects text objects containing a single character that are in exactly the same position on the page, one on top of the other, overlapping.function selectOverlappingTextObjects() { var doc = app.activeDocument; var textFrames = doc.textFrames; var selectedItems = []; for (var i = 0; i < textFrames.length; i++) { var tf1 = textFrames[i]; if (tf1.contents.length === 1) { var tf1Bounds = tf1.geometricBounds; var tf1Position = { x: (tf1Bounds[0] + tf1Bounds[2]) / 2, y: (tf1Bounds[1] + tf1Bounds[3]) / 2 }; for (var j = i + 1; j < textFrames.length; j++) { var tf2 = textFrames[j]; if (tf2.contents.length === 1) { var tf2Bounds = tf2.geometricBounds; var tf2Position = { x: (tf2Bounds[0] + tf2Bounds[2]) / 2, y: (tf2Bounds[1] + tf2Bounds[3]) / 2 }; if (Math.abs(tf1Position.x - tf2Position.x) < 1 && Math.abs(tf1Position.y - tf2Position.y) < 1) { tf1.selected = true;

I was having nothing but problems trying to export even a simple file to DWG or DXF format. had tried everything I could think of, until I finally tried to change the destination folder - previously I was trying to use a subfolder under my OneDrive's folder on a Windows machine, everything just gave back an error 2067 (which I assume is a generic error from the AutoCAD libraries Adobe must use here, since a lot of people get it importing/exporting/etc) but then I just tried saving the desktop, voila 🤷‍♂

Hi I am trying to get illustrator to scale using decimal points. I add 40.35% for example, but when I scale, the decimal point disappears and its become 4035%.Is there somewhere in preferences that allows me to allow decimal points e.g. 30.456%.Thanks Steve