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Hola a todos,Estoy teniendo este problema que nunca antes había visto:No se puede completar la operación debido a un error desconocido. [PARM]Hasta ahora he notado que sucede cada vez que hago click en Menú/Edición teniendo seleccionada alguna imagen, la que sea sin importar si está o no incrustada, y es muy problemático por que lo descubrí cuando trataba de copiar una imagen desde Illustrator hacia Figma, ya que al tratar de copiar ya no se pegan las imagenes !!, es decir, cuando hago click en Edición, me aparece esa ventana con el error, si hago click en aceptar entonces ya se despliega el menú y puedo hacer click en cualquier opción. Sí puedo copiar pero como ya dije ya no puedo pegar ninguna imagen (se pegan cuadros vacios, y eso es nuevo), lo cual antes de hoy sí se podía, pues soy Diseñador Gráfico y estas son mis herramientas diarias. Aún puedo pegar cualquier imagen desde navegadores o de otros programas, menos de Illustrator, y asumo que el problema es el mismo que origina ese

Hi there, this may have already been asked but I have a PNG vector icon that I want to convert to a single stroke image.The process that I am doing at the moment is:Open the PNG file in Illustrator (current version 29.2) > select the image > Object > Image Trace > Make & Expand.I then open my layers and remove any white paths (because I don’t need them) and I’m left with a compound path (see below image). For my project, I want there to be no fill and the outline to be a single line outline. I want my final image to look exactly like the compound path image but a single line. If I swap the fill and outline it gives me the outline of the compound path (see below) – which I don’t want. I want just one line to create the image – Can this be done in Illustrator? I’m trying to avoid drawing the shape manually if I can.    

Hi! Could you please help me with one topic - I need composition from photo that is made with dots. But the dots can't touch. I mean it couldn't be half tone effect but something like that: I need it for laser cutting, so as you can imagine the little dots should be vectors. I've been trying to make composition with dots (PS) and after trace image (AI) but the points was irregular 😞

Tengo IOs Sequoia 15.2 - M1, hoy voy a abrir archivos y presenta problemas, alguien le pasa lo mismo? saben como solucionarlo

I am a Day-1 novice with graphic programs.  I need to edit a number of electrical drawings extracted by saving individual pages from the published pdf document.  I have no idea what the original drawing software was (circa 2005), nor how they were converted, exported, ect. for publishing in pdf form.  Exemplar document is attached.  The attached file seems to be one large single-column table.  Using Illustrator, I can select and delete an entire row, but can't seem to get the sections of the drawing to Ungroup so I can select line segments or individual components.  

Why isn't it center aligning? 

Mi Illustrator siempre ha funcionado bien pero últimamente se está trabando el programa cuando utilizo la herramienta Lápiz. No se guarda el trabajo y deja de responder el programa. Gracias a quien responda 

Hello!Just as the titles says.I know it's possible to do it with S (scale), and that's fine.But I'm following an online course and he keep using shift+c to do that, and I've been breaking my head over this. Shift+c still only controls one handle for me.Could someone please breakdown every step I need to be doing?Lets say I'm with the pen, and just drew a circle..  

Recently I updated Illustrator 2025 to the new 29.2 version. Since that day I can't use the program. Most of it works just fine, but my black cursor is useless. At this point it does the same as the white cursor. This means that my artwork never has a Bounding Box. I can't scale, drag or change my work without completly transforming it. I already tried 'restore bounding box' and restarted the whole application, but nothing seems to work. I have no problems in Illustrator 2024, so I will use that for now.  Are there more people with this issue? Can I fix this? Thanks in advance.

We currently use Art Files 3 to package multiple ai files at once without having to individually open the illustrator files.  With the new Illustrator 2023, Art Files 3 is no longer compatible and they also seem to be out of business. We send anywhere from 3-20 files at once on a regular basis. Working with multiple artboards in one file is not an option. We need to find a subsitute app or a solution that can package miltiple files, fonts and images (both embedded and linked) all at once like Art Files.  Checked out Flightcheck and it's full of bugs and errors. We can't use the AI package feature as it requires opening and packging one file at a time and doesn't not package embedded files.

I have issues with illustrator brush. It's lagging behind my drawing lines. I use a mouse.The pencil tool is fast but not the brush, it's unusable for me. In Photoshop I have no issues.Win10, CC2019, GTX card with updated drivers.  

We have been asked for this a lot, we want a short cut to change the angle of the Arabic calligraphy brushes, like arrow right and arrow left.

Hello! I've been asked to repliacte the effect of the text here but with different wording. I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this and also what font I should use since I can't seem to find anything similar to it. Any help would be appreciated!

How do I turn off adobe recording my screen. It is making me extremely oncomfortable. Need help asap or I will have to look for new options

Hello,First time here and will be thankful if someone can support with the below and share experience. Any crazy ideas are welcome!The background: in our team we're processing a lot of artworks in Illustrator and send them to the client for approval. Each AW draft contains a job box where we add the revision number. We keep only one master file (compliance reasons).The problem: some of the clients want to have the revision number and date not only in the job box but also in the file name.The question: after reading a lot here I understood that using a script can add the today's date in the file name but not other type of data. Could you please let me know if we can achieve the following: to have an automized way of pulling data from the file itself (the artboard / the job box) and adding it to the file name when we save it? I know that I’m looking for a unicorn but decided it to give it a try.Thanks a lot,Dess

Hi, does anyone know when Illustrator may be released on Microsoft surface? I need it for school and I didn't know it wouldn't be compatible!Thanks!

I have a Windows 11 PC and Epson ET-8550. When I print from Photoshop, I get the best results when I let the printer manage colors and the assigned color profile is Adobe RGB (1998). In Illustrator, it will not let me choose to have the printer manage the colors. Is it possible let printer determine colors in illustrator if you don't have a postscript printer?

I have been having an issue of late that comes and goes depending on the file and I can't seem to get to the root of it.I open a file with a symbol in it and make a change to said symbol. However, when i click out it does not update the symbol. Any change I made does not update. I do this over and over again. I've closed out the file and rebooted Illustrator but still it continues to not update. I've only had this issue since updating to CC 2018. I've tried changing it from Dynamic to Static and no change, from Graphic to Movie Clip no change. I use these all the time and just since the update I've had this issue.

Please refer to the attached video. This is most consistant with the Zoom tool but it's happening sporatically with all active tool icons not displaying correctly.

Hi everybody, I am struggling on what I thought it was a simple task. I need to be able to pick a brush and apply it to a stroke. In the particular case I need to be a repeated pattern. I am in the dark at the moment. I have managed to do it from the GUI but I am not able to get almost anything working.Summarizing I need to:- create a pattern from group of paths (the same I would do in the GUI as showed in the images below)        - apply this pattern brush to a path- (optional) save this brush into a brush file I think AIBeautifulStrokes is the key to get this done but I cannot make it work. I have tried something like this to create a pattern brush with a polygon drawn previously, and set it to a path named "art":error = sAIPattern->NewPattern(&sPatternHandle);error = sAIPattern->SetPatternArt(sPatternHandle, polygon);ai::UnicodeString newName;error = sAIPattern->NewPatternName(newName);error = sAIPattern->SetPatternName(sP

In Visual Studio Code in the jsx file on all lines where #include is used, it gives a problem and suggests using ‘;’ at the end of the line.What is causing this to happen? 

say i already made a character style and applied it all over my document, but i want to set a field back to ignore like Leading or Size. Once the field is set how do I unset it? 

Hello everyone,I have a somewhat complicated problem. I am working on a large profile project that contains many details and high-quality images, which has made the file size reach 16 GB. Now, I can’t save the file at all. Every time I try to save, the program freezes indefinitely, and in other cases, my PC shuts down, forcing me to start over again. I realy need help Is there any solution to this issue? Here is a screenshot from the Task Manager during the saving process.Sometimes, memory usage reaches 50% and then drops again, but in all cases, the program remains unresponsive for hours and hours.  

I'm struggling to come up with the correct syntax for doing something fairly simple.  Basically I want to find a named spot color swatch. If it's found I have other programming I'd like to run (I have working code) If it does not find the swatch, then just carry on. if swatch "Blue" exists (a spot color) do this else do nothing and carry on with rest of script endifThanks for any help.    

Hi there!What is he best way to create a high resolution vertical brushed metal surface with Illustrator? Vector-based, no pixels/raster images involved. The desired appearance should be something like this: Thanks a lot!!