Questions

I am using scatter brushes I created to generate a crosshatch style effect. My question is, is there a way to create a brush that alternates ie. vertical to horizontal to vertical, etc.I can get a similar effect with a Pattern brush but I like the more organic feel of the scatter brush.The attached image shows the scatter brush that I am using on the top, and the effect I am trying to achieve on the bottom. Thanks!

Illustrator 2021, MacOS, Catalina ....I have a solid color background layer with about 100+ groups of fine lines in front of it. While trying to adjust the position of the layer above the bg, sometimes I will accidentally select the bg layer... so, I did the logical thing and LOCKED that layer. Fixed! Nope... it still moves. It's only "locked" if you actually select it from the layer panel - then it it's all "Sorry, we can't touch this layer - we only move this layer when you DON'T want it moved -Annoyingly yours, Adobe"If a layer can still move with a lock on it, what's the point? A locked layer should NEVER move - there's a reason people chose to use them and it's not because they want them to move. If I wanted the layer to move, I'd unlock it. If users want it to do something illogical, like moving while locked, they need to opt-in - that should never be default behavior.

I have a good PC with 32GB RAM, i5 12400f CPU, RTX 3050 GPU, 512GB SSD, 2TB HDD. When I work, some files have 1~2GB size it ok, also some files only have a few MB, it supper laggy and uses a lot of RAM, SSD storage. Otherwise, all files in Corel Draw, everything smoothIf someone know how to overcome this issue, please help me

I "upgraded" to AI 2024 today, and half of my fonts are gone.  Still in my system (Mac OS Sonoma), just not availalbe in AI.  I have fonts that were custom made for me years (decades) ago that nobody else in the world has that I *have* to have.  So apparently AI no longer supports PostScript fonts?  Thanks a lot Adobe.  You freaking INVENTED PostScript, and I've been using these fonts just fine since the 1990s.  Now suddenly if I want to use the latest version of AI, I'm out of luck?In addition to running an extortion scheme requiring me to subscribe to get the software, now you're telling me I can't use it the way I need to use it. I'm ***NOT*** happy right now.

One or more words in your prompt violate user guidlinesIllustrator gives an error when writing absolutely any prompt. It is impossible to generate an image in either the beta or the main version

I'm designing a board game in Illustrator with uniquely shaped spaces (see attached images). I need to add a colored strip that precisely follows the top edge of each game space.This is how I want one space to look, with a colored section at the top portion. This is my overall board game layout for context. Is there an efficient way to create these strips that will automatically (or at least efficiently manualy) follow the contours of the top edges, considering each space has a unique shape?Thanks for any suggestions!

Today I went to do my regular process of selecting some art, and opening the Artboard tool to fit the artboard to the selected art ... and that's not only missing, but the list of artboards is a) longer than my screen, b) doesn't line up with the drop down at all, and c) contains dozens of presets that I will never use. How do I delete artboard presets? 

PANTONE 2192 C Find it in google only! i can't find in illustrator CS6 ?Can add PANTONE 2192 C to color book in illustrator?

Hi,Sorry for this oddly specific post, but I'm trying to open a DWG file from AutoCAD, I have installed all the necessary fonts in TTF format, using the default macOS font book. All I want to do is to substitute the missing fonts with the ones I downloaded and added to Font Book. Unfortunately, Illustrator only shows a "Font Problems" window, that states:romans.shx: Font not found on the system; missing font has been substituted.When trying later, to use Type > Find Font, Illustrator doesn't show any fonts as missing.I'm hoping there's an easy solution for this, thanks in advance. Also FYI, I already tried resetting my preferences, and it did nothing. INFO:OS: macOS Catalina 10.15.4Illustrator Version: 2020 24.0.3 

Images moving within clipping mask after save & re-open Illustrator v29.3.1 Tha mask itself stays in place but the image has moved upwards a significant amount within it. Not a bit, bit a lot. This has heppened on multiple pieces of work, both embedded images and linked. This doesnt seem to happen every time, but has been increasingly common.  OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Home Version 10.0.26100 Build 26100 Other OS Description Not Available OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name DESKTOP System Manufacturer Alienware System Model Alienware x17 R1 System Type x64-based PC System SKU 0A8F Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz, 2304 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date Alienware 1.25.0, 11/8/2024 SMBIOS Version 3.3 Embedded Controller Version 255.255 BIOS Mode UEFI BaseBoard Manufacturer Alienware BaseBoard Product Alienware x17 R1 BaseBoard Version A00 Platform Role Mobile Secure Boot State On PCR7 Configuration

Currently, I'm using the latest Illustrator version 29.3. When I installed this version, my GPU was working fine, but after restarting Illustrator, the GPU is no longer detected, showing that a compatible GPU is unavailable. I have tried many ways to fix this, but I can't solve it. But my latest Photoshop version still works well and recognizes the GPU.  MY OS: Windows 11 Latest Update CPU: i5 13500GPU: Intel Arc A750 8GB 

Hello Friends,I facing a weird issue in Illustrator, while pasting editable text, created by just click and drag the text tool. The font is installed in my system and its happen with any font. I ran through google and chatGPT but didn't got solution on this. please help to stop this behavour. 

Roughly how long would it take for you to reliably select all objects that are completely located inside of the light green marked paths in the screenshot below when you are just using any of the default selection tools in Illustrator?  

I have a design with many boxes that have points and edges intersecting, one on top of the other. I want to be able to box-select points and move them without selecting any lines.  If I try to click-select, I can't select two points that are stacked one on top of the other, and if I box-select, I get the edges/lines and can't move the points without moving the edges as well.  Is there any modifier key or anything to disable selecting of lines and be able to only select points? Here are images showing the two points selected to move, and what happens if they're moved up. The lines come along. It seems there must be a way. Thank you! 

Hello!I'm new to AI.I have an AI file created by a graphic designer that I want to  use one object from.  The file has about 4+ objects.  How can I pull from this file just the one object (shape) that I want?Thank you!

I am experiencing a problem with relinking files. I often place images in Illustrator documents and then Chenge the file name of the linked image (Ex. File name : 123456_filename.psd) it is need the relink on the same illustrator file. It is have more than 50 images. it is taken long time to relink. so i need to relink with the help of script. Illustrator​ !

Hi, I noticed that Illustrator 2025 convert automatically RGB images to cmyk when generating pdf. Ai 2024 was keeping images in its original mode. Any idea? Thank you,

Ive contacted apple. They tell me to contact Adobe Illustrator. Adobe tells me its Apple mouse issue. Some im kinda stuck in the middle not sure what to do. Ive alwys used the zoom with scroll wheel option when working with illustrator. But for some reason ive checked all the settings they are all correct. But still wont work with apple magic mouse 2. Ive connected other mouse and they work with wheel scrool. Its only the apple mouse. Small but frustrating issue. Please help.

I've been using Adobe products since 1993 and have had different issues and troubleshot many for people, etc. My workstations are usually custom built PCs specifically built for Adobe (and my budget) since it is how I make my living.I've been super excited about how to incorporate AI into my workflows and have been using MidJourney as well as Photoshop's Generative Fill to do many tasks, but Illustrator is my heavy-use tool for 99.9% of everything done for design or illustration. I've seen some of the Generative Fills and work done in Illustrator (and some of the new features coming) and it just feels important to have the option to be able to use it. EVERY time I try it in Illustrator it totally freezes up my computer EVERY time. Again, Photoshop works fine with its AI and my computer is basically 3 years old witch a decent processor and graphics card. I've even had several updates through Adobe CC where it reset my preferences and still same result. I'm guessing it has something to d

I recently lost the ability to drag & drop png or jpg files into Illustrator (v28.3) from Photoshop (25.5.1). I can Place those same files but not drag & drop.  Any suggestions?

Hi there, I see weird lines around white objects that drive me crazy and I am wondering if this is a bug. Is anyone seeing similar things? I am working currently on updating a museum map. Various exhibition rooms have various colors. Walls are compound paths that are filled white. The white compound path sits on top of the filled-in rooms and hallways and stroke setting is transparent/0 width.The original plan is over 10 years old. Just last week, I was working on it and it looked like expected.The map is placed in an Indesign document. Today, I exported a PDF-X4 file for offset printing like I always do. When I checked the PDF, I noticed super thin hairlines around the white compound paths. First, I thouhgt it might be a display error. But when I check the color channels (Acrobat output preview), I can measure them. And when I render the PDF page in Photoshop, it does render these super thin lines.When I zoom in thouh in Acrobat, the lines do not seem to scale. Whatever

I wanna try ''generative ai'' but its not working as I expected. High demand ? i Bought it to try and not letting me do it huuhh ???! i tried to do this " lose Adobe Illustrator > Launch Command Prompt > Paste the following command and hit Enter set AI_ENABLE_LOGS=1 && "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 2024\Support Files\Contents\Windows\Illustrator.exe" but not working 

I'm using Illustrator 29.0.1. For some time, now, I've been losing pasted clipings in a template layer. I trace pasted artwork into line drawings and find that if I do certain things, the clipped artwork will become transparent. I've unccessfully been trying to find a pattern. I end up having to re-cut the artwork and re-paste it—I can't re-paste the original clipboard. I find it pretty frustrating. I've been using Illustrator since it's inception (decades ago) and think I'm pretty-well versed in using it; but, this one stumps me. Any help?

Hello, we recently came across a funny issue with the feature "Recolor Artwork" in Illustrator for PC.  When ever we want to use the eyedropper tool in the advanced options for each of the colors, it will not work. BUT it will work if I select a color that's behind the popup window?? Not sure how to explain clearly, but please see gifs below.the weird thing: it only lets me eyedrop if the popup window is on top of the thing I want to eyedrop from....(see below) I don't know if I'm using this wrong or not seeing something or if this is just a bug for PC. My colleagues who use Mac computers don't seem to have this issue, but PC users do.  

No puedo arrastrar elementos ni imagenes desde photoshop para illustrator