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With the direct selection tool (white arrrow) moving over an anchor they show up, but even if the anchor is selected the anchor blue box disappears as soon as the mouse moves away, so its impossible to select a handle.  I can still move an anchor, but its hard to select two anchors to joint the paths etc., sort of like driving blind.  If I click on a path, then hold down the command key, the hollow box anchors show up and the cursor changes into the selection tool.  The hollow boxes show up on selecting using the selection tool (black arrow).  I am pretty direct selection tool was working correctly last week (am an occasional user).I've know the difference between the select tool, direct selection tool, and group selection tool.   I think this happened a year ago and deleting a preference file helped.  I, quit illustrator,  deleted "com.adobe.illustrator.plist" in my user library, and tried again.  that didn't help.

When saving files in Illustrator I'm getting random folders with jumbled letters that appear on my desktop with ".aishm"  What is this and how can it be stopped? 

I am trying to test making a post in the community, but it looks like users can no longer make posts in this community site redesign ?!?!?!

I am on a time limit with a project I have been working on. For some reason, the trim view is completely greyed out when I select any layer on my artboard. Does anyone have any idea how to fix that so I can use trim view?

Wanneer ik dingen opnieuw wil koppelen met items vanuit mijn cc-bibliotheek, dan is de structuur die ik heb aangebracht compleet verdwenen. Alles staat dan door elkaar, waardoor het lastig zoeken is. Kan iemand mij helpen/uitleggen of dit op te lossen en hoe dit werkt?

I have always kept “Auto Update” disabled in the CC app.Since 30.3 was released, Illustrator keeps auto updating. I need it to remain on 30.2.1 due to conflicts with my font manager. Why and how is my Illustrator updating automatically when my settings say otherwise?

I am using Illustrator 30.3. When I open my file it lets me edit and move text and images for about 3 minutes and then it just stops letting me. After that happens, I can only move texts and images using the transform window. As soon as I click using the type button it lays the font down immediatly and doesnt let me click and scroll to change size. Not sure how to capture an image of this but ill just add one.  This is awful. Please help me.  

Hello everyone, We've been experiencing the following two problems with Adobe Illustrator for some time now. After saving and reopening the document, some of the color values have changed in isolated areas. This isn't just 1-2% in black, but sometimes 10-15% in all colors (C, M, Y, K). Even after adjusting the colors in the document again, this problem keeps recurring after saving, closing and reopening the same document.When we create transparency masks for certain jobs and save and reopen the file, they are completely destroyed (i.e., text converted to paths, other vector graphics, or even linked graphics are deleted from the mask, and, for example, only a circle is inserted) or the mask is moved to a completely different position. Even after adjusting the mask again this problem keeps recurring after saving, closing and reopening the same document.See attached files "1_MaskBeforeSaving.png" and "2_MaskAfterSaving.png". This problem doesn't occur for all employees, eve

Bonjour,Je cherche à avoir ce rendu sur une photo dans le but d’imprimer avec un vernis sélectif sur cette partie.Merci pour votre aide.

Bonjour,je cherche à avoir ce rendu pour envoyer un fichier à mon imprimeur.J’ai du mal à trouver les bons réglages.Merci pour votre aide.

I want to unite these two sublayers and make it one. Is it possible? That means final result should be one sublayer. File is attached.MW  

Basically, title. Using alt +  mousewheel to zoom in and out is very laggy and slow (5-10 seconds to update). No issues on previous version or using zoom tool. Issue persists with animated zoom disabled and enabling "zoom with mousewheel". Navigating the document with mousewheel causes the same issue.

Hi everyone,After updating Illustrator from version 30, I’ve encountered some issues in my extensions involving app.selection and app.executeMenuCommand().It seems the variable var doc = app.activeDocument; loses its reference/value immediately after using the methods mentioned above.Example: var doc = app.activeDocument; alert(doc); app.selection = null; alert(doc);First alert gives this result: ---------------------------Script Alert---------------------------[Document Untitled-2]---------------------------OK ---------------------------Second alert returns:---------------------------Script Alert---------------------------[Document ]---------------------------OK ---------------------------If i call same code from ExtendedScript toolkit everything works fine, when i call from extension, then its breaks.One solution what helped to bypass this, is add “app.redraw()” sandwich. var doc = app.activeDocument; alert(doc); app.redraw(); app.selection = null; app.redraw(); ale

Having the same issue. No amount of logging out or in fixes.

This is a tutorial file. I wish to change the color of one ball only. Is there any way to do so? file is attached as well.Cup-Ball 

We are using Illustrator 2025 (29.4), and a customer sent in an Illustrator file to replace a PDF that they sent us.When we open the file, it warns us that the font is missing. We cancelled to see where it is being used, but no text was highlighted. Then we open the Find/Replace Font dialog box, and it does not flag the fonts as missing.  So our user assumed that the fonts got loaded from the Creative Cloud, and made a PDF. The PDF has the wrong font showing, as it substituted a default font. And now we have to reprint the piece because of this issue with Illustrator. So doing some testing to figure out where the problem lands. I checked all the same dialog boxes that the user did. But I also checked the Missing Fonts dialog box, and it shows the ones that are missing, but still no text is highlighted.Next, I 'Reset All Warning Dialogs', and got the same issue.Then, I 'Reset Preferences', and got the same issue.I'm pretty sure it's an Illustrator 2025 issue at this point.But

I just want to let everyone (and especially Adobe, obviously) know that this is still an issues in Illustrator v 26.3.1 on Windows. I installed Illustrator v26.3.1 fresh on a recently installed Windows 11 computer, and I encountered the same problem on my first attemt to save an .ai file.   The work-around that worked was unchecking BOTH "save in background" AND "export in background". Unchecking either one on its own still produces the error.   So if Anshul is right and it was fixed in v26.2.1 it has either regressed in v26.3.1 or it was fixed in the Mac branch of the code, but not in the Windows (11) branch of the code.   Either way it's still an active bug in Illustrator v26.3.1 on Windows 11.   P.S. The suggested "go to File and Package" etc message on the error dialog doesn't work. The "Package.." option is greyed out.     Last observation: This is a really bad bug to ship your software with, Adobe. You can't expect your customers, who pay a premium

Basically, what the title says- Latest Illustrator on Windows 11. I have a large list of actions that I use daily, and I have them all assigned to the “F” keys along with combinations of the shift and control keys. I just made 3 new actions, and I have Shift+Control F2, F3, and F4 available as shortcuts. The problem is, Shift+Control+F4 is grayed out and there is nothing I have been able to do to unlock it. I don’t see anything else using it either. What can I do to get this working?

我最近将illustrator和photoshop都升级到了最新版，但是在illustrator的文本图层输入文本时，每当我在第一个字符后面或者前面加入空格，光标便会往后延伸一大截，延伸出的这段距离便无法删除，我不得不直接删除整个文本图层重新开始编辑文本，我甚至不敢再往第一个字符前后敲空格，这又会让问题再次出现我的photoshop也有这个问题，但它更严重，这直接造成整个软件无响应卡死。我该怎么做才能解决这个问题？光标左边的空格无法删除，这直接造成我的应用程序卡死 

Is Adobe’s new Layout Variations feature currently available in the illustrator beta version?I’m not seeing Layout Variations in the toolbar in my beta version.I’m just curious if this feature, as shown in the video Project Remix a Lot - GS3-2, is accessible in the current beta version, as the layout variations toolbar isn’t showing up for me.

changing cmyk values seems to be broken.

Illustrator keeps saying not responding when I try to use.Every time I open Illustrator, it seems like it’s working normally but as soon as I put mouse pointer on the Illustrator window the pointer changes to a loading cursor and I can’t use it. It’s weird because if I don’t put pointer on the Illustrator window, and use keyboard instead of pointer it works.I tried to uninstall Illustrator and install it again, adding .old to the adobe illustrator folders in library folder, updated macOS software, and installing old versions of illustrator. None of them worked tho.It’s been like this for weeks and I need to do some work so please help. I screen recorded what happens when I try to use illustrator.

I had to install Adobe Log Collector Tool yesterday for the agent to diagnose why Illustrator could no longer save work. After installing, it replaced my hard-drive for my macbook on the desktop with the Adobe Log Collector Tool drive and all my desktop folders and screenshots disappeared. Apple customer support could not find them anywhere and was no help. Has this happened to anyone else? Adobe says it’s not their product, but there’s definitely a bug in their software for this to happen. I’m using a Macbook Pro 2023 with Ventura. 

Hello! I’ve got this issue where my illustrator app (up to date) freezes for a few moments any time i specifically use the alt + zoom function. If i press Z and then drag left or right, the zoom is perfectly smooth, but for some reason the alt zoom just completely freezes up my illustrator for like 5 seconds at a time. I’ve got a 4080 super graphics card that i have toggled on and off in GPU performance, GPU view, turned animated zoom on and off, and even set illustrator as a high performance application in the nvidia control panel, as well as uninstalled and reinstalled the application. Would love to know if anyone else has had this issue! Ultimately i can do without it i guess, but i’ve been using this zoom reflexively for an absurd amount of time, maybe 7 years at this point, and for some reason on this machine i’m currently working on its messed up. Thanks! 

Hi,I was just wondering how to open the .aid recovery files created by illustrator when data recovery is setup.Thanks.