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Whenever I try to launch Adobe Illustrator for work in my Digital Art class, I can't. I have tried changing settings and a lot more. It is getting annoying because I have a bad grade in my class and can't do assignments to fix it. I have tried asking the teacher for help multiple times over 5 weeks. The teacher is of no use like she always is.   

Hi there, was wondering if anyone was experiencing being unable to drag and drop images from photoshop to illustrator. When I move the image between the apps on my desktop, the green circle plus sign appears in Illustrator like it's going to drop the image, but then nothing happens. I can still drag images from Illustrator to Photoshop no problem. I know I can export a PNG file of the image and then place it in Illustrator, but it's not the same. Both Illustrator and Photoshop have been updated to the latest iterations (AI v29.3, PS v26.3). Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

When I export a file from Illustrator to JPG format and transfer it to the Wasatch RIP software, the size increases. For example, I export 100 cm x 100 cm, and in Wasatch, it appears as 417 cm x 417 cm. This only happens with JPG; if I use PNG or PDF, the problem doesn't occur. I've already reinstalled Illustrator, and it's not fixed. What can I do?

Hey folks, My company recently purchased a laser etching machine for pad print plates. It uses EZCad2 for setting up files (don't even get me started there) and I've encountered many issues with vector files. Apparently, this software sees compound paths as complete objects and will fill their entirety solid instead of honoring vector lines. For example, if I'm printing an O that is a compound path, even if no object is inside of the O, it will fill the entire thing black and turn it into just a solid circle. Releasing the compound path gives me two vector objects filled with black but if I use pathfinder to punch the center of the O back out, it turns back into a compound path and I'm right back where I started. Unfortunately, the artwork in question is from an outside source so I'm limited in tackling this from the source. Has anyone ever dealt with an issue like this? Any help is very appreciated and thank you in advance!

I want this grid to fade away from bottom to top. I thought applying a gradient to the grid from white to the color of the background image would do it, but every way I try it (rasterizing, expanding, etc.) it either does nothing or the gradient is not applied evenly to the lines from top to bottom (sometimes the vertical lines have the gradient but not horizontal or vice versa). How do I do that, or is there a better way to achieve what I am looking for?  

So apparently I pulled the side menu bar and accidentally press the X, which closed the menu bar and now I can't figured out how to reopen it to keep on doing my work. Hope you can help. Thanks.

I customize my shortcuts in Illustrator every time I install a new version, but I don't know how to load this configuration when I reinstall the program. I can't find the file or I don't know how it's saved and loaded. I would appreciate it if you could guide me through this process so I can have my custom keyboard shortcuts for Illustrator functions in each new installation.

Hey all!I'm trying to make a bunch of business cards using a template en masse with a Excel document.This contains Inuktitut characters that I would like to remain in the finished product. I've tried it with and without the Inuktitut, all the cells are filled and I've done a search for all empty cells to be sure. Each time, the result is the same: invalid library. What could be going wrong? Here is what happened when I tried to investigate possible problems listed here: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/illustrator/using/data-driven-graphics-templates-variables.html#FacingissueswhileimportingyourCSVfile Your CSV file is not blank.I've checked.The spreadsheets that you've created using the latest version of Microsoft Excel are saved as CSV (Comma delimited) (*.csv) or CSV (MS-DOS) (*.csv) and those created using Apple Numbers are saved as CSV format with Unicode (UTF-8) encoding. Data source files saved in any other file format such as Macintosh Comma Separated (*.csv) are not s

For not losing my work progress, I saved my AI file to Adobe Cloud as .AIC. I turned on Auto Save Cloud Document and set it to save every 5 minutes. I did a lot of work yesterday in this .AIC document. Today morning my AI crashed. I tried to recover the LATEST change and I supposed to see the LATEST version of it. But in the Cloud file recovery I can only see the oldest version!!!!    Adobe why you are doing this, I chose Cloud saving because I expected it can auto save my progress like Figma. But you guys did a really bad job. I hope your engineers can fix this.    I will never save my files to Adobe Cloud again. This is so disappointing.

Hi,I've just switched to Illustrator on the iPad from Mac desktop and there are two desktop functions I'm having a hard time finding an alternative for. 1. Moving an object by a specific value - I.e. on desktop I would move an object by using Transform - Move - then specify the horizontal or vertical value that I would like to move it.  2. Pen tool - on desktop Illustrator I would create straight lines by holding Shift key down when plotting points. On the iPad I've tried having grid view on and snapping to grid, but it doesn't seem to actually do it... Thanks, appreciate any suggestions for similar functions! 

why don't I see my apple? 

I'm having alignment issues with the background and horizon line. Can you help me fix this?]

Hello everyoneI hope you can find a solution to my problemIn the Layout i have a placed PNG picture, and after save in PDF shows only as a white shape

Hallo liebe Adobe-Community,ich nutze die Kreisdiagramm-Funktion in Illustrator (Version 29.3.1) zur statistischen Visualisierung und bin dabei auf einen gravierenden Fehler gestoßen. Das letzte Segment des Diagramms wird stets zu groß dargestellt – besonders auffällig ist dies, wenn der erste und letzte Wert identisch sind.Hat jemand ähnliche Erfahrungen gemacht oder eine Lösung dafür?

Why does text get exported as png so grain??

沿圆弧不断增加，并与不断扩大的多个圆紧密相邻-如何创建标准化的矢量图形？

Illustrator 25 is not allowing me to move a graphic symbol on a 3D object . I have to go back to Illustrator 24 to be able to move a graphic on the surface of a 3D object created in Illustrator.

Hi,So I've noticed that my bounding box on Illustrator has been acting a little odd on my work computer.Example; I select a group that has a bunch of objects in it but it also goes around the group's hidden objects and I can't remember if this is normal. I don't think it's supposed to do that. Right? Can someone confirm this for me? or help me troubleshoot it? I feel like this is wrong because when the whole group is selected while the object in question is invisible it does this: I do not have a stray object or path I promise... Anyway, when I make the object visible in this case it is a group of distress patterns (for screen printing shown below)and then, if I select the group in this state and make the destress group invisible while selected, the bounding box goes around the visible objects only as it should (from what I remember this is what it normally should do)  SEE?! Is this a bug? It's been really impairing my workflow...Help please lol.-AA 

Hi guys,I do simple graphic design (flyer at the moment) on illustrator and it keeps lagging and going extremenly slow. At first, I thought it was a problem from my mac but now I also have a PC and it is doing the same problem. It's lagging at EVERY click. I did every step on the ''Improve Illustrator performance'' page and I checked for memory issues. I am so not a itech pro so please help me!

 Preciso imprimir em uma impressora comum e manter as cores utilizadas.Criei um arquivo no formato A4 (300 ppi, CMYK, etc.) com os mesmos perfis de cor tanto em RGB quanto em CMYK no Photoshop e no Illustrator.Recortei uma foto e removi o fundo, deixando apenas a transparência, e depois trouxe o arquivo no formato PSD para o Illustrator. Devo usar PNG 24 bits?Tudo com o mesmo perfil de cor, tamanho e resolução DPI. Posso simplesmente converter tudo em curvas, rasterizar a imagem que enviei para o Illustrator junto com o fundo e salvar em PDF/X-1a ou PDF/X-4? A gráfica saberá imprimir corretamente.O primeiro problema é que preciso criar uma versão simples, sem sangria, mas que ocupe um A4 em uma impressora comum, mantendo a transparência. O que fiz? Rasterizei a imagem no Illustrator com o fundo, mas, por algum motivo, ele converte o fundo cinza de #1C1C1C para #1D1D1D, e a impressão sai sem a sobreposição, mas com essa variação de cor de fundo.Existe alguma forma de fechar o arqui

Hi, My text to graphic version 28.7.3 is missing. Any suggestions. All layers are not locked nor hidden.Thanks,Karen

A couple weeks ago, I created a two-column page with text in both columns, successfully exported the file to PDF, and then saved and closed the file.Today I opened the .ai file to edit, and the text in the left column is invisible.When I select the layers I see underlining suggesting lines of text are there, but I don't see the text.The layers have visibility turned on, and when I looked at Overprint, it is deselected. I also tried opening the .pdf that I had exported from Illustrator a couple weeks ago, and there too, the text in the left column is missing.But when I open the same pdf in Preview (i'm on a Mac), I can see all the text in the left column. How do I fix this?I'm running Illustrator 29.2.1 on Mac Sequoia 15.2. Thanks. Screenshots:1) Showing the green highlighting of invisible text. 2) Layer settings. The missing text is in the top green layer. Moving the layer's position doesn't change anything. 

One of the many things that Illustrator now does poorly which has increased production time substantially. I'm posting out of a frustration that is now constant, at least during working hours when all I can really do is just bear it.

Hello all ,Urgent request , i have to finish this  code with the help of scripting .i am having 200 files in a folder , previously i have got error adobe illustrator not responding , and then i have got parm error all these problems now it is rectified , but now i am gettting error ("adobe illustrator can't finish previewing there is not enough memory in illustrator" ) after running for 100 files . can any one suggest me to add line to clear memory in illustrator so illustrator cant occupy any memory .this is my part of the code, please help me it is so urgent ,sorry to disturb u all .function read_ai(){    sourceFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder with Illustrator files', '~' );    files = sourceFolder.getFiles(/\.(svg|ai)$/i);    sourceFolder1 = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder to save ai files', '~' );       if(files.length == 0){  //alert("Folder doesnot have any file");  &