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I've been dealing with a new bug encountered in Illustrator 29.1 today. This new version has serious limits with importing AI files exported by other applications. If the AI file has no text objects it will open. But if the AI file has any text objects an error box will be displayed saying: Illustrator could partially read this file. We recovered as much of the file as possible, but some content might be missing. Open to view the recovered file.   When the file is opened there is no content, just an empty placement box.   Rebooting, doing disc cleanup, etc made no difference. The problem would still persist. The only solution appears to be installing a previous build of Illustrator and opening the exported AI files there.Update: I tested the problem on my home setup. The problem is present there. The update for Illustrator 29.1 released earlier today (11/20/2024) won't import AI files exported from other applications (such as CorelDRAW for instance). The issue is present in

I rasterized some text and then used image trace/ make and expand to get vectors.  Been doing this for years.   I ungrouped everything and then selected an isolated vector to change stroke and color.  I cannot work with anything individually and it doesn't fill the group properly.  I can select each vector individually but it treats everything like a group no matter what I do.  I've done this literally hundreds of times....  This is only ONE of my issues with 2025.  Back to 24 for me?I just need a reliable vector.  This isn't hard adobe....  come on. 

Hello à tous,  Je travaille sur un projet 3D sur Illustrator mais il m'est maintenant impossible de déplacer manuellement mes graphismes sur l'objet 3D (alors que je pouvais avant). Comment faire?  Merci d'avance, Mélanie

About an hour ago, my Illustrator crashed (which it always does once in a while) along with some files I had been working on, and I wasn't concerned since I typically am always able to open the recovered files upon relaunch. However, the file that had important work in it was saved as a cloud document, and this is my first time using Illustrator cloud documents. When I relaunched the program, I was not able to find that particular recovered file anywhere, and the last version that had been saved to the cloud was from seven days ago, meaning I lost a ton of work I had done since then. I know it's ultimately my fault for not saving properly, but if it was a cloud document I don't understand why it had not been autosaving for that entire time, or why it was not at least saved as a local recovery file??? Is there anything I can do now to recover that data or is it lost forever?

[Moderator moved from The Lounge to Illustrator .]Whenever I click on an object to select it, it jumps to the right. The same thing happens when I double-click a group to edit it. Any idea on how to fix this? I tried using a different mouse...

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Hi,I've been experiencing lag on my Mac Illustrator since an update a few weeks ago. Oddly enough, even after reinstalling earlier versions of Illustrator, the problem persists. By lag, I mean random but annoying ~1-second freezes of the entire app when moving any object with the Selection Tool. This happens with small and big documents, new and old ones. Every time. I have Macbook Pro 16", 2021M1 Max Silicone, 64 Gb of RAM. As Illustrator is the primary software I use for my livelihood, I cannot begin to express my level of frustration. Dear Adobe, it feels like you've literally broken the tool for me. P.S.: Creative Cloud Cleaner haven't helped as well.

I createad a .pdf file in Illustrator. Originally that is an .ai file with multiple artboards. The pdf was created as Save as, PDF, Range 3 (artboard 3). When I open the saved .pdf in Photoshop, Acrobat Pro or Chrome, indeed I get the correct 1 page as intended. However, if I open this exact same .pdf in Illustrator, now suddenly the original content with all multiple artboards appear. I do not understand how this is possible. I tried to save both [x] Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities on and off, that didn't have any effect on the number of artboards. Can someone explain what's going on? Acrobat's Document Properties clearly shows Number of Pages 1. But still Illustrator opens all the pages (artboards), not just one. When the .pdf is open in Illustrator, I can clearly see it's the same expectedly 1-page file, I have not mistakenly opened a wrong file.

How can I get a feathered circle?

This used to be SO easy. All I want to do is align my stroke to the outside of my text, but Illustrator won't let me. So I go into my Appearance pallet to see what's going on. On my first attempt to align the stroke, I've applied the stroke and fill under the "Type" attribute. As you can see, aligning the stroke is a no go....Since the align stroke is greyed out for "Type," I thought adding the fill and stroke to the "Characters" attribute instead would do the trick. It did not. It's not greyed out, like it was on "Type" but clicking on "Align to Outside" does nothing.Can someone please help me here? I've tried Googling Type vs Characters in the Appearance panel for Illustrator, but since these terms have LONG been associated with OTHER Illustrator pallets, all I get are unrelated results. I've found nothing. So now, after over 10 years of using Illustrator, I no longer know how to do something simple like align strokes to text (or apply gradients to text for that matter). Thank you in

I hope one day Adobe will accomplish to crate a smooth path to open AI files in PSD and edit the layers . Right now it is convoluted, difficult and gives users that know how to deal with PSD files but not AI files a lot of headaches.

Like I said in the title, every single time I click on an object, the app freezes for a second or two and then moves the object to wherever the mouse was. Its rendered the app unusable, every little thing takes me 3x as long to do it because of this. Working on Illustrator 2024 28.0im on Ventura 13.6M1 MaxAnybody got any fixes?

HI!I have a problem with illustrator 2023.Path texts disappear as soon as I click or convert them to a path.Sometimes even just opening the file.This is a big problem that I need to solve quickly.  Thanks  Luca

Hello,I have downloaded a vector from the internet and opened it in Illustrator by going to File > Place. I have tried the selection tool and the direct selection tool to highlight the individual picture that I want to use out of the vector, however none of this is working. It just highlights the whole document. I have pressed ungroup, embedded etc and still nothing... I am new to illustrator so perhaps I'm doing something else wrong. I want to be able to copy just the top line of stars and use them only. Does anyone know how I can do this?ps. I am using Illustrator CC 2017.

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how can I crop an image to other then a simple rectangle?

HalloIch kann keinen Flächentext mehr erstellen. Jedenfalls wirkt es so oder er sieht anders aus. Hier ein Screenshot: Es ist hier irrelevant, ob ich das Direktauswahl-Tool oder das Auswahl-Tool nutze – die mittleren Anfasser sind weg und auch der weitere Anfasser, der zwischen Flächen und Punkt-Text wechseln kann, ist auch weg.Ich habe das Problem seit geraumer Zeit. Zwischendurch war es dann wieder normal und nun ist es wieder so.Ich vermute ihren eine wilde Tastenkombi, die ich aus Versehen getippt habe. Aber wie kann ich das wieder umstellen?

Hi everyone - I drew these flames using the pen tool and and outlined the stroke. Which in hindsight I shouldn't have done as it making this tougher. Im however trying to paint in the white space using the gradient mesh tool, but its not working due to the path having "too many points to create a gradient mesh"  My question is, how can I go about converting this to an object or something that would allow me to fill in the white space? When I go to object > convert to shape I get an error that the object is not converted but no reason as to why. Thanks in advance 🙂  

Hola, desde ya hace unos días al abrir Illustrator y al presionar la barra espaciadora para la utilización de la herramienta de mano, es como solo pudiera utilizar dicha herramienta, el cursor del mouse pasa a ser la mano y cuenta mucho que las otras herramientas funcionen, es imposible trabajar. Necesito una solución urgente. El ordenador que utilizo es un MacBook Pro M1 Pro, Ram 16Gb, macOS Sequoia 15.11

Hello. Is it known approximately how long it will take to install the Illustrator application on the lap top Asus Vivobook S 15 copilot + PC? I'm losing patience.

Bonjour,J'ai besoin d'aide sur Illustrator.Je cherche à appliquer un symbole sur un objet 3D (j'ai suivi un tuto)J'ai un cube, et je souhaiterais appliquer différents symboles (qui sont en réalité des textes) sur chacune des faces.Le tuto est présenté sur une ancienne version qui donnait la possibilité de choisir la face, ainsi que d'autres options intéressantes et sur la version actuelle, je ne trouve plus cette possibilité, le symbole s'affiche sur la totalité de l'objet. Si vous avez une réponse !Merci !

I have updated to Illustrator 2025 (29.1)There is a problem with the latest version.Grouping multiple of objects using multiplication and then ungrouping them will remove the effect.The multiplication that had been set up has disappeared.The same thing happens with other data and is reproducible. I am using a translator.I apologize for my poor English. 

I have 10 files with the same link in the illustrator file, the name of the link image file is “480_F_503906393_YrrW2lWOCpsBzjQRATfuNoTnhP.jpg”Because the file name is too long and does not have a good association, I changed the file name to be easy to remember “little girl.jpg”When renaming the file, the illustrator file reported Missing Link, I performed Replace > selected the link image named "little girl.jpg" and clicked Search for Missing Links in This Folder > clicked the Replace button.But I had to repeat the above operation up to 10 times, while with the previous version I only needed to perform Replace all once with the new file to automatically update the files.

Hello all, I'm experiencing issues with my scripts in Illustrator CC 2024. Each script has around 20 functions, and they used to run smoothly in CS5 and CS6. Now, they only run for about 10 files out of 80 files before stopping. Can anyone help me understand why the scripts are stopping? Is it related to Adobe Illustrator CC 2024 or the graphics?

My boxes are creating phantom images that are only visible at the bottom of the shape. They seem to be words that are either elsewhere on the file, or had been and then deleted. I've ungrouped so many times that there is no way the image is actually there. I've updated Illustrator. I've exported it to see if it was just a display glitch, but it won't go away, even when printed. It seems to go away with a clipping mask, but I'd like to fix the actual problem.