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If LAScripts, JSXLauncher, ScripshonTrees and ALL plugins made with CEPHTML that you can think of are open, pressing the Tab key twice in a row does not hide the panels. Show/Hide All Palettes.For example:Step 1: Have the LAScripts palette open (It can be in any plugin, it does not matter which one you use)Step 2: Press the TAB key twice in a rowStep 3: You will notice that the 2nd TAB does not hide all the palettes.This disgraceful situation only occurs in Windows(10) systems. They said there is no problem in Mac systems (I did not try it)

In Windows, the standard scroll-wheel zoom key is Ctrl. Pretty much everything follows this standard, including all web browsers, Word, Explorer, even Adobe Reader. Except Adobe softwares (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, etc.). It uses the Alt key instead.This drives me nuts. Switching between all of these programs has my fingers in a frazzle. I keep using the wrong key in the wrong program.I tried to change it using Keyboard shortcuts panel, but Alt+Mouse Wheel is not an option. It doesn´t recognize Crtl + scroll wheel.Is there a way to scroll-wheel zoom with Ctrl instead of Alt?

Does anyone know why my PNGs are showing up on Illustrator like this?  It shows a white background when it's on an artboard and a gray background when it's off the artboard. No problems when I open the PDF in Acrobat. The transparency is there on PDFs, but it's bugging me because I can't see the background. 

Hi, team. I'm working with illustrator and I have a scene with many objects placed randomly. Some of these objects are overlapping. Is there a script or feature that can automatically adjust their positions to avoid overlaps and ensure a more even distribution?

I don't use clipping paths much, so every time I need to do one I usually do a quick Goog;le search beforehand and have no problems with it. I just upgraded to Illustrator 2025 and it looks like they've changed how clipping paths work. Either that or I'm forgetting a small-but-crucial step. I'm trying to punch the hole in a letter "P" but I can't get the clipping path to work. I've tried using Object > Clipping Path > Make, and I've treid using Pathfinder, but no luck so far. I'm attaching a simplified file with the two paths if anyone wants to take a shot and let me know what I forgot to do.  Greatly appreciated in advance!!

When selecting multiple shapes, the corner widget only appears on some of the shapes/paths, and not all. There's no "maxium number" of paths the widgets appear on, it's random every time. I also can't add more shapes/paths to the existing selection without all widgets disappearing. Both "show corner widgets" and "show edges" options are turned ON. I was able to select as many shapes as I wanted and scale all corners at simultaneously earlier today. The option has just suddenly disappeared even though I didn't change/update Illustrator in any way. [renamed by mod]

Why isn't illustrator giving me the option to mask?

Hello I have a pictogram that is in png and I have to change the color of the pictogram on illustrator but when I go to illustrator it is not possible for me to change the color of a pictogram that is in png is that she that one could tell me how I can do it please I am completely blockedthank you

I had to resave a recovered file after a crash, but the recovered file won't display any of the guides. Guides are not hidden and I am not in Trim View. I've tried both GPU and CPU Preview, and still nothing. The guides are on their own layer, which is not hidden. The individual guide objects are also not hidden. I can see them in the layers panel, and they will highlight once I select them. I use guides to mark off margins, so I need to be able to see them without having them selected. I can create new guides and see them with no issue, it's only the pre-existing guides at the time Illustrator crashed that I cannot see. It's not a huge deal to delete and add new guides, but if there's a way to fix this, I'd like to know in case it happens again in the future. I'm using Illustrator 28.1 on Mac OS Sonoma 14.0

When creating a new artboard in an existing document, the default spacing is always 0.2778 inch. I find this spacing extremely inconvenient. For example, I want to quickly create an 8-page document, so I click on "New Artboard" 8 times. But I can only layout content on one page at a time. It would be much more convenient if I could just move/copy my first page layout by nice whole numbers like 9 inches to quickly fill the lineup of pages, instead of having to figure out what 8.5 + .2778 is, and then add that to itself 7 times. Is there any way to set the default to 1/2 inch, or any other reasonable number? I can't believe there is no way to change this to some other unit or scale. It's not a round number in either picas or millimeters.

I have some coloring book pages that I'm working on. I have lots of groups that each contain multiple thicknesses of lines. I need to make the ones closer to the front a touch darker than those in the distance. Is there a way to select a group and add .25 thickness to every line in the group? (Or whatever other increment needed.)

I am following a background tutorial and it looked like this with barely starting it. I hoped it would stop at a certain point but the previews are accurate to what I want but for some reason when it is applied it looks totally different then to what it previewed as.

Is there a way to properly display UNICODE text when adding it via script. I was able to get Illustrator to display UNICODE by enabling "Show Indic Options" under Type Preferences but it still fails via script.  

Where does the sequence of commands and codes come from, such as in this line (this is just for example and this is the entry that is written to the .aia file when used in a script) ?"/version 3 /name [ 7 466c617474656e ] /isOpen 1 /actionCount 1 /action-1 { /name [ 20 466c617474656e205472616e73706172656e6379 ] /keyIndex 0 /colorIndex 0 /isOpen 1 /eventCount 2 /event-1 { /useRulersIn1stQuadrant 0 /... }"Is it possible to get such a line for the selected action from the action panel?

I'm currently learning to use illustrator for a school project, that being said, I can't find out how to smooth out rough lines or edges in a convinient way. Any help? I attached some photos below.    

I have cancelled my adobe subscription on 17 October 2024, and received the confirmation mail that I have cancelled and won't be charged. However, since than I am still being charged. Please help with this issue.

Bonjour, je ne trouve plus la fonction de création d'hyperlien dans cette version. La fenetre "Actions" a disparu ?? si quelqu'un peut m'aider ... merci !!! bonne journée

Hola.No puedo cambiar la opcion de herramientas del pincel de manchas en IllustratorSolo me sale la pestaña de fijo y me gustaría cambiar a presiónAlguien sabe cómo hacerlo?Saludos    

2024 doesn't work. 2025 doesn't work at all.

Hola todos, tengo una pregunta, hace poco actualice mi Ilustrator y desde ese momento comenzó a ocurrir algo muy particular, al crear un objeto, seleccionarlo y moverlo el contorno desaparece, cuando lo dejo de mover nuevamente aparece, en la versión anterior esto no ocurría, en mi oficina un compañero tiene el mismo Ilustrator actualizado y a él no le ocurre, el contorno del objeto que selecciono al volverlo no desaparece.Que podría estar pasando, que configuración debo hacer, agracias por su ayuda y su amables respuestas, saludos  

My apologies ahead of time.  I've been out of the illustrator game for close to 15 years and recently decided to get my feet wet and try some stuff. In the picture of text, the font color is white.  There's a black outline around the font.  My issue is with the red bubble around the text.  For the life of me, I can't figure out how to do that. any help is appreciated!

<Image removed by request of poster>   Why do two files with the same color and color rules produce different colors? How do you get both to produce the same color in both files? 

After you execute the “FlattenTransparency” command on a selected object, normally that object remains selected. However, in the following case, two objects, left and right, form a group that will be selected after the script completes.The script pre-fills arrayNoFill, which contains one right clip group. Consequently, I expected that Flatten Transparency would not affect other objects. Why is this happening?    var arrayNoFill = []; ... alert("Found " + arrayNoFill.length + " unfilled clipping mask(s)."); // found 1 alert('active layer: ' + doc.activeLayer.name); // at this point nothing selected for (var i = 0; i < arrayNoFill.length; i++) { arrayNoFill[i] = true; } #include "../path/flatten_transparency.jsx"    For some reason at this point the green shape is also selected and it makes group with the Clip Group on the right.Here is an action string I found somewhere on the forum which I use here to flatten transaprenty:&nbs

When I select 'Start Global Edit' I get a message saying, cannot find similar objects, adjust filters and try again. I have attached a screenshot, showing multiple images of a horse, which I want to edit. I do not know how to do this. Grateful for any advice. 

Hello!  I am looking for a process that will allow me to take a graphic or photo and convert it into a dxf/dwg perforated pattern for sheet metal production.  I've attached images of the effect I'm looking for, and wondering if there is a process involving illustrator that would support this.  I have experimented with color halftone filters, but am wondering if there are ways to better control the sizing and spacing of the dots.  I would love to hear if other have worked on things like this and what approach has worked well!