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I'm working on a map where 33 countries are 33 sublayers within a "countries" layer. The problem is that when I copy and paste my "countries" layer from one Illustrator map file into another map file, the 33 sublayer country names are gone and replaced by hundreds of of sub layers called "path". How can I prevent this from happening? I want my country sublayers to show up in the illsutrator file I'm copying to and not be replaced by hundreds of "path" sub layers.

Hello all,Ok - we all know what this questions is about - why is it than when I save an Illustrator file as a reduced size PDF, thin white lines block around text content, and sometimes in images. For example:Zooming in / out, moving, the line stays the same thickness, and comes in and out. In my 10 years working in Illustrator / Acrobat, I have struggled with this problem. Yes, I know they are artifacts; yes, I know turning off "Smooth Line" or whatever will sometimes fix it ON MY MACHINE; yes, I understand that this often has to do with flattening transparency (which is unfortunately critical to reducing file size to an acceptable level for e-mail / web sharing).  Can someone, preferably an Adobe employee, explain once and for all either: A) A reliable way to avoid this when exporting AI to a small, easily shareable, digital PDF.ORB) Tell us all when this will be fixed.I'm tired of people saying: "Well, it won't show up in print" - this is for a digital file!I find it unbelievab

Printers are not printing after the last update of illustrator 29.2.1.I click "print", a progress bar appears and the program freezes.This happens with any printer. Rolled back to version 29.1 - the problem disappeared. I decided to update the illustrator, again to version 29.2.1 - the same problem.Windows 10. Please tell me how to solve this problem.

Hello everyone, I have a question about Adobe Illustrator: I would like newly created objects to automatically have the same colour and transparency settings as a previously created object. Although I know that you can transfer colour and transparency with the eyedropper/pipette, I would like new shapes to adopt the same settings directly - without any additional click or work step. In my case, for example, colours and gradients are applied to new objects, but unfortunately the transparency settings are not.Is there a way to configure Illustrator so that the transparency of the previous object is also adopted when creating new objects? Thank you very much for your help!

Hi all, could you please help me to identify the type of this diagram? it looks like a 3d dementions type, but i am not sure what catagory it is called. i have been assigned to make this type of illustrations recently,  and i have to do some reseach to study it first, so please help.Thank you in advance. 

When using the Illustrator image crop tool for background images, when I would initially hit the "Crop Image" button, the crop area would be exactly the the artboard size and area. Now, it chooses a random shape, which I then have to drag out to the size and area of the artboard.Why this change, and how can I adjust the settings to be able to crop to artboard size by default?

Help! Everything is blurry and pixelated. I'm trying to work on a menu, and the file is a relatively normal size. While scrolling, zooming in and out, my workspace keeps blurring in certain sections and some elements disappear. I have to zoom in and out until I find a sweet spot where it reloads and sharpens. The file works and it itsn't necessarily slow, it's just the loading of everything.  My Illustrator is updated, I've restarted my Macbook Pro multiple times. This problems persists! What can I do?

Since building dynamic actions is a topic unto itself, we often search for a reference thread to show somebody how to do this - and we often do so while trying to discuss work which is already involved and has nothing to do with actions or loading and playing them. Therefore I'm creating this thread to show an example and I'll paste the url to it when such questions arise.Sometimes in Illustrator scripting we need to accomplish tasks which (sometimes counterintuitively) do not have scripting access via the DOM.Fortunately since Illustrator CS6, they gave us the ability to play an action from a script with the app.doScript() command - which is not at all the same as Indesign's function of the same name. This one lets you play an action that exists inside the Actions panel. Immediately this may seem disappointing as users cannot be counted on to have specific actions at any given time.However, they also gave the ability to load and remove actions from .aia action files. Your .aia file ju

In my design, which is intended to replicate this exactly, "Mixer" is in front of the other text. I then tried to just add a strong stroke in the light pink color. While that theoretically works, it begins eating into the text's fill too much. By the time the stroke matches its size, there's no more dark red left and you can no longer read the word.

What is the different between the Merge & Unite? because both created group in layer panel like GROUP command.   

I use the unite button within pathfinder to merge the two sections of a truck outline weekly in my line of work; This is the first time I have had this issue with getting two sections to merge while I have them overlapping and have done my best to troubleshoot and search this community for fixes. I understand this issue may be common but my example is niche; Tried to make compound paths, expand, look for overlapping paths but am unable to get them to merge. Attaching screenshots and a lone file with the two elments I am meant to combine. Any suggestions? Had to attach file as PDF with error I was getting trying to post

Hi everyone!If anyone has any insight or suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.My current "fix" was dowloading and using an older version of Adobe Illustrator, but sa small error still arose with that.There was a change of the SVG code with no option to choose the former SVG code (which we need for our eProduct). Also other issues appeared when saving AI to SVG. See below:Clipping paths are handled differently (see screenshot "Example-Code)File format of the linked background images changed from JPG to PNGFile size from the linked background images increased significantly (won’t load when opening the SVG)Background image shifted, so things aren't properly lined up anymore (see screenshot "Example-ImageShift")

I'm using Acrobat version 24.004.20272 and Illustrator 2021 version 25.4.8. I have a PDF file of a logo and when opened in Acrobat it is the logo on an 8.5 x 11 page. In Acrobat, I crop the file to just the logo 3.41 x 2.01 and save the file. When in Illustrator I place the PDF file, it still shows logo inside of an 8.5 x 11 border. I have tried ungrouping, release mask and expand and nothing changes. I'm not sure what else I can do except open the file in Photoshop and save it as a PDF from there. Any idea what would be causing this to happen? The placed file shows no security settings in Acrobat. Any help would be greatly appreciated. John

So I got a new laptop, and I simply want to have the same settings on the new machine. After 5 minutes of app searching, and 5 minutes of Google searching, then 10 minutes of waiting for a chat representative, he tells me I need to go to my library folder and move a pref file from one location to another? Really? Oh yeah, and there WAS NO complimentary folder to drop it into on the new computer. So I gave up. I'll just rebuild the new copy with the settings I like. Oh I forgot to mention IT'S ALMOST THE YEAR 2020.  Adobe, like are you kidding? CC is NOT CHEAP. How about a nifty "Sync settings" button or something? See? I just came up with that! Oh, and trying to do it on Photoshop is a WHOLE different thing using some arcane Windows 95 looking dialog box to move settings from one place to another - oh yeah, that didn't work for me either.  Jokes aside, you guys should be a bit ashamed of yourselves.

Per the below screenshot, for whatever reason my text is appearing pixelated, like an enlarged raster image. I am creating the text with the text tool, and I am adding no effects. There is no raster effect applied, either. I was initially concerned it was an issue with my MacBook Pro's GPU. But it looks pixelated on my other computer too.   As you can see, it's occuring with two separate text objects, both using different fonts.Thoughts?

I'm new to Illustrator and I want to make a repeating pattern of shapes slowly appear to fall apart as it moves from left to right. Thing of a piece of grid paper where the lines of the grid slowly start to vanish into white space. I created my basic shape (a hexagon with internal lines) and the copied-and-pasted it over and over to create the "grid paper" that I want to start with, but I want to then delete individual line segments, not the hexagons or internal triangles that were created. The .ai file I built is here (some bug won't let me post it), and here's a screenshot of what I'm trying to create (I modeled in Sketchup, but want to learn how to use Illustrator for this). You'll see in the Illustrator file that the repeating shape I made isn't line segments, it's just a bunch of shapes on top of each other. I want to just be able to convert the whole image into one shape with a bunch of line segments and then be able to delete those to make interesting ways of "falling

Hey all, I'm new to vector illustration. I'm trying to create a head and then fill it. How would you fill this path? I wanted the left ear to curve in a little so I made two separate paths. Joining and selecting creates an unexpected pattern.  

This is a very basic problem I'm sure but I'm used to working in indesign. I have a design project with images laid out across a 5 page PDF. When I export the images are coming out blurry. The aspect ratio for each page is 1920 x 1080. Help!  ThanksMarion

I dont think this tool or feature exhists, but if it does, can someone tell me? Or if a version of this exhists, that would be great to know about. I struggle so much with trying to save large files into shared folders with my company's VPN while WFH. I have to play around with deleting certain swatches that I created that I think might be too large or deleting brushes I dont need and then rasterizing vectors (pulling a copy of them to the side of the artboard obviously) to make the file small enough not to consistantly crash illustrator. Even my IT dept has struggled to help me figure out better ways to reduce the file size.  I want to know if a program/tool/feature exhists that is laid out like the layers panel, but tells you how much each layer is contributing to the size of the file I am saving. That way, I can pinpoint exactly where the issue is and figure it out from there. I work in clothing design and will sometimes have like 20 prints created in the swatch palette or

Hey all,I've got a question about implementing CMYK logo files into a Microsoft Word document. My colleague would like to print some Word documents with our logo. However, most applicable import file types convert colors to RGB or already are (PNG, WMF, EMF). I understand that TIFFS will bloat the size of the document substantially.  What is the best practice in this use case for making sure logo colors are printed accurately in Microsoft Suite programs? Aside from producing the documents in the Adobe Suite itself, or creating a letterhead? Thanks for your comments!  

Ciao a tutti! Ho un problema che non riesco a risolvere... quando metto la traccia a una forma e la ingrandisco mi cambia la dimensione della forma... Come posso risolvere?Grazie a tutti!

When I make drawings for client in Illustrator, I have a line on the drawings where my clients are supposed to sign when they approve the drawings.  In Acrobat, there is a function to "prepare a form" where you can choose certain form fields that are automatically ready to be filled. Is there a way I can set something up like that in Illustrator so that I don't need to save my Illustrator file to pdf, open it in Acrobat, and then create that form field? 

I am having an issue with a new installation. I just started this job, got my computer (Dell Inspirion 2-1 laptop) set up with a new business account in Adobe, and got the software installed. I cannot print from Illustratior to the HP Laserjet Printer, pages come out blank. I have tried mutiple files and color modes, nothing works.Photoshop and PDFs print just fine. I have tried to reset the preferences, and "Discard White Overprint" and nothing is working. At this point your software is making me look bad to my new employer. Please help me figure out what is wrong with your software and how to fix it.

Hi there.....I use a font that's specially made ( see att ).....Does somebody know how to make this font some thinner ?Thankxxxxx.See you,Chabby

Hi Community, I created 10 artboards and added 4 more before I shut down my mac - I saved my file before shutting down. In the morning when I logged back in - it's missing the 4 pages. Theres no recovery file - nothing; like it was never done? I am not sure what has happended but scares me as most of my work is on fine deadlines. Is it due to the number of artboards and it reached its capacity - but surely it can't just vanish -  I am using a Macbook M1 Pro, running Sonoma 14.6.1