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Since updating Adobe Illustrator to version 30.6 two days ago, I’ve been experiencing serious issues when saving documents.Files are taking more than 30 minutes to save and in some cases Illustrator appears to hang indefinitely without completing the save. A lot of work has been lost as a result.My setup:Mac Studio: Apple M1 Max macOS Sonoma Illustrator 30.6 Files are being saved to an external hard drive but I have also tested saving locally with no luckI wasn’t experiencing this issue before updating to version 30.6 and macOS Sonoma appears to be listed as compatible with Illustrator 30.6.Has anyone else encountered this since installing version 30.6?

How do I make it so that the connecting parts are erased? I want it like the image I attached. I'm coming over from Procreate so I lowkey have no idea what I'm doing. I tried the Pathfinder but it either screws everything up, or tells me that they need to be filled. I also have tried making selection masks and erasing in those but it doesn't work. A lot of the things I tried also screw up the arrow paths. 

HiI am going round in circles on this one.Latest version of Illustrator via CCWindows 11 Home PremiumNVIDIA GEForce GPUTransform Tool within the toolbar scales shapes when “restrain” is UNCHECKED.Transform standalone Window does the same.Some limited success if you enter the dimensions manually in the bottom area of the Toolbar window.Have uninstalled / re-installed / uninstalled / re-installed - Cleaner Tool etc.Bounding Box is selected.Anyone any ideas of how to resolve - I need the transform tool to work correctly a lot in my line of work.Thanks in advance

How is it possible to completely destroy the Image Trace tool?! I work with illustrations created in .psd, convert them to bitmap and save them as .tif. The illustrations can be quite detailed and use halftone textures. I have a custom setting for these in illustrator when I use Image Trace to turn them into vector. In the latest couple of updates this has been completely broken and there’s no work around that I have found. PLEASE FIX IT NOW!! The price for Adobe CC is way to high for issues like this to be acceptable.See screenshots below of preferred outcome and compare to the outcome in the latest version of Illustrator.

Does anyone know how to turn off this notification for the Learn window in Illustrator? It pops up every single time I open Illustrator, multiple times a day regardless of when I last opened, and it's driving me crazy. It's not useful or interesting, but I can't find anyone that's successfully turned it off.  

Hi there,I am new to Color Space so this might be an easy question for expert…I am trying to export a document with CMYK color, but the exported file does not have the right code. I looked through bunch of websites, and I think I have the right settings, but it’s still not working, so any help would be appreciated.Under File → Document Color Mode, it is set to CYMK Color.The file tab shows CMYK as expected:Then, I draw a black line with the following CMYK valueIllustrator draws a line as expected and using the Color Picker tool from PowerToy, it also shows correct value. After reading some documentation, it seems that TIFF and PDF file format supports CMYK, so first I exported in in TIFF format. As you can see, it’s slightly off. Then I exported to PDF file and did the same thing: Not only that, these two black are different either.I played with a few other settings, but nothing seems to be working. So now I am not sure what to do. If anyone is expert in this area, could you spot and s

I wanted to share a solution that finally worked for me after spending far too much time trying to resolve this issue.On Windows 11, if you have both Illustrator 2026 and Illustrator Beta installed, right-clicking an .ai file and selecting Open with > Choose another app > Always use this app does not allow Illustrator 2026 to remain the default application.I tried all of the troubleshooting suggestions posted by Adobe, along with numerous recommendations I found online, but none of them resolved the problem.After a lot of searching, I finally found a solution that worked for me.Open an Administrator Command Prompt and run the following command:"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 2026\Support Files\Contents\Windows\Illustrator.exe" /regserverAfter running the command, Illustrator 2026 was restored to the Open with menu, and double-clicking an .ai file once again opened the production version of Illustrator instead of Illustrator Beta.One minor issue remains: the Windows file

Scrubby Zoom works when I open up documents, then afterworking for a short while it just gives up and stops. When this happens I just get the draw zoom area feature and Illustrator zooms in to this area.Why does it stop working, and how can it be permantly fixed? Affinity Designer never has this issue, why can’t Illustrator just consistently work the way it’s meant to?! 

I have a simple line pattern that I am using to fill text.  How can I convert this all to individual vectors so it is recognized as individual components in an exported cutting (svg) file?  

I am not sure what I am asking for here, but maybe it is a merge? That is why I can’t look it up. I had AI created an image that I need to be a vector file to move into CAD software. When I use AI 2026 and do a n image trace and expand I get the object with 2 lines that are adjacent to each there. I laser cutter/engraver does’t like this. Can you please tell me how to merge these lines if that is possible, or delete one set of lines? For some reason, I can’t upload the .ai file here, so here is the original that you may be able to recreate my steps.  

Bonjour, Sauriez-vous comment désactiver la fenêtre qui s’ouvre à chaque survol de “rotation générative”, c’est vraiment indisposantMerci pour votre aide

I'm having a problem in adobe illustrator with the Fraunces variable font. When the file is open and I change the variable font settings like optical weight, softness ect it works fine. When I reopen the file it asks me to replace the font and all my settings are lost. I'm doing logo designs so I've had to manually update the 4 variable settings across the 6 versions of a logo each time I open the file. This won't work for showing clients so I've just had to outline everything. Is there a way to fix this as I'd preffer the text to be ediable. I don't have this issue when editing the varaible settings in figma.  It says missing fonts but the variable font still works once the file is open but I have to make the changes again manually.

I often convert point type to area type. Frequently, when I do this, I cannot change the background color of the area type, which is the reason I’ve changed it to area type. I can’t figure out why. Often it’s when I’m given the file with text objects, but sometimes it happens when I add the text objects myself.Always when I start out with area type, there’s no problem. Any ideas? I’m using Mac OS 15.7.7 and Illustrator 2026. Thanks for any help. It’s driving me insane.

Hi All,I’ve been getting “Acrobat PDF file format is having difficulties. No error” all day.Restarted Illy, no go, restarted computer, no go. Deleted Illy prefs, restarted computer. Makes no difference.It was intermittent earlier today, now it’s every time I do a save, I have to do a save-as to get around it.Online research said delete prefs, I did, no difference.I see a lot of “Acrobat PDF file format is having difficulties. Bad parameter”  and variations, but none that say “No error” on the end…Frustrating rather than anything, at least I have a work around.I do have a lot of Adobe PDF Presets in Save Adobe Pdf dialog, but I have had those for a long time, and I’m currently only using the default [Illustrator Default].I did update to 30.6 24 days ago, no issues in the preceding 23...Any ideas?Thanks, Em.“difficulties. No error” 

I have multiple displays connected in laptop. Working with illustrator, it becomes a pain when I move and dock the illustrator to a second monitor and vice versa. The side panels closes (minimize) automatically and I have to re-expand them all the time. Yes there is a resolution different in both the monitors but still are above FHD resolution.Is there any way to fix, lock and have them be opened permanently?

I would like to create highlights that looks like the ones in the sample image.I've tried creating this highlight using two paths that have been offset with then the top one subtracted from the bottom one. That produces a highlight that runs the entire height of the letter.I've also tried applying an art brush to a line segment, but getting the taper in the right place is challenging.

When I select any colour from the colour guide palette, for example a complimentary colour, the swatches loaded in the top window are completely different. This started happening over night and I’m stumped. I use the colour guide a lot for building brand colour palettes. See the example in the screen grab. I’m looking for a green that compliments the orange, but when I click on the complimentary green, it loads a blue in the top bar?It’s the same for every palette in the guide and for every colour I start with. 

Actually, this happens with all my Adobe apps, possibly a Creative Cloud issue? If so, moderator, please move to the appropriate place.  So, here's the issue. I go to place a linked image file in AI, say a PSD or TIF file, or any other file format that AI will take. Hit Command+Shift+P. Dialog box comes up. The file I want to place is there, but grayed out. I go back to Finder to make sure it's finished syncing, and it is.So now, one of two things happens: From the place dialog, I navigate to the parent folder, and then back to the file I want to place and it's not grayed out anymore. I place and go on with my day. I do the above navigation, many times, and the file I want to place is never available. Okay, move on to the next project. Hours later I come back to it, and it's available. There are no words for this kind of frustration, especially when time is tight. #1 is what usually happens. It's annoying but at least I can keep the project moving. Why is

The larger text is fully selectable and editable, however the smaller text next to it, I cannot click it, move it, only delete it via the layers panels, after which it glitches out (screenshot of text size difference attached!)(also screenshot of text glitching out attached too)This has been happening for a while, especially when dealing with larger and small artboards, images and text all on the same file.I don’t know what else to say about this simple issue other than the performance is atrocious.

Correct me if I am wrong : When I first tried Retype feature I could edit text in an image (incorporated, not linked). But now I am only able to identify a more or less simliar font without editing text function. Am I missing something or did Adobe stepped back and dropped this very useful feature?

Something changed with the color palette in late 2025. I frequently change CMYK values by selecting the art and then clicking in the CMYK sliders in the color palette. Normally I can key-in the values and simply tab from C to M to Y to K, but now as soon as I hit the tab key, all the fields go blank. I’ve been adjusting color this way for decades and now it doesn’t work. I’m currently on version 30.2.1 on Mac OS.

Hi There. I am running the lastest stable version of Illustrator on my M4 Macbook Pro on Tahoe. I have recently started having an issue where I can load Illustrator, no trouble there... but upon opening the first file, or creating a new doc, the file opens, but then I get the spinning ball for about a minutes before it goes away and the panels appear. This only happens on the first file open...not on launch, and not on subsequent file opens. Things I have tried:removing all fonts, killing and rebuilding font cache, trashing and rebuilding preferences, uninstalling CC and reinstalling, l logging out and in to CC, with reboots between...I can work with this, but it's SUPER annoying and doesn't happen on my other Macs. Just this one and just recently... Any ideas? Thanks!

What happened: I tried to open the file from the Illustrator Home screen. A message appeared saying I was "logged in to an account that cannot view this file." I clicked OK, and the file then completely disappeared. It is now missing everywhere I've looked. What I've already tried:Searched the Illustrator Home screen and "Your work" — not there Checked cloud documents on the Creative Cloud web files page — not there Checked the Creative Cloud desktop app — not there Checked the Deleted / Trash folder on the web — [not there / haven't found it] Restarted the Creative Cloud Libraries Synchronizer and signed out/in — no change Local device search for conflict copies and *.aic: nothing found.Since I only have one Adobe account ever, this doesn't appear to be an account mix-up. Wanted to contact Adobe support to check server-side for this cloud document, restore it if it's within the retention window, but their chatbot only keep looping “no advisors are available” over and over. This file i

Viewport glitches on the border of the screen, weird black or white artifacts. Looks like there is some delay of redrawing in the viewport. It appears in every document, when moving with hand, zooming in/out. It is very annoying for the workflow. I´m posting a video how the glitch look like.When switch to CPU, artifacts are gone, but it doesn´t solve the core of the problem, also you cannot use dynamic zoom with the CPU...black rectangle glitch on the border of the viewport when zooming, movingIllustrator version 30.4.Nvidia rtx 5080595.79 studio driver 

How is it that Illustraror needs to use 44GB+ of memory on a file that is 400MB in size.  How is that even possible?Currently my Illustrator program has been (Not Responding) now for 24 minutes. Memory usage jumps from 4GB, 19GB, 34GB, 44GB, 36GB, and now it's down to 17MB and still not responding. What is going on? This is an ongoing issue with Illustrator even when working with minimal size files. My files are not all tha complicated and don't include anything drastically complex. I've researched and adjusted my settings to oprimize the programs speed. Reduced saves, Unchecked background services and done everything I can think of to try and increase the speed of Illustrator, but yet it still continuiously wants to be a resource hog and utilize more memory than the entire instalation of all programs on my computer. There has to be a program issue that is allowing such large amounts of memory to be used which is causing these lock ups and failures. Yesterday I lost 4 hours o