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good morning,may be the subject title need to be corrected cause of my english...anyway, I need to know an efficient mode to shift the cyan trace from point 1 to point 3.I mean using the Appearance window.I'm able to doit with linear trace (with transform effect) not in case of non linear trace.I try with dotted line without success. 

Hi, I was just wondering if it's possible to export all of the images in an AI symbol Library into individual artboards or files. I have a symbol library with a couple of hundred icons in it, and I was these as individual artboards or files. Thanks. Leah.

Two similar text are one over other with different colors & one text is slightly moved to give a 3D impression. You can notice left side edge of "N" & "O" is white color whereas right side edge of the "F", "A", "S" is white color. "H" & "I" edges have no color. How is it possible? If you use the arrow key you can see entire text either moves left or right. Tricks & Tutorialstime 9.08     

I would like to convert some texts/letters to lines in Illustrator.I know how to convert text to outlines, but this creates shapes.What I need is the average line of the letter shapes as I illustrated in the attached image.Does someone know an easy way to achieve this?I've tried the blend option from the object menu, but this didn't work out correctly. It would be an awful lot of work to trace every character by hand, so I really hope there's another option.

When exporting or saving as SVG, the non-alphanumeric characters in a layer name get converted to their hex code. For example, hashtag(#) becomes _x23_ and underscore(_) becomes _x5F_. This happens when the layer name is set as the id or the data-name. This issue seems to only happen in v28.6 of Illustrator, not v28.5. 

Hi, I usually use the brush tool to create continuous lines with the watercolour line shape. For some reason my lines are now being broken up as if the line is dashed, it is not. Is this something that has changed with how illustrator formats the brush tools? They do look diffeerent.   The brush tool seems to now be broken into sections? Can anyone help me to make this back into a single line that the vector is stretched to the full length? Thank you

.how can i add crop nd bleed on my file when inexport in pdfin illustrator on ipad /

In trying to draw a circle of arrows like the attached jpg, can't work out how to add, accurately, the start and end arrowheads (as the style shown) to create the first one? I've experimented with arrowheads on the Stroke palette and tried outlining the stroke then adding new anchor points but it's all by eye and, therefore, very hit and miss. I do understand how, once the first one is created, how to duplicate them round the elipse. Grateful for ideas, anyone.

Hi everyone I have a list of 300+ colors that I need to make into a swatch library for Illustrator. The data looks like this:GREEN GRASS,127,187,0PALE YELLOW,241,235,135LIGHT YELLOW,238,231,93DAFFODIL,249,231,21MOONBEAM,249,223,22etc.It's RGB I think. In any case, I am just starting with Illustrator and I know NOTHING about scripting. Can anyone help me get aaaaalllll these colors into a swatch library, please? I am getting a migraine just thinking about putting them in one by one. LOLI found something here, but that didn't work for me. I get an error on processing on line 75. http://forums.adobe.com/message/2877951Error 24: app.doScript is not a function, Line 75 _> app.dpScript(speakThis, 1095978087); //AppleScript.I get as far as choosing the csv file, and then I get the error. I think this outputs as CMYK, but not sure. Does anyone know of another script, or can anyone help me out?Thanks,Gina

When I use the Color Picker inside of the Gradient window, it works fine and normal on shapes, but if I try to use the Color Picker when adjusting the gradient of a stroke on a shape, it switches my gradient to a solid color. I'll attach a video to show what's happening. In the video, the first thing I do is select the shape with the stroke on it. Then I make sure that I'm adjusting the stroke gradient and not the shape gradient. After that, I move over to the Gradient window. I click on the Color Picker and then click on a color from my library. You will notice that the stroke is now a solid color instead of a gradient.I do two things to test if this is an issue with selecting colors from my library. The first thing I do in my screen recording is use the Color Picker on a color located inside my Illustrator canvas. You can see that the Color Picker worked. The second thing I do to test if it's a library issue is to use the Color Picker on the shape rather than the shape's stroke.

Just installed the version 29.0.1. The stroke color affects fill color as i show below.  

Whenever I try to color the outline, it will take it as a fill color. It doesn't color the outline. This is such a simple basic thing, I don't know if anybody else is facing similar isssue?

Is there a way to change the size of artboard used when importing a DWG or to detect the size automatically? I am also trying to figure out a way to batch apply layer settings to an imported DWG. I'm currently importing each DWG to its own artboard and the line settings should be global. Thanks

I just updated my creative cloud apps (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere) and in my macOS launchpad is a folder titled "Adobe Illustrator 2021 (Other)," it contains scripts titled Contact Sheets, Make Calendar, and Web Gallery. I'm not sure what exactly these are and the launchpad definitely isn't where I want it to be. Does anyone know how to get rid of this, why it's there?

Bonjour, Je ne trouve plus mon travail dans AI.Est-ce qu'ABODE supprime les travaux ?Merci

Hi AllI am using Illustartor 2025 and when I go to print, the colours are very desaturated. The Red prints out as more of a burgendy colour. We have tried both CMYK and RGB and they almost identical. All other colour settings seem to be greyed out. I don't really know much about the colour settings or what could cause such a difference in colour between what is onscreen and what is being printed out. If we print to PDF, the colours are fineWould updating the print drivers help?Is there a way to test to see if it's fault with the printer or the settings? Thank you in advance

Hey everyone,I've been running into an issue with Illustrator where copied smart objects appear distorted when pasted into Photoshop or even within Illustrator itself. The paths seem to be misaligned.Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a known issue, perhaps related to the MacBook Pro M3?Any insights or solutions would be greatly appreciated!

Hello everyone. I need your help.I am currently looking for a script that can automatically group different pieces into one group including small details inside the image. I hope everyone can help me. Any help is highly appreciated. Thank you very much!

I have several instances of a PSD file in AI and when I select all of them in the linked panel and try to replace them all in one shot it doesn't work. Would be great to have this feature...

hello everyone,How do I make this line the same width throughout. For example this white, wave line.  Client wants a point at the wave but have the same width throughout. Hoping this makes sense..  I've been playing with the width tool for the first time and see how I can change the width at certain points, but can you do the whole thing at once? Thanks in advanve!

When I type a space after an asterisk, dash or bullet, the space is too wide, like 14 points. Tab bar doesn't affect it, and delete doesn't delete it. Anybody know why it's doing that? Looks like this:*     asterisk

I am new to this forum. I have a question on how to approach an illustration such as shown below. What I can see is, that there's perspective and some kind of warp? Can anyone explain on how to start, because I really love the warp around the circle, and I believe there must be an easy way to get this effect?Thank you very much for reading and maybe help me start something like this.Sandra

Whenever i pick a color from an object that is not text and alt-click on a text that i want to apply the color, it resets the font family and size. Am i wrong or the font used to change only when i copied from on text to another? 

After the most recent update, illustrator has been crashing A LOT! It finallt came up  and said that it was going to be running in "safe mode" until I ither updated or uninstalled the vectoredge.aip plugin. I am not even sure what the plug in does, so I really don't want to uninstall it if it is needed, but I also can't find any information about updating it. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. TIA

Je dois réaliser un décors de commerce à l'échelle 1/1, avec beaucoup de format différents, illustrator est ma meilleure option.Lorsque j'exporte en pdf (version 1.7) ma zone de travail grand format, les dimensions sont les bonnes dans acrobat, mais les images restent à l'échelle 1/10 et sont pixelisées (pour info, les paramètres des effets de pixellisation du document sont à 300 ppp).Comment obtenir un rendu full échelle 1/1 (dimensions + qualité des images) s'il vous plaît ?Je suis sceptique, je pense que ces zones de travail grand format sont pensées pour le vectoriel.Merci d'avance pour votre aide malgré tout.