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Hi, I work for a vehicle wrap shop and we recently purchased our own large-format vinyl printer. I've been having trouble saving large format files that can be opened in our printing software (Flexi12) and exported for print.I'm in the middle of trying to print an art file that is approximately 110" wide by 35" tall. The art has a lot of gradients, text, clippings masks, and some large rasterized textures.I cannot save as PDF because the gradients do not hold up in Flexi at all.I was told by a colleague to save the art as a raster image. He recommended saving as a TIFF at 10% the actual size at 720ppi, and then when I go to print the file enlarge it by 1000% which makes it print at the accurate 100% size. However, this results in a very poor quality print with lots of pixelation. It's essentially printing at 72ppi - Not acceptable.I have tried saving a TIFF at 100% size at 150ppi, but I get an error notice that there is not enough memory to complete the action. I turn off anti-alias an

Looking for advice on why my Ps fabric swatch images appear distorted when they are exported to Ai? The images are simple one layer jpg's and appear perfect in Ps.

Example of the issue I'm having:I have a paragraph box with text in it, it is set to an Extra Bold character style. When I type new text into this paragraph or change any existing text, it will automatically change to the new text to a Regular version of whichever font I have selected. Additonally if I type any text directly onto the document it will change the colour to black regardless of what I have selected.This suddenly started happening a couple of days ago. I have tried resetting my preferences, didn't work. I've even uninstalled Illustrator, deleting all preferences and then reinstalled the app but it still keeps happening.Any help would be appreciated, I cannot figure the issue or find a solution.

Adobe Illustrator was running perfectly on my computer yesterday, but today it suddenly stopped working. It hangs on startup, and despite trying everything possible to fix it — including updates, a hard reset of my PC, uninstalling and reinstalling the program, and even trying different versions — it still won't open. I have also noticed that it's pinned to the taskbar but doesn't respond when clicked. 

Open the image in Photoshop and save it as a .tiff file. The resolution is not fixed.Note: The previous resolution value remains fixed.The tool was not working when the script was run in Extended Script.

Illustrator creates AITEMP folder on C:\ drive. How do I stop it? When I delete the folder, it appears again after the app's restart.

Hey Community, recently I noticed very annoying thing.. If I have text, for example Poppins Regular  in illustrator and I need to add any new word / letter in that  existing text - it's formating becomes BOLD, not Regular. Before I didn't had any issue, I didnt even changed anythign in the settings.. It accures on both systems MAC & Windows.. Is anyone aware how to solve this? ;( Thanks!

Hello Community!I have to say, I'm just an amateur graphic designer (I do have a Graphic Designer Diploma tho, took ages ago).  I read million posts about this issue, watched youtube videos and tried all the options, etc but nothing worked out for me. I wonder why there are so many people having issues with managing printing blacks? It feels to me it's more about how the black is blended and managed in the printed process and  if could be an issue that should be solved from a software perspective/communication incompatibility with some printers/setting.I've been using Illustrator for many years and I've never had this issue before until more recent times - hence my big struggle to understand when, how it happens and comes from. As many others, the issue is that my blacks comes slightly greyish/magentaish (as if it's a bit faded) through all the document affecting also illustrations from the web or photographs etc.So, it happens not only to text or any vector I personally

Hello! I have a huge problem that I need help with. I teach graphic arts at the high school level and I have had 5 students in the last few days have their illustrator files vanish. I see them every other day and they are assigned a local user account. Other students use the same computers, but they all log out at the end of the period. My students have been working on a big vector portrait project for the last 3 weeks, and they have been trained to log in, open illustrator, open their .ai file, then save it in their local user folder.  What's weird is, all of the sudden some of them have randomly lost their files. When we go to click on "open recent files", we can see the file name (see photo - "jj.ai"), but when we click on it, we get the message in the other photo ""file does not exist": jj.ai" We have tried everything to locate it. I've spent a ton of time trying to figure it out myself, and have had our district IT helping and we are perplexed. The missing files are

Hello, i intalled the "Pantone connect" plug-in to get access to the pantone libraries again. I recived a pop-up saying that (translated to) "you may need to open your CC-program in Intel-emulation mode if i want to use it" and a link to the Help center. However the steps on the help center shows me to open through the creative cloud program by klicking the three dots next to the program under "installed programs", but i don't have that option.  Am i looking at the wrong place or is there another way to open as "intel"?Or is there another way to se your pantone color libraries in your programs? 

I am new to this community and relatively new to using Adobe products so apologies if I am asking a stupid question. I have thousands of Master AI files containing multiple layers of text, symbology, graphics etc., containing a mixture of Pantone colours and CMYK. Is there a tool (or scripts) that will convert my unwanted Pantone colours to CMYK for multiple files or do I have to go in manually to each Master AI file and convert them myself? The files themselves, although having multiple layers, only contain around 6 diff Pantone blacks and 3 or 4 other base Pantone colours - they are not complex at all really.Any help would be much appreciated 👍 ScottMilton Keynes   

Hello wonderful community  I am having an issue with Illustrator 29.1 (64Bit), whereby I draw a simple shape, like a rectangle and it appears with a fill and an outline. The shape I want to draw requires an outline but not a fill. I click on the fill and choose the "No fill" option and it kindly obliges, leaving the rectangle with no fill and a black outline. I want it to have an orange outline, so I click on the Stroke icon, choose the RGB pallatte and enter the hex code. The outline remains black and it refills the rectangle to the inputted hex code. My version is the most recent version (see above). I have rebooted the computer and ran some Windows 10 updates. I also tried creating a fresh file in Illustrator all to no avail.  Any help will be greatly appreciated. Aled 

Bonjour,Lorsque je tape un texte dans illustrator, je n'ai plus d'espaces entre les mots et lorsque j'utilise la barre espace, elle ne fonctionne pas et m'envoie sur d'autres fenêtres (enregistrement, type de caractères....)Ma version illustrator est à jour, j'ai supprimé les préférences, en mode aperçu des caractères masqués je n'ai aucun caractère entre les mots. Je n'ai ce problème que sur illustrator. Merci pour votre aide.

  Okay, so I’ve figured out how to replicate this.Type something using the Type tool. Anything. Then let the cursor flash. Don’t switch tools and don’t switch to another program.At intervals anywhere from 5 to 60 cursor flashes (but usually 50ish) a tilde will appear. This happens across multiple computers and versions of Illustrator going back years. I’ve caught and corrected it a thousand times, but have missed it waaaaay too often. I had the phantom tilde make it into a national publication in 2018, and just last week, something that went to an important customer. I can’t be the only one this happens to. Cheers.

Hi, I accidentally hit a short key combo I didn't mean to, and shifted the rotation of everything on the artboard as well as the pasteboard.  I'm not sure what I hit instead. How do I rotate it back to its normal position without messing up my drawing? It seems that the entire workspace rotated rather than just the artboard. Thank you!

After the latest update I am having issues with Illustrator. When an item is selected, the bounding box is not blue as it was before, but light gray and therefore almost invisible. Anchor points as well. The artboard edges are also barely visible.  I can't even tell which artboard is selected at the moment. Bounding box, edges and artboard are all marked as shown in the view panel. Any ideas? I am attaching a screenshot for reference. Thank you!

I use the outline text and outline stoke shortcuts incredibly regularly, and I'm noticing that in the latest (23.0.6) update, the outline stroke shortcut (ctrl+alt+o) is no longer available? Obviously I can still perform the function through the menu, but does anyone know if there's a way to either reinstate the shortcut, or if the shortcut has been changed? Thanks!

I'm working with Kia's font, and in Photoshop and Indesign it shows up in as Kia Signature, but in Illustrator the name of the font is (presumably) in Korean. It also behaves strangely in Illustrator. Like if start typing in a text box with that font, any additional charcters I type (even if I type them between two existing characters in Kia Signature) are in Minion Pro. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the fonts and I've tried both the TTF and OTF versions, and this issue persists. Any idea how to fix? Thanks in advance!

Bom dia,estou tentando gerar pacote no adobe ilustrator e só dá erro dizendo que erro ao gerar pacote, alguem pode me ajudar.    

Given a closed polygon in Illustrator expanded to a filled path, I need to covert the shape to a single line ffor embroidery and wondered if someone could help me write a script to do it.Basically the idea is that given a shape, find the bottom-left most coordinate and start a path. Extend the path horizontally until you almost intersect another path. When you do place an anchor and move vertically a certain distance following the outer shapes path. Place another anchor point and begin moving the to right until it almost reaches the shape border. Place and anchor and raise the path following the shape's path a certain distance. Place another anchore and start over for the entire shape. Thee result, when fed to an embroidery machine, would be a solid embroidered shape made from a single thread.I have the modern js to do the path, but I don't know how to incorporate it into Illustrator to make it work. If you know of an existing script or plugin that does this or if you have any scr

As many know, the specific CMYK numbers for cut lines is VERY specific from Roland (V3 540).  I am a teacher and my class just started designing a 4"x4" full color sticker with a perf line and a cutline.  They copy the color number from Roland exactly.  Then upon transferring that file from their iMac to the PC running the Roland Versaworks, the cut lines are visible, but not cutting.  Upon further review, the files that were transferred are put back in Illustrator and the cut line color numbers are all rounded up.  Therefore Roland does not recognize those colors as cut lines. I have searched a few forums with no luck.  Why are these color numbers being rounded?   Thanks on behalf of 64 high school students eager to play with the 540! 

Can someone please explain me how can I active Grammar check to use it on the text?

hi, greeting for the day,I would like to know whether legacy product SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) viewer license or freeware (free to use )?Thanks,Kiran

"Hi! I'm having trouble with the Pencil tool. When I try to draw with a profile or stroke other than 'Uniform,' I select the pencil profile I want, but it automatically switches back to 'Uniform' and doesn’t let me draw with other brushes. Can someone help me fix this? Thanks!"

Using a macbookair OS14.7 AI28.1 In the past, when I made a change to some artwork that was linked to an AI project, when I returned to AI, I would be prompted to see if I wanted to update the links. That is no longer working for some reason. I have restarted AI, and restarted the computer, but still the same problem. Under AI Settings > File Handling > Update Links:   is set to "Ask when modified" Any idea what is going wrong?