Questions

Hi, first post from me. I'm looking for help with a question I have in using Illustrator. I have a series of five labels for honey jars. The bulk of the text and graphics are the same for each jar, its just colour and a small amount of text that changes. I want to set up a label template that I can use that has the "standard" layout for the label, colour swatches, etc for me to just change what's required. I want to ensure that all the labels are essenially the same size fonts and link to logo files consistently. Can anyone recommend a manual or better still a YouTube video that covers this topic? Thanks in advance,Alun

Hello! I’m curious about how to create a T-shirt design like the one in the photo. The gradient or sunset overlay isn’t my issue, but rather how some words are written larger, and then directly next to them, a few smaller words are in two lines.Do I need to use hundreds of individual text boxes and adjust them manually, or does anyone have an idea on how this could be done more easily? Thanks a lot for your help! 

Just yesterday my assets started exporting with a white background instead of transparent. I can't figure out what the heck happened. In the preview, it has a transparent baxckground, but everything is coming out with a white background. Help pleaseeee!   

Hello,I've got an artboard in A4 format with two images at the top.The images, a JPEG of high resolution 3000 x 1500 for one a TIFF more than 4000px for the other,  placed on the artboard.When I export for screens, as PDF, the resulting PDF has the images pixelated / compressed / look really bad.The text is perfectly sharp, everything is sharp but the images are terrible.This is a link to my screenshot for a better resolution as to see what I'm saying.Screen Shot 2018-03-11 at 18.52.10.jpg I've tried changing the scale in the formats, but when PDF is selected the scale drop down and suffix columns are grayed out.If I export for Screens as JPEG2000 and select 300ppi for the scale there is no issue.Here is a screenshot of the resultNon pixelated image.jpg I could definitely export at Jpeg and then convert to PDF in other application, but is there a way to export a PDF from illustrator without affecting the picture qualities. ?

I have created a signature in Illustrator. The signature consists of multiple layers, layers I want to merge down to one layer, but I can't. What do I have to do? In the image, there are two signatures. And also... Before I merge it I want to recolor it and make it more visible. How can I do that after I have made it and before I merge it and save it? The correct thing to do is stretch it back up with black. How do I do that? If it makes any difference, I wrote the signature with a Wacom drawing tablet. The signature consists of 5 layers, while the 5th. is the signature logo. I Hope this makes meaning. I am grateful for answers with solutions.

I have mutliple artboards in a file.. I saved each artboard seperately and when I open the file it blank and I can't use any other tools aswell pencil tool with error is shown for all the tools..Help me I have deadline today 😭

Hi,I am designing simple vector graphics in Illustrator for a book layout. There is a specific size that they need to be, but I was wondering if it’s necessary to design them at 1.5x or 2x the size. I read that somewhere but am not sure if this is relevant to my project.Thank you!

Can anyone tell why this stroke overlapping is happening, it just started doing this recently in illustrator. Before this never happened and it is happening with almost every font type I use. I tried fixing it but I am not able to else I have to lose the editability.  

Switched to an 2024 M4 Max Macbook Pro running Sequoia 15.1.1 (24B2091).Installed Illustrator v29.1. Every click within illustrator is delayed by a 4-5 seconds.  Double clicks cause a loading spinner. I tried downgrading to 28.0, but the problem still exists.It's effectively useless.

Hello, CC users. Has anyone had any issues with the CC applications on Mac OS lately? Illustrator and InDesign are terribly slow, especially in the selection tool and moving objects. I have the latest version of MacOS and Creative Cloud. Downgrading to an older version of Illustrator does not help.

Hi everyone! I'm using the new 2025 Illustrator and have recently noticed that my PDFs are being exported with desaturated color. For reference, I haven't played with any color settings and haven't with past versions either. Unless default settings have changed from 2024 to 2025 then everything should be the same. I'll leave a screenshot below of my settings, as well as an example of the desaturated colors. This is definitely a section of design/Illustrator that I have neglected over the years, so I'm looking forward to finally learning about it lol. Thanks!  

I am using Illustrator 28.1.  Files that I created last week and exported as DXF's using AutoCAD 2018 do not show up at all when I open the DXF files.  I (thought I) was able to open them last week!  There are layers in the Illustrator file, so I selected the artwork that I wanted before exporting and chose "export selected artwork only".  I am self-taught, so it's entirely possible that I am doing something wrong.  Am I the only one having this problem?  

Bonjour, j'ai installé la dernière fersion de mac OS (Sequoia 15.1.) et j'ai la derniere version d'illustrator (29.1). Illsutrator bug. Je ne peux plus utiliser les outils ! C'est bloqué en mode déplacement des objets. Au secours !!

Some time in the last year, Illustrator (which previously worked just fine) has become unusably slow and laggy on my 2011 iMac. Anyone out there have solutions or work-arounds?

Non si riesce a lavorare! Il doppio clic non seleziona l'oggetto...tutto si trascina senza comando...penoso! Come facciamo? 

Hi community, so even though I have tried reseting preferances, only having default library fonts, the illustrator is slow and laggy still. Copy and pasting simple objects are not fluid, and get "stuck" with the cursos click, meaning the shape does not release until with another mouse click!!! With that, this is probably the worst experince with illustrator I have ever had in the past 10 years... I have tried other versions, but still its unbearable... Not even sure what Adobe is doing to rectify this, but help is mostly appreciated. Thanks.

I'm very basic user with Illustrator, so I would like to ask for explanation. I have a Illustrator document with linked images, saved as Illustrator PDF, not PDF/X. It is 130 MB size.Same document with embedded images is 560 MB.It is clear for me until now.. But: in Acrobat both documents looks visualy same and images have same resolution (checked with Preflight), which I really don't understand why. And second question is: What happens, if I send document with linked images to print shop, and they import Illustrator PDF into Corel Draw? What happens with images? How does Illustrator handle linked and embedded images saved as Illustrator PDF for another processing? Thanks for any explanation.

I tried to install Illustrator Beta on a Surface laptop with Snapdragon(R) X 12-core X1E 80100 @ 3.40 GHz, but it gave an error code 1. Can anyone help? Thanks, 

As a prepress/preflight technician (for 25+ years), I am beginning to a a downward trend in quality art files. Messy, badly planned, badly executed files, with text that looks like it was image-traced by a 2nd grader from a 72 dpi PNG file.  Are any of the newer designers out there getting any training at all in setting up final files for print and print production?  Setups for 4/c Process vs. Flexography vs. Digital print?  I get the idea that all the new art files I'm receiving are from amateurs who have no idea what they are doing. 

i just update the Mac OS to Ventura, and now Preview in Ventura no longer supports .eps again. anyone can help ? thanks

I am using Illustrator CS4 - yes, old I know, but I know it well and am keen to continue to use it. It runs fine on my macbook pro [high sierra] but on my desktop [also running high sierra] I get an alert telling me the licensing has stopped working. How can I resolve this?

when rasterizing an object, the function to apply a spot color duplex to the raster is often missing. you have to use third-party software, which can sometimes be time-consuming

how to add "apply last selected color" to my keyboard shortcuts? there is no such option in the settings

Hi,I'm working on a business card that will be printed. I have some SVGs from Figma that I need to bring into this project. Is it a problem if I place them directly in the file, or are SVGs not ideal for print? Also, could this cause issues with the color mode? 

1. Hello, the thumbnails in the layers tab are very inconvenient and uninformative. In these squares, in most cases, it is impossible to discern the appearance of the object. If you enlarge the thumbnail, the ribbon becomes inconveniently large.2. Why not make it so that this tab automatically scrolls to the element selected on the canvas. When there are few elements, it is not difficult to scroll the tab, but if there are more than a hundred, you have to scroll slowly and slowly to notice which element I have selected.3. White elements do not have thumbnails. Is it possible to make them somehow displayed in the thumbnails, at least a black super-thin outline