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you can use this process to build other acb files. its pretty straightforward. Lab values must be used. Lab values are pulled from photoshop directly to most closely emulate web appearance. you can replace with your own Lab values via spreadsheet formula or third party source. If your production converts ink output based on Lab values, instead of predefined color libraries, then you will need to source more accurate Lab values, otherwise this book works. this unofficial acb file contains 3220 swatches while the "v4 version" online has only 2140 swatches. https://github.com/aj90909/unofficial-pantone-solid-coated-2024-v5/tree/main

 Sometimes we work on 100 artboards and each artboard artwork needs to be resized or scaled the same time, it's great to hear any solution from Adobe or any script solution in the world.

for my project 6, when I try to click the create warped text button for the After School Arts program layer, it shows that it is disabled.  I don't know how can I use this option if it is not available. Please help.

Hi, new to illustrator here. I was wondering how to make the border or bonding box of text and objects visible, always. So that when I'm not working or selecting said item, I can still see it's border (I don't want to add a border/ stroke, I just want to make the bounding box visible for me, like how objects & text have a border in indesign). Thank you!

Only showing black/white paths, not the lines and coloring I've done---how do I revert back???

I just wanted to say, IMHO, the latest version of Illustrator is a disaster. To make a login screen mockup, I placed a clipping path on an image and went to overlay text and some vector boxes (username and password form fields). Illustrator proceeded to lock/group the entire object so that editing was super difficult. To see if I could overcome this issue by placing the clipped image on a separate layer that I could lock. When I moved it to the new layer, it converted the text to vectors and now, I have to retype and format the text. What a mess. I never once grouped any of these objects.  I have been using Illustrator since version 1998, so I have a good idea of how a vector editing tool should behave. Something that should have taken 10 seconds has turned into this rant. 

How do I make the outline of a traced image all the same width?

HelloI have a problem when saving my file in svg, when I use the “save as” function and the svg format here is what I get otherwise I've tried using the “export” function, but all I get is a blank pageWhat can I do?

Why this script doesn't end? The idea is to ungroup all the groups in the doc.  var doc = app.activeDocument; var exit; while (true) { exit = true; app.executeMenuCommand("selectall"); var sel = doc.selection; for (var i = 0; i < sel.length; i++) { var item = sel[i]; if (item.typename === "GroupItem") { app.executeMenuCommand("ungroup"); alert('ungrouped!'); exit = false; break; } } while (doc.selection.length > 0) { app.executeMenuCommand('deselectall'); app.redraw(); } if (exit) break; } alert('exit while loop');

I created some reflections in my document using a gradient mask, in my cmyk document they look like this:However when exported to high quality print the reflections now look like this:Was wondering if there is a correct way to export a pdf file for printing without loosing the opacity of the masks.

I created a seamless pattern on a 3x3 inch artboard and used the clipping mask.  I select the entire pattern and go to pathfinder and select crop and then drag and drop in the swatches panel.  When I select crop the stroke color disappears.  Why is the stroke color disappearing?  What am I doing wrong?

When I eyedropper images the colors are obviously wrong. I've tried using the digitial color meter to sample the color of the original files and the screenshots, and those values are all inaccurate too (see image). I've tried changing the color profiles and making sure I'm not mixing CMYK and RGB files (all the regular stuff) with no luck. Maybe it's something about the laptop display's color mode and the program's color settings not matching. I don't know anything about that.Eye dropping vector to vector or from one program to another works, but that's it. In short, if I want to match a color from an image in any Adobe program the only thing I can do is eyeball it, and I need it to be more accurate than that. If you could help I'd appreciate it. 

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If you have an anchor points with handles, how can you drag one handle and cause the other handle to move to maintain symmetry (equal length)? A lot of tutorials say to hold down the shift key with the direct selection tool but that only restrain the angle of the line between the anchor and the handle. I tried the ctrl key, alt key, combination of all three keys but nothing works. The only solution I found is to use the anchor point tool (upside down V shape) to drag out a new line from the anchor point. This new line will have symmetrical anchors initially. But having to drag out new handles instead of moving it makes it hard to make minor adjustment. Is there another way?

Hello!  I've been struggling with this one pesky problem in this dog illustration I'm making: when I clip the black spots onto the white dog beneath, this thin white line keeps appearing at the edge of the image.  It may have to do with illustrator's anti-aliasing feature, because when I turn it off the line goes away - but then the illustration becomes a choppy, pixellated mess that I  can't use.  Is there a way I can get rid of the white lines while keeping the anti-alias intact?  Thank you! 

How do I click the circle icon on the current layer in the layers palette in a script? 

I have coverted a Raster image into Vector using Photoshop and saved it as both an EPS and SVG, but when I import/place the EPS/SVG into Illustrator, there is always a rectangle bounding box around the two objects - how do I tell Illustrator to "Create Outlines" of the EPS/SVG objects. I know how to tell Illustrator to take text and create outlines - I want to do the same process, but on the objects imported EPS/SVG, instead of text.

I'm learning the AI C++ SDK and trying to create a plugin. The plugin mainly funciton is :1. open document using "SnpDocumentHelper::OpenDocument"2. make some changes with find and replace like "SnpText::FindAndReplace"3. Save document with "SnpDocumentHelper::SaveDocument"4. close documetn with "SnpDocumentHelper::CloseDocument"5. repeat 1-5 Currect situation is that if we only do step 1 and step 2, everything is expected, those documents were opened and find replace worked as well, then if I close those opened documents, it will ask for save. The problem is that, if we add step3 and step4, the document change won't be saved. Even just added step3 without step4, the changes are also disappeared.We have no idea why it hebavies like this. Mabe the change status was notified later than saving document in code?So, the question is how to save a changed document using C++ API properly?  

Hello, relatively new to illustrator, as you can see in the image I have a text logo that I rasterized then image traced and expanded.  That went seemingly well, but when trying to use the fill function it fills in areas outside of the intended logo.  I understand it may be because of the way the paths are creating other shapes, but I don't even know where to begin trying to find an answer to designate the areas I want to fill.  Any help is very appreciated.

// var name = layer.name;// gets changed over to null given certain criteria// var name = ''; // criteria depends on layer name starting with “XX T”// and have numbers 1 thru 99 following ... as in “XX T##”// and after the numbers also test that if there are more characters in the layer name that a space follows ... as in “XX T1 “ or “XX T99 “ so that "XX T1 Teststing 123" can be true // results are that layer names that do not match the criterial have var name = ‘’;// and layers that do start with "XX T##" or “XX T## ” have the “var name = “ left unchanged // examples of layers with (var name = layer.name;) where the variable is left unchanged:// “XX T1” or “XX T75” or “XX T1 “ or “XX T99 “ or “XX T1 testing 123”// for the example "XX T1" to be true there would be no reason to test that a space follows the last number but the layer name must not cotain anything else and be the exact name match "XX T1"// if there is text following the last number a blank space must be in

Surely there is a soltion out there but I just coulnt find it. I need a simple script that iterates thru all layers and those with the same name get merge together into a new layer. The original layers end up as sublayers without having their contents comingled or names changed.   

I am trying to find a solution to copying text over with in-text citations in the form of superscript from Word and PowerPoint into Illustrator and InDesign.I found an example of x³ in another thread that I can copy from Office to Adobe just fine, but when I manually type it (ctrl+shift+ +), it does not copy over and it looks slightly different. So I'm wondering what x³ is and how or if I can use that format to write the citations to begin with. The attached screenshot from PowerPoint shows both versions - the left one is x³ and can be copy/pasted, the right is manually entered and cannot (pastes as x3).Thank you!

No me deja actualizarlo a la última actualización Illustrator 29.0.1, me sale el mensaje " versión 21H2 windows o posterior" y tengo instalada la versión windows 11 Pro.

¿Alguien sufrió problemas con la herramienta de rotación? Veo que cuando la uso, el programa consume muchísimos más recursos de lo que debería, y si aplico repetición del objeto se pone aún peor 

I'm having issues with strange lines on my screens since the last update for Illustrator 2024 and now have the same issue with Illustrator 2025. Is there a fix? Plus, not all of my art will show on the screen.