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pun not intended, whilst docs do mentionFontOpenTypePositionOption.OPENTYPESUPERSCRIPT,I could not get it working

I'm not sure what's going on. In all my years using Illustrator I've never come across this.Using the mouse wheel scroll to either zoom in or to move up/down the screen basically doesn't work anymore. For every 10 scrolls of the mouse, I might have Illustrator respond once.Zoom and scrolling up/down works perfectly fine in InDesign and Photoshop, just not Illustrator.TIA for any help.

Is it possible to have a persistent ScriptUI panel with buttons that hovers over the artboard and while in that state have the ability to click "zoom in/out" and the equivalent of "up/down/left/right arrows" to scroll about the document. The "Insert Page Numbers" script is a good example in that you could only click on the panel itself while active ... therefore a scriptable execution of "up/down/right/left" scroll sctions would do the trick.

Hi, I can no longer move selected objects simply with the arrows on the keyboard, have I missed some new functionality? Thanks

Hello everyone! Ι have a pdf file, i want to make some changes and I open it in illustrator.I don't get the message "This document has been modified outside of Adobe Illustrator", but in illustrator it's not exactly the same file, it has differences. The differences are not necessary that big so that i can trace them easily, i have to cross check. For example there are different numbers in some places or a box have been moved in another place.The file has been created from Adobe Illustrator CC 23.1 (Windows), i use Adobe Illustrator 28.5 (Macintosh).Do you know why this may happen and how i could avoid from making changes in a wrong files?

  var item = doc.pageItems[i]; var itemWidth = item.width; var newX = (docWidth - itemWidth) / 2; var newY = 0; item.position = [newX, newY];  When the items are simple shapes the above script works as expected i.e. the top border aligned at top artboard side. In case the items are cplipping mask with contents which is higher than the mask then the script fails i.e. the top artbord side aligned with top mask contents. What is possible to do to fix it? I expect that the clipping mask top border will be aligned at the artboard's top side. 

Hi guys,This might be a simple issue but I cannot find how to get all links as text file when I save the Document Info panel. I do get one when is selected but not all of them.  In an old file all links are missing but I have an idea where I can find them on my External Drive. I do need the complete names but i cannot copy paste from the link panel since it has not that feature which it would be nice. In the Document Info Panel it only export the selected one. Any help with this issue?Thanks! 😉

Hi FolksThe below example not woking in illustror. Initially I applied underline = true for the textrange working fine but while removing its not working. Please help on this.var doc = app.activeDocument;for (var i = 0; i < doc.textFrames.length; i++) {var txtFrame = doc.textFrames[i];var textRange = txtFrame.story.textRange;textRange.start = 0;textRange.length = 5;textRange.characterAttributes.underline = false;}Thanks in advance

Estou a procura de uma forma para utilizar um texto 'matriz' linkado no illustrator, que funcione da seguinte forma: quando eu alterar esse arquivo txt todos os arquivos illustrator que contenham esse link seriam atualizados. Tal qual aconteceria se esse arquivo txt fosse um psd. Mas me deparei com o fato de que isso não é possivel. Talvez seja possivel apenas com script. Mas como não sou programador, não faço ideia de como fazer isso. Alguma boa alma teria alguma solução?

The Place function in illustrator used to import the item basically like a linked file and showed the image how it should be.  We used this mainly for fonts we did not have that had not been converted to outlines.  We could then flatten the transparency and select "convert fonts to outlines" and be all set.  Today it started importing placed items with live text.  Not sure what setting changed and I cannot find where the settings are for this function.

Is there any way to change the modifier keys for mouse wheel navigation? Illustrator by default uses Alt for zoom, Control for pan, and Shift for scroll. Would love to be able to change them to match other software I use so that it's not as jarring when switching between programs.  What's hilarious to me is that just about every program I know, not just design software, uses Control for zoom, and Shift for pan, INCLUDING Acrobat, but not Illustraor! Makes a lot of sense.. Please tell me I am wrong and this change be changed, somewhere, somehow.  Thanks, 

Lastest update stops me from converting from mm to pixels in the units preferences.It shows Pixels in the preferences, but artboard dimensions are still in mm's... very annoying for such a simple feature!!!!!!!

I saw another post on this, about how the old simplify tool worked great, but the new one somehow is a step backwards. That post was over a year old and just today I ran into a situation that illustrates it well, so I'm asking again to work on the simplify tool: I wanted to delete excess points on a straight path on a 60 degree hexagon - but it doesn't delete nealy all the extra points before it deletes everything above 59 degrees, see GIF. Is it something with my settings? Or just the functionality of the tool?      

What we've done is tried to create a few different swatches using the Solid + Coated versions for 485 (485C), Cool Gray 9 (Cool Gray 9C), and a few other default swatches in Illustrator CC. The color values that a represented in our software do not match the PANTONE books, bridges, website, or the Color Manager that we have installed. The values for the 485C PANTONE in Illustrator show as 4, 98, 100, 1. The values on the website and in the color books show as 0, 95, 100, 0. The RGB and hex values are also different in Illustrator CC (RGB 226, 35, 26) (HEX #e2231a), but the books, bridge, website and color manager are uniform with these as well (RGB 218,41,28) (HEX #da291c). It looks as though Illustrator is the issue, but I'm not sure why this is happening or if it can be fixed. Any suggestions are welcome!

Hi There, Does anyone know why, when I keep pasting objects, it places them all the way in the bottom layer instead of being on top like before? Is this a new feature because of the update? If so, is there a way to change this? It's frustrating having to add another step to make it appear on top again. Please help! Thanks,Peter

I started experiencing this issue a couple days ago. As part of my workflow I open linked files from InDesign in Illustrator to impose for printing and laser cutting. The problem is when I copy/paste linked files, the files I paste show up larger than the file I'm copying from. The edges get cropped off the enlarged linked file, and then my die line doesn't line up anymore. I suspect I've hit some sort of keyboard shortcut that's causing it, but I can't find anything in preferences that would affect the sizing of a linked file when pasting. Any help is appreciated.

Why my Adobe Illustrator (v. 29.0) must be changed to run compatibility with Windows 8 in the Properties option, if not checked, then Illustrator will not run. this is information about my computerIntel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz ProcessorInstalled RAM 16.0 GB (15.8 GB usable)Windows 10 Pro Edition Version 22H2OS Build 19045.5011

I have a MacOS Illustrator ExtendScript that steps out images on a layout with a designated gap between each. It currently uses the image canvas size for the spacing. I'd like to use the pixel bounds instead (ignoring white or transparent backgrounds). Is it possible to get this information from the images with Illustrator ExtendScript, without using something that would need to be installed (i.e., ImageMagic, etc.)? I thought perhaps using Image Trace » Silhouette » Expand might work, then get those dimensions, but am having difficulty removing the bounding box that's created with .expandTracing(): var selectedItem = app.activeDocument.selection[0]; // Duplicate the selected item to preserve the original var duplicateItem = selectedItem.duplicate(); // Rasterize the duplicate item var rasterItem = app.activeDocument.rasterize(duplicateItem); // Perform Image Trace var tracedItem = rasterItem.trace(); // Set silhouette tracing options var tracingOptions = tracedItem

I recently updated to Adobe Illustrator 2025 and since then there have been a few issues that I've discovered while working with this new version. The first issue that I would like to discuss here is that the Path Eraser Tool is erasing much more than it used to. For my job, I need to remove small segments from lines, leaving dashes intermettently throughout. In this update, the tool is much more (or maybe less?) sensitive, and will erase much larger chunks. I will drag along the line close to the end of it and it will erase a larger portion of the line than I selected. It also deletes the small segment that I wanted to leave at the end of the line. Previously it felt much more precise and allowed me to get pretty small segments after erasing. It's frustrating that Illustrator doesn't have easier tools to erase sections of your drawings. The Eraser tool will warp my lines after erasing, and the Knife tool only works on closed shapes. I might have to resort to just using the Scisso

I'm trying to generate documents where the text and an image will be parsed from a spreadsheet. Gotten so far as to import my datasets (with Silly-V's script if that makes any difference), and the text variable is bound to the correct text object. The image variable, however, cannot be bound to my image. I made sure it was a placed (linked) image, but the "make object dynamic" button is grayed out when I try to bind it to the image variable.  I also tried to do it through the VariableImporter script (Bind by name), and it didn't "find" the image when I tested. I have tried with other images, other formats, still no luck. What can I be doing wrong?

We want to be able to easily change images by dragging and dropping them from the Finder, like in Indesign.

Crashes occur when I fly over the toolbar and suggestions appear.Windows 10 platform, Illustrator version 29   Best

Hi everyone, After the latest Illustrator update, ver 29.0 the pen tool simply stopped working properlly. The paths are no longer closing even when I go back to the first node, and even on the lowest smoothing seeting it is changing the shape so much is impossible to get the original shapes i am attempting to create, it was NOT doing this two days ago before I updated. Is there any new hidden setting that i dont know about? Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do ?This tool is one of the most important ones for my work and without it working it will impact the results so much. (heres how its looking after i reset the tool config. and tried making a shape, but it interfered so much its not the same shape i was attempting to make at all)

 Something weird with the latest Illustrator release. I mena It's usuable, but maybe needs a tweek by the developers? Photoshop is fine Indesign is fine, it seems to just be Illustrator. Any advice or ideas of whats up?Version: 29.0.0 

I'm looking for an example script that can resize a selected object based on a certain boundary (e.g. the top boundary). As I understand, there is a built-in function to set the scale, but it is not the same. Here is an example of the transformation I'm looking for.And of course, the object can be a clipping mask containing objects that are larger in size than the selected "external" object.