Questions

Hi,After switching to a new computer, I'm having an issue with laggy zooming in Illustrator; moving objects or the canvas also lags quite heavily. The problem occurs when Overprint Preview is enabled. The complexity of the files doesn’t matter—the issue occurs even when the file is empty and has no objects at all. On my previous computer, using the same version of AI, everything worked fine. I’ve read tons of threads related to this issue and tried all the suggested methods (reinstalling, deleting preferences, GPU preview, etc.), unfortunately nothing helps. Every version of AI lags; currently I’m on v29.6. My computer:Ryzen 9 9950XRTX 506032 GB RAMWin 11 I’ve made an interesting observation. I currently have two monitors connected: an old Eizo with a resolution of 1920×1200 and a BenQ with a resolution of 2560×1440. When I move the Illustrator window to the Eizo, everything works perfectly. On the BenQ, it lags terribly. However, when the Illustrator window is not maximized,

I thought this was an obvious bug and it will get fixed quickly but this was a couple of versions ago... Why does the black arrow acts irregularly like a white arrow?Meaning... I have the black arrow selected and a group of objects, I'm zoomed out, I want to drag this group to another position on the page, but illustrator keeps selecting single points, so I'm dragging single points out of a single object instead of the whole group  - which is usually what a white arrow does, not the black one. .. Why? What is this?It's pretty annoying and stops the workflow.

In the latest versions of Illustrator one may be delighted in using the Easing options in the Blend panel.Probably I'm overlooking something, but as far as I can see Easing only works if the selection contains at least one closed path (before creating the blend). If there are open paths only, easing does not work (is not available).Do you think that this is the expected behaviour?Thank you

Dear Adobe,It's July 29th, and your communications about the Illustrator release for Microsoft Copilot+ PCs are as sparse as a Western ghost town at high noon. We're left squinting at the horizon, hoping to see the Illustrator stagecoach roll in, but all we hear is tumbleweeds.While software development can be as unpredictable as a quick-draw contest, a smoke signal or two wouldn't hurt. We're not asking for a daily telegraph, but some news would be mighty appreciated. As I saddle up for vacation, I can't help but wonder: will I return to find Illustrator finally in town, or will I need to mosey on over to Affinity's saloon if this radio silence persists?Looking forward to some news that isn't as elusive as a mirage in the desert heat!

It's weird. I create a Square with 30cm - illustrator change 30cm to 29,9861 cmI create a Square with 50cm - illustrator change 50cm to 49,9886 cmI work with Illustrator since 2000 and never get this kind of issue..any idea?Daniel

I need to collapse the left toolbar of tools into one column so I can see everything in it and get started on my first project.

Win 10, v27.2, NVIDIA 497.29   Hi, I can sometimes copy / cut and paste in Illustrator, sometimes not. This has only been noticed in the last day or so. Could be tied to certain documents, unclear as of yet. I have tried copying (when it works) a document's contents into a new do, and the problem persists, which may indicate that there is a problem with some of the artwork?   When it doesn't want to copy it doesn't matter if I'm using keyboard shortcuts or the menu option, the copy operation does not work and the paste menu items remain greyed out. Very similar to the symptoms reported here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/copy-paste-command-not-working/td-p/13368238   I'd class this as a critial bug, as it's affecting basic system functions.   Copy and paste are working fine in all other apps tested.   Any help or guidance much appreciated, as this is seriously affecting my ability to deliver for clients.   [Renamed by Mod

So I was working on a project for the past 2 hours and I went to open another document for reference and then the file I had been working on just suddenlyclosed I have autosave on but it didn't seem to work properly and instead of an ai file I have a tmp file that I can't open in illustrator. Any way to fix this?     {Renamed by MOD}

anytime i open an AI file now al these temp files appear....in all my years of illustrator never seen this.  yes they normally disappear but why are they even showing? they get left over too if theres a crash which i get but why are they appearing where the AI file lives now?  id assume this was happening in library in the past.....  

My document is set to CMYK. I created a colour in my library. I set the colour using the CMYK values, lets say 0, 0, 55, 0. I add it to the swatches. I click the colour in the swathes for an object. Hm. Doesn't look right. I check the colour setting again and… it's changed to something slightly different! Like 4, 0, 51, 0! It's also changed it for the library entry. What the **** is going on? Why won't it obey my colour choice!?

I drew on object, then i tried to use the function “Create object mosaic”. But this option isn’t even bold, it stays grey (not available). The version of my Illustrator is 30.3. Please help, explain how i can use this function. Thank you

I’m considering upgrading from my Adobe Photography plan to Adobe Creative Cloud while it’s on sale. What I need to know is whether or not I can sign up for two weeks on a trial basis for the 34.99/mo. without owing a year’s worth of payments if I cancel within two weeks? I don’t know that I will be able to get the value out of it. I’m mainly interested in the photography plan along with the adobe illustrator plan but think it will be less costly if I get Adobe Creative Cloud which includes both. Otherwise it will be 22.99 for each and it’s 34.99/mo right now. I just don’t know if it automatically signs me up for a year right away and I just need a trial of it right now to see if I would be able to use it. Thank you

Ive recently installed Cutting Master 5 and tried using it for the first time. I can't find any resources or help as to why the newest version of Illustrator locks up when I try to send a file to Cutting Master 5. All programs are up to date. Any ideas?

Ipad Ios is 26.6.2. I drew a circle, but cannot move it using either selection tool. I am also trying to draw concentric circles, but option drag is also not working. The layers are expanded and not locked.

Adobe Illustrator Illustrator 30.8.2 (Mac)I have a document with several text boxes. Within my text boxes, I have varying fonts. I want to highlight a word with the font I’d like to find so I can replace all of them, and once I click Select, Same Font Family, nothing gets selected and the current selection is deselected. This feature should be amazing and I have never gotten it to work properly.

I am trying to export an Ai file as a PDF, something I have done many times before. Currently though, when I open the PDF the images are either completely missing leaving just the outline, or partially missing. When I print, however, the images are all there, though some of them have “moved.” I even tried it on an Ai file I had exported as a PDF a year ago. It is also effected. I appreciate any help. Screenshot: This is from the PDF, the white should be the blue. 

I mean, these are perfectly clean shapes, what is the Blend tool rendering in between? Wtf 

I’m trying to crop an image, but every time I take the crop selection to the edge, it goes past and wants me to generate. It won’t let me crop off the portion not selected. The artwork goes the the very edge of the image, so there is no room for me to stop short. What do I need to do to get it to stop at the edge rather than going past or to switch it back from generate to crop?

I’m a new Ai user in college. I have to place a file into Illustrator and mess with it as a first assignment, here is a list of everything not working;-Can’t see any images, both png and jpeg files look like this when attempted to open or paste into Ai  -Stuck in outline mode, CTRL+Y does not take it out of outline mode and fix the issue, instead I get this pop up  -Can’t see the image in the layers preview   I am very familiar with creative programs and I’m confident in myself with computers but I’ve searched everywhere and tried everything I can find to resolution. Changing from gpu to cpu or vice versa does nothing either. I also attempted to make a different file, same issue.Please help!!

My workspace after creating a new document.  When I open existing documents, this strange pattern is on top of the existing document. This is affecting both new documents and opening existing ones.I have updated Adobe Illustrator to the most recent version.  On my monitor the art board looks red and the workspace appears green.  The windows and tools and surrounding borders of the program appear unaffected.

I have been using Illustrator for years and feel like I have just gone crazy and AI is gas lighting me, I used to be able to use the direct selection (A) to select a group of points, then press selection (V) and get a bounding box around those specific points. Now all pressing (V) does is select the entire object that the point selection is in and all I can find online is to use (E) which Ive never had to do in the past and still doesn’t function the way I need as it draws a bounding box around the entire shape with just the selected points affected, when I want the box around JUST the selected points. Am I crazy was this never a setting? Surly there is a way to select points and creating a constrained box. 

Since today my fonts aren’t loading on some of my files/art boards unless the creative cloud app is open. It was fine yesterday. 

If I add a left indent to left aligned text I can’t select and move it by the origin point.However, if the indent is applied to the right of right aligned text I can select it by the origin point.This seems like a bug. If anyone knows otherwise could they suggest a fix?I’m running Illustrator version 38.8.2

I used the new concept to vector feature with a lot of success yesterday morning but after an hour so of playing around, I am now getting an error message stating: Please slow down and try again later. I have tried signing out of the creative cloud suite and updating Illustrator. I am unable to get to the tool to work for the tutorial that is on the start screen featuring the rocket and sketched head images. I also still have plenty of credits. Is there anything else I can do? I was hoping to use to vectorize my final background design for a menu. Thank you!

Hi Guys,I'm not sure if you can help at all - but for some inane reason, when I save the PDF the colours and blending modes seem to completely change.Please see below.Any help would be so greatly appreciated!