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Hello Creatives,i hope you enjoy the new handy "objects on path" tool as i do.  Is there a way to make the objects on the path snap to smart guides, guides or even - let's go wild - to a grid? If these functions are not included yet, i would love to see this in the future, as sometimes you work within systems and/or objects are related to each other. So if i haven't missed anything, then it would be a really awesome tool to design with. Kind regardsAndreas  

Hi all -- Help/ideas needed!  I use Illustrator all the time for graphic design projects. I have auto-save turned on, and I've never lost any work... until now. Twice over the past two weeks, the following has happened (with the same project I'm working on): I spent time making editsWhen I finished working, I made sure the project auto-saved, and then I closed IllustratorWhen I reopened the project the next time, I found that my edits had not in fact savedFirst, I thought that maybe Illustrator had crashed and that's why they didn't save. Yet, there was no "recovered" file to choose from, and I didn't receive any alert.Then, I looked to revert the file to the previous saved version, hoping my edits would be logged there. But, according to my Mac and Illustrator itself, I had never even opened the document during the day I made the edits, so there is no version to revert to.  What's going on? How do I fix it/can I get my edits back? (Yes, Illustrator and my Mac

Hey Everyone!I have finally got some time to try to tackle this issue. So far I have been living with it but it has finally just hit me on how ridiculous and time wasting this issue is to continue to bear with. The problem is as follows:I use 2 4k monitors in a dual monitor setup. I often don't split my workspace onto the two monitors but rather use one monitor for my workspace and the other for internet and windows explorer windows. The problem is that whenever I move my Illustrator program over to the 2nd monitor (Cintiq Pro) the dialog and menu boxes (resize, move, rotate, save, export, scale) all show up on Monitor one. This completely breaks my workflow since I have to put down the Wacom pen, and move the box over using the mouse from Monitor 1 to Monitor 2 (Cintiq Pro). A way to fix this is to drag any dialog box over to Monitor 2 every time it pops up, somehow Illustrator remembers this and then begins to load them in the correct Monitor. BUT if a monitor disconnects or powers o

Hi community,Really hoping someone can help me because I am going insane, and a project that should have taken me a couple of hours has taken over 10+, and I imagine my client is getting very frustrated.  I am working on a project for a client of mine, she is wanting to have some A6 flyers printed.I made the documents in Adobe Illustrator, they are virtually the same apart from one main image. When saving as PDF, one saves perfectly, the other is saving dark. I'm not doing anything differently - why is one changing colour, when the palettes are the same and the saving process is exactly the same? I have just been on a live chat and remove access with Adobe, and wasted 2 hours, I don't feel like the advisor understood the issue properly and I am now even more frustrated as I have repeated myself for so long.  Can someone PLEASE help me?I've attached a comparsion so you can see. Thanks in advance  

Installed the new Illustrator 2025 and now the Pencil tool can't draw an accurate line to save its digital life. Experience taught me to not delete the old version, so I tried the same line in the previous version with the same settings. Image attached shows what I should be able to draw on the left (red line): I can accurately trace the shape and even round the ends to not be sharp. 'Illy' 2025 on the right (blue line): every time I try to redraw/adjust a line throws a new part of it out of place. And forget rounding the sharp corners. I've un-checked all the 'Snap to...' options on both versions of Illustrator and can't think of anything else to tweak to fix this. Any ideas? (Coworker has the same issue, but others in the dept. do not. ??)  

Good day to all! I have been strugelling with exporting svg from AI for about two months now. For some reason, when I export my file to svg it is shifting elements around. For example, if I created the gap\space between several paths evenly, after exporting it to SVG paths loosing it position and the gap\space between them is now uneven.  How to prevent the elements\objects\paths from moving around when exporting to svg?  I have tried to exporting with unchecked "responsivness". I tried also with "preserve illustrator edditing". Nothing worked. I really need that space between the paths to stay even.  I will really appriciate any answer on this matter! Thank you! 

Bonjour à tousj'ai un soucis quand je veux utiliser la fonction "ajouter les couleurs utilisées".l'interlignage passe de 27pt à 0,1 pt sans aucune raison.Si le texte est vectorisé, c'est okSi je change la typo, c'est pareilSi je passe l'interlignage à 26pt, ça ne le fait pas.Merci pour vos réponses à ce bug 🙂

I added a white stroke to black text with a white background in Illustrator to make the text appear slightly thinner (Window ... Stroke ... Weight).  I saved a .jpg and it looks good with the changes to the weight. Then I selected the text and proceed to Object ... Flatten Transparency ... Merge because I don't want a 'live stroke' to be a part of the text, but now it looks it's MUCH thinner?  I saved a new .jpg to confirm, and it's definitely several weights thinner after flattening. I'm trying to figure out how to keep the same thickness of the original text with the stroke added, but also permanently remove the white stroke and save it without changing the overall weight if that's possible? Thanks

Fino a 10 minuti fa andava perfettamente, ora quando uso la funzione sfocatura (controllo sfocatura) mi da problemi: prima di tutto non mi fa più vedere l'anteprima (non c'è proprio più l'opzione di spunta) e quando applico l'effetto è bruttissimo, di bassa qualità, pixelato.Sono nuova a Illustrator quindi non so se ho toccato qualcosa che non dovevo.Aiutatemi!!

I am teaching Illustrator, and I have a student who wants to use the warp/twirl/pucker tools etc, but when she tried to access them in the toolbar, they are greyed out and she cannot use them.Do you have any idea why this would be?

Is it possible to find a problem here? First, a spot color is created and assigned to the global variable spotWhite, which is used further in the wrapper script. But the problem is that if this color is not in the ai file, then everything is ok, but if such a spot is already in the file, then I get an error.   // CustomSpot.jsx var spotColor; var spotWhite; if (app.documents.length > 0) { var doc = app.activeDocument; for (var i = 0; i < doc.spots.length; i++) { if (doc.spots[i].name === "W") { spotColor = doc.spots[i]; break; } } if (!spotColor) { ... // creating new spot } else { alert('the color is present'); spotWhite = spotColor; } } // wrapper file #target Illustrator #include "CustomSpot.jsx" main(); function main() { ... /* in case there was no color W, everything works as expected but when there is color W in the swatches it doesn't wor

Bonjour, Je ne comprends pas pourquoi mon contour de selection ne suit pas correctement mon tracé, est ce une erreur d'affichage? Merci par avance pour votre aide,

I have - a few times - lately lost files that were open during an Illustrator crash. The other times I thought I just might not have saved the file, but this time I am sure that I saved it to my computer. Now - after a crash the file is gone as if it was never there. Missing from "recent documents"  Instead I have found an empty file called "print.ai" - It was also present the last time this happened. Both recent times it was fairly complicated files with many layers and some Astute Grahics effects. I have the Auto Data Recovery feature on, but the file did not turn op when I restarted AI..... I also have Time Machine backup, but it doesnt show up here either.... Damned! ++m 

I just updated to Adobe Illustrator 2023, and when you use the freeform gradient tool and export your files as a PDF, whatever you have set as a freeform gradient disappears. I either need a fix to this ASAP or a way to roll back to the previous version of Ai because I'm working with a brand that uses freeform gradients in a TON of their materials, and PDFs are one of the main filetype resources we use. 

Hi, copying and pasting an object doesn't work.Thank you

When using the Pen Tool in Illustrator 2024, I use the COMMAND key as a short cut for the Direct Selection and OPTION for the CONVERT anchor point; when using the OPTION shortcut it will not allow me to select the end of a handle and move it. No matter what I do, I cannot select the handle with either the shortcut or selecting the CONVERT anchor point tool. I have to change the point to a corner point, then back to a smooth point to be able to select the one handle to change the direction or edit the corner. This changest he curves and that changes the curve and the shape. I cannot upgrade to 2025 until the office upgrades as controlled by the IT people. 

Es posible instalar ilustrator en un ipad air 2?

Hi, i cannot move objects in illustrator. When i click the black arrow, i get this super weird icon instead of the usual. I attached a video. Please help.

Hello everyone.  Can someone help me locate this font please?  Is is available through Adobe?Looks like the font from Webster's Dictionary, or close to it.  I need to replicate the written text in pic, please.Appreciate the help with this.  Thanks in advance.

I just did the update 27.8.1 for my Illustrator 2 days ago and now, when I click a space on my horizontal scroll wheel to the right or left of the location marker, it goes all the way to that place in the entire Art space (which is fairly large, and I don't mean just my Art Board), instead of the approximate 2/3 window space proportional to my current zoom percentage that it had been doing.This is especially a problem when I am zoomed into my work and I click to the side like I usually do expecting to move just a little to the side, and I am now way off my art board and have to either hit Ctrl0 or zoom out to find where my art is again. For years, I was used to knowing exactly how much Illustrator would scroll to one side no matter where on the horizonal scroll wheel I clicked. Now I feel like it's way to sensitive and knows no bounds.  I know this is a small issue and I could just click the scroll marker and drag it to where I want to be on my artboard or click the arrows to

I am copying text from a Photoshop document into an illustrator document. The documents have identical dimensions. Illustrator is set to display at 300DPI, and the Photoshop document is also at 300PDI. All formatting and fonts is preserved in the pasted text, except font size. When I copy a 14pt text from a Photoshop document, it is resized in Illustrator to 58.33pt. How much larger it is in illustrator depends on how large it was in Photoshop. For example, a 20pt font copied from Photoshop will paste into Illustrator at 83.33ptIf I resize my text in Illustrator to 14pt, and then copy and paste it back into Photoshop, the font size is changed to 3.36pt.It seems that changing the Unit preferences in either program does not affect this, although I noticed that changing the text unit preferences in Photoshop from points to pixels will change the value from 14pt to 58.33. But it still pastes into Illustrator far larger than it should be.I do not know if this is something that needs to be f

Hello, I wanted to know, when we can expect the Quick Pen Tool to be included in the Desktop versions?It's a useful tool, but I don't want to use the tool in the web version only...it's a hassle for me to switch designs back and fort between the web and desktop versions?Some people had this tool in the desktop beta version of illustrator, but there is currently no illustrator beta version for the desktop - only the web version of illustrator.

I have been too used to using the shift key for free transformation and no shift key for proportional/locked-in transformation in Photoshop. Is there a way to change to that same setting in Illustrator for scaling? (I do not free transform as quite as often, so it's irritating to use the shift key for every little change.)

hello! after updating illustator 2025, smooth tool is so bad! I can not smooth a letter's edges or anchor points it messes up the whole letter and simplifies all the letter.I can not smooth a specific part like i used to! it so sad! is there any solution?thanks!