Questions

I would like to convert a large number of ellipses (representing data points) to a cross shape (either x or +). I just want the lines, I don't need it to be able to have a filled color. Is there any way to do this to all of the data points at once?  Thanks in advance!

Hello, I'm working a series of maps and have been building up a template as I go, branching through around 8 different files until my most recent. I've stacked appearance attributes onto layers as I've gone, and am trying to retrofit the current style onto the previous maps, but I'm having a strange issue with trying to duplicate the appearance attributes of a layer:If I copy the entire layer and attempt to paste it into an older document, it will only paste the contents and not the layer itself, which breaks my appearance attributes. Since I'd rather not have to manually go back and update all these different layers 7 times through my maps, I'm trying to essentially transfer a layer with attributes completely intact from one document to another. If I copy a layer hierarchy with multiple layers each having their own appearance attributes, I seem to randomly get some which work and are still contained in a layer with others pasting within the master as the contents alone, as seen above.

I have an AI file with 6 artboards, each artboard is a different shape and size to the last and all contain the same jpg image in them. I want to save each artboard as an SVG with the jpg on that arboard embeded in it. When I go to File>Save as (I cannot use export for this job as the developers have given very specific settings I need to add which I can only do via the save as route), then select SVG and tick the 'use artboards' option I usually get 6 different sized SVG files as each artboard is a different size... however now all seem to be the same size (2.5mb) which is about 10x too big... Initially the jpgs that were embeded into the file where waaaaay too big, so I have unembeded, compressed in photoshop and readded them (added 1 to the first artboard, then copied and pasted this to the other 6 artboards, each artboard has its own layer in the layers panel, then embedded all the images). However I think the step above (by embedding after copying and pasting) ha

Hello everyone, I was working on a file and saved it then upgraded to the 2024 version of Illustrator. Now when I open the file I keep getting "The file ".ai" is an unknown format and cannot be opened" WTF happened?!!! it makes nos damn sense out of nowhere it's an unknown format. Does anyone here understand how to fix this issue?

Ok, this is driving me mad. How do I rename a blank document preset that I created? I've created a set of presets, but I misspelt the name of one of them, and I can't see how or where to edit it. Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance.

How can I get Illustrator with option for Arabic font paragraph direction? My CS account is in EU

“Sorry, but we can't obtain a license.You have possibly reached the maximum number of licenses. Please contact your system administrator.”I have paid the Adobe annual fee for one year, but this text is displayed when I use the app. Even though I have confirmed in the login record that only this computer is using my account, and it still shows up after logging in again. This text pops up and cannot be used, I would like to know why. and want to know how to solve this problem

Good Afternoon,I'm having a very frustrating time with selecting fonts from the Font Menu in the Character Panel. All I have to do is click the drop down arrow on the Character Panel and 'poof' -crashed. Clicking 'Type' at the top bar to select a font causes immediate crash also.This just started when I upgraded to Sierra OS. I'm using AI CS5.1I've searched the forum and tried a couple of 'fixes'. The one fix that helped for 1 single viewing opportunity before the crashing resumed was going to System Prefs > Accessibility > Display and check marking 'Reduce Transparency'. Thought that did it but back to crashing.Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi Guys,I have a very high quality multi layer .psd file that I need to convert to adobe illustrator in order to export them into autocad.As I'm very in exprienced, Ive tried to merge the layers in the psd file and then use Export -> 'Path to Illustrator', however when I open the newly created .ai file, it open a dialog box called 'Convert to Artboards' and whatever option i choose (either Legacy Artboard or Crop Area(s)' my new illustrator file seems to be empty.I appreciate any file anyone can offfer.Best RegardsAlex.

I opened an existing file and suddenly the numbers are appearing as mathematical symbols. I notice that this is happening only with certain typefaces/weights. But these are typefaces/weights that I have been using for a client for years without issue, and this is a new bug. For example, it looks fine in the Bold weight, but not in Medium (this is the Google Fonts version of Barlow). I wonder if this is due to a recent upgrade in Adobe Illustrator or Mac OS.

Hi FolksWhile get the characterAttributes.textFont.style using extendscript i'm getting this error (Illustrator error occurred 1346458189 ('MRAP')). Note: 1) For single file processing it wont be occurred but after processing one file then second file processing then only this error happened.2) While run the script manually its not throwing error. But run this from the CEP panel only get this error. Sample code:var doc = app.activeDocument;var textFontStyle = []for (var i = 0; i < doc.textFrames.length; i++) {var txtFrame = doc.textFrames[i];var textRange = txtFrame.story.textRange;var textCharactersAll = textRange.characters;var textProperties = [];var checkChar = 0;// Loop through characters in the text linefor (var k = 0; k < textCharactersAll.length; k++) {var textCharacter = textCharactersAll[k];var fontStyle = textCharacter.characterAttributes.textFont.style;textFontStyle.push(fontStyle)}}alert(textFontStyle)  Please advice on thisThanks in advance

Hi Folks,Is there any possibilities to close dialog box programmatically without click button.Sample code:var dlg = new Window('dialog', 'Custom Dialog');dlg.add('statictext', undefined, 'This is a custom alert!');var closeBtn = dlg.add('button', undefined, 'Close', {name: 'ok'});closeBtn.onClick = function() {dlg.close(); // Programmatically close the dialog}dlg.show();

In Adobe Illustrator, when working with a CEP (Common Extensibility Platform) panel that modifies TextFrame objects and dispatches events, all these changes should be grouped under a single entry in the undo history. Currently, each modification, whether it's a TextFrame change or an event dispatch, creates a separate entry in the undo stack. How to fix.

This is a vertical text. How to flip this into horizontal text?  

Olá, bom dia! eu baixei um efeito de brilho vetorizado do adobe stock, para utilizar em uma arte. abri o arquivo no illustrator, e me deparei que, por cima do vetor, possui uma grade de transparência, que na verdade, é um grupo de retângulos agrupados que juntos, formam uma grade de transparência. o problema é que esse grupo de retângulos está por cima do vetor, e esse grupo gera o efeito de brilho no vetor, me impossibilitando de remove-lo ou de exportar o vetor sem ele. gostaria de uma ajuda nessa questão: como eu exporto o arquivo sem essa grade de retângulos, preciso do vetor com o efeito gerado pela grade, mas sem que apareça a grade. já tentei exporta em png, pdf, svg. nenhum dos formatos produz o efeito sem a grade. Não sei se posso disponibilizar o arquivo do vetor, então caso eu possa, me informem por favor que eu disponibilizo.

I modified some code found online to faciliate exporting illustrator files to PSDs while retaining layers. I use the layers of illustrator like photoshop groups, and want each sub-layer to be its own separate layer once exported as a PSD. Unfortunately it seems the only way to ensure that works is to group each sub-layer by itself. I'm working with LaTeX equations and need each element to be separate, and depending on the complexity there can be many sub-layers, so manually grouping each one was tedious. You can find the illustrator test document and .jsx code here to show what I mean. When I drag the .jsx file onto the document, it works, grouping each sub-layer by itself and renaming them to their previous name, and if I put it in illustrators script folder (C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 2024\Presets\en_US\Scripts) it shows up after restarting illustrator and I can run it from the File>Scripts menu just fine. However, I wanted to make an action with a hotkey so I c

I just got a Wacom Intuos Pro tablet, installed the drivers and started using both Illustrator and the drawing tablet. I was really excited about trying out pressure sensitivity with the brushes, but I can't get the option to work in Illustrator.When I choose the brush tool, I double click on the picture of the brush size to open the "Calligraphic Brush Options" window. I watched several people activate this on YouTube videos by adjusting the size variation and then selecting "pressure" from the dropdown menu. However, when I open the menu, pressure and several other options appear on the list, but I am only actually able to choose between "fixed" or "random."Is there another setting I have to adjust first in order to activate pressure sensitivity? I am completely new to using both drawing tablets and Ai. Please help.{Renamed by MOD}

Hello folks,Happy Thursday. I need some help, please.Please take look at the shapes below. Pay attention to the effect the edges have. I would like to apply an effect to shapes that i can cut and merge any way i want to make new shapes; with all of them keeping that look to the edges.   thank you 

Anyone have any tricks on creating a CutContour line with two overlapping colors that need bleeds?

Hello, in Illustrator I can't save, or save as, it only lets me save as a copy but it's not comfortable to work with, who knows how to solve this problem.I've already tried uninstalling and installing again and nothing!Thank you very much in advance.

I have two paths that apparently have the same settings but they appear to have different aspects.where is the problem?the desired version is the one in box number 2. this is the source file   

I'm trying to use the Tilde key to create a shape with the Arc tool but it's not happening. I have a Mac and recently found out that the Tilde key is not Option+N as stated on many pages but actually option+a symbol key next to enter. Anyhow, even so, I cannot get the shape I wish. Is anyine familiar with this and have any ideas how I can use the Arc tool to build spirals of shapes together? Thank you.

After setting the bleeding value in the work area, it will run away when downgrading to the CC version.For example, if the bleeding left and right is set to 3.5cm, then it will become 2.54cm when opening the file again after the downturn.

Hallo zusammen,ich habe ein Problem, wenn ich in einer Datei eingebettete Bilder, zwecks reduzierung der Auflösung, in Pixelbilder umwandle. Je nachdem in welcher Ebene dieses selektierte Bild liegt, vergrößert sich teilweise der Objektrahmen auf eine Größe, alle in der Ebene liegenden Objekte. Ich hoffe meine Fragestellung ist verständlich. Nochmal zur Verdeutlichung. Ich habe z.B. eine Bild mit einer Größe von 300x300 Pixel und einer Auflösung von 300 dpi. Damit die Datei nicht so groß wird, möchte ich die Auflösung der Bilddatei auf 100 dpi reduzieren. Anstatt das Bild dann 100x100 Pixel groß ist, wird der Objektrahmen z.B. auf 1000x2000 Pixel vergrößert und die Fläche außerhalb meines Bildes (100x100 Pixel) je nach Einstallung bei "In Pixelbild umwandeln" mit weiß oder transparent gefüllt.Verschiebe ich das Bild in eine leere Ebene, passiert dies nicht und es ist dann wie gewüsncht 100x100 Pixel groß. Das Problem taucht auch erst seit ein paar Tagen auf. Vorher hat es imm

Olá pessoal, estou com uma dúvida. Trabalho com sublimação e, desde sempre, utilizo o Illustrator, mas meu computador precisou ser formatado. Depois da formatação, reinstalei o Illustrator e as cores não saem mais corretamente. Meu azul marinho fica preto, meu pink fica vermelho, meu rosa bb fica salmão ... Já coloquei perfil de cores da tinta sublimática e não adiantou. Já fiz diversas alterações, nada adianta. Alguém consegue me ajudar, por favor?