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I am hitting a wall. I spent all day trying different things, Blends, wide dotted strokes, Art / Pattern brushes and Effects but nothing "works". Any idea how I could come up with a shape like this:It was the work of Benno Wissing, a designer. The thing that bugs me is that the "pointed arrows" are not "concentric"? Meaning if I try to rotate a shape around some axis, I'd have to "move" the center of rotation as well. That can't be done in the Effects > Transform & Distort command. It's a nice design which I'd love to show my students. Thank you in advance for you kind help and patience. 

Hi, One of our clients has changed the printer settings from the old color settings to the new color settings. Old color settings currently we followed: "Coated FOGRA39 (ISO 12647-2-2004)"New color settings to be followed: "PSO Uncoated v3 (FOGRA52)" For new projects, we need to follow the "PSO Uncoated v3 FOGRA52" settings in the overall book. For example, If the graphic artist processes the images in old color settings using Illustrator/Photoshop and produces the .EPS file. How could be validate the .EPS file whether the correct color settigs are used or not. Is it possible to validate the EPS? Thanks,Santhosh

How do I create a Hairline outline in ai? I am printing to a laser that only accepts colour as raster to engrave and a hairline RGB Red as vector to cut along. The 0.1mm stroke does not work.

We are using VB.net to open illustrator and create files using actions and save them into desired locations, we are facing illustrator freeze/struck issue in different times like copy and pasting the images, saving files into ai & pdf, when we check our taskmanager we found that adobe splashkit is using cpu very high. any one help us to resolve this.

I will publish said complaint in Spanish. I bought Adobe Illustrator for college and after paying when I downloaded the app it told me it wasn't compatible with my operating system (W11 23H2). When they released a version for Windows 11, 23H2, I lost my money buying an outdated program that isn't compatible with the most up-to-date versions. I need a solution or a refund. If anyone in the community knows a complaint channel I would appreciate the help.   

WHY DOES ILLUSTRATOR CRASH ON MY IPAD PRO (4th generation)? I can't do anything without it crashing when I try to pull up a file. I'm so sick of this. I love Illustrator and need to get some work done, but if this will not stop happening then I will be forced to find another way to do my work. 

Hi Guys, I need yours help. I had an Illustrator bug and my file, which I'd been working on for a week, didn't recover.I tried the recovery methods but this file was not recovered. What should I do?Thanks

Hi Guys,I need yours help.I have one document in illustrator, It have missing glyph/font. Attached Screenshot below. Particular missing charchter not available in particular font family. So it's automatically changed to "Placedholder/rectangle" shape. need to find the missing glyphs with particular "placeholder/rectangle"shape. I have tried more. Unable to find the missing charchter shape.I have tried below code:// Function to find placeholder symbols for missing charactersfunction findMissingCharacterPlaceholders(missingChar) {var doc = app.activeDocument;var placeholders = []; // Loop through all text frames in the documentfor (var i = 0; i < doc.textFrames.length; i++) {var textFrame = doc.textFrames[i];var textRange = textFrame.textRange; // Check each character in the text framefor (var j = 0; j < textRange.characters.length; j++) {var character = textRange.characters[j]; // Check if the character has a missing glyph and is replaced by a placeholder symbolif (

Ik wil een ovaal transparant maken (uitsnijden) en de rest van de foto zwart.

The Illustrator (Beta) app icon was disappeared on the Home page of Creative Cloud after updating the app . Cannot launch the above named app when clicking the app icon on my desktop.I have tried the following actions but still not working.  - uninstalled and reinstalled the illustrator- sign out and sign in Creative Cloud account

 I have a 100x100 pt grid in Adobe Illustrator, divided by 5 horizontal dividers. With the skew value set to 0 in the Rectangular Grid Tool, these dividers are evenly spaced. However, when I increase the skew value to 10%, I observe the following vertical shifts in the dividers:- The topmost divider moves upward by 3.71 pt.- The next divider moves upward by 6.12 pt.- The middle divider moves upward by 7.1 pt.- The fourth divider moves upward by 6.52 pt.- The bottommost divider moves upward by 4.12 pt.Given that the distance between the top horizontal divider and the rectangular frame is 16.67 pt, a 10% skew should theoretically result in a movement of 1.667 pt. However, I observe a movement of 3.71 pt instead.Could you please explain why the top divider moves by 3.71 pt instead of the expected 1.667 pt when a 10% skew is applied? 

I'm having a weird issue that is causing me a lot of grief.  I'm wanting to take an object, taper it (or rotate it on its x-axis) to give it a 3d feel.  When I do this its fine.  However, if I try to stroke the entire group to get a nice line around my entire art I only get a potion of the stroke to show up.  I've noticed that if I turn the rotation off, the stroke works mostly correct. It was suggested that I save this into version 3, load that file and try to stroke the group but that still doesn't work.  The rotation is still being observed. I've worked with illustrator for years and this is the first time I've ever been stumped on what to do with this.  All the videos I watched says I'm doing it right just can't get it to actually work.

Hello - I'd like to make a small script that I can easilychange the "Row Size" preview (from the "Layers" palette).Is possible via Javascript?ChatGPT says "NO", Gemini write this script (but it doesn't work)   😄 #target Illustrator var doc = app.activeDocument; var layerPanelOptions = doc.layerPanels[0].options; layerPanelOptions.rowSize = LayerPanelRowSize.small; Thank you for any help,enjoy your day…   - Dimitri 

Hello,I've made a piece of artwork in Illustrator that contains a decent amount of lines and paths, and a lot of layered effects and different blending modes. The file is around 118 mb in size at this moment, and I'm it's slightly above 200x112 cm in size. I've worked in 72 dpi this far to make it possible to work with at all. But not that I'm finished and need to make a print-ready PDF, I want to switch to 300 dpi. This results in my pc working for a very long time until Illustrator finally seems to freeze completely. Last time I tried, I had it running for about an hour until finally getting a message that some object could not be rasterized due to lack of memory. I clicked "OK" and it continued the process, seemingly getting nowhere until I finally gave up and closed the app.I've managed to test-print a small A4 version of the piece at home, but had to check the "print as image" option for the PDF file. When I first tried printing it normally, Acrobat took forever to "simplify" the

Hi i have not been able to find a way to make a group of shapes into a single object i can manipulate. I want to stretch this QR code into a trapezoid shape. I selected all of the layers and used the "unite shape" tool. I then tried to manipulate the shape using the anchor points. It was then i realised the "unite shape" tool didnt work how i thought it would. How can i stretch this shape into a trapezoid?Is there a way make this into a single object?("Flatten Artwork" didnt do anything, i also tried making the layers a "Symbol" but was unable to manipulate it using the anchor points) I am sorry if have missed something obvious. I am new to Illustrator and my Googling and Adobe community searches came up with nothing this time. Thanks 

How do I create a realistic looking heatmap in illustrator? 

I am trying to set some files up for print by ganging them up on one sheet of material. I am working with supplied artwork that has a clipping mask around it. The issue I'm running into is the artwork outside of the clipping mask is giving me this error:"Can't move the objects. The requested transformation would make some objects fall completely off the drawing area."How can I completely delete everything outside of the clipping mask, without altering the artwork inside the clipping mask? I have already tried other suggestions, such as Object>Expand, and then using the Pathfinder to Crop... But that won't work. Nor will the Erase tool.Please help! How this isn't a standard feature by now is beyond me. This isn't the first time I'm running into this issue.

Me aparece solo la herramienta 3D pero sin la opción de materiales.¿Alguien sabe como puedo activarla? Tengo Illustrator 2020

Adobe Illustrator is hanging while opening several files even my MAC have all the requirements for Adobe illustrator. I tried to update from creative cloud and also disabled gpu but it is still freezing.   {Renamed By MOD}

Hello,I am experiencing an issue with Adobe Illustrator when trying to export multiple files in the ESP format. After exporting 2 or 3 files, the program crashes. Is anyone else experiencing this problem, or can anyone offer assistance?

I'm looking to create that white bakground in the shape of the object in front of it.  In the second picture it would be that outline sticker type effect behind BloomCircle.  Hopefully this makes sense to someone.  Thank you in advance!   

Font selection is an absolute disaster !   [renamed by mod]

Basicamente é isso. Hj tive a paciência de fazer vários testes e detectei que há uma imcopatibilidade do illustrator com algum item dessse setup seja a marca do meu monitor ou o switch que eu uso. Estou usando um macbook Air M1 2020 / SWITH UGREEN usando saída VGA / monitor LG 20". A janela só abre corretamente no monitor principal do macbook, no 2º monitor abre sem redimensionamento. Ressetando todas as preferências da janela preferências ela volta a abrir no 2º monitor. Ao reabrir o programa o problema volta. 

I find the new contextual taskbar useful in certain circumstances, but mostly distracting and in the way. So I thought it would be a good idea to assign a custom keyboard shortcut to show/hide the thing. Turns out it is missing from the list of commands in the Keyboard Shortcut editor. Any idea why?  

I use Illustrator and Photoshop alot, but lately I've been having problems with both programs using more and more memory up to the point that I'm almost out of memory.Illustrator: 28.6 Photoshop: 25.11.0PC, Windows 10 ver 10.0 19045, 64Gb ram.This is how much memory they use after a few hours of work. Note that I have no files open in either programs. It's just both programs alone.After I close both programs a lot of my memory is freed up again.