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I have created a swatch:- Color Mode: CMYK- Color Type: Process Color When I apply the (global) color to an element I see this in the color panel: What is the difference between the two rectangular buttons below the "100%"?left button:right button:Both lead to the same result:What are they converting? The color already is CMYK and it already is a process color…

Hi, I am running Illustrator 28.72 und 29 on windows 11. Whenever I open a cloud file I immediately get  message "Auto Save disabled, save manually." Every time! Whenever I am trying to save the changes of this document into the Cloud, I click on save and then nothing happens. when I try to save it in the cloud under a different name, as a copy, it won't save. This has been goign on for a week now. No matter what I do it will not save the changes in this cloud file or this document as a copy in the cloud, I can only save it locally.  I reinstalled Illustrator, restarted my computer, I worked from different wifis, both with stable internet connection, I have have a newer and an older version and this keeps happening in both. How do I fix it?

I've noticed a weird issue in the past week that is killing my productivity - I didn't think too much of it until today when I really needed to get a project going. When I copy any amount of text or any layer/group of layers that has a text layer in it - pasting it causes this 2 second delay before I can continue moving or editing the pasted layer. It only happens with text, not with images or shapes. It happens on new documents or large existing documents. Any size or amount of text will produce this delay. It only happens on Illustrator 29.0 and 28.7.2 - it works fine on 28.7.1 and prior as my snippets show (one snippet showing it working on 28.7 and one showing the issue on 29.0). I have the working and non-working illustrator open at the same time on seperate monitors with the exact same Illustrator settings. I have changed GPU performance, clipboard settings, scratch disks, and all the common troubleshooting fixes that could be causing the delay. The fact that it wo

Hoje resolvi atualizar meu Illustrator e baixar o beta, após atualizar meu illustrator e começar a trabalhar,  estou a 7 horas trabalhando nesse projeto, e ele me apareceu 3 vezes salvamento automatico na nuvem, porém por algum motivo o app travou e fechou e ao abrir ele não me deu a versão anterio que tinha feito, só a de dias que tinha feito.Não posso perder esse progreso que fiz no projeto.Já fui nas pastas Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator [versão] Settings\en_US\x64\DataRecovery e de todas a versões estão vazias. ME AJUDE PELO AMOR DE D'US!

Does anyone know when the feature "Generative expand" (or as the guy at the keynote calls it, "Vector expand") is coming to Illustrator? Seen at 01:01:00 in the keynote video here: https://www.adobe.com/uk/max-london.html I've just installed Illustrator 2025 and 2025 beta and can't find it.

I have 2 large illustrator files (lets say version 1 and version 2). If I have 40 layers on version 2 that I want to send/add to version 1, is this possible (without copy/pasting in place each individual layer?)thanks

I am trying to open a PSD file in Illustrator, which previously worked with two other files.However, when I attempt to do so with a different file Illustrator says that 'the file is not readable' 

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