Questions

Is Adobe’s new Layout Variations feature currently available in the illustrator beta version?I’m not seeing Layout Variations in the toolbar in my beta version.I’m just curious if this feature, as shown in the video Project Remix a Lot - GS3-2, is accessible in the current beta version, as the layout variations toolbar isn’t showing up for me.

Illustrator will not create a clean enough gradient, as in a sky, or background, large area, without printing with horizontal lines. It cannot produce perfectly smooth gradients???what's up with that?It's not the printer, I was told to use photoshop, but that doesn't allow for the control illustrator has with color and adjustments.

The new dithered gradients option in v30.0 is finally here (something I've been missing for ages), but it has an unfortunate issue.   The dithered gradients are created as raster images with a clipping mask (as I would expect), but the raster image of the gradient gets padded with white (instead of an extension of the gradient) starting at the exact edge. 😬   As a result, at various zoom levels on screen, you end up seeing a ~1 px faint white edge due to interpolation/resampling that really shouldn't be there. It is even visible on the artboard while working in Illustrator (here i found a zoom level that made the unwanted edge painfully obvious): It will be visible in e.g. PDF files when viewed on screen. Luckily it shouldn't show up on print (but if the PDF gets downsampled it likely will!!!)...   This should be fixed ASAP before too many people start using the new feature.

Illustrator has several symbols to guide users in their projects. However, the symbols appear either too small or to cryptic to be very helpful.Create an Appendix within the User Guide to define the meaning of the symbols.

I'm starting to get fed up with Illustrator and Photoshop. In the past month, I have had issues where files take 20 minutes to save and issues where the program just stops opening a file, forcing me to try opening the file several times before it actually opens. Now, a file I literally JUST saved, which again took 5 minutes to save (after making one small change since the previous save), is corrupted for some reason. I have been working on this figure for the whole week, and now I am going to have to start all over again.  Is this something wrong with the latest update? Because from what I have seen on the forums, saving and opening issues have been coming up a lot. I'm beginning to wonder why I am paying so much for a program "subscription" when it's causing me so many issues trying to get my PhD thesis done. Is there a way to get the figure an all the layers back? Or am I going to have to resort to getting Affinity Designer instead? Thanks

Hello. My employer is running on the Creative Cloud.  We cannot install the Illustrator cc 2022 (Illustrator v27).  Without it, we are not using our cutter and we NEED to. Where can I access a desktop version of Illustrator V27 as it is no longer accessible via the previous machine (it died).  My Creative Cloud has updated to v30 with no way to return to v27. Only serious responses please.

I've updated Illustrator to 2025 and I'm getting a plug-in error. I first get an error message saying plugin issues detected and it lists 24 plugins. Then I get another error message saying it's running in safe mode and has disabled InpaintingAI.aip. Illustrator fails to launch even in safe mode. Can anyone help?  

I'm creating a logo with about 10 graphic elements. I create a layer. I activate the "target" button. I create an object.  Illustrator sends it to a different layer. Whether I'm creating text, or objects, the elements land on a layer I'm not working on.  How do we ensure that the layer we're working on is where our work appears?  Said in reverse: How do we keep Illustrator from telling itself, "I'm bored with this layer. I'll send your work somewhere more interesting."  Thank you. 

NVM SOLVED! Needed to turn on bounding boxes. https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/selection-tool-not-showing-anchor-points-for-resizing/td-p/15536521 When I'm using the select tool this little box has appeared next to my cursor. When this is active the select tool is behaving strangely - I can't resize or adjust the object. I have to use the direct select tool which isn't helpful when I want to maintain the scale of the object.  

Es increible la cantidad de bugs, errores y mal rendimiento que tiene el software, con cada update es PEOR, es desmotivante e injusto pagar mes a mes un software tan costoso para obtener un producto tan deficiente y de pésima calidad, estoy harto del performance de este software en general, Illustrator tiene muchos mas bugs que en 2024, qué pasa???? 

We work as a team on Windows, files are linked from an area like "C:\Users\UserName\SharedDrive\" where the user name changes based on the team member. Illustrator 29.4 can handle this change. For example, if Jane and I are working on the same file, she can place a file with a link C:\Users\Jane\SharedDrive\file name.jpg, and when I open the file, Illustrator updates the link to C:\Users\Sarah\SharedDrive\file name.jpg with no issues. Jane updated to Illustrator 29.8.2 and suddenly all her links appear as missing on my computer. I tried also updating to 29.8.2 and links remained broken. We both downgraded to 29.4 and she resaved the file, links are working again for both computers.   This seems to be a bug in Illustrator 29.8.2.

I'm on MacOS. When previewing an .ai file in Finder, there will often times be phantom objects visible in Finder Preview. These objects are always duplicates of whatever is actually visible on the artboard-- usually it's a phantom object in the position the object was in the last time I saved the file. When I open the .ai file in Illustrator, those objects do not exist. The objects are not hidden; they are not on some other layer. This is particularly problematic because those phantom objects are still there if I open the .ai file in Photoshop. If I add the .ai file as a Smart Object layer in my Photoshop file, the phantom objects are there. If I attempt to edit that Smart Object, Illustrator opens up and shows the phantom objects are not there. Saving and closing DOES NOT FIX IT. Sometimes toggling the visibility of the Illustrator layer the objects are on and then saving fixes it. Sometimes toggling to outline mode fixes it. Sometimes moving the .ai from one folder to another, brings

I have simple scripts for illustrator which used to work fine for couple of years,first time to use them today in version Ai 2025 (29.0.1) and I got an error concerning undo grouperror says:app.beginUndoGroup is not a function

Hello Adobe Community Team and Community Managers, I’d like to make a request since I'm designing my Illustrator buttons for my Stream Deck XL. Would it be possible for Adobe to provide the original, official icons (in SVG, AI, or high-resolution PNG format) for the following Illustrator panels?Swatches Group Panel (the one wich gets stacked in the lateral column when collapsed)Color Group Panel (idem)Align Panel (idem plus align icons)Pathfinder Panel (idem plus pathfinder icons) The main purpose of this request is to integrate these icons as custom buttons on my Stream Deck, FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. Thank you very much for supporting the creative community!Best regards,Yuri

Illustrator Beta on arm windows sudden not available anymore, it forces me to use the web version of illustrator. So Adobe is giving up on arm windows?

Bonjour à tous et à toutes  Je me permets de m'en remettre à vous aujourd'hui car je rencontre un problème sur illustrator. En effet, j'ai utilisé l'outil "texte curviligne" sur illustrator de manière à créer un texte incurvé mais lorsque je veux le vectoriser, ce tracé curviligne devient une forme. Est-ce que vous pouvez m'en expliquer la raison mais également comment suis-je censée faire pour régler ce problème car c'est assez urgent ?  Merci beaucoup 🙂 

Is this delibrate or just some setting i need to change?  Thanks

The subscription of my university contains Ai, but I cannot see it in my Creative Cloud Software.My PC is Surface Laptop 7 (System: Windows 11 PRO on ARM64 (25H2), CPU: Snapdragon(R) X 12-core X1E80100 @ 3.40 GHz, RAM: 16.0 GB,  GPU: Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU [DirectX  12 (FL 11.1)])

I have relaunched CC Desktop, Illustrator and UXP tool in all possible combinations., even after clearing cache for UXP tool in Roaming folder. Kindly help.System: WIndows 10Illustrator version: 30.0CC Desktop version: 6.8.0.821 

my latest version of Illustrator (version 29.6 - updated on June 18/25) wants to save files as .pdf by default, instead of .ai - is anyone else experiencing this?

I updated to Illustrator 2026 today. When I use the blend tool, it doesn't seem to function in the complete way it used to. Furthermore, when I Expand Appearance, it breaks the shapes completely. Any tips, or am I waiting for a fix?

As a created cloud member, I was made aware of an update being available for illustrator.  But after updating to Illustrator to 3.0, the pathfinder tool no longer worked.   I wanted a shape atop an image to be subtracted by pathfinder.  However pathfinder in illustrator 3.0 would not subtract the shape from the image below, nor perform any of the ten features of pathfinder. I've tried resetting the illustrator preferences, tried changing the file apperance, and tried using pathfinder in newly created file.  None made any of the pathfinder features work.  Is there a work-a-round or a fix for this bug with pathfinder in Illustrator 3.0? The pathfinder of  my previous version of Illustrator worked just fine before I upgraded.   [Moved from the Using the Community forum by moderator]

Hi everyone,I’ve been editing some images in Adobe Illustrator for my gaming website (link removed by moderator).However, after uploading them, the image quality seems to drop colors and sharpness don’t look the same as they do inside Illustrator. Can anyone please guide me on the best export settings (format, resolution, and color profile) to keep the images crisp and vibrant on the web?Any suggestions for optimizing Illustrator images for website performance are also appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone! After the newest update of illustrator and indesign I found one problem. If I ungroup objects they jump into one layer even if I have active option for remembering layers for them! Do you have any advice please? I tried a new file, new layers but its still there 😞 Jana

We have a workstation that is a PC and when saving a PDF out of Illustrator 29.8.1 with "page information" checked under marks and bleed they get a warning "The font Courier could not be embedded..." and it saves without the page information added. It seems strange that it is trying to use Courier as it uses Myriad when other save on a PC. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling Illustrator and resetting preferences.