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Been searching for any topic remotely similar to my situation with Find/Replace Font menu, which has been unusable to me because of the problem.I use relatively few fonts so I have been working around the issue for a while. Now that I have completely updated to a new MacBook Pro (Nov 2023) running latest OS (and starting from a clean slate instead of porting over from my previous system) it is time to solve this situation! Has anyone seen their Find/Replace Font menu look like this screen shot: Sometimes I get really strange bitmapped noise in the menu, sometimes I get blank spaces in the menu (like the upper section in this image) and sometimes I get jumbled mess of characters (like the lower section of this image). In any situation, this tool is unusable and I cannot figure out what is screwed up. Any suggestions?

How can I improve the performance of Adobe Illustrator when working with large files?

Hi everyone, new here. I have wondered for a couple of years how to make that effect in Illustrator. It looks like little pieces of different colors. DOes any one an idea how to achieve something like that? 

hello,I use a version before CC so perhaps this has been corrected, but: when I create some shapes that are just fillings (like circles or painted fillings) and save as PDF (not matter which), and open this PDF in some other vector software (Affinity Designer, Inkscape) this object is then an open path because the start/end node is not one single node anymore but TWO :). Is this a known issue and does it matter for printing?Also the other way around by the way: if I create such a shape  in Designer or also in CorelDraw and open it in Illustrator, then Illustrator says the path is open and finds two anchors instead of one.First I thought this is because of my old version of Illustrator, but it's also the case from some newer software to each other.

I am pretty sure that this cannot be done but should be doable. Indesign somehow figured it out that people want to save pages separately (because it is obvious).I have 16 artboards and I need SVG, PNG and PDF with proper file names. Cannot do that. It can only be done through save for screens by losing CMYK data :SFurthermore I need PDFs to be scaled proper print size. Acrobat preflight custom fixup. Again cannot be used on folder or multiple files at once. Droplet thing does not work on custom fixups.I am so lucky that I have 16 files and not 160.

I Personally love using my adobe software's, but there are occasionally tools I wish it had or features the software doesn't have... I'd love to know... do they take addition suggestions? one example is the burner and dodge tool. I know they have this tool in photoshop, But I think it would be a great addition to AI, and could help create Better rendered Graphics and images, and would be super helpful when blending and shading. I'd love to know.

Hallo liebe Community, ich nutze Illustrator seit vielen Jahren und stehe plötzlich vor einem Problem, was ich noch nie hatte.Objekte, die ich bereits erstellt habe lassen sich nicht mehr mit der Maus verschieben. Neue Objekte, die ich aufziehe (z.B.) ein Rechteck kann ich dieses nur noch verschieben, wenn ich genau den Mittelpunkt anfasse.Das Problem bei den alten Objekten (Silhouetten) ist, dass sie keinen Mittelpunkt mehr zum anfassen haben.Ich habe das Programm bereits neu intalliert. Auf einem anderen Rechner funktionieren die Dateien einwandfrei.Transformieren, drehen, mit den Pfeiltasten verschieben ist alles kein Problem.Kann mir da irgendwer weiter helfen? Ich verzweifel da langsam...gibt es vielleicht irgendwo einen Haken der sich eventuell falsch gesetzt hat?

Is there a way to add my own images (ie. mugs, hats, t-shirts, etc.) to place mockups onto other than what's currently in the library of images?

So, I am working on a document created by someone else. I've selected a line and changed the colour to a spot colour in the swatches. But I can see that although it has changed the colour it's only a tint of that colour.I've selected the 'colour' window and have moved the slider to change the tint, but I still can't get it to 100%. I have tried changing the line to different colours, it does change but the amount of tint stays the same.In Indesign, which I usually use, if you click on an object it will tell you what percentage of the colour it is, so that you can change it, but I can't see anything like that in Illustrator. Although the tint slider does appear on the 'colour' window, it doesn't say what tint it currently is, or even indicate that it is a tint, except that it obviously is because it's lighter.I've looked to see if it has a style applied to it, but it doesn't seem to.I'm sure I've had this problem before and solved it, but I can't for the life of me work it out.I would b

Is there an easy way to creaet a dropped capital in a text box?Also, I would like to know how I would make that first letter a different color. Thanks as always in advance!

Hey all! I made a large format banner/truck wrap in photoshop and need to redo it in Illustrator and am trying to save and bring the elements from photoshop to Illustrator. I've tried saving the background and the edited/photoshoped image separate as png's, then as .psd's. I tried to save as a TIF as well but it was too large. When i try to upload them into Illustrator no image shows, just the bounding box. Any tips or tricks to alleviate this? 

There are 7 simalr sized oval objects that need to have even spacing, and also need to be enlarged (experimented with) to fit efficiently into the space. It is taking me WAY too long to get it right. In MS publisher, all you had to do was select the items and scale away!!! There's got to be a better way. Thanks as always for your help!

Hallo,Kunnen jullie mij helpen ik heb al een paar dagen problemen met illustrator als ik hem opstart krijg ik steeds de melding: problemen met plugins gedecteerd                       AIHostAdapter.aipik heb illustrator al meer maals verwijderd en opnieuw geinstalleerd maar het probleem blijft.kunnen jullie mij daarbij helpen

I have three categories that I want to overlay on top of one another for exact comparisons. I see on the adobe instructions page it saysArea graphsValues must be all positive or all negative. Each row of data entered corresponds to a filled area on the area graph. Area graphs add each column’s values to the previous column’s totals. Therefore, even if area graphs and line graphs contain the same data, they appear substantially different."Is there NO option to allow you to overlay this data without it distorting your data/graph? If you look at the graph it has created with my Data you can see that the values of light grey and black should be VERY similar, and that the MAX number on my chart should be 1098. But this is NOT what is displayed in the graph. This essentially makes this tool useless. The other capture is approx what it SHOULD be looking like as it was captured in the data tracking program the data came from (but we can't export this in an image suitable for print, plus its ug

Hello, i'm changing some colours in some documents i'm about to send to print and changing the colours from ones i've just picked on the screen into specified pantones. I'm pasting swatches into each document to then select all on active artboard - edit colours - recolour artwork (under prominent colours the colours look broadly correct at this stage) - advanced options - colour picker for each colour and choose the pantone swatch to convert to.  Then when i go back to verify if the colours are correct i edit colours - recolour artwork and under prominent  colours there are three colours that look the same as those i've chosen, plus an extra BLACK. The black doesn't appear in the colour picker screen but i can't remove it from prominent colours.  I understand Pantone and Adobe have had a bit of a separation and that there are bugs associated. Does anyone know the fix please?  My documents are using white (ffffff) Pantone 2188c Pantone 7590c 

Trying to open a DXF2000 file and I get a "Text Import Options" window instead of the scaling window I am supposed to get.   I have followed many other posts here and have installed a new C++ runtime  and tried to regress to AI v. 25.4.1 ( the oldest I have access to with CC)  I am new to AI.  How do I get around this problem?  Screanshots are in reverse order....  Thanks for any help!

I opened a file I was working on yesterday that uses Roboto Flex, but all of my variable font values are completely gone. Instead I get a missing fonts warning. If I was using Roboto Flex Bold, it now shows as:RobotoFlexNormalNormalNormalNormalNormalNormalNormalNormalNormalDefault Anyone experiencing this issue? Know of a fix? AI Version 28.6iMac Pro, 2017Sonoma 14.6.1

I made a black business card cmyk (75 , 68 , 67 , 90) I saved it in jpg it came out rich black.My client wanted it in pdf format to easily print it At first the pdf showed the rich black as dark grey Until i solved the problem from illustrator itself i saved the pdf as follows :Standard: PDF/X-1a:2001 Output> Color conversation: convert to destination (preserve numbers)Destination: Photoshop 5 Default cmyk  The pdf showed the card in rich black as intended But when i tried to print it, it came out as darkgrey how can i fix this ??? (I chose "let the printer determine colors" and "Discoloured background correction") I attached a pic of the card I tried explaining everything as possible i have a deadline so i need help urgently, please ! 

Illustrator لا يدعم العربية عندي رغم ان قمت بعمل فورمات للجهاز وتنزيل اخر تدحيث ممكن حل

Hi,We are logged on the Adobe Illustrator account within the program, but it still asks for the serial key.When asking the AI chat it tells me there is not active session on the email.However when looking in account settings our plan shows all that we have, including Illustrator.Please advice.Per Christensen

Hi, I got this problem today where Adobe Illustrator freezes on the initialization screen and stops responding. I was using AI 2020 when it happened. I then unistalled and reinstalled it, but the problem still persisted. I'm now using AI 2021 and it's the same. I think it started happening after I installed a font which I uninstalled soon after. The program worked for a time after that, but it stopped responding again after I closed  and relaunched it. I'm running it on a Dell laptop with 8gb RAM, Nvidia GTX 1050 and Intel UHD Graphics 630. I tried running the diagnostics but it's also not responding, so I can't get any error codes. I'll attach some photos below. There doesn't seem to be an answer on the internet yet. If anyone has an idea on how to fix this pls let me know. Thanks Not responding initialization screen 

Why is it all disappearing when trying to align?

How can I rotate editable text in illustrator?

How do I keep the top object of a clipping mask (the clipping path) maintain its outline? Every time I make a clipping mask, it gets removed, and I have to go into Layers, make active the clipping path and reapply the outline, manually - any annoying extra few steps. 

I wish the plus and minus selections could be distinguished separately in the selection tool. It's hard to select what you want in a complex drawing with public plus and minus selections.