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Hi there,I have a vertical textbox, and I need to use a specific font to type text. As you can see below, this particular font creates extra padding on certain characters, which makes the text looks uneven.I was playing around with different options to see if I can make this gap smaller like so:After some digging online, I saw suggestions about tweaking kerning or tracking, so I tried both but none of them is doing what I want it to do.Changing tracking value simply changed padding under the text:Yes, it looks symmetric now, but the spacing between the numbers and number to + sign is still quite different. Then I tried to use baseline shifting, but that moved the text horizontally.. After playing around for a little bit, I found that you can use Touch Type tool to modify the position of individual characters like so:This achieves what I want to do, so that’s great. The next thing is that I need to be able to replicate this using JavaScript (I have to run this on many instances, so I do

Hi everyone,I create printable coloring pages for kids and usually export them as PDFs from Adobe Illustrator for my website: [Link removed]Recently, I noticed that some line art becomes slightly blurry or thinner after exporting the file, especially when users print the pages from mobile devices or lower-end printers. The original vector artwork looks perfectly sharp inside Illustrator.I already tried:Exporting with High Quality Print preset Saving as vector PDF Increasing stroke width slightly Testing RGB vs CMYKbut some pages still lose clarity after download or printing.Does anyone know the best Illustrator export settings for printable black-and-white coloring pages so the outlines remain crisp on all devices and printers?Would appreciate any workflow suggestions from people who prepare printable PDFs professionally.

When I import a .psd image in greyscale plus spot colours, only the black appears. The Pantone colours don’t even show up in the list. Is this happening to you too?  This isn’t the case for- CMYK+Spot- Greyscale with a layer- Greyscale with an alpha channel- .TIF Thanks in advance !

Computer didn't crash I just closed an illustrator file without saving it*. Autosave is set up for every 2 minutes and I can see the autosaved version .aid but can't figure how to open it. Thanks for any help on this. (*I accidentally closed it because there is some key combination which I inadvertently do which changes my keyboard from English to French and then  the Z becomes X - so when I do control Z I've actually done control X - wish I knew how I did that).

This continues to happen randomly since upgrading to os Sequioa and it requires a full hard restart.  Wasting hours on restarts and losing work. Illustrator 29.2.1 Macos Sequioa 15.2Mac StudioM2 MAx64GB 

Hi,When i open a PDF in Illustrator the characters become corrupted. It looks like "#D)9! etc.Apples preview and Acrobat shows the text right. But when opened in illustrator everything is wrong. The font I use is plain Arial.Viktor

So I am trying to CNC awards for the end of my robotics season and this one part of one of the awards I am trying to make is having trouble in the CNC router so I need to fix it in Illustrator. The issue is that I have parts of circles joined with most of the award but then there are a few parts that aren’t joined and that is where I am struggling.Here is what I am trying to CNC and the blue that is highlighted is all one path but for some of the circles it stops at half way and leaves the other half not included if that makes any senseHere the semi circles are sitting on the outside circle but I want them to be all one path and not just sitting on top of each other.I know this is probably hard to understand and I am willing to answer all question that will help people understand what I am trying to do. I also attached the file so people can mess around and try to fix it on there own. Thanks in advance for the help. :)

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019)2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i916GB 240 MHz DDR4MacOS Big Sur 11.6.1Adobe Illustrator 26.0 When I try to copy and paste elements, all of the formatting is lost. Images will not copy and paste at all, text coverts to my default font and color (black Myriad Pro Regular).  I have tried resetting Illustrator preferences. I have restarted the laptop several times. I have tried it on multiple files and between files, some of which are saved to the cloud, some of which are on my local machine. Same results. This is not a problem in other applications, just Illustrator. Seems to have only just started this morning. I literally cannot do any work. Please help!

Deseo instalar una versión compatible con tipografías Type 1 https://helpx.adobe.com/es/fonts/kb/postscript-type-1-fonts-end-of-support.html#sa_src=web-messaging. En principio versiones menores a 27.3. Sin embargo al contactar con el soporte no me dan el link correspondiente a la versión que necesito. Sistema Operativo: macOS. Saludos Enrique V.

Desde que se actualizó a la versión 30.3 en macOS 26 aparece este error al intentar abrir MIS ARCHIVOS en su nube, no puedo trabajar ni hacer nada, contacté a soporte y su “ayuda” fue que regresara a la versión 30.2 mientras solucionaban eso (me dijeron eso hace 3 días) ahora en la versión 30.4 sigue pasando lo mismo…Si, tengo mi sesión iniciada en Creative Cloud y en las apps, sí, es la misma cuenta, sí, solo hay UNA cuenta en el equipo.Maldita sea, son una empresa millonaria con programadores supuestamente “buenos” que no pueden resolver un simple error, y todo por su maldita y estúpida necedad de comprobar su licencia a cada rato, estoy pagando por un producto donde ni siquiera puedo abrir y editar ninguno de mis documentos, sus idiotas soluciones no sirven para un carajo, ya que aunque desactive “Adobe Content Synchronizer” varias veces vuelve a pasar exactamente lo mismo una y otra vez, estoy harto, ustedes miserables para cobrar factura cada mes lo hacen sin problemas, pero para

I’ve run into an issue where file sizes are increasing dramatically between Illustrator 2025 to 2026. I recently updated my software but am running into the same issues. Is this still occurring for anyone else? My original link is below, but it no longer goes anywhere. Anyone know how to redirect this URL to continue the conversation?https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/file-size-increase-moving-from-2025-to-2026/m-p/15634629*M459851 

I'm making a sign for someone and the naming convention is first initial last name. For example John Smith would be written J. Smith. The problem is that whenever someone's name begins with an A and I write "A. Name" it changes the formatting to a numbered list which has a larger space between the initial and last name.  When I turn off numbered list, the "A." disappears. What can I do to turn this off? 

HiI keep getting this pop up message when I try to save a file after I recently saved another file.Does anyone know what this means/how to resolve the issue? Thanks!

So, I am on windows ten and don’t have Illustrator installed on my computer. I have found that on the beta web version of Illustrator the Color Picker is not accurate at all. My main issue is with dark shades of brown when you pick a color it will have a distinctly green hue and isn’t really brown. I have attached images of the discrepancy between the Color Picker’s color and my what my eyes say match.here is the actual image 

Since the latest versions of Adobe Illustrator, I’ve increasingly felt that I can no longer work productively.In complex documents, the selection and layer behavior has apparently changed. Locked layers sometimes behave unpredictably, objects beneath them are harder to select, and the selection often prioritizes outlines over actual areas.This significantly disrupts the usual workflow, especially with large files containing many layers. Many actions now require significantly more clicks and manual intervention than before.I have since reinstalled an older version, as the workflow still functions reliably there.As a long-time user, I am now seriously wondering whether experienced production and power users are even being considered in the development process anymore.(Sorry...the title is wrong...but I have no idea how to chage it. I can’t even delete the post yet) <Title renamed by moderator> 

I have an issue when opening Illustrator files that contain linked images or PNGs. I get a message that says "Some of the linked objects in this document have been updated." Even if I replace the image or update the link, it still doesn't appear. However, it does appear when I export the file. I have already restarted Illustrator, my computer, and updated Illustrator, but I still have the same problem.

What is going on. with Ilustrator? I'm on the latest version of Illustrator and the Mac OS, on a barnd new M4 Mac MIni and apparantly Illustrator is using 149GB of memory! This is happening all the time. Does anyone know what I can do about this? 

I am trying to change the values in an existing diagram...to new numbers. After confirming, or hitting enter, this is, what the result looks like:I could live with the fact, that the design changes, but here the size changes. Has anyone encounterd this problem or maybe has a solution to it?Thank you in advance!

Hi everyone! I have an outlined logo that I’d like to apply Bevel and Extrude to, so that it looks like it’s beveled into a silver surface. Every time I apply a material, it gets treated differently in the inside of the O. The letter O gets none of the same depth as the other letters, and the scale of the material itself is much smaller than it should be (it should be matching the scale of the areas around the letters). You can see in the screenshot with a few different materials applied.I’ve tried troubleshooting with Claude, tried making it a compound path and toggling the fill settings between non-zero and even-odd, but nothing works. It’s driving me nuts. This has happened to me before in different files and seems to be a recurring issue. How do I fix it? I would be SO thankful for your help!  

turntable feature missing in illustrator v30.0, i tried to restart the app, check version, etc. but turntable it not showing up in my illustrator

Hi all, in one of the more recent updates to Illustrator, I have been unable to change a selection's fill color using, for example, the following:  var doc = app.activeDocument; var sel = app.selection[0]; var grayCol = new RGBColor(); grayCol.red = 211; grayCol.green = 211; grayCol.blue = 211; doc.selection = null; var defColor = doc.defaultFillColor; doc.defaultFillColor = grayCol;  There error I receive is a PARM error: "there is no document " I have seen this behavior with a single simple page item selection, an app.executeMenuCommand( "Find Fill Color menu item") or multiselection.   I have seen this across a few different scripts I've written. Think I saw it a couple months ago.  Anyone else seen this and figured out a workaround, other than trying to change the selection's .fillColor property? 

For a long time I have had an occasional problem where the character menu shows different font/weight/size information than what is actually used. For example, I have a text that uses Proxima Nova Medium, 5 pts. But the character menu says the selected text is Myriad Pro Regular 12pt. I did a little experimenting and it seems to be tied to the use of paragraph and/or character styles. It doesn’t seem to matter whether I clear overrides or not, as long as there is a paragraph style involved. Sometimes manually changing the affected text or clicking between different text boxes temporarily fixes the issue, but only for a short time.  Is this a known bug and if so, are there any solutions to this? Currently using AI 30.4 and on MacOS 15.7.4. 

Hi there,I have text with background set like the following:As you can see, the yellow background matches exactly the bounding box of the text. However, I want to add some extra spaces around the text, so I changed the shape options to include some extra spacing:The background got bigger, but the bounding box still remains the same. In theory, this is expected. However, this is a problem for what I am trying to do.As an example, I have the same text with a bar here.If I select both of them, then i can select one of them as key object and align the object correctly with left or right.Black bar as key, align left: Black bar as key, align right:So far so good. Now I want to expand the background a little bit, to be bigger than just text, but I want to make this responsive, so I change the extra width option in the shape options:The background is extended as expected. However, if i do align now, it would align to the original text as opposed to the background.In theory, this is the correct

If you design artwork with multiple variants in Illustrator, you might experience the pain: toggling layers on and off, exporting, renaming, repeating. For every single combination.I made a free script which is controlled by appending simple tags to the layer names. The script reads the layer names, then exports every desired variant automatically.Two events, two colours, two sizes? Eight files, one click, no mistakes. Watch the 1-minute demo on YouTube:https://tur.nz/2cDocumentation and script download link can be found here:https://tur.nz/2b

Sorry, I’ve had enough of this situation. I’ve been working with all kinds of Adobe programs for years, and I’ve never experienced anything like this. Ever since I updated my Mac to macOS Tahoe 26, everything has been running terribly.I’ve spent months trying to deal with this problem and I still can’t find a solution. I’ve made sure my Mac is clean, fully updated, with enough memory and storage. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled EVERY single program three or four times, completely removing preferences, plugins, and settings. All of it has been pointless.Adobe Illustrator takes more than 10 minutes just to open and is extremely unstable. It crashes and freezes in EVERY SESSION, making it impossible to maintain any kind of consistent workflow. I’m a graphic designer, this is how I make a living, and I need the software I pay for every month to actually work.I expect a solution as soon as possible.