Questions

I am following a "Illustrator for Beginners- Free Course" on Youtube. Though the video is from 2020, both the instructor and I have Illustrator CC. I have ensured that I am using the Essentials Classic. I have enabled the "Scale Strokes & Effects" as well as "Scale Corners" under Preferences within the General Tab. Once doing this, I even rebooted the program.  I do see the Scale Icon on the left window, but once clicked on, no other options show up for me to select or deselect "use preview bounds" "scale corners" or "scale strokes and effects" on the right window where my Properties and Libraries are. My challenge is I need to scale my strokes and effects so that when I resize my image, the strokes and effects resize with the image. Please help. Thanks.

Hi everyone,Since the latest update, I am experiencing issues with importing AutoCAD files into Illustrator. Whenever I try to open or place an AutoCAD file, Illustrator fails to recognize or process the file correctly, making it impossible to continue my work.Has anyone else encountered this problem? Does anyone know a solution or a workaround to fix this issue? Your help would be greatly appreciated!Thank you in advance for your assistance.Best regards,

Hello there,I experience one super annoying problem quite often in Illustrator:When I zoom in (Ctrl + "+") with an object or several selected, the object is moved just a little bit to the right. It is exactly as if I used the arrow right key.Does anyone else have that problem or is that due to my laptop?This is really dangerous as I need to be extra aware when finalizing print data. 

Hi there ,any one can help me to change text direction in adobe illustrator 2024 it's hidden from new versions or I just installed north version ?

Hi all! I hope you are all having a wonderful day wherever you are in the world. I am trying to use Illustrator and have not had any issues with it until today. When I open it, it doesn't fully load, there are no tools or anything. I have attached a screenshot to show what it looks like. When I try opening an existing file, it doesn't let me click on it or anything. I have uninstalled it and reinstalled it and the issue remains. I can still use photoshop fine. Please help!

The interface UI font fails to follow the Windows system settings. A lot of serif fonts are used in Chinese, making it very difficult to distinguish.The red part does not follow the operating system font, and the blue part correctly follows the operating system font. In Chinese Windows, the default font of the operating system is "Microsoft Yahei"

I'm running Illustrator on Windows 10 with an Nvidia RTX4070ti (latest studio driver). The last 3 or 4 updates have been completely unstable and crashes every few minutes while trying to work. It seems to be completely random - opening files, saving files, deleting layers, making changes to a shape ... pretty much anything.It was fine up to maybe version 26, then from 27 onwards it has become unusable. It gives no warning, I get the spinning cursor like it's trying to do something, then disappears.Wondering if it is the gfx card as I switched from a 3070ti to the 4070ti.Will try going back to early v26, but that's not useful if clients are supplying artwork from latest version.

Hello community!When trying to save a pattern in Illustrator and going to use it from the Swatches > User Defined section, they either show empty or they show plain colors.Method I use to save: Open the .ai pattern in Illustrator > Swatches > Save Swatches . I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I tried a couple of patterns and it worked, but after that no pattern that I save using the same method is saving properly. Could you please help? Thanks!

I have seen this question posted a bunch of times yet none of them are answered correctly it seems. When I try and paste or place a png with a transparent background into Illustrator CS6 (Windows 8.1 64) it does not recognize the transparency. The silly workaround that I have found is dragging/pasting into Powerpoint first and then cutting and pasting into Illustrator, et voila, transparent background is preserved. What is going on? How can I fix this super annoying problem? Thanks in advance.

I made the update on illustrartor today. I'm now working on a project trying to fill in shapes I've created with the metallic swatches from the swatch library, and it will not fill.  It just stays empty. The standard swatches work, but the others the library ones don't appear to.

Hi there,  I have just installed the trial version of Adobe Illustrator to use the mockup feature.  I have followed the steps but I cannot find the 'make' button to generate the mockup with my images.  Can someone please advise how to make a mockup? Thanks in advance

Hello,  I cannot deal with this constant problem. Ever since the newest update, Adobe Illustrator consistently freezes when using the rotate tool. It is the only tool causing this issue. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I can not get the null sign to disapear when I try to use the live paint tool. I must be missing somthing simple but no clue what. My selected parts have no gaps and properties says it is a live paint area. but does not show in red when I hover and the LPB has the null sign on it when I open it regardless of the options I have selected for it.

When I try to create a new file and enter the parameters for the file, the dialog box just stops working after two tries, and nothing short of a reboot will give me another 2 tries. All buttons stop responding, all the interface fields aren't clickable to enter parameters, and it has forced me to stop all new work. The error started appearing about a month ago, and I hoped the recent updates would fix it, but they made everything worse. I'm on Windows 11, nothing else is running. I get maybe two or three clicks and edits to the New File dialog IN ALL ADOBE APPS and then it just goes dead and the only way I can quit out of the dialog is the top right windows X button. All Adobe buttons just stop working. This has really killed my productivity. Reinstall didn't work. Rebooting didn't work. I'm already fed up with Adobe over predatory Ts&Cs and the lack of value compared to the price tag. When my year's subscription runs out I'm going to have to seriously re-evaluate continu

I wanted to ask how safe is to keep data inside localStorage.setItem(Key, Value).If I want to create extension for Illustrator and want to store license key for that extension inside localStorage. License key in localStorage will be encrypted of course.Is this safe to do such thing?

Hello,By default, in Photoshop, when you move a guide over the entire width, there is a pause that designates the precise center of a document thanks to magnetism. Same on the length.I would like Illustrator to react in the same way, but I can't find the setting in question. I can find the different magnetisms in the "View" menu but despite my attempts, I can't understand which one corresponds to what I want.I am using Illustrator 2023 version 27.6.1Can you help me, please?Thank you.

Illustrator version 28.5.0I have uninstalled and reinstalled Illustrator and Illustrator still crashes when using the "colour swatch options" in the colour swatches. I am now working with Illustrator version 28.4.1 again. Does anyone have the same problem?

i want to change the serial no on this document in illustrator . I saw the way of changing by variable method .I cant apply that solution to this file as that method is for ine doc at a time , in my case i need to change them all in one document . So plz guide me in this regard. 

Seriosuly what on earth is going on Adobe?Illustrator is meant to be the professional standard for the industry.Millions rely on it daily for mission critical work. It is completely unacceptable that with each update the product gets worse and worse and more unstable.I have had our work flow widly interupted basically all year, I even had to get someone from Adobe take over my computer to create fixes which lasted nearly two hours and nothing has been the same since. Hugely inconvenient. The latest version has now stopped launching, just like every other version this year. Need to go back at least 5 versions or more to make anything happen.It's simply not good enough.   

Hello,I've been drawing on illustrator using the blob brush tool and eraser tool, everything was going fine until suddenly the brush tool started deleting chunks outside of where I click.I would erase a part of a shape from one end, then erase another at the second end, then the middle area (where I haven't clicked) gets erased as well.How do I fix this problem and make the eraser tool erase accurately where I click only, and not remove parts of the shapes automatically.Note: I have attached an image of the problem's process.

Hi everyone,I was wondering if anyone has a script to rearrange all arboards in a document? I know there's a feature for that in Illustrator, but I intent to "merge" it with another code that I am currently working on. The script should follow the specs below:- Layout - Grid by Row, Order - Left-to-Right,- 4 columns, spacing 20 pt- Move Artwork with ArtboardThanks in advance,Rogerio

I'm trying to change the color combination of editable text that I found on Adobe stock.  I'm not sure how to change the colors.  When I try to change the color it only changes the top layer.  Here is an example of one of the editable text options that I want to use Editable text style effect - Summer theme style.

I'm on Illustrator 27.7. I noticed unwanted letters randomly getting spilled all over my artboard. Like alphabet soup but without the soup. I can't click on them or edit them, as if they were locked items, but they don't show up in the Layers. But if I toggle visibility for certain layers, these unwanted letters will toggle with it. And if they actually happen to be in the artboard, they will show up in the export. A temporary fix I do is to cut an entire layer and then paste in place, but that's pretty annoying.

Hallo, seit heuet kann ich keine eingebtteten Pdfs in Illustrator frei verzerren. Das ging bis vor kurzem noch. Frei Transformieren ist möglich, aber kein verzerren. Weiss jemand weiter?Danke und VG

Hi there, I am looking for a solution to creating a wavy grid, such as the one in the attached photo, without the lines overlapping. The first attached image is an example of a pre-existing raster file I purchased via Gumroad, however, I wish to create a similar waved grid in Adobe Illustrator so as to have a scaleable vector as well as the option to customize the waves. For context, I have created a grid using paths, created a colored shape as a background, grouped them together and used Envelope Distort > Make with Mesh to create the waves. This seems to work on the back row (that is, the top row) of the mesh but the issue I have is that the inside of the grid doesn't "stick" to the background (see second attached image). I'd be greatful to hear any suggestions or solutions. Thanks!