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I have been using Adobe Illustrator for several years and never ran into issues regarding the fonts but recently, as of the past several months my fonts will deactivate on projects. I know it's best to expand texts to avoid this happening but on a lot of projects I need to go back to and quickly revise on a monthly basis. With that being said, my fonts on a whole project have been deactivated and are showing that I have no fonts downloaded on creative cloud. However, if I go to Adobe Font, all of my fonts are still "activated". It's a lot of back and forth to fix this issue, I am wondering if anyone has run into this issue and if so, what are your suggestions to correcting it? I work on a MacBook Pro. 

Hi. Sorry for interrupting your day, but i want request to add bezier tool like CorelDRAW in Adobe Illustrator. Thank you

Searching for ways I can  “see” if my printed pictures will be bright enough before I print them! 

When I copy and paste my CAD/shape from one illustrator document to another, the scale of the swatch pattern in the CAD/shape gets smaller. I have checked the document settings and everything seems to be the same.What could be causing this?

I am having issues exporting my Illustrator files into .png. No matter how high the resolution is set to, the exported image still turns out blurry. Adobe support was no help, they basically gave up because they had no idea what to do. They deleted all Adobe programs off of my computer and tried reinstalling and it did not help as well as some other troubleshooting steps. My exported pdfs look clear. I have also tried exporting other files to see if the one I am working on is messed up, yet they all still export blurry. My file is just a standard business card in the standard size.Thanks in advance

Good morning, The process that we use involves taking a design and creating a layout from it. One of the steps that we use is expanding the shapes that have a stroke around the border. Whenever I use this tool, it sometimes changes the width of the stroke (which needs to stay uniform throughout). It usually happens with more curvy shapes. I was wondering if there is a work-around for this or if it is a graphics/computer issue. Thanks!

Hello!I recently got a new computer and reinstalled the Adobe Illustrator and other Adobe software, and now I can´t open SVG-files that I previously created and could open. And the strange thing is that in Adobe Bridge, some SVG-files does not have a thumbnail but some do. And those who do have a thumbnail, those I can open. I get the error message, see pictures below. I have added two files, one that dont work and one that do. The file that dont work is 20066, anbd the file that do work is 20125.   Please help! 🙂 

Hey all. I booted up Illustrator this morning [a W10 PC] to suddenly find that none of the toolbars or workspaces show up, just the artboard.I can toggle each element separately [Layers etc] on from the menu above, but they do not remain with a fresh session, and trying to even switch to one of the default Workspaces [less my own] does nothing.I’ve tried resetting to the default Preferences, as well as making sure I’ve not selected the Tab key on my keyboard somehow by mistake - but to no avail [of course].Just wondered if there was anything else I could do before trying this Creative Cloud Cleaner tool for a clean installation? I’ve never had this particular problem in all my years with the program. And I’ve been on this latest public version since it went live, so weird how it just happened now.

Last week, I ran into what seems to be massive file bloat when I am saving files with linked raster images that’s making my files completely unusable. These are stable, well-tested files that weren’t a problem previously. It’s happened with other files recently, but this time I did some testing. This particular workflow that I’ve been using for years is for wallpaper, where panels are 25” wide at variable heights. I keep a library of prepped pattern tiles that get imported into the Illustrator file and tiled to fill the height and width of the full panel count. These are a mix of vector and raster at various sizes. Depending on material, there are two layouts - overlap (panels overlap the previous by 0.75”) and buttseam (panels meet at the edges). Initial setup for overlap has one artboard for each panel where they lay over each other to pull bleed and overlap from the neighboring panel. Buttseam has 2 panels per artboard which are right next to each other so that bleed comes from the

Ever since I updated to Tahoe, Illustrator hasn’t been working on my Mac Studio M2 Max (32 GB of RAM). It freezes on the start-up screen, stops responding, the spinning wheel appears, and I’m forced to force quit.Adobe support asked me for remote access this morning, but all they did was uninstall the latest version (30.4) and install 30.0. It worked for a while, then back to square one. I’ve tried disabling the GPU, I’ve tried installing version 29; it works for a few launches and then nothing, it just freezes again. I don’t know what else to try. 

맥에서 일러스트레이터를 주로 사용하고 가끔 포토샵을 사용하는데 사용자 폴더가 과도하게 용량이 큽니다다른 프로그램은 사용안해서 어도비프로그램이 확실합니다 라이브러리 캐시 항목이 232기가로 되어있는데 이건 어떻게 처리할수 있나요? 들어가서 개별폴더를 확인해보면 용량큰항목이 안보입니다그리고 인터넷 연결이 매번 안되는 상황이라 업데이트 이전에는 가끔만 인터넷 연결후 구독확인을 요청했는데 지금은 매번 인터넷을 연결안하면 사용이 불가한거 맞나요? 그리고 이전에는 그러지 않았는데 매번 실행할때마다 앱 데이터에 접근하는 것을 허용해줘야합니다

Ik zoek oplossing voor functies in Illustator. “Patroon, verstrengelen, herhalen, object op pad, overvloeien ...” werken niet

Having an issue in Illustrator. Creating a shape in Illustrator and trying to make it a hyperlink for final PDF export. I open the Attributes box but can't paste in url address needed. I can manually type in to URL box but can't paste long URL address straight in to it.

Hi all,We currently print (send files) directly from Adobe Illustrator to the Epilog laser cutter. When print is selected the dialogue box has a settings button which, when clicked, opens an Epilog settings box that allows the user to change settings such as power and speed. All was fine until the IT department upgraded to Windows 11. Now we cannot get the setting box to appear. If we try and send a print job from another program (eg Notepad) to the laser cutter we are able to bring up the Epilog settings box so I’m thinking this is rather an Adobe issue than a windows 11 issue. Any help appreciated. Thanks

MacBook Pro - Version macOS Tahoe 26.4.1New work computer, full adobe account, Illustrator freezes on every launch, spinning beachball.Have to force quit and restart, at most two times to get it working.Be awesome if I didn’t have to do that on a brand new mac.

I’m copying an object from one art board and pasting it into the same location on another art board in the same document (and yes I’m selecting the correct art boards whilst doing this). For some reason in this file (which was originally a PDF) when I go to paste in place on the 2nd art board, it pastes the object off the board. I’ve attached the illustrator file so you can play this game aswell. Try copying the red square on the first art board and paste it in place on the 2nd art board. See if you can get it to paste in the correct location - or like me - it pastes it off the top art board (as in the attached screenshot). Does anyone know what I have to do to fix this. And yes I’ve quit illustrator and tried again and this problem still persists. 😀 You can download the ai file here:  https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/d1f27491-8cd2-43ed-ba17-01ef6b59765c 

Hi everyone ~I have several versions of Photoshop installed, but I want to open the selected image in a specific version of Photoshop from within Illustrator, such as “C:\Ps2026\Photoshop.exe”.If you could help me solve this using a script, I would really appreciate it.You can copy the directory containing the installed Photoshop.exe to the C drive to test it.Thank you. 

What process/sequence should be used to get ‘raw’ (just downloaded from my camera) into the right size/resolution/ for general web and thumbnails.What I have been trying:  Crop the image (jpeg) (mine range from 2000 kb - 5000 kb) Scale the image to a width no wider than 1200 px for pc screens. Export the image at 1x and .7x-.8x webp format.  (The latter sizes for Thumbnails)For people who do this on a regular basis, what process do you use?  (My AI defaults to 72 ppi)

The top control bar has vanished in adobe illustrator, I have tried clicking control from the window options and it still will not appear. I’ve also tried all the different screen modes, plus choosing the contol option and it still will not come back. Anyone els ehad this problem, it is extremely frustrating as the control bar is a big part of my work flow

Hi everyone, Illustrator keeps crashing at startup. I have tried reinstalling but that doesn’t change anything. I have tried restarting my computer, and it sometimes works, but normally I have to keep restarting up to two or three times before it works and I have to go therough this process everytime I want to open it. It’s really affecting my ability to work. Any help would be much appreciated. Best, Andrew  

I haven’t used Illustrator for a while, but I’m honestly shocked at how poor the performance is. For context: I have a relatively high-end PC (Intel 265K, 64GB DDR5 RAM, RTX 3080), and I’ve had my fair share of performance issues across all Adobe apps.Premiere has improved to a somewhat usable state. Lightroom is still laggy - I have to disable GPU acceleration to make it usable. Photoshop works, but it takes around 2 minutes to fully boot, during which I can’t click anything.But Illustrator is on a completely different level.Zooming is basically unusable. You do it once and commit, because it can take up to a minute to actually respond. If you zoom in and out a few times, you might as well go grab a coffee - and when you come back, maybe it’s done. If not, the viewport will keep jumping and you’ll just end up misclicking everything. What’s most frustrating is that this doesn’t feel like a hardware limitation at all. It feels like these apps are built on an ancient architecture with la

I uninstalled creative cloud and redownloaded it and now saved files wont show up. I had files on illustrator that I know I saved but now don’t show up at all. Certain files show only their older version and not their most recent version. I have a macbook air if that makes any difference.

I have a script that I will be using frequently, but going to File > Scripts every time may become pretty tiring - even though it's very useful. Is it possible to build a panel or create a button that will activate a script? I have some coding knowledge and am willing to try making it myself if someone can point me in the right direction...

Hey all, I’ve tried doing a search to see if I can figure this out, but it seems to me something has changed in the last few years and nothing suggested is an option anymore. I have an illustrator file with several things in it, but I would like to be able to save a copy with only what is on the artboard. I have seen this done before, and people in the past seem to have been able to do it, but i’ve tried everything I can find and can’t seem to manage it.  I have tried saving a copy, exporting for screens (does work but can’t be opened by anyone else, comes up with an error page when someone tries to open), save as > export artboards, just about everything out there. The only other workaround I can think of is to make a copy of the file and just delete everything else several times over for all the different things I want a copy of, but that seems more tedious then it needs to be and I would like to see if I can do something better in future as well.Thanks!