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Hi all,My windows PC crashed and gave me the blue ":(" screen. I had a project open in illustrator which had autosave turned on. When it restarted all the work i'd done on that file was deleted (6+ hours). Is there anything I can do to recover my work? I'm on windows 11 with the most recent Illustrator version.Thanks!

Não é só no Illustrator, mas em todos os programas da Creative Clound.Simplesmente parou de funcionar o atalho da barra de espaço! Do nada! O que dificulta muito o trabalho.Percebi que muitos usuários estão tendo esse problema e ninguém consegue resolver efetivamente. 

I have always been able to save from Illustrator to PDF 1.4 or later and the transparency is retained on PNGs and on vectors where the transparency is reduced. Over the last few days all PDFs presets (except 1.3 with Advanced switched to High Resolution) are not doing this? Am I missing something? Always worked without even thinking about it, now every transparency is printing with a ghost box around it? And vectors with lowered transparency values are printing as 100%. STUMPED! Have tried everything I can think of, but only the PDF 1.3 setting removes the boxes and prints transparency currently.Is this an issue with the latest Illustrator update? Any one any ideas?thanks.

The "Apply To All" check box has come and gone (with many complaints) over the last few years. It seems Adobe wants to get rid of it. I totally disagree if that is the intention. I have been using Adobe Illustrator since it was launched way back in 88. I can tell you that I use "Apply To All" frequently; I do it on purpose. It is a very fast way to version creative with a new photo or a new logo. I simply rename the asset I want to replace by adding a "-" at the end of the name. Then, I open the Illustrator file; when it says that it cannot find the asset, I tell it to use the asset I actually want ot use by clicking on the new asset, then clicking on "Apply To All". Without the "Apply To All" option, I have to manually click over and over again to replace the asset. It is slow and annoying. Please add back the "Apply To All".

Hi!  I started my design in regular preview (pixel), then somehow it turned into "white" mode = overprint preview. No I ccan't change back to Pixel preview. It changes for a second then says "Error" but not a reason.. I would love help! 

Hi everyone!This may be an obvious question but i just have no idea where i'm going wrong (still a beginner in illustrator). No matter what brush i'm using, i keep getting these weird spikes at the end of my brush strokes. 

Hello, I have come across this bug on 2 different machines now. I tried searching the forums but it seems nobody else has had this issue? It only happens every now and then, but there seem to be certain fonts that "disappear" (don't display properly.) I'm attaching a video to try and explain what I mean. In the video I create a text box with one font that "works" fine, then change it to the font that "disappears." The text is still in the text box, it just doesn't display that it is. But, what's even weirder is that when I try to expand the broken text, it creates a completely empty group, as if the text WASN'T there afterall. I feel like I'm going crazy, any ideas?

Üdvözlet!Pár hete kezdődött a probléma. Az illustrator indításakor a gép teljesen lefagy. Még a ctr+alt+del sem segít, csak egy reset. 3 gépen van különböző előfizetésünk, de mindháromnál ugyan ez a helyzet.Találtam megoldást, ha indításkor gyorsan kilövöm az "Adobe CEP HTML Engine-t, akkor elindul a program és használható. Újratelepítés nem segített. Premierrel ugyan ez a helyzet.Másnál nincsen ilyen probléma?Greetings!The problem started a few weeks ago. When starting illustrator, the machine freezes completely. Even ctr+alt+ does not help, only a hard reset. We have different subscriptions on 3 machines, but all three have the same problem.I have found a solution, if I quickly launch the "Adobe CEP HTML Engine on startup, the program starts and is usable. Reinstalling did not help. With Premier the same thing.No one else has this problem?

I've lost a ridiculous amount of work the past two days with Illustrator crashing. I know, shame on me for not saving often... yada yada... that's why the settings default to save in the background every 5 minutes. Come to today's issue - Illustrator crashes... when prompted to 'Recover' files it brings up a barren untouched file, with NO [recovered] tag at the end of the file name... When I go to the files to locate the recovery files, I see ZERO files from today's date or any date between the present and NOVEMBER 23!!!!!!! HOW THE HELL IS THIS A THING? WHY IS IT A THING! Why is Illustrator all of a sudden tanking hard, and why is it not saving files properly???? How do I fix?

Text on path isn't showing on the assets when I export them! Im using "export as" so I can change the res settings and transparency. It might be the font? As different fonts seem to work better.The only way I can get it to work is if I select the path (that has the type on it) with the type tool and then export.. Screenshots below.

let me ask you, why do we use adobe illustrator in the first place anyway ? " to get a sharp, clear, vector artwork, which not jagged, pixelated, or NEEDS for an ANTI ALIASING " i ventured a long journey from adobe photoshop 7 (wait, hear me out) and at that time, i never knew Ai (not Ai for name at that time). I pretty sure that people never get this .. annoying jagged line when using Ai (except for newbie who accidentaly turn Pixel preview ON)so.... what happened in Ai CC 2020 ? did brainiac in Adobe had seizure or what ? when does ... Ai need some anti Aliasing ???or is it just a mock in the face? like, "go buy latest VGA you poor!, we gonna force you to upgrade since we add an anti aliasing layer when running Ai, you can turn it off, but you will get some Jagged Edge! muahahahaha!" ...  please disagree with me, i want to hear from a person who have tons of gold, so he/she never had a problem with a hardware upgrade, so this problem is not their problem at a

Bonjour, je viens d'installer adobe creative cloud le pack d'abonnement étudient. Je n'arrive pas à installer les divers applications comme adobe illustrator. J'aimerais avoir quelques éclairsissement sur le type de marque et de modèle de tablette, d'ordinateur portable ou de bureau, qui me permetrons de pouvoir utiliser Adobe ilustrator. Merci, Cordialement.

Hi, I wonder if it is possible to compare dielines and show the differences between them. Let´s say that we have a file with a Dieline but it is updated with a new one. How to compare both and show the differences between them? Thank you! 

I have a logo that I ultimatly need rendered properly in a PDF to send for proofing. It has a overprint effect in it but I can't figure out a way to export it as a tif or jpg with a simulated overprint. What I have tried:Export as tif and export as jpg (from Illustrator CS5). Neither export has a simulate overprint option, and both export with a big green blob on top of everything (the green blob is the shape that is overprinting)Save as PDF, press ready, defaults to view of green blob (not simulated overprinting)Save as PDF, change to PDF 1.3, in advanced flattening I set overprint to preserve, and high resolution. Same result as above.In a PDF I can turn on the overprint preview, but I can't make that a default (as far as I know). Additionally, I am sending this to a client, I don't want to have to tell him "Oh, and by the way, here are the 10 steps to simulating overprinting in PDFs!"Also I have tried to import from PDF to Photoshop and there is no option for simulated overprint the

Hello,How may i fix this? when i zoom out of a picture, it becomes stripped out like the image attached. If zoomed up close, it is fine.  

Hi,Now I using this way to get the swatch name using fillColor.// Function to get the name of the swatch based on the fill color function getSwatchNameByFillColor(fillColor) { var doc = app.activeDocument; var swatches = doc.swatches; for (var i = 0; i < swatches.length; i++) { var swatch = swatches[i]; if (compareColors(fillColor, swatch.color)) { return swatch.name; } } return "No matching swatch found"; } // Function to compare two colors function compareColors(color1, color2) { if (color1.typename == color2.typename) { switch (color1.typename) { case "SpotColor": return color1.spot.name == color2.spot.name; case "GradientColor": return color1.gradient.name == color2.gradient.name; case "PatternColor": return color1.pattern.name == color2.pattern.name; case "RGBColor": return color1.red == co

Hi all , is it possible to convert RasterItem to placedItem in illustrator? Using script.i have rasterise the placedItem manually but when I check it through the script It shows the typename as placedItem.

No se si existe o no, pero sería interesante que en la ventana de capas hubiera una opción que te deje eliminar capas ocultas, que te deje visualizar capas bloqueadas. 

HelloEnglish is not my first language, so if I cannot express the matter properly, please feel free to ask... Features in my software are German, so maybe some translations are not exactly what they are named in English...The issue:I want to distort objects to isometric perspective. I want NO embossed lines, no material, no pixelation. Therefore, I apply the effect 3D rotate (classic).When doing, Illustrator creates a clipping mask, so that some parts of the object are not visible. I can't edit this clipping mask without expanding appearance. This leaves me with not being able to edit the undistorted object. Expanding appearance is a workaround but not suitable. This problem occurs with every kind of object (image, text, vector graphics).  THis method worked before, so what happende here and how can I fix this?Using 3D and Materials is not an option since this rasterizes the object and affects the colours

Hi Illustrator Community, I've been using Illustrator for years and recently switched to the Beta version, which initially resolved a long-standing issue I had with the program. The problem was with the canvas movement on touchpad. In the official Illustrator release, the canvas would crash when trying to move it without pressing SPACE and dragging. The Beta version fixed this, and it's been the main reason I preferred using it. However, after updating to version 28.7 today, the issue has returned. The canvas movement is glitchy again, making it feel like I'm using an old computer. I'm on a macOS M1 2020 with 8GB RAM. This bug is incredibly frustrating and disrupts my workflow. Could you please look into this and fix it? The Beta version was such a relief, and I'd love to have that smooth experience back. Thanks! Last Illustrator (Beta) without issue:

Some tools is grey and I can not use it: polygon, scal, star,..Please help me to resolve it.

How do I get the options for these brushes?Double clicking doesn't work.

I know this is a simple question, I just started using the cc app to save on as well... and I don't see an option to just save 1 artbord

I am a photographer i am trying to print a brochure with examples of my work however when the printer sent the file over for a proof check I could see the colours were off. I provided the file to them in PDF format (the file was made in canva which naturally creates an RGB PDF and you can't covert). I understand the gamut is more limited with CMYK which is why my files are looking this way now.  They have advised me to convert the images to CMYK by comparing their version of the brochure to my original RGB images and altering each one as needed. How do i go about doing this? Is my best bet to get into Illustrator and manually tweak each of the images and then add them back into the PDF? Should I just find another printer who can help with this more?   Many thanks 

I am trying to export two 20ft wide x 4ft tall banners for a festival. Illustrator won't export the files as the correct size! It is exporting them very very small and will look extremely fuzzy when printed.  I have one other banner 10ft wide x 4ft tall that I will also need to export. I haven't tried yet but I imagine I'll just run into the same issue. These files were created by someone else a year ago, I was just uploading some of the information on them. Obviously these files were used to successfully create and print these banners in the past. I do not understand how to make them work now. Please help, I need to order these banners today. How can I export them as the correct side?