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When using a colored artboard, the artboard then exports as an object and imports as an object into another .ai file.  The artboard color is described as just being a visible GUI change, but it is acting as an object.  SEE VIDEO.

I've seen lots of answers to variations of this question, but not the specific answer - if there is one!I have 3 versions of artwork on 3 artboards.Can I hide individual artboards – you know, swtich them off and on... like layers – without having to use the layers panel? Thanks

I can find no way to select a range of objects in the layer list. I’ve seen a lot of inaccurate claims, even a video showing Shift-clicking to extend the selection (which is exactly what should happen, since that’s a universal standard across platforms). But this does not work (I’m mostly on Windows, BTW). Dragging with hotkeys also doesn’t work. Is this seriously broken in 2026? What is the point of filtering the list if you can’t multi-select in the results and perform some action? It’s also mind-boggling that there’s no context menu. You can multi-highlight a range of objects by Shift-clicking on their names, but there’s no context menu where you might say “add to selection” or the like. I also tried highlighting a range and then pressing the spacebar. This is the standard for toggling checkboxes with the keyboard. And it’s another standard violated by Adobe here, because it doesn’t work. And finally, even if you have the object list filtered (I am showing only text objects), you ca

Hello! Apologies if I’m not using the correct terminology.I’m using illustrator to create the files that I use with a laser cutter, and in order to minimize superfluous cutting I use “outline" in the pathfinder window to connect pieces. I’m encountering an issue that I’ve never encountered. Outlining two of the shapes creates no issues, but if I outline three it changes what seems to count as inside and outside of an otherwise closed shape. The cutting software can’t cut saying that (paraphrasing) the file includes shapes that aren’t closed.I thought that maybe if I opted not to align the side edges, maybe that would circumvent the problem, but it didn’t:One thing that might be of note: the stroke is aligned to “center” on all three shapes in the stroke window, as are the cap and corner, but once I outline it the cap and corner stay centered and the stroke alignment moves to “inside” alignment (the left box).I can work around this by creating batches of two pieces with a little bit of

Getting this error message in Illustrator now after CC updates and Mac OS Update. Adobe AI Version. 26.2.1Mac OS Monterey 12.3.1 Saving files to a 6TB Seagate External Drive. This has been working for a year with no issues. Just doing a general "Save" after making some revisions to the file.

Illustrator has no master pages, but my free script comes pretty close: it locks shared artwork to the same position on every artboard, something Symbols alone can't do.Short demo: https://tur.nz/23

See Video to understand the issue.Like, are we for real? This is the professional app we’re paying for every month? This is the quality I have to work with?Adobe has lost its path. Can’t even use absolutely basic features anymore. Quality is steadily declining.And don’t blame me for posting this in this forum. I googled and tried to find a working bug report link, which is nonexistent or hidden. This is so utterly untrustworthy, it’s not even funny.

Usually when I place an Ai file into another Ai file it acts like it should: If I make changes to the original, when I go back to the file it’s placed in, it asks if I want to update it. Just now, I placed an Ai file into another Ai file, and instead of placing it, it pasted the artboard from the placed file so that it’s editable in the file it’s been placed into. WHAT?? Is this something new? The backstory is that I’m putting together a presentation of creative concepts to present to a client. The creative is placed into the presentation document multiple times, hence my having one creative development file to edit that automatically updates multiple instances in the presentation doc.  

 When I first open Illustrator, my library works fine. After a certain amount of time, it becomes a static image where I can't click on anything and when I resize the panel, it just elongates or skews the panel like it is an image. This is not true of any other items in my tools. The only way to fix it is to fully quit Illustrator and reopen. It was just happening in Illustrator, but recently has started happening to my InDesign as well.

Since I have done the latest Illustrator update, sometimes when I go to move an object with the selection tool, holding shift to keep the object level, the object won't move where I want it to. A green circle with a plus sign in the middle of it appears, and the object jumps all over the screen or jumps back to where it was, and makes a sound. It is very frustrating. It isn't a snapping issue. I have never had this problem until recently.

My current default type tool is set to the Area Type tool instead of the standard T type tool. How do I change this? Windows 10, Adobe 2019.

My knife tool works when I cut shapes i created; but I used the clipping mask on a photo and now i want to trim it with the knife but the strokes do not appear.

With the direct selection tool (white arrrow) moving over an anchor they show up, but even if the anchor is selected the anchor blue box disappears as soon as the mouse moves away, so its impossible to select a handle.  I can still move an anchor, but its hard to select two anchors to joint the paths etc., sort of like driving blind.  If I click on a path, then hold down the command key, the hollow box anchors show up and the cursor changes into the selection tool.  The hollow boxes show up on selecting using the selection tool (black arrow).  I am pretty direct selection tool was working correctly last week (am an occasional user).I've know the difference between the select tool, direct selection tool, and group selection tool.   I think this happened a year ago and deleting a preference file helped.  I, quit illustrator,  deleted "com.adobe.illustrator.plist" in my user library, and tried again.  that didn't help.

When saving files in Illustrator I'm getting random folders with jumbled letters that appear on my desktop with ".aishm"  What is this and how can it be stopped? 

I am trying to test making a post in the community, but it looks like users can no longer make posts in this community site redesign ?!?!?!

I am on a time limit with a project I have been working on. For some reason, the trim view is completely greyed out when I select any layer on my artboard. Does anyone have any idea how to fix that so I can use trim view?

Wanneer ik dingen opnieuw wil koppelen met items vanuit mijn cc-bibliotheek, dan is de structuur die ik heb aangebracht compleet verdwenen. Alles staat dan door elkaar, waardoor het lastig zoeken is. Kan iemand mij helpen/uitleggen of dit op te lossen en hoe dit werkt?

I have always kept “Auto Update” disabled in the CC app.Since 30.3 was released, Illustrator keeps auto updating. I need it to remain on 30.2.1 due to conflicts with my font manager. Why and how is my Illustrator updating automatically when my settings say otherwise?

I am using Illustrator 30.3. When I open my file it lets me edit and move text and images for about 3 minutes and then it just stops letting me. After that happens, I can only move texts and images using the transform window. As soon as I click using the type button it lays the font down immediatly and doesnt let me click and scroll to change size. Not sure how to capture an image of this but ill just add one.  This is awful. Please help me.  

Hello everyone, We've been experiencing the following two problems with Adobe Illustrator for some time now. After saving and reopening the document, some of the color values have changed in isolated areas. This isn't just 1-2% in black, but sometimes 10-15% in all colors (C, M, Y, K). Even after adjusting the colors in the document again, this problem keeps recurring after saving, closing and reopening the same document.When we create transparency masks for certain jobs and save and reopen the file, they are completely destroyed (i.e., text converted to paths, other vector graphics, or even linked graphics are deleted from the mask, and, for example, only a circle is inserted) or the mask is moved to a completely different position. Even after adjusting the mask again this problem keeps recurring after saving, closing and reopening the same document.See attached files "1_MaskBeforeSaving.png" and "2_MaskAfterSaving.png". This problem doesn't occur for all employees, eve

Bonjour,Je cherche à avoir ce rendu sur une photo dans le but d’imprimer avec un vernis sélectif sur cette partie.Merci pour votre aide.

Bonjour,je cherche à avoir ce rendu pour envoyer un fichier à mon imprimeur.J’ai du mal à trouver les bons réglages.Merci pour votre aide.

I want to unite these two sublayers and make it one. Is it possible? That means final result should be one sublayer. File is attached.MW  

Basically, title. Using alt +  mousewheel to zoom in and out is very laggy and slow (5-10 seconds to update). No issues on previous version or using zoom tool. Issue persists with animated zoom disabled and enabling "zoom with mousewheel". Navigating the document with mousewheel causes the same issue.

Hi everyone,After updating Illustrator from version 30, I’ve encountered some issues in my extensions involving app.selection and app.executeMenuCommand().It seems the variable var doc = app.activeDocument; loses its reference/value immediately after using the methods mentioned above.Example: var doc = app.activeDocument; alert(doc); app.selection = null; alert(doc);First alert gives this result: ---------------------------Script Alert---------------------------[Document Untitled-2]---------------------------OK ---------------------------Second alert returns:---------------------------Script Alert---------------------------[Document ]---------------------------OK ---------------------------If i call same code from ExtendedScript toolkit everything works fine, when i call from extension, then its breaks.One solution what helped to bypass this, is add “app.redraw()” sandwich. var doc = app.activeDocument; alert(doc); app.redraw(); app.selection = null; app.redraw(); ale