Questions

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

This is a tutorial file. I wish to change the color of one ball only. Is there any way to do so? file is attached as well.Cup-Ball 

We are using Illustrator 2025 (29.4), and a customer sent in an Illustrator file to replace a PDF that they sent us.When we open the file, it warns us that the font is missing. We cancelled to see where it is being used, but no text was highlighted. Then we open the Find/Replace Font dialog box, and it does not flag the fonts as missing.  So our user assumed that the fonts got loaded from the Creative Cloud, and made a PDF. The PDF has the wrong font showing, as it substituted a default font. And now we have to reprint the piece because of this issue with Illustrator. So doing some testing to figure out where the problem lands. I checked all the same dialog boxes that the user did. But I also checked the Missing Fonts dialog box, and it shows the ones that are missing, but still no text is highlighted.Next, I 'Reset All Warning Dialogs', and got the same issue.Then, I 'Reset Preferences', and got the same issue.I'm pretty sure it's an Illustrator 2025 issue at this point.But

Basically, what the title says- Latest Illustrator on Windows 11. I have a large list of actions that I use daily, and I have them all assigned to the “F” keys along with combinations of the shift and control keys. I just made 3 new actions, and I have Shift+Control F2, F3, and F4 available as shortcuts. The problem is, Shift+Control+F4 is grayed out and there is nothing I have been able to do to unlock it. I don’t see anything else using it either. What can I do to get this working?

我最近将illustrator和photoshop都升级到了最新版，但是在illustrator的文本图层输入文本时，每当我在第一个字符后面或者前面加入空格，光标便会往后延伸一大截，延伸出的这段距离便无法删除，我不得不直接删除整个文本图层重新开始编辑文本，我甚至不敢再往第一个字符前后敲空格，这又会让问题再次出现我的photoshop也有这个问题，但它更严重，这直接造成整个软件无响应卡死。我该怎么做才能解决这个问题？光标左边的空格无法删除，这直接造成我的应用程序卡死 

Is Adobe’s new Layout Variations feature currently available in the illustrator beta version?I’m not seeing Layout Variations in the toolbar in my beta version.I’m just curious if this feature, as shown in the video Project Remix a Lot - GS3-2, is accessible in the current beta version, as the layout variations toolbar isn’t showing up for me.

changing cmyk values seems to be broken.

Illustrator keeps saying not responding when I try to use.Every time I open Illustrator, it seems like it’s working normally but as soon as I put mouse pointer on the Illustrator window the pointer changes to a loading cursor and I can’t use it. It’s weird because if I don’t put pointer on the Illustrator window, and use keyboard instead of pointer it works.I tried to uninstall Illustrator and install it again, adding .old to the adobe illustrator folders in library folder, updated macOS software, and installing old versions of illustrator. None of them worked tho.It’s been like this for weeks and I need to do some work so please help. I screen recorded what happens when I try to use illustrator.

I had to install Adobe Log Collector Tool yesterday for the agent to diagnose why Illustrator could no longer save work. After installing, it replaced my hard-drive for my macbook on the desktop with the Adobe Log Collector Tool drive and all my desktop folders and screenshots disappeared. Apple customer support could not find them anywhere and was no help. Has this happened to anyone else? Adobe says it’s not their product, but there’s definitely a bug in their software for this to happen. I’m using a Macbook Pro 2023 with Ventura. 

Hello! I’ve got this issue where my illustrator app (up to date) freezes for a few moments any time i specifically use the alt + zoom function. If i press Z and then drag left or right, the zoom is perfectly smooth, but for some reason the alt zoom just completely freezes up my illustrator for like 5 seconds at a time. I’ve got a 4080 super graphics card that i have toggled on and off in GPU performance, GPU view, turned animated zoom on and off, and even set illustrator as a high performance application in the nvidia control panel, as well as uninstalled and reinstalled the application. Would love to know if anyone else has had this issue! Ultimately i can do without it i guess, but i’ve been using this zoom reflexively for an absurd amount of time, maybe 7 years at this point, and for some reason on this machine i’m currently working on its messed up. Thanks! 

Hi,I was just wondering how to open the .aid recovery files created by illustrator when data recovery is setup.Thanks.

When I open my PDF in illustrator it appears like the boxes. how can i solve this?  

Hi, before last 2025 CC apps updates, i used to add pantone colors to illustrator and indesign with pantone connect plug in. But now, the "add color to app swatch" is missing, i don't know why. So my question is, how can i import Pantone TPG colors to illustrator ? Other swatches can be added with old illustrator versions, but not TPG swatches.Cheers :x

Illustrator crashes every single time I try to export a PDF. I have deadlines and very important work that are at risk of not being delivered thanks to this. Supposedly the best software in the world and this happens?? I have a Mac Book Pro with IOS Tahoe 6.4.1 (25E253), bought 5 months ago, with a Pro Adobe license. There is no plausible excuse for this to happen. I need help ASAP

 MacOS Tahoe 26.3.1Macbook Pro M1, 16/1TBNew document, save = error «This file cannot be found».To keep my new work I have to open another existing file and copy and paste all my work over to that file.Totally heinous, Bill and Ted!

I was working on a project in Illustrator a few hours ago, had gone out of the window for a second and when I entered the app again (literally seconds later) everything was gone. I updated Illustrator. I tried searching in my Mac Finder for Illustrator Cache and there are no files for it at all. After updating, it showed some of my previous projects, but not the one that I’ve been working on. It shows in the thumbnail all my artboards for that project, but it only opens one of the files I had previously downloaded on my Mac. I have tied ten times to connect to Adobe Support and after ten minutes of waiting for the chatbot to connect me, it just closes the window and asks me to rate the conversation (that I never had!!!) I’m incredibly frustrated. I’m a wedding invitation designer and I’ve been working on this suite for two weeks! Everything had been saved in Creative Cloud but now I can’t even get it to pull up on there. Surely all of this is SOMEWHERE?!?! Please help :( 

I’m creating a laser cut PVC jig for woodworking that needs a very high degree of accuracy.  I have a shape which is essentially a rectangle (with rounded corners) with the two vertical sides angled in by around 0.80 degrees.  I now need to continue those lines slightly further (maintaining the angle) without messing the other parameters or position up.  I can’t figure out how best to do this…! Any thoughts appreciated - thanks. 

...it only renders 1/10th of the dpi set. And since rasterize() caps at 2400dpi, only 240dpi is possible.Any neat ideas or work-arounds other than scaling the document 10x before rasterizing?

Open Illustrator, select Create New, new box pops up with print, web, mobile, etc. preset options - when I select the "print" option, the units are in points, how can I save this preset to display in inches? Selecting inches in "general" preferences does not fix this.

This only started happening recently and I'm not sure what to do to fix it.  Whenever I export a file using the "Export as..." feature, I'll navigate to the location where it was previously exported and click the "Export" button.  I used to get an overwrite notification asking if I wished to do so and I'd just click yes or no.  Now, for some reason, that notification isn't triggering and Adobe Illustrator is just overwriting.  I tried using Windows Explorer to copy and paste a file to the same location, and Windows "does" give the standard notification to confirm overwrite.  It's only when I'm using Illustrator, that it's skipping that step.A co-worker of mine is using the same version of AI and doesn't have this problem so I'm wondering if there's a setting somewhere that I inadvertently turned on that's causing it to act this way.Please help. *edit* - I've determined that this only happens when I have "Use Artboards" checked off in the export dialog box.

Necesito descargar la versión 2023 (27x) de Adobe Illustrator, ya que desde la aplicación de Creative Cloud Desktop no me deja descargar versiones anteriores y mi equipo no es compatible con las versiones más recientes, en mi equipo tengo Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2, espero me puedan proporcionar el instalador del programa en versión 2023 (27x).

I would like to create a shortcut on the keyboard as Ctrl+L to execute a script file on the illustrator how can I do this?

Cuando agrupo elementos "desaparecen" de la visual pero siguen ahí aunque no se vean. Tengo que dar a previsualización cada vez.