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I tried a single Colorful Trace Of Light but it does not come to me. How to get it? Video is uploaded.It glows! How To Create A Colorful Trace Of Light With IllustratorTime 3.57 

Hi, I’m working on a surface pattern tile and I tried to copy and paste in back with no fill and no stroke a bounding box.  It keeps giving me borders on my repeating pattern.  I’ve also opened the appearance panel to check my layers and do not see anything applied?  I feel I’ve googled as much as I could and I really want to figure this out.  Please help.  Here’s a screen shot of my workspace. My pattern is on the left and the swatch/repeating pattern is on the right.  Thanks.  

I want to make the elements/symbols inside the cards editableI created a ton of symbols and “nested” other symbols inside.I’ve create symbols for the suits, values, cards etcSo for example here we have:Flop contains > Card Master x 3Card Master contains > Spade x 2 and “Card Value  Anyways ideally I’d like to somehow create editable variants so I can replace suits and values etc. Something similar to what you can do in Figma etc Is this possible in Illustrator? Do I need a plug-in or script?

Oi, tudo bem?Estou tendo um problema para carregar planilha CSV no illustrator para utilizar a função de dados variáveis. Fiz tudo de acordo com a página oficial da Adobe (https://helpx.adobe.com/br/illustrator/using/data-driven-graphics-templates-variables.html) e salvei o arquivo certinho, mas dá o erro "A biblioteca de dados variáveis de entrada é inválida". O curioso é que notei que sempre que o arquivo tem mais de uma coluna, dá esse erro. Tentei deletar colunas e deixar só com uma, e o arquivo vai normalmente.  Alguém já passou por isso? Alguma dica de como resolver? Preciso fazer mais de 5 mil arquivos e preciso muito que minha planilha sincronize rsrsrs 

Is Illustrator v30.1 on macOS actually usable right now?Why is the jumping bug back again?On a MacBook Pro (and I reasonably assume other MacBooks as well), when I move an object using three-finger drag, the moment I release it, the object randomly jumps to another position — with no warning and no logical pattern. How is this acceptable behavior in a production tool?At what point does this stop being a “minor bug” and start being classified as not workable?Yes, I’m aware there are “workarounds.”Should users:Avoid this version entirely? Stop using three-finger drag? Switch to two-finger gestures? Or just use a mouse instead (seriously)?But why should any of this be necessary in the first place?Is Adobe’s current expectation really that paying subscribers should adapt their workflow around such low-level input failures?And more importantly — does Adobe genuinely believe issues like this won’t lead users to cancel their subscriptions? Oddly enough, I’ve recently begun seriously consideri

I have issue when working with shapes and lines, when zooming-in it appears as there is extra or expanded fill out of the drawn path, and it rigs the overall shape/element I’m designing (such as: shapes, forms, outlined letters etc.)I attached a screenshot as an exampleI’m using Adobe Illustrator 30.0

Al abrir un PDF hay imágenes que se ven oscuras, como en la imagen. Pero si lo abro con un visor o con photoshop se ven correctamente. Adjunto el PDF 

Hi everyone :)I’ve been trying to find a solution to this problem for a while, but haven’t been able to resolve it. I need to create a clipping mask of a photographic image (currently a png) that has a transparent background. For example, I need to create a clipping mask of the cat image, that is detailed enough to capture the hair etc.  So far I have achieved something close to what I need by image tracing the png image and then creating a clipping mask from that.  This shows what I’ve achieve so far, with the clipping mask overlayed on the png image.  Ideally I want to achieve something that has a degree of transparency in the clipping mask. For example, I need to achieve something similar to this below:   Any help would be greatly appreciated! :)

I have a multi-artboard file that has two images placed and then clipped multiple times in the file. I saved and closed the file last night. When I opened it this morning, the placed images were HUGE, like too big to fit on the artboard, and no where near where they should have been. I basically had to rebuild, thank goodness I have a PDF to refer to for positioning. Ai 30.1, Mac OS 26.2.Screen shot shows the layers with one of the images selected so you can see where it is on the art board, and its size. It’s supposed to be showing in a box in the middle of the 2nd largest artboard. This compostion is placed in the file multiple times. They all behave the same.So far it’s only happening with this one file.Any thoughts on why this happens and how to fix it? Thanks.

Hi Adobe Community, I'm encountering a perplexing issue with Adobe Illustrator. When I open a file, it briefly shows the contents for a split second, but then everything on the canvas disappears, leaving only a plain background. Despite this, I can still see all my layers and their contents in the layers panel, but no artwork is visible on the actual canvas. I've tried installing different versions of Illustrator, but the problem persists. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Any advice on how to resolve it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help!

Ok so i'm pretty new to the program, the guides have been working but have suddenly stopped.I can see the dotted lines when i pull from the ruler but when i release they don't show and disappear.The layer is unlocked, i have smart guides ticked, i've checked and i'm not hiding guides, my colour is set to cyan.So what am i doing wrong.thanks in advance

Is anyone else having trouble with Illustrator's Character panel? When you search for a font, it won't let you select it with the cursor, and when you click, the panel closes. Let me know if there is any way to correct this

Issue Summary:We're experiencing a severe color shift issue when embedding transparent PNGs with Adobe RGB color profiles in Illustrator. This began recently and did not occur in previous versions. The same images look correct in Photoshop and when linked in Illustrator, but shift colors significantly when embedded — especially affecting skin tones and blues/purples. Key Details:Our team uses thousands of transparent PNGs daily across our product catalog.We've experienced historical color issues with untagged PNGs, which we resolved last year by saving all assets via Photoshop's "Export As" to retain an embedded RGB profile (either sRGB or Adobe RGB).Until recently, both sRGB and Adobe RGB PNGs embedded without issue. Current Problem (as of Sept 2025):PNGs with Adobe RGB profiles now shift color when embedded in Illustrator.PNGs with sRGB profiles do not shift when embedded.Strangely, previously-problematic untagged PNGs (no profile) now embed without color shifting.The color

It is years I'm wondering why sometimes the text (expecially punctuations) ends up outside the text box. Does anyone have a solution to fix it? It doesn't seems to be a problem of optical margin.Here a screenshot of my issue 

I thought this was "Cavalier" font, but I'm not sure. Can anyone help?  

In Illustrator when zooming in using the ctrl Mouse scroll zoom Illustrator becomes super laggy and clunky (even if there is a simple shape on the artboard), I think I may have found the issue being my resolution and refresh rate?  Does anyone know if there is a way around this to make zooming smoother? My PC info is below. Monitor: Pro Art 2050 x 1440 at 100hzGPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12 GB) CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor 3.60 GHzInstalled RAM: 16.0 GB Thank You!

How to achieve this fill effect or fill pattern ?I tried creating a halftone screen, rasterizing, and replacing the dot with a triangle (via script), but the effect I got wasn't the same.Obviously, the object to which I apply this fill doesn't have to have a particular shape like the one in the attached file, which vaguely resembles a trapezoid.How would you achieve this fill? thx for your help

I'm not entirely sure when it started happening but I can replicate this almost every time. When I work with dashed strokes in Illustrator, I can expect the app to hang almost immediately. I've turned off the GPU acceleration because of other issues (why Adobe can't code to a single spec with Apple Silicon, we'll likely never know) and the issue still persists. I know there has been at least one extremely loathed reset of app preferences followed by days of anger at having to put everything back together the way I prefer it. Nothig has fixed the dashes crashing AI bug yet. Anyone else have this issue with dashes? I have an M1 Mac Studio with the latest OS and all my Adobe apps are up to date.

Is there a way to get the working CMYK and RGB profile names in Adobe Illustator with ExtendScript without relying on an open docuement so that I don’t have to see the window flashing?Below is the best I could come up with: function getProfile(targetMode) { if (targetMode !== "RGB" && targetMode !== "CMYK") { targetMode = "CMYK"; } var originalDoc = null; if (app.documents.length > 0) { originalDoc = app.activeDocument; } if (originalDoc) { if ( (targetMode === "RGB" && originalDoc.documentColorSpace === DocumentColorSpace.RGB) || (targetMode === "CMYK" && originalDoc.documentColorSpace === DocumentColorSpace.CMYK) ) { return originalDoc.colorProfileName; } } var docColorSpace = (targetMode === "CMYK") ? DocumentColorSpace.CMYK : DocumentColorSpace.RGB; var tempDoc = app.documents.add(docColorSpace, 1, 1); var profile = tempDoc.colorProfileName;

i have created this logo from another logo and joined it together using shapebuilder. when i size it down it creates a horrible issue with the “E”. i have checked layers and outline view and there is nothing to suggest there’s an error. help! 

Hello, I’m creating a generator of designs in Adobe Illustrator with the goal of having a single .ai file containing dozens of designs. Each design includes text fields and images linked to variables. In the final version, each variable will be connected to dozens of different fields. At the beginning of the project, I had two designs where some variables were linked to a single object, while others were linked to multiple objects. Everything worked fine, and there were no issues when importing a .csv file. Unfortunately, after expanding the project with several more designs, the following error started occurring. When importing the same .csv file, I get the message: "The current file already contains variables. Do you want to overwrite the current variables and data sets?" I can either choose "Yes" or "No." If I select "No," nothing happens. If I select "Yes," another error message pops up: "The filter operation cannot be completed because an unknown error has occurred.

Hi everyone,I'm working with existing script "VARIABLE IMPORTER"  that require constant variable updates with data from CSV files. This involves manually selecting and replacing multiple instances of identical words, which is extremely tedious.I need a way to automatically select all words with the same content. For example, if I want to select "GRABME", that all occurrences of "GRABME" in the script are selected simultaneously.Additionally, I was wondering if there's any tool or method that allows saving and loading word or object selections, similar to how it's done in Photoshop. This would allow me to reuse frequent selections and further streamline the process.Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

This dialog no longer appears, how do I get it back? 

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In Illustrator, I am working on this figure of a tiger woman. I cut a section of the body, and when I attempted to move it, the whole body moved.