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What is the best workflow to convert Pantone Lab values to a CMYK process color mix via an ICC profile conversion in Illustrator? Color Settings: North American General Purpose 2RGB: sRGB IEC61966-2.1CMYK: U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 Is there an effective way to simply convert all spots to CMYK via the ICC profile at output (similar to using ink manager in InDesign), so that the Pantone swatch remains as a spot color in the document? The only way I came up with is creating a pdf of the Illustrator file (via Print Dialog), as there is no ink manager in Illustrator. (See below) Proposed Workflow 1:Document color mode is CMYK Assign Profile to document: Working CMYK: U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2 – The conversions will be based on this SWOP color profile assigned to the document. Change spot color options to “Use LAB values specified by manufacturer” – Use to get the best possible match to the actual spot ink when spot colours are converted to process. In print dialog: Output > Check Convert

Is there any way to lock the motion of the Canvas? Video is attached.  

An error message appears every time I open files "your current color settings honor CMYK profiles in linked content but profiles were set to be ignored when this document was created." Is there a setting or something I can adjust to make this window stop popping up every time I open files?

HI,So I create simple vector graphics mostly lines and text in black and then export or save them as pdfs. I then want to check them on the following website to see if they’re black and white.https://pct.wipo.int/DocConverter/pages/pdfValidator.xhtml I have always gotten the answer that my pdfs are grayscale and the converted files are thus messed up. The blacks I have tried are CMYK 60 40 40 100, CMYK 0 0 0 1000 and Hex 000000. none seem to be working.Under Preferences> Appearance of black> I changed it to Output all Blacks accurately Export settings are:Illustrator  Default No Standard No Compression No Color Conversion Including all or no Profiles No advanced Settings or security.With Inkscape's black and exporting it to Pdfs I didn’t encounter any problems after checking it on the site.

In this video shapes were grouped to make a single stroke. After that each shape moved individually without ungrouping the group. How is it possible? When I tried to ungroup the group stroke disappear.15 Illustrator things everyone MUST KNOW in 2026Time 1.52         

What is the reason of having a Blue Color Tiny Circle above the Pencil Tool?  

this is the eps when opened in illustrator  but this is the eps when opened in chrome from google drive  

Why can't we have a branding section in Illustrator and Photoshop, etc. in 2026? I hate setting up the color swatches and fonts and styles every single time! Adobe Express is still far inferior and glitchy to compete with any of these.#featureRequest 

Over the last 3 days, the application has crashed about 5 times.The crash happens in different situations:– when using the Shape tool– when picking a color with the Eyedropper tool– sometimes even when I am not doing anythingBefore each crash, the program works normally, without freezes or heavy load.Additional information:– the application is updated to the latest version– my subscription is active– GPU drivers are up to date– there is enough free disk space on my laptop– I did not have this problem beforeThe crashes seem to happen at random and are not related to one specific action.Could you please advise how I can diagnose the cause and fix this issue?  

Just wonderring why!

oddly, this seems not yet posted. i have a bunch of AIRobin folders in Application Support / Adobe. Today they are 10. They became 11 just after my screenshot and i have no Adobe apps open except for CC.Sometimes i trash the ones i think are the oldest, just for fun. Nothing bad happens, yet. Why so many? They totally seem versions, so why keep old versions? 

For example, in Indesign, I can select an object, and change its dimensions in increments of 1/16”.But in Illustrator I can only do increments of 1/8”.Any way to change that?

My last post was probably asking too much, so instead, does anyone have a script to deal with object visibility with details coming from a CSV/Data Sets?I will be using data variables for other informaiton in the document, like text fields, so the data wil be loaded through the data variables. I know I could set the visibilty with the spreadsheet but I have over 1000 options so instead I was hoping to just have the objectname (like Shape-F-1) as a field in the spreadsheet.I'm using CS6.Thanks  

I don’t understand what’s going on with Creative Suite lately, but it has become a huge pain.Today, I wasn’t able to open Illustrator because it says, “Adobe Illustrator 2026 quit unexpectedly.” When I click “Reopen,” everything disappears while it shows that it’s trying to launch the program — and then I’m back to the beginning.I restarted my Mac and tried again, but the same thing happened.Now I’m going to uninstall Illustrator and install the downgraded version 30.2.1 at least it is opening now.How you manage to ruin things that used to work perfectly fine is something I will never understand. I sincerely hope you’re not relying on artificial intelligence for your development team about programs, because apparently, this isn’t working. 

It is unbelievable that after years of being a loyal Adobe customer, I’m facing constant freezes in Adobe Illustrator. The software hangs right at the start, making it impossible to work efficiently.I’m a professional designer with over two decades of experience, and I’ve maintained my CC account since its inception. I only use the Pantone Connect plugin. My question to Adobe is: when are you going to look out for your users? We pay for a service that is supposed to be stable. If a clean, paid install can't handle a simple launch, what are we actually paying for?Thanks 😤

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I don’t have any masks on but whenever I print this tile out, a black and white stripe shows up on my image. Is there anything I’m doing or not doing?

Hi, does anybody have any idea why these two shapes are judged to be NOT overlapping. This is the shape of Spain and Portugal. When you select them both and click on “Intersect” in Pathfinder I thought it should cut the shape of Portugal out of the yellow shape. However, when you click on “intersect” you get a message that says “the filter produced no results . Please select two overlapping paths” The shapes appear to overlap! What am I doing wrong? 

Attached are screenshots of my issue. 

Hi! I've messaged on several forums before elsewhere hoping someone has a work around for this but haven't had any luck. Here is the problem I have: 1. Design a file in Illustrator, save it as an SVG and then open it in my laser cutting software (Lightburn). and the size is different. 2. I've checked off responsiveness so that's not the problem. 3. I've purchased SVG files from other places and can open their files in both Lightburn and Illustrator and the file object size is the same. 4. I know it's not off by a lot but I need it to be the exact same size as these files I'm creating will be for selling. 5. I've also designed it in my lightburn program FIRST, exported it to Illustrator and the size still changes.  I'd appreciate any help at all as to what I'm doing wrong before I scratch my eyeballs out - I've been at this for over two weeks trying to find a solution. The Lightburn program has import settings at 72 DPI and the settings I usually

I´m printing machine overlays on a Mimaki UCJV300 UV-printer. The material is transparent PC plastic.I have an issue with tranparency when I´m printing lighter colors (yellow, white, sky blue etc). How can I setup a black blocking layer in Illustrator that is alwys printed behind everything else with full coverage? I have tried to make a black rectangle at the bottom of the layer tree, but it only gets printes outside all the other objects. It doesn´t get printed behind them to act like a blocking layer.

So.. I slice up a design in Ai to export web jpgs for use in Dreamweaver - all good - I then make some Changess to the design and want to re-export the slices... suddenly ALL SLICES ARE NOT WORKING! The slices seem to be there, well the shape is there, but they are not active slices any more.The only fix is to re-slice the design. I had to re-slice a file 4 times the other day!! arrgghhhh!!! So frustrating to have to re-slice the design evey time I want to export. Anyone else having this issue?? got any ideas/solutions?Ive searched online but cant find any one else facing this issues.Ive tried uninstall/reinstall of Ai but no luck. WELP!

In Illustrator, when I “Save” or “Save As...” I cannot paste a name into the dialogue box. It ‘beeps’ like an error.

Buenos días:El otro día instalé la última versión de illustrator y desde entonces cuando utilizo el scroll para desplazarme se me queda activado continuamente y el programa deja de responder. Este error me obliga a cerrar el programa y volverlo a abrir. Al mismo tiempo es muy íncómodo porque tengo que trabajar mentalizada en no utilizar el scroll por el documento.¿Le ha pasado a alguien más? Muchas gracias.Un saludo,Beatriz