Questions

Hi everyone,I've been wondering how other people organize their Illustrator files, especially when a design has lots of layers, shapes, and different elements.As a project gets more detailed, it can become harder to find specific objects and make changes without affecting something else. I know layers and groups help, but I'm curious about how experienced users keep everything manageable.Do you organize your layers by object type, design section, or something else? Are there any simple habits that make editing large Illustrator projects easier?I'd appreciate any tips or suggestions. Thanks!

Hi there, I have a line and a box in the canvas, and the width is set to be the same. However, when I actually look at the canvas, they seem to show up in different width.Here is the example:I am using outline view here to illustrate the problem. As you can see here, the line above is slightly longer than the square below. However, if i check the width of these two objects, they have the same width.Line:Square:They are both aligned to the guide on the left side, and both has the same width. Since they are both snapped onto the guide, I assumed that they both will have the same X but apparently that is not the case. If I try to make the first one using the same X by typing the value, both ends don’t align anymore.Has anyone experienced similar issue before? It looks like if I draw the square again, it does match the line above so it has something to do with the existing square but I looked around and couldn’t find anything that would indicate what difference could be causing this.Intere

I need some information. I have an SVG code. Is it possible to paste the SVG code directly in illustrator get the artwork from the code.SVG code (from other source) > Copy > Open Illustrator Document > Paste the code > Get the artwork. I dont want to save SVG each time and import it in illustrator.I hope it make sense. 

Hola! tengo un problema, cuando importo una imagen PNG a un archivo de Illustrator, pasa con fondo blanco, la saco de la página y está sin fondo, la ubico nuevamente en la página y sale de nuevo con fondo blanco, me pasa en algunos archivos pero no en todos, con la misma imagen, ya hice la prueba con varios archivos diferentes y siempre la misma imagen. Sucede con vectores y con fotos. Que puede pasar? alguien que me ayude...gracias!

No matter what I try this panel keeps opening. I don't even have it on the panel group. I also created a new workspace without it and it still opens!!!! It is so annoying.....

Is anyone else having an issue with Illustrator update’s past 30.6?  I seem to be unable to use / open any of the updates past this version on my Windows PC. I can click on Illustrator and it goes to open, then it doesn't and instead brings up an error popup to submit to Adobe. The popup doesn't say what type of error just happened and I cant find anything to help with this online. I was hoping with more updates it would work itself out or that I perhaps had to wait for a Windows update. I have just updated to the latest version of illustrator and made sure my PC is up to date as well but I still cant open Illustrator, now have to un-install and re-install version 30.6 so I can use it. I'm honestly not sure what to do here. Any ideas / suggestions would be most appreciated.

Frequently the link names are not displaying in the most recent versions of illustrator. I am using 30.8.2 on a 2023 Macbook pro, Apple 2 Max 64GB memory, running Tahoe 26.6.2. 

What it says on the tin. I want to remove the ad pop-ups for Firefly (“Start quickly in Firefly, then go further in Illustrator”) and Adobe Stock (“Search for an image or template from Adobe Stock”) that appear every time I open the New Document panel to create a new file, given that I’m on a paid subscription for the Creative Cloud. Clicking onto them doesn’t dismiss them in the future either.Example of Ads 

Hello all,I work in signage and we use Illustrator everyday for large format printing.My problem is that now and then, when saving the documents as a pdf, the crop marks and bleeds are HUGE. This doesn't happen everytime and is becoming very frustrating. Can anyone help with this please? 

No matter what. I’ve attempted closing the program with nothing open, and regardless it always crashes. Then, when I relaunch the program, my workspace is reset, my actions disappear, and it launches like it’s the first time. It’s getting increasingly frustrating. I do have my workspace exported as a preset + my actions too, so I can relink them no problem, but I’m getting really sick of just leaving illustrator open 24/7. Please help.

i tried organising my files into a new folder, and renamed the folder, (yes im stupid) but i thought by closing illustrator before hand that i could then reopen the file direct in the new location. this didnt work it said file is corrupted and only is one layer (thte top layer). Hours of work disappeared in a small mistake. No live chat or telephone help from Adobe? Ive paid them thousands of pounds over th elast ten years. help

Hi, I’m having a serious performance issue with Illustrator.The program is extremely slow and laggy, even with simple files. There is a noticeable delay when moving or selecting objects and zooming.The problem also occurs with a new empty document. Photoshop, Premiere and AE work normally.I have already reinstalled Illustrator and reset/deleted the preferences, but the problem remains.My computer is a Lenovo Legion 5 with Ryzen 7 6800H, 64 GB RAM and RTX 3070.Any ideas what could be causing this?

I noticed all of the text in a project has a slight backward slant. This happened once before over the previous month. I can only attribute this to having been the result of resizing the Artboard without constrain proportions enabled and having the Scale artwork with Artboard option enabled, but not sure why that would skew anything. This bothers me - wondering how much previous work has this flaw that I missed…. Anyway, it doesn’t look like the in place text can be fixed… I’m not finding evidence of paths being affected, only text - has anyone experienced this or understand what is causing this, and if it only affects text?Selecting the text displays the character properties Changing any of the character properties has no affect on the selected text. Selecting text using the Type Tool has no affect either, and does not produce the typical cursor displayed when editing text. Pressing the delete key deletes one character at a time, and undo does not restore the deleted characters. Attem

I want to know if i can open a file in outline mode. Every time I try to open a file, the progress bar gets stuck indefinitely at drop shadow and will not finish loading in order to open the file. I’ve tried opening the file in older versions of illustrator. I’ve tried opening the file on different mac computers. I can’t get this file to finish opening up. Please help. Its for a project im working on and i don’t have any copies will open up. 

Image trace has lost it’s ability to trace hand illustrated images accurately, Illustrator 2024 still had those features.

Illustrator version 28.3When entering presentation mode (shift+F), and then escape, Illustrator windows becomes fullscreen.It's over my screen size. This causes me to manually adjust the window every time. It would be great to get back to same size and position.I tested the previous version. Version 28 is the only normal version. All other versions have problems.

A week ago, Illustrator has started showing this message. The file was created on my account and using the same account ever since. What is going on? 

I went through the links provided & discussion those have taken place about the issue. I am not sure there has been a definite answer there indiscusion 

Hello, I have recently purchased a new notebook and installed Creative Cloud on it. After opening the application and signing in with the same email address that has my active Illustrator license, I can only see the option to download Illustrator for tablets (iPad). The desktop version of Illustrator does not appear in Creative Cloud at all. I have already tried: - Logging out and logging back in- Restarting the computer- Reinstalling Creative Cloud Nothing has helped. On my old computer, using the same account, Illustrator for desktop is installed and works normally. My license is active and visible in my Adobe account. However, on the new computer, Creative Cloud only shows the tablet version and does not offer the desktop installation. Could you please help me resolve this issue? Thank you very much. Kind regards,Eva Vontrobová

Hi all,This is a very frustrating bug - around 50% of the times copy & paste won't work. I select an object, press ctrl+C, and then pressing ctrl+V produces nothing as if the clipboard is empty.I cannot reproduce it as it seems random, sometimes it will copy & paste, sometimes it won't.This makes working with Illustrator extremely hard.Might be worth mentioning that copy-pasting from Illustrator into Photoshop resembles the same buggy behavior - it will randomly work or not.Please advise on how to resolve this.Cheers

When I import certain PDFs in illustrator i get a cant't find text error and all the text displays like the picture below. i have tried adding the fonts to illustrator but that did not work   

I am trying to close multiple small paths into one large closed path. Ultimately, I need to save as an SVG so I can import in to a CNC router. The original files are gears for a wooden clock that started out as DXF files. There are hundreds of small paths on the gear teeth that I can join manually, but there must be a better way. A Select All > Path  > Join does not work. The only thing that does seems to work is manually selecting the endpoints in each gear tooth and joining the paths this way. Do-able, but very slow as I have many gears to work on.Is there a trick I am missing or a better way to do this? I am relatively new to Ai.Attached is an example where I manually joined all the paths to obtain the hi-lighted path eight teeth in length. I have confirmed my CNC will read this joined path just fine.All the rest of the gear is made up of hundreds of smaller paths, all non-joined. There is no option of asking the DXF file author to save the file differently.All suggestions wel

I don't know how to describe. I've been trying to reinstall it, but it doesn't work. 

I have a file that is up to 9 art boards now and lots of images so is quite large. I am trying to export it as a PDF as I need to submit it somewhere and that is the only form they take. Now I know I can compress the file once it has exported, but it is failing to export, I’ve tried doing it in pieces a few art boards at a time and even that’s not working. An help would be much appreciated, thank you!

When working with the Wacom pen in Illustrator, the vertical scroll bar often ‘hooks onto the pen’ and can no longer be left. You can only scroll.   You then have to try to quit the programme somehow, after a restart the work works again for a short time.   The problem is known: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/side-scroll-bar-not-stopping-when-supposed-to/m-p/14103647 As a solution, it was suggested to deactivate ‘Wacom’ in ‘Preferences’ under ‘Devices’. This works to the extent that the problem has disappeared - however, the pressure settings are then no longer available for the brushes.   Therefore it is not a solution. 😒   Would be great if the bug could be fixed! 🤠   Illlustrator 28.6 Windows 11 Pro Windows 11 Pro Wacom Intuos Pro L, Pro Pen 2, driver 6.4.6.2 (latest)