Questions

Hi All,I'm trying to get the active Illustrator document name in my plugin.The following code works perfectly in Illustrator CC 2024 and CC 2025, but it fails in CC 2026 — GetFileNameNoExt() returns an empty name.  ai::FilePath path; ASErr err = sAIDocument->GetDocumentFileSpecification(path); if (err == kNoErr && !path.IsEmpty()) { ai::UnicodeString name = path.GetFileNameNoExt(); std::string s = name.as_UTF8(); if (!s.empty()) return s; } Is there something new we are supposed to call before accessing file information?Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you,Chetan

Hello everyone,I'm trying to write a script that increases or decreases the width of strokes on shapes.for now, what I came up with (found mostly on the internet a while ago), works fine for most shapes, and it can recurse into containers like groups, read their stroke width, and increase it by a certain percentage.The problem remains with Live paint objects. I can't figure how to read their stroke width or how to change it. Any help would be appreciated!

I am creating this forest in Adobe Illustrator, and I would like to know if there is anything that can be improved.

When converting fonts to outlines in Ai(cs3) and then saving it as a pdf (high quality print) the letter "l" appears to be bold in pdf file. Does this affect my printwork? or is a blitch in the pdf viewer or else?. I've tried converting directly from illustrator and through distiller, both the same results. Anybody?

Every time I try to import a transparent PNG. The background pops up with lines or it looks glitchy anyway to help!!!! it works sometimes, but then it just comes back out of nowhere

There’s a problem with Illustrator 2025 — when I scale objects up or down, the strokes and effects also change, but not proportionally. I checked the Preferences, and “Scale Strokes & Effects” is turned on, but it still scales everything in a very strange way.

Getting this pop-up everytime I open Adobe Illustrator 2025 v 29.1 on Win 11 PC: "To work correctly, Adobe Illustrator requires the Preferences folder permission to be 'Read-Write'. The current permission setting is incorrectly set to 'Read-Only'. Click More Info for instructions on correcting  the Preferences folder permission setting."I followed this kb: https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/preferences-folder-read-only-error.html#Adobe support agent also connected and did a clean install to no avail. Are other having this issue in Windows 11 Pro?

Screenshot colours change appearance when saving as PDF, but spot colours don't.When I screen shot an image and paste it into Illustratrator the colour is matching the original.I can use my colour picker tool to exstract that colour and fill my vector object.The problem comes in when I save the document as a PDF file, close and open up. It is then when the screen shot colour change. But the vector colour is still the original colour.I have checked 3 other exact same Macbook laptops, with the exact same settings and ALL colour profiles.All the other Macs seem to be have no issue. Only mine change.We are all running on the exact same Macbooks and versions of Illustrator.Note that if I change the document colour mode to RGB from the beginning to end of this process. The colours do not change. Unfortunately we work in CMYK mode.

Hello! I have been having an issue with Illustrator in which every time I launch the app it opens to the home page, but then immediately freezes and stops responding, and I have to use the Task Manager to close it. I have tried restarting my computer, uninstalling and reinstalling creative cloud, using the Adobe Cleaner, uninstalling and reinstalling Illustrator, ensuring that Illustrator is updated, resetting my preferences, trying an earlier release, and updating my drivers. After I tried the Adobe Cleaning it worked once, but after closing it and trying again this the issue came back. Same thing when I updated the drivers, it worked fine once but then started not responding again. Does anyone know what may be wrong?

Adobe Illustrator 2025 is demolishing my memory and I can't figure out why. I have a fairly new macbook pro (M3 Pro). I've also recently updated to macOS Sequoia 15.1.1. I typically work off of files on my desktop. I am currently working in a single file that only has a few small artboards and it takes a long time to perform any action, even type a letter on to the screen. My macActivity Monitor shows that AI '25 is taking up 4.23 GB. I had been using Illsutrator 2024 with no isssues up until a week or 2 ago. I used to be able to have many large files open at once w/ no issues and now all of a sudden I can barely work out of 1 small file.This is drastically affecting my work performance. Please help??

hello Adobe,While scripting, I oftentimes want to know what is the currently active tool, so that I change what my hotkeys do based on that.For example, if I have the paint brush or the blob brush tools selected, then I want [ and ] (or other hotkeys) to change the brush size, but if I have other tools selected, then I want them to increase/decrease the width of currently-selected shapes. Another example would be to switch to the zoom tool using any given hotkey as long as it's held, and then go back to the tool that was currently selected, or we can use that to "spring-load" tools...Just having "app.currentTool" (just like photoshop), even the tool name without any of its parameters, would open up a whole new world of possibilities for scripting, especially that now we have app.selectTool() . Exposing the tool functions within "app.currentTool" would elevate Illustrator a whole new level, but baby-steps, I guess. I'm not asking for much, am I?Currently, I keep on tracking what tool is

Does anyone know why I am missing parts of my design once i try to put them close together? 

The recent update to Adobe Illustrator has an annoying issue. It has to do with text / fonts in a document. If I change the font to a set of text, but then attempt to change some of the text, it reverts the new text to the previous font that I initially started with. I have nearly 30 years of experience using Adobe Illustrator so this isn't a user error issue. This happens each time I update text in any document I'm working with, since the most recent update.

Seit der neuen Version wird bei mir die Schriftfamilie in der Steuerleiste hinter dem Arbeitsbereich Fenster angezeigt, somit ist keine Schriftart auszuwählen möglich. Alles andere funktioniert richtig.Wenn ich mein Fenster oben anhefte, sodass Tabs entstehen, dann funktioniert es richtig.

Hi There, the title says it all. We need an option that auto-places imported images into a bounding box that can be cropped by dragging handles, and offer frame and corner options with no extra work - just copy the way InDesign does it. Currently, you have to use clipping masks, or that silly crop tool which resets the crop everytime you use it. Both are convolute and cumbersome workarounds for something as common and basic as cropping images (especially in 2025). Hope that makes sense. Cheers, Ben

When you turn on Adobe Illustrator. At the same time another software called ai Robin was launched in the background.how to delete it?It takes the place of my Ram.Thanks!!

Hi everyone, i work in France and I. thought i could use an english illustrator version with an azerty keyboard. But it got tricky as i realised it would not match my azerty keyboard automatically. Is there a way  to indicate to my english illustrator version (somewhere in the pref. ? but i couldn't find it) to switch to AZERTY keyboard instead of QUERTY ? (NB. Azerty, only for some softwares, not for the entire system)It's a bit of a mystery, because, for instance command + A (correspondance on a querty keyboard = command + Q) or command + W (correspondance on a querty keyboard = command + Z) are working fine. On the other hand, for example i created a personnalised shortcut with a ")" - in the EDIT/personnalised KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS section it shows the shortcuts with the ")" sign (azerty) BUT on the illustrator OBJECT/ARRANGE menu. It shows a"0" instead of a ")" (as on a QUERTY keyboard).I wish to continue working in english wich should be so much easier, but i would like it to m

So, when I make something with my brush, I don't know what's going on with the coloring alongside the brush outline.

Dear team, I am looking to recreate the following infographic:              I took a stab at it and was able to make something as follows. However, the issue that i am facing is with the trianagles (with the rounded tips) that go around the circle. They don't look right. I tried to do that with the rotate tool, but the symmetry is all messed up. I don't have the orginal Illustrator file for this.              I was wondering if you could please guide me on the right workflow for the same. Thanks! 

I am having an issue with the Mac Studio M4Max which feels quite niche as I haven't seen it mentioned, I would love to know if other M4 users or others are running into it. When I have GPU acceleration on, and Smart Guides on, when I select any menu Item, after I get a strange 3 second lag.  The really odd thing is if i manage to keep my cursor inside the menu window before it closes It doesn't happen, but this is hard to achieve when trying to work effeciently. If i move out of the menu window as it closes which you usually do when working it lags for 3+ seconds. It happens with complex and non complex files, I could have a single box on the screen and it happens. Info:Mac Studio M4MAx with 64MB ram, 4TB HD with 2.5TB Free space.  Sequoia 15.6.1  - I don't want to upgrade to glass just yet as It's quite new as I am concerned about compatability.This issue was happening since I first got the Mac straight out of the box. I didnt have any other apps on

As I was using Illustrator white outlines began appearing on my objects. I have tried setting Outline Width to zero and making new shapes. The outline remains on old shapes and appears with new shapes.

Hi, I work as a video editor and have been given quite a large project that involves patterns. The patterns are all saved as illustrator. Theres roughly 46 of them. I need to export each one as a differnt colour, I have 32 colours I need to do this in. I started doing it manually but its to time consuming. Can anyone please help? ThanksTom(Illustrator newbie) 

Hey,I've just bought an image from shutterstock which you can find here: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/vector-illustration-magic-wand-isolated-on-461350540?src=n-0rDQWwOnpKe7HgTEQdh… The problem I have found is that it's not actually a 'transparent' background. The background is just the grey checkered pattern that is usually the background for photoshop etc. I'm not quite sure if it's me just being an idiot and not figuring out how to get rid of this background layer. I've tried opening it in Illustrator and then deleting the layer but behind the layer, there is a lot of effect layers like black circles etc. which won't look good. It looks to me like they used the background looking layer to hide the effects but I haven't got a clue. Please, could you take a look and help me with this problem.Thank you!!!

Hi,I’m experiencing a few issues in Illustrator and need some help identifying the causes:Why do shapes (such as logos and icons) become distorted when copied into a new file?Why do fonts automatically convert to outlines when pasted into a new file?Why doesn’t the artboard copy over when pasting into a new file?Thank you,Sammi

Hello everybody,I have a problem with the Illustrator export as pixel based images.JPEGs and PNGs are everytime 1 pixel bigger in width or height in the resulting image than the elements or canvas/artboard dimensionis set in illustrator.Because I have to create a new GUI with background images and afull set of icons it is really inconveniant to open every PNG in Photoshopagain for resizing and re-saving.Ticking the pixel grid button doesn't solve the problem unforunately.Can you help me with it? Thanks for your replys in advance...