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Have to rebuild this as a part of someones logo:  struggle with the workflow to have the dots distributed with equal spacing on a circle (or 3 circles on different layers). If someone could point me to a german or english tutorial would be apreciated. 

Hello, I'm encountering a new bug of sorts, surrounding the Layers pannel. Basically, if I lock the blue square and click on the "Layer 1," all three paths are still actively selected and free for manipulation. I have to manually unselect it to keep it locked from any revision. I've been using .ai for close to two decades without this problem until recently. Any suggestions? Matthew

All of a sudden, in Illustrator 30.1, when wanting to create a new document, I no longer see a screen full of choices at the top (Recent, Saved, Mobile, Web, Print, etc) and with icons indicating specific types of final use templates. (See attached screenshot from another post and my red annotation, "What I'm used to seeing". Now I just get a screen for me to set up a document from scratch with basic options. ("What I'm seeing now" labeled image.) I can usually see choices for letter, legal, tabloid too, as I remember.  I searched before posting this and the same issue appeared too many years ago for me to expect the answers to still apply. 

Hello.   I have been having a problem with CC since December 2025, and I was hoping someone could help. Basically all of my CC applications – AI, ID, PS and LRC – have been updating without my consent.   For context, I am running a Mac with the latest OS (as of January 2026), and: — I have disabled Auto Update in the CC app itself — I have turned off all Login Items and Extensions in System Preferences — I have removed the Launch Agents and Launch Daemons from the Library   Despite having done all this, every week or two I will look in the Applications folder and find that Adobe has installed updates – and sometimes even completely new versions – of some programme without my knowledge or consent.   This is not merely an inconvenience, it is a disaster. I am a book designer who often works on projects that span several months, and I need to make sure I am working on a stable system. Given how bad the last several years worth of CC updates have been, and given that

When we draw a circle in Illustrator and then export it as a DXF file, we often find that when the converted DXF is opened and checked in AutoCAD, the circle is recognized not as a true circle but as a spline (Bezier curve).However, for our workflow, the geometry must be recognized strictly as a circle, not as a spline. What methods are available to resolve this issue?We understand that this problem may occur because Illustrator is inherently a design-oriented program while CAD software is design/engineering-oriented, and they are fundamentally different in nature. Nevertheless, we would like to know if there is a way to ensure that circles are exported and recognized only as true circles, not splines.

I am learning AI.  I understand that AI uses vectors.  1) On the set up page with a new file why does it say pixels.? The instructor for an independent learning online course about AI said to use pixels but he didn't explain why or the difference.  I am wondering because even when I press shift and select the outside corner box to increase the size of a project I am working on the details change.

 Illustrator has been crashing since yesterday. I reinstalled it today, and that didn't help. Is this some kind of global outage? When will the program be working again?

Markieren Sie die Zellen in Excel, kopieren Sie diese (Command+C) und fügen Sie sie in Illustrator ein (Command+V).  Dies wird bei MAC als bild importiert und nicht als text.  Auf Windows wird als editierbare Tabelle importiert  

Hi, When I dragged in my pic/pdf as placing it in illistator. one of the pics of the document arrived unoutlined. Anyone would know why?

Hello, I ceate a action , how to use script to call the action ? thanks  

Hi Adobe Community,I'm developing a CEP extension for Illustrator 2026 and running into an issue with keyboard tab navigation when using the Select2 jQuery plugin for dropdown menus. Environment:Adobe Illustrator 2026 (version 30.0)CEP panel using Select2 4.0.x for enhanced dropdownsStandard text inputs work fine with tab navigation The Issue: Tab key navigation works correctly for standard input type="text" fields, but completely skips over Select2 dropdowns, even when I explicitly set tabindex attributes on the Select2-generated .select2-selection elements. What I've Tried:Setting tabindex in HTML on the original select elements before Select2 initializationPassing tabindex parameter in Select2 configuration optionsSetting tabindex on .select2-selection elements after Select2 initialization using setTimeout() to ensure DOM is fully renderedTargeting various Select2-generated elements (.select2-container, .select2-selection, .select2-search__field) Observation: Thi

Hola a todos, despues de la actualización de W10 a W11, el atajo de crear texto en contornos Ctrl+Shift+O, dejo de funcionar, verifique la configuración de teclado, y no hay nada activado para evitar su fucnionamiento, hice una instalación limpia de reinstale W11, reinstale Illsutrator, y sigue sion funcionar. Alguien me puede ayudar? Gracias!!

 I have only sanp to grid on   but i cannot snap to the grid - not mater what i am doing this is a 1200px x 1200px canvas with grid lines 120px x 5 nothing I do allows me to snap to grid as i want  here is the same example but square rotated   and I also have all pixel grid turned off too    This is very confusing any ideas? Best  

I have been making relatively large fills (wiring diagrams) in Illustrator and saving them to Dropbox.  When I am done with the file, I save it as an SVG 1.1 and upload it to Claude for some code modifications.  Recently, when I tried to open the files, I got all kinds of things happening.  Most of the diagram will disappear, and I'll get black squares on the screen. While that has been horrible (I had to completely redo files, and then the new file loses 95% of the work), I made a relatively simple file last night. Saved it on my local drive, and when I go to Illustrator, I can do nothing with it.  Layers are not locked.  Nothing has changed.  A file saved as an .AI has become completely unusable.  Does anyone have a suggestion?  Is my computer about to blow or what?  I've uninstalled and reinstalled.  I run a virus scan.  I am at a loss. 

Hello, I have been working on a big comic book project. I have been trying to smooth out the drawn outline from the scanned drawings with Adobe Illustrator's Image Trace. However, it does not smooth the outline in a way that is close enough to the original source. I am fairly new to the Illustrator program so I'm unsure whether there is a better method. I've tried many different adjustments in Image Trace but I am still not getting the results I'd like. I have attached an image that shows the drawing in three parts. Before the Image Trace, after the Image Trace, and then after the Image Trace where I've had to draw and erase the outline to get it closer to the results I'd prefer. Are there any settings or adjustments that can be done within Image Trace to get results that look closer to the final image? 

So I have an EPS file of a curled page corner with a shadow, and I'm trying to place an image as the bottom layer under the shadow, but the image keeps showing through to the other layers.  How would I just have it appear under the shadow layer?  https://www.istockphoto.com/nl/vector/gekrulde-paginahoek-met-schaduw-op-transparante-achtergrond-blanco-vel-papier-gm1293214736-387712748?clarity=false

Illustrator 2026 displays the colors of a placed PSD file differently than Photoshop.I checked the software settings in the screenshots below: both files use the Adobe RGB (1998) color profile, and the color management settings have been synchronized via Adobe Bridge. I’ve also attached a minimal reproduction file (psd only; I could not attach Adobe Illustrator file with error so I converted to Illustrator editable PDF). I hope this issue can be fixed soon. 

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Hello,there's already this oldish post about it:https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/looking-for-javascript-commands-for-path-finder-operation/td-p/12355960For a long time, I had these operations saved as actions, but I'm looking for ways to write my actions into scripts so that I can have them all running from single scripts with minimal config time.Is there a solution to this yet? pathfinder effects are not similar to the operations found in the pathfinder panel: e.g: if we're trying subtract on a shape that has 2 strokes, it would work from the panel, but I found no way to make it work in that case with pathfinder from the effect panel.I know that I can make a script that writes a file to disk and then uploads actions into illustrator and launches the wanted action, but is there any simpler way?

Hello, I am hitting a wall with something that should be easy.  When I select an object (the black shape that surrounds the "skateboard") and try to change the fill from black to white, it shows it as white in the info but visually it is still black.  I am much more used to photoshop than illustrator, but this seems so elementary, i'm not sure whats going on...the object is selected and the layer is unlocked... any help is greatly appresiated.

I am creating a font using simple strokes in Illustrator and FontSelf as well as FontLab to create a family of fonts. The stroked fonts look as expected, but once I create them with either FontSelf or FontLab, there is an inordinate amount of points added to the outlined shape; either if I outline them before creating the font or afterwards. My question is twofold: 1.) why does illustrator suck at outline simple strokes, and 2.) is there amore efficient workflow that would retain the personality of the font without having to remove a bunch of cruft-points that were introduced during the outline process?[The image shows the issue from the original glyph created by strokes, font, converted to outlines (with way too many points), and after the Simplify command]

This issue is brand new for me, and began immediately after updating to PS 27.0 and Illustrator 30.0. When I edit a vector smart object embedded or linked in Photoshop 27.0, sometimes the smart object updates incorrectly. When the smart object updates, it appears that elements of the smart object have suddenly disappeared. I've discovered, however, that often it's showing elements in the wrong layer order within the smart object. However, when I go back into Illustrator to edit it, it appears correctly in Illustrator. I've also noticed that elements within the smart object that use a transparency mask will disappear, OR, sometimes just the transparency mask itself will disappear. I have learned that this problem often occurs when I edit only one part of my smart object, then hit save (though, I don't think it happens every time, so I probably haven't fully isolated the circumstances). As a work-around, I've learned that when editing the smart object in Illustrator, if I Select-All, and

Hello. I was working on a document in Illustrator. I decided to go and save it. At the exact time the saving was initiated, my electricity went off. After i had power back, i loaded Illustrator, the window with the recovered files popped up but i pressed "cancel" because i made another successful save just a minutes prior to that one when the electricity went down. I tried to open that file from a folder and after it was loaded, all the work was gone. There was only one artboard left with some random shape. I see that the size of the file is still around 6mb but it appears empty. Is there any possible way to restore that data? I've lost 10h of work, its so frustrating.Also i can not attact the file here, it says that the content of the file is different from it's extension.Thank you.

When creating a clipping mask, there is a shape that appears where there should be nothing but transparency. But when I open the file on another computer, the shape is gone. I think it might be a setting or a bug that makes it impossible to clipping mask anything. For example, this white shape is the top object that will mask the green objects. When I use the clipping mask, the swoop on the left should be empty. But when I clip it, theres a random grey box that appears. That is not supposed to be there. It happens with any shape I use clipping mask. A random solid shape takes place of the transparency.  I have reinstalled illustrator, updated, made new files, no fix. Any help is appreciated.