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Hi everybody!A simple rectangle, filled with Effect / Texture / Grain / Horizontal. When rotating that rectangle by let’s say 20°, the mentioned effect seems to stay unrotated, so its orientation is no longer aligned with the orientation of the (now rotated) rectangle.What to do in order to rotate the mentioned effect according to its object?Thanks a lot!

I'm having issues with Abobe Illustrator (30.1) running on a Mac Studio M4 Max (48GB) , OS 26.2 (Tahoe). Having searched on google it appears this as been an issue for some time.When I expand a text box by dragging points or move a object by dragging. The text box or object jumps and this action also peforms an undo function. I.e you loose the last few steps.If i toggle off the GPU performance and Realtime drawing it resolves the issue but Illustrator is very laggy, not really usable. If I toggle these settings back on it's O.K. for 30mins then the problem returns. I know I only have 48Gb of ram but that should be ok surely, It seems to be an issue with the GPU. All my other software works like a dream so i don't think it's a hardware issue. Any ideas?   

Hi so my file is an illustrator file but for some reason this pop up appeared.   I clicked into it and it directed me to this. and then when i opened it up in windows it seems like actually i already have the software they want me to install? so i already have it but i still cant open my file to edit coz once I click OK the whole file closes.  

why are all the offset options greyed out??

hello , old school designer here just getting into dye sub jersey designing looking for  helpful tips, thanks

I have a pdf I imported and it has an vector-graphic of a street sign. there are actually two images of these graphics sitting on top of each other. I bought Astute Graphics' Vector First Aid, which has a "remove duplicate art" function that works when I create the same situation from scratch, but it won't work for this file (I have reached out to Astute but have not heard back).There is something odd though. the graphic has had all clipping masks removed and has been ungrouped and nothing is locked together. However, if I click on one of the letters, it selects only that one letter, if I draw a box around that same letter (not click-select, but box-select) it will select almost all of the letters as though they are grouped. I doubled checked and that selection is no grouped, locked so I don't know why that is happening. Is there another stting that will group a bunch of seperate vectors together? attached is the file. I have literally hundreds of these I need to prep for printing

When I create Paragraph and Character styles, either from a script or a C++ plugin, the new styles only appear in the styles panels after I create a new style manually. With a script it sometimes works to add a "redraw();" at the end of the script. I want to add my styles during creation of a pluginGroup from C++. How can I get it to refresh the styles panels? 

Does anyone know how graph designs are stored internally in the Illustrator document. I know how to create styles and save them as designs but is there a way to access these design elements programatically from a C++ plugin?

Hi everyone! I'm a complete beginner in Illustrator and I am following the Adobe Illustrator CC - Essentials Training Course on Udemy. In one of the lectures he goes over how to use the shape builder tool to draw a Penrose ("impossible") triangle starting from a bunch of lines. I followed his exact steps, but the result came out different. Below you can see the setup: a bunch of lines with extra bits sticking out, which we want to delete.I hit ctrl+a to select everything, then with the shape builder I delete the bits sticking out, but the result is the image below, which has the pointy bit missing at the top.I cannot for the life of me figure out what I'm doing wrong. The "Gap detection" feature of the shape builder is turned on and set to Large.Any help appreciated. Thanks!

I am printing from Adobe Illustrator onto Epson Premium Presentation Paper Matte with an Epson Ecotank 3850. I forgot to check borderless on my first print so second go round, I checked borderless and checked "do not scale" and "retain size", all the applicable settings. I have a 0.25" bleed set up with image expanded to the bleed. It printed to the edge, however my colors are all blown out and faded and gone is the crisp edges of the lettering which now has a faint "glow" around the edges.. I have searched and searched and all I can find is "it just automatically stretches the image when printing borderless" but I just don't want to accept that. I feel like there must be a setting either on the AI side or printer side that I am missing and the setting I chose is getting overidden? The ONLY things I changed between print 1 and print 2 was checking "borderless" and choosing "retain size" in the Settings>Expansion box (therefore unchecking auto expand) within the printer dialog box an

Hi, Inside Illustrator when any generative AI stuff is created, where all the creation history saved?I tried finding but unable to locate any.

In this file, the vertical measurement should be 10.75 inches.  That is the correct dimension of the rectangle height.  Why doesn't my measurement (from the measurement tool) match it?  It is reading 10.69 inches. When I click on the rectangle path I can see that the lower left hand corner is not matching the nodes.How do I fix this?   https://illustrator.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:88e74ff3-a20c-4d63-a57b-3cf7066550bc

Is there a way to change the units of the measurement tool to fractions rather than decimals?Or can you edit a dimension which is already in place to type the fraction in?I've not been successful at trying to edit the dimension or find a setting to change them to fractions.

Hi! I am trying to help my friend with a project for her kids graduating class of 2026, and they are swimmers. I created a laneline graphic, and I want to be able to make it curve into the shape of a 2. I thought maybe there woud be a way to do this by making a 2-shaped path, or maybe envelope distort, and I don't know if its because the laneline graphic is not one entity (it is still just all of the separate ellipses I made grouped together; when I tried to convert to shape, it refused, and of course when I tried to just make a compound path it turned them all the same color)? Or if there is a different way it can be done? I swear there is a way to make it into one shape/object, but honestly I forget how. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. I tried to search, but couldn't find anything except for how to get repeating shapes on a path, which isn't what I'm looking for. Thank you!

Hello. I'm using Adobe Illustrator v 30.1 I'm going through tutorials and creating simple shapes, circles and squares. The tutorial has me use the direct select tool to grab the shape and then grab the anchor point and move it to modify the shape. But when I grab the anchor point it just moves the entire object. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks.   

Yet another intrusive pop-up that appears after login.Adobe, have you no thoughts other than greed?It's Christmas, for pity's sake!  Leave me alone! 

how to back to the old version. I use new version 30.1 open a pdf file lose photos. It's so terrible.

Bonjour,Depuis les mises à jour 2026 je n'ai jamais eu autant de bug sur adobe... illustrator bloque et ne veut plus changer une simple courbe, j'ai des problèmes sur le nuancier qui ne veut pas supprimer certaine nuance, lorsque l'on double clique dessus il n'y a pas la fenêtre qui apparait et tout d'un coup oui. Et quand on importe un logo de illustator vers indesign avec des tons directs, ceux-ci ne s'importe plus dans le nuancier indesign. C'est une cata... vivement qu'ils refassent une mise à jour...Avez vous eu les mêmes problèmes, et avez-vous trouvé une solution?(j'ai du coup copier coller deux carrés avec les tons direct dans indesign mais bon c'est pas pratique)

When I tried to install a Script this message popup, how to fix this?      

Forgive me if this is a duplicate post.  (I can't find the one I thought I posted earlier today.)  I am drafting a pattern for a messenger bag.  I know I can duplicate rounded corners from one pattern piece to another by copying etcI, but it made me wonder how to actually measure the radius of a rounded corner.  I found some posts by others using scripts.  But I dont' know how to use scripts.  I have attached my file to show how I approximated it by measuring from the corner of a square of similar size (to the rounded corner) to the radius of a larger rectangle on top of it.  (See the Flap piece - the left hand rectangle)Should I just bite the bullet and learn how to script?  Or does someone have a clever way of doing it without scripting.  Linked File   

I changed the width profile to my paths to the tringle shape, some of my paths are reacting normally (see top line) and some are changing to a sharp change in width. To clarify they are both on the same width profile. I can't see that they're in any way different too each other in properties or in the layers, but I assume they must be somehow, anyone know why or how to fix?

Hello,I’m encountering a compatibility block when trying to install Adobe Illustrator via Creative Cloud and would like clarification on supported options for legacy systems.System details:iMac 15,1 (Late 2014 / Early 2015, Intel)macOS 11.7.10 (Big Sur, latest security update)Adobe Creative Cloud subscription (active)Creative Cloud Desktop App: latest available for macOS 11Issue:In the Creative Cloud desktop app, Adobe Illustrator is listed as “Not compatible with this operating system” and cannot be installed.The “Other versions” / “Previous versions” option does not show any installable Illustrator versions.Context:I understand that current Illustrator releases require macOS 13 or newer.However, Adobe Illustrator 2021 (version 25.x) was officially compatible with macOS 11 Big Sur at the time of release.Questions:Is Illustrator 2021 (25.x) still available for installation on macOS 11 through Creative Cloud, either normally or via manual enablement by Adobe Support?Has Adobe fully depr

Been Adobe User over 20 Years .. Cannot resize or move text with Mouse  Since Update 12/28/2025 . Has Always Worked .. Works Fine in Photo Shop  Not in Illustrator . Works Sometime for 3-7 Moves Then . Doesnt ( I Have the Bounding Box ) If Restarted Works 2-3 Times .  Then Stops ! Have tryed Every thing ... Help Please  ( Deleted and Installed Older Version Same )  Why Doesn't ADOBE have a TECH Help Line ( Phone) Maybe Time to Move On !!   [house keeping: title edited for readability]

Hello community, there will be a script that restores distorted text while maintaining its appearance. 

Hello Adobe Team,I am facing an issue where Adobe Illustrator causes Windows UI behavior to malfunction after some time of usage.Problem description:While working in Adobe Illustrator, Windows starts registering duplicate UI actions system-wide.Examples:Minimizing a window causes it to minimize, reappear briefly, then minimize againStart Menu opens, closes, and opens againTaskbar and Explorer UI behave as if inputs are triggered twiceThis issue affects the entire operating system, not just Illustrator.Important observation:Restarting the PC temporarily resolves the issueThe issue only occurs after working in Adobe IllustratorThe problem does NOT occur when Illustrator is not usedSystem details:OS: Windows (10 / 11)Adobe Illustrator version: 30.1(64 bit)GPU: [NVIDIA 3060]Display refresh rate: 144HzInput devices: Standard mouse and keyboard (no tablet)This issue impacts productivity significantly, as it forces frequent system restarts during professional design work.Thank you,Prasadh Kas