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I found another post about this issue from a couple of years ago that had a solution but the solution did not work for me, so I am starting a new thread with the same question. I am using Illustrator 2026 on macOS Sequoia 15.7.2. When I hover over the icons in the toolbars, the descriptions do not appear like they used to. For example, the icons in the Align and Pathfinder toolbars. There are no descriptions for the different tools (e.g. trim, divide, etc.). I have "Show Tool Tips" and "Show Rich Tool Tips" both turned on. The rich tool tips do appear when I hover over the tools on the lefthand toolbar, but the regular icon descriptions (for pathfinder and align tools) do not appear. One user on Reddit found that if they turned on Show Tool Tips, but turned off Show Rich Tool Tips, the issue resolved itself. But that did not work for me. I've also tried restarting Illustrator, but it didn't seem to make a difference.

 Product: Adobe IllustratorVersions tested:Illustrator 29.8.3 (ARM64)Illustrator 30.0.0 and 30.1.0 (ARM64)Platform:macOS 26.2 (25C56)Apple Silicon (ARM64)Issue description:Illustrator crashes immediately on launch, before the UI is fully loaded.The crash consistently occurs in PDFSuite on the main thread and is reproducible across multiple Illustrator versions.This issue persists after reinstalling Illustrator, reinstalling macOS (clean install), clearing preferences and caches, removing third-party plugins, and rolling back to older Illustrator versions.Steps to reproduce:Install macOS 26.2Install Illustrator (29.8.3 or any 30.x version, ARM64)Launch IllustratorExpected result:Illustrator launches normally and shows the main UI.Actual result:Illustrator crashes immediately on launch.Crash details:Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)Exception Subtype: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESSSignal: 11Crashed Thread: Thread 0 (main thread)The top of the stack trace shows PDFSuite functions before

I finally have a new pc and using latest version. What is going on, copy and paste is rubbish! It lets me down constantly. Please tell me theres a way to fix this.

Hello community, is it possible to change the line style of stroked text using an Illustrator script? In this case, I want to change the "Baseline" to "Centered".

I'm trying to open Adobe Illustrator files that I saved to the cloud and they are all saying they can't be opened or all of the text is missing out of the files. Help.  

Bonjour, j'ai vraiment vraiment besoin d'aide, j'avais créer tout un fichier hyper important sur illustrator avec des création de logo, etc... Le soucis est que mon fichier à disparu! je ne le trouve plus nulle part!! Pouvez vous m'aider je vous en suppli

Happens to me too, on Windows. Every export the dialog moves a little more left, until I have to move it back to the right. Seems like there should be a preferences option like Corel has: Center Dialog Boxes. But alas.

Depuis le passage à Illustrator 2026, à l'ouverture le logiciel ne reconnait plus des polices et les signale manquantes alors qu'elles sont là ! des solutions ?

Hello, Having issues today (as is my co-worker) with the new 30.1 build and Illustrator on Mac is having bugs and problems I have not seen since the 1990's, LOL. Cannot adjust text blocks when they are set with type. Only stetches or resizes, does not allow for chaning of the bounding box size.Images that have clipping masks have the same issue. You cannot adjust the bounding box or clipping mask seperately. It stretches and resizes only. You cannot recropItems grouping to each other without reason. Pretty much that, looks like the OLD bug with .AI, showing up again in 2025I'm sure there will be posts tonight about this, but thought I'd add my woes into the fray.And going back to an earlier version, say 29.8.3 on a Mac does not solve it. I'm assuming the bug or corruption get's passed back if opening a current file(s). Anyone found a work around?

ello!I recently upgraded my operating system from Windows 10 to Windows 11. This new operating system has its quirks, and it takes some getting used to. However, something I haven't been able to get used to is the new interface in Illustrator for printing. It feels like the interface has added others windows, making the printing process slow. Before, it was just one window; you adjusted the necessary options—paper type, number of copies, print quality—and it printed. Now, it opens an Illustrator window for printing, then another window with print options in Windows, and if I want to adjust the print quality, yet another window opens... and if I want to change any of those options again, everything I had already selected is reset to its defaults! This isn't very user-friendly. This used to happen in Photoshop (new version in windows 11), but in Photoshop, I unchecking the "New Modern Interface" option reverted it to the old interface, which I greatly appreciate.How can I fix this in Ill

I'm having a lot of issues with making changes to text within an existing text box. I used to be able to just select the text box (with existing text in it), click the text tool and insert it anywhere in the text paragraph to make changes but now, I'm having issues just trying to select the text box ( I have "show edges" selected) even when it's on the top layer (and the layer is selected) and then, after multiple "clicks" and it's finally selected,  every time I use the text tool, when I click where I want to insert or update text, I get the default new text box with the large "Lorem Ipsum" greek text in it. I can't insert the text tool within an existing text box to edit the words!  This is unreal! There was never an issue with editing text in the past. Any suggestions?I'm using an iMac M3, using macOS 15.7.1 and Illustrator 30.1.  This started when I updated Illustrator about a week ago.  HELP PLEASE.

Merry Christmas everyone.I am realtively new to Ai. I design wood engravings so I must export my final Ai files as SVG, then into a CNC machine (objects and text). They need a custom graphic style applied for the CNC to read.I have never been able to select all objects and apply the grahic style to everything at once. Some objects always get missed. I have to check and/or manually select objects, then apply the graphic style I need. I usually miss one or two objects and this messes up my cutting. Is there a way to display a list (maybe in the layers palette?) that shows all objects and the graphic style applied to them. This would allow me to check if I missed applying the graphic style need to all obects.Or perhaps there is another trick to selecting all objects I am missing—I am using "Select ALL" then clicking on my graphic style.  It just never seems to apply the style to ALL, only some objects.Thanks in advance.

Hello Adobe Community,I am posting to raise a concern and ask for guidance regarding the recent removal of DXF export functionality in Adobe Illustrator.Based on what I’ve been able to find, Adobe’s position appears to be that Illustrator is intended for design rather than engineering use, and that DXF support was removed due to maintenance cost. Unfortunately, this change has had a significant and immediate impact on my professional workflow.I run a small metal art business and have used Illustrator for years to design vector artwork that is then sent to laser cutters. Illustrator has been ideal for this because it handles large, complex designs far more efficiently than CAD tools like Fusion, which tend to become slow and cumbersome at scale. I was using Illustrator strictly for design and not engineering.  The DXF export was the critical bridge between creative design and physical fabrication.With this capability removed, that workflow is now broken. As a result, I recently mis

Die Bibliotheken in Adobe Illustrator 30.1 hängen sich nach einer Zeit auf.Dies geschieht bei mir wenn ich Illustrator minimiere und kurze Zeit nicht verwende.Alle Knöpfe im Bedienfeld sind dann ohne Funktion.Nach Neustart von Illustrator funktioniert Bibliotheken wieder für einige Zeit.

Bonjour à vous. Comment puis-je avoir les points Didots au lieu des points Picas dans Illustrator ? Mercid 'avance.

Hi Community,I'm new, so please forgive me. I've looked at the directions I could find with Google. They aren't working for me. 95% of the brush downloads from the Adobe Stock page do not load the way it is suggested they should. I put them in a folder, use the brushes panel to locate them, and...nothing happens. It opens a blank brush panel, or, even stranger, a second iteration of the standard brush panel. Many of the brushes open as .ai files. I don't know how to turn those into brushes. They are just vector images to me. I can't get them to "become" a brush.Usually, when I encounter this level of error, it means I am doing something terribly wrong. I just don't know how all the gurus I have googled could be misleading me.Just as a for-instance, I've attached the opened brush menu for brush #AdobeStock_674332908. It is also the .ai file open on the artboard. How do I get the brushes on the artboard into the brush menu? There are only standard brushes in there.

Hopefully I can make this question make sense.  I need to change the size of the shortest edge of this object. However, because the bounding box is rotated, I'm not able to do it. Clicking "reset bounding box doesn't do anything. Is it possible to make this to where I can just type in th 3.15mm height I need to change the shape?

This feature for editing images is so inadequate.  Everything about it is slow and cumbersome.  Luckily it is possible to select multiple images and choose "unembed", yet why would we need to unembed them just to edit them. Why not select multiple images and simply choose, "Edit in Photoshop"?   Instead, we have to unembed all the images, one by one.  Illustrator has to save all of the images first, but Illustrator tries to name all of the images with the same file name, so that means we have to rename all the images or the 2nd one would overwrite the first, and the 3rd would overwrite the 2nd, and so on.  So after doing all of that, now it's time to edit them in Photoshop.  If you select all of the images, the option to edit in Photoshop is not there.  From within Illustrator you need to select each image 1 by 1 to choose edit in Photoshop.  There's the option of opening the file from the saved location and that's fine, but that's also an e

Please let me know how to disable this popup as you can see in attached screenshot. I will be forced to cancel my subscription in case the popup cannot be disabled, as I find such popup discriminatory towards customers with OCD. I am not able to focus on my work. Thanks.

Bonjour;Je viens d'installer la version ILLUSTRATOR 2026.Mais je souhaiterais garder la version 2024 car les fonctionnalités de vectorisation sont mieux adaptées à mon travail (la version 2024 précédemment installée a disparu) .Comment la réinstaller ?Merci Hello;I just installed Illustrator version 2026.But I would like to keep version 2024 because its vectorization features are better suited to my work (the previously installed version 2024 has disappeared).How do I reinstall it?Thank you

Hi, I have this area type that is realigning the text to top even if I ask to be centered... Any idea? 

I made a brush with scallops and I'm not happy with the corner. I made a corner tile for my pattern brush. Is it possible to make te corner smaller so the scallops are placed apart the same amounth as in my straight pattern brush? Now the corners look to empty. 

Does anyone know about a "enter a numeric value" feature for guides?  Or does anyone a run-around to adjust guides in absolute values. I don't trust my fingers or my mouse to that freehand. Thanks for any help,Ross 

Hello Community!I've got my own, personalised workspace set which now seems to be gone. A couple of days ago I opened a file and Illustrator just on it's own defaulted to Essentials Classic as the workspace.I went into 'Window> Workspace' to reset to my personalised one, and found it missing from the dropdown (I'm inluding a screenshot below, which shows that there's now only Illu's dfefault workspaces avaliable, no custom ones showing).If anyone knows why this might be and if tehre's a way to restore my custom workspace, rather than having to re-set all over again, I'd be grateful if you could share your wisdom! ❤️  

Every time I use my Wacom tablet, Illustrator 30 (2026) crashes (Apple M3 on OS Sequoia). I removed all preferences and installed the latest wacom driver, but nothing has helped. The only way to use the tablet is to reinstall the Illustrator 2025 version. I thought it's good to share this. Maybe someone has an idea how to solve this.