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Adobe illustrator 2024 bugs (appearance/eyedropper)

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December 1, 2023
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Hi we have updated Illustrator on our MAC OS Monterey, and we discore a lot of bugs in this version

concerning the appeareance : what is shown in appearance window doesn't correspond to what is visible on the drawing

concerning the eyedropper : it doesn't work, we have to "ungroup" all objects to have it working well... even object that were not "grouped".

Very strange. Does someone experiment this also? Thanks to adobe to correct this soon!

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Voz de Marca RSV

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same here. can't pick colors form linked or embedded files anymore.

Ton Frederiks

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Double click the Eyedropper in the Toolbar and uncheck Picks Up Appearance or try to press the Shift key during sampling.

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Anonymous

I am having the same issue with eyedropper, and fill color in general. It is always empty, even when the "set foreground color" is filled as if the shape filled correctly. Even when MANUALLY applying a fill. I have to ungroup objects (even when there is only one object!) in order for color to apply. This is a terrible bug and is a huge problem for my workflow.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

@hulmerous schrieb:

I have to ungroup objects (even when there is only one object!) in order for color to apply. This is a terrible bug and is a huge problem for my workflow.

This is not a bug. It's how the eyedropper works.

It can apply different things at different levels of the object and that is how it's supposed to work. It cannot know whether you just want to fill all objects in the group or apply an appearance to the group.

First of all you need to check what is currently applied to your group. Use the Appearance panel for that.

You possible need to delete something that got applied by accident.

Then, when you want to apply a new fill to all objects inside a group: focus the fill. Select the group. Hold down shift when pickung up the color with the eyedropper tool.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

This is the behaviour I see in 28.6:

1. Picking up fill colour from an object to a group without holding shift applies a fill at the group level below the contents (so not initially visible).

2. Picking up fill colour from an object to a group while holding shift replaces the fill of the group contents (i.e. the individual objects).

Can you share an example file and list the exact steps you take to get the undesirable result, and what you think differs from a previous version?

I have finally recorded that video I've been thinking about for months. I couldn't longer launch CS2, so the oldest one is CS3

https://youtu.be/JPXXGqch4BY

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

Can you share examples of these scenarios with screenshots?

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Marianne29013497mbemAuthor

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Marianne29013497mbemAuthor

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The eyedropper (on Illustrator 2024 for MACOs Monterey) doesn't work well. It doesn't drop anymore the colors coming from a picture, and for most vectoriel objects, you have to "ungroup" your object (even if it was not grouped initially) in order to have it working. This use to work on previous version, we are 3 colleagues to have this problem. Is it a bug?

jane-e

Community Expert

@Marianne29013497mbem

I've branched your post from an unrelated thread about dialog boxes closing for you.

Jane

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