Adobe Illustrator 24.1.1 (Windows) and 24.1 (macOS) is now live!

[Om Nath Jha]

We are pleased to announce the latest update of Adobe Illustrator.

Note- 24.1.1 for Windows and 24.1 for macOS

Highlights:

Real-time Drawing & Editing

Now, you can see a live preview of your artwork while drawing, editing, and transforming the objects. Enable the Real-Time Drawing and editing feature to see all your object movements in real-time.

To do this,

• [Windows] Choose Edit > Preferences > Performance > Real-Time Drawing and Editing.
• [macOS] Choose Illustrator > Preferences > Performance > Real-Time Drawing and Editing.

Note – The real-time experience is available only when the GPU preview mode is enabled.

Check the Real-time drawing and editing article for more details about this feature.

Cut and Copy Artboards across documents using menu commands and keyboard shortcuts

Making copies of Artboard is made simple with the new Copy and move Artboards feature. You can copy and paste Artboards within the same or even a different document.

You can use the usual keyboard shortcuts and commands for both Windows and macOS while performing the copy and paste actions.

Check this help article for complete details about this feature.

Improved Free Distort tool

We’ve made some improvements in the way the Free Distort tool works. It now lets you seamlessly edit the object without resetting the bounding box.

To learn more about the Free Distort tool, please check this article.

Use this improved tool to create amazing artworks. and feel free to share your work with us to inspire others!

Improved performance and stability

We’re committed to provide you a stable and better product with every new release. This release brings to you an improved application performance, better stability, and smoother workflows. 

To view the list of fixed issues, check the Fixed issues article.

Regards,

Om

[edilsonks]

Real- time is really great! Hope you add the Pen Tool to its list of supported tools.

[Mayhem SWE]

Metric precision is broken in this release, please fix ASAP. See my separate thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/illustrator-24-1-metric-precision-broken/td-p/10974120

[chryw]

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/38068210-svg-export

Could you add svg export option for whether to includ <title> block or not? You've removed it completely, but my current workflow relies on it. I understand some people don't want <title> block, but it's not an illegal svg element, and it exists for a reason. Please allow user to choose. Thank you!

[Monika Gause]

Please report there: http://illustrator.uservoice.com

[ReneDrie]

There was a bug in 24.0 where we couldn't copy shapes from Photoshop over to Illustrator that should have been fixed in 24.0.1.

I've completely re-installed Illustrator with this 24.1 version, but I can't copy the shapes over again anymore.

I've tried the options given here:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/illustrator-2020-giving-error-while-copy-pasting-object-t...
https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/vector-smart-object-from-photoshop-to-illustrator-error/td-...

But it didn't work for me

[Brittani Ashley]

Hello - There's a problem with the "can't finish preview" again. Is it possible that the new update brought this bug back again?

[seho713]

Can't load Illustrator after update! Don't know why! Does anybody know the solution?

[Guest]

I have the same issue. 

[zandwacht]

It's been a while since the release, but this update is not appearing on my system. I hit the "check for update" feature a couple of times: I can only see v24.0.3. I'm in Belgium, but my system is set to English. thanks!

[Ton Frederiks]

If the update is not visible, try this:

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/creative-cloud-application-recognizing-available.html

[zandwacht]

Thanks for the link: deinstalling 24.0.3 made the 24.1 update appear. Thanks!

[Ton Frederiks]

Good to hear that helped.

[ingelablack]

I have used some time, (since last time encouraged to update) an older version of illu and older version of ps. I thought I let everybody resolve things and try later. It crashed, destryed documents and didnt read its own previous files. 

The work when savings has been real slow. Sometimes it doesnt save, and dont tell me. Sometimes I save and I uncheck all layers and that normally works. Yesterday I uninstalled all versions illu and reinstalled the last. It ruined one of my vip documents to one board only now and it prostests when opening documents. I am on windows 10, should I revert to older version illu or is it working out for people? BRgds Ingela

installed last version yesterday

[Nanny Noya]

I still have crashes... more than before..MacOS Catalina on 16 inch Macbook and illustrator is not the best match...

[BartVanPut_vdab]

Well now the Free Transform tool is completely broken : options (perspective, constrain) disappeared, totally does not what it should. Anybody else ? IGNORE: option palette had reset itself UNDER the toolbar....

[olenickdesigns]

bummer its really slow as garbage and has all kinds of addons you have to turn off, and it still sucks.

[Kuttyjoe]

Real time drawing, I suppose is a good thing.  I enabled it and found that it just made my work a little clunkier and slower.  Some things hesitate before moving, and other things are probably too heavy to show the preview as it moves.  So I disabled it within minutes.  It's weird because when I use other programs that have this feature, I don't find any problem with it but I think it just doesn't work very well in Illustrator unfortunately.

[kcgmark]

This release is very buggy. Crashes almost daily and this is a clean install of Creative Cloud and Illustrator on a brand new Mac Book Pro. I've lost my saved workspace several times... 

Adobe please understand that we pay you a lot of money for this software. If you're going to charge this kind of money for a bunch of patchwork design tools that most people don't want or need, then the software NEEDS TO WORK.

Crashes, lost work, resetting workspaces, coming here to give feedback ALL COSTS TIME and TIME IS MONEY. You call this professional software, it is expensive -- don't release it unless it works. 

Affinity Designer may not have as many bloated features, but I can BUY IT for less than ONE MONTH of Creative Cloud. Yes, that's right PURCHASE IT, not rent it so you can force garbage beta software with features nobody wants. 

You need to get your act together...

One step closer to dropping this mess called creative cloud and moving to Affinity. BTW... have you met Quark?

[Eemmaa21]

I totally agree! 

I just installed the new version and now it crashes constantly, first I just could open it again with no problems but now it won't do anything and I was almost done with this job zo it sucks that I can't finish it!!! the person I'm doing this work for is waiting and I can use the money! Now I can't do anything!!!! I thought this was just a problem with me but clearly that is not the case!! The older version works just fine but I can't work on my files on the older version.