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May 15, 2024
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Can Adobe Illustrator fit my requirements in this circumstances?

  • May 15, 2024
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Hello, everyone. I have some special needs that necessitate over 170000 brush paths on a single canvas. Right now, Illustrator demonstrating a huge input lag at the moment I switch to that canvas, which is basically not drawable at all. and when i check the resources monitor, looks like my 13700k just has 2 cores with around 80%–90% usage, others just about 10%, RAM usage below 40%, not to mention SSD usage is nearly 0%. So I'm guessing the bottleneck in this situation is Illustrator itself. any advice about this? or should I use another vector editor? Any recommendation would be a huge help! Thanks a lot.

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Ton Frederiks
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May 15, 2024

Did you manually creat the 170000 brush paths? If they are copies, a Static Symbol would be more efficient.

Participant
May 16, 2024

I'm afraid to say I think it really does have 170000 amounts of manual-brushed objects; screenshots are above.

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 16, 2024

I am impressed. But not surprised that it is slow.

Monika Gause
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Community Expert
May 15, 2024

What kind of brushes are they?

 

Because with most of Illustrator's brushes there is no alternative application that even has it.

Participant
May 15, 2024

I'm not so sure about which kind. I just checked the document info panel, and it says around 170000 brushed objects. I guess I should pretend the circumstances are a new file that will require that amount of curves or paths. Can Illustrator handle it or is there any other vector software I should consider?

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 15, 2024

Are the brushes necessary? Or would strokes paths do?

Did you just use brushes, because they jave been applied automatically through the brush tool?

 

It would really help to see what it is. And the kind of brushes. They amount of paths could slow down Illustrator. And if you do not have sufficient power in your computer (RAM, processor, graphic card, disk space), it will do that even more.