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Can't Finish Previewing

Guest
May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018

I know that this problem has been discussed here before, but I couldn't find a solution that works for me.

I have an illustration of many objects that were created using the image traced. I am trying to select all these objects to create a pattern out of them, but when I am doing so I keep getting this message:

"Can't finish previewing. Could not complete the requested operation."

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Apr 22, 2022 Apr 22, 2022

Finally, i got solution of this
i have same issue and pressed Ctrl+E key and then my issue fixed
to fix this just press the Ctrl+E key,

it's fixed, enjoy

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Community Beginner , Dec 06, 2022 Dec 06, 2022

Hi Anshul,

I think clossing all other running applications helped me to somehow complete that project. 

Thanks for the revert.

Syrus

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Community Beginner , Mar 08, 2023 Mar 08, 2023

I ran into this problem too and finally found the issue.  It was a short (128px by 1px), line with no fill and no stroke.  When I deleted it, everything was back to normal.  When I pasted the offending line in a new doc, the same "Can't finish previewing. Could not complete the requested operation." warning came up whenever I tried to leave outline mode. 

 

I found it by hiding everything, going into any non-outline view mode, and then revealing chunks at a time until I isolated and eliminated the

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New Here , Feb 07, 2025 Feb 07, 2025

I had this issue with a large file with many image links. Its seems the linked deocuments were causing the problem. I opened the links tab and selected the images that were linked and embeded them. Then on returning back to the preview mode it worked perfectly..

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New Here , Aug 12, 2025 Aug 12, 2025

A fix that worked for me was to embed all the linked images into the document.

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A fix that worked for me was to embed all the linked images into the document.

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