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Changing same stroke color of multiple objects deletes the fill color...

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June 22, 2021
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After selecting Same Stroke Color, it selects multiple objects, some grouped, some not grouped, many have different colored fills. Then I change the stroke color of the whole group and it deletes the fill colors of all objects involved. This never happened before the latest update. I'm on a Windows 10 machine running Illustrator 25.3.1 (64-bit). This was a normal process that is integral with the type of work I do and going through each artwork to individually select objects is not an option as some have hundreds of parts. This has happened with many different files starting yesterday and needs a fix not a workaround.

Any ideas?

Please and thanks.

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Correct answer Srishti Bali

Hi all,

We have tried to address this issue in our latest release v25.4.1. Please update Illustrator to the latest version to get this fixed.

Please feel free to reach out if you still need assistance, we'd be hapy to help.

Regards,

Srishti

Srishti Bali

Correct answer

Community Manager

Hi all,

We have tried to address this issue in our latest release v25.4.1. Please update Illustrator to the latest version to get this fixed.

Please feel free to reach out if you still need assistance, we'd be hapy to help.

Regards,

Srishti

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lomaxdAuthor

Inspiring

That seems to have fixed it. Thanks to everyone who was involved in getting a solution.

Srishti Bali

Community Manager

Glad to hear you're back on track. Please feel free to reach out if you run into any other questions or issues in the future, we'd be happy to help. Thanks!

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LIC5EFC

Participating Frequently

Still no solution from adobe?

jane-e

Community Expert

@LIC5EFC wrote:

Still no solution from adobe?

Please follow the link to User Voice from @Ton Frederiks in this thread. Adobe announced on July 23 that they have found a fix in beta and have a link for the download.

Jane

Fankin

New Participant

Similar issue when I ttried to change stroke width with different global colors. Stroke effect just dissapear and i can change width one by one only.

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LIC5EFC

Participating Frequently

Deselect global colors and select them again, it works

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LIC5EFC

Participating Frequently

I have several boxes with diferent color strokes (all colors are globlal) and no fill, when i select them all to apply the same fil color to all the boxes the outline disapears, if i desselect the global i have no problem.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

That is a bug. There are already some threads on it. When you create a dummy object that has a local swatch applied and include it in the selection of objects, it should work.

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LIC5EFC

Participating Frequently

it only works if only one of the colors its a global color, if i have several global colors it doesn't work.

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LIC5EFC

Participating Frequently

I got a problem inverse to yours, i have several boxes with diferent color strokes on which i want to apply the same fill...illustrator apply's the fill and deletes the stroke.

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goYippi

New Participant

Liebe Community,

ich bin auf Illustrator CC umgestiegen. In CS6 konnte ich Konturstärken bei unterschiedliche farbigen oder auch dicken Linien gleichzeitig ändern.

Einfach, indem ich sie auswählte und über > Kontur > Stärke einen anderen Wert eingab.

Wenn ich das in Illustrator CC versuche, dann erhalten die Konturen automatische einen Wert von 0, sind also nicht mehr sichtbar.

Anbei Screenshots:

Auswählen:

Neuen Wert eingeben:

Stärke ist futsch:

Wo liegt der Fehler? Muss ich da irgednetwas in den Voreinstellungen beachten?

Danke und viele Grüße

Kati

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

It's a bug that was introduced in the latest version of Illustrator (in conjunction with global colours and spot colours).

A workaround is to add at least one non-global filled or stroked object to the selection before you change the stroke weights.

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goYippi

New Participant

Thank you for your quick help and the explanation, Kurt 😃👍

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Sevesyko-ink

New Participant

Hi everyone,

Is anyone experiencing the same problem I'm having?

When I select multiple objects (with different fill colors) at the same time and apply a new stroke color, I lose the fills.

This has never happened to me before today... I thought a simple restart of my computer would fix it but to no avail 😞

Is this an update problem or is it just me?

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

Which version of Illustrator are you using?

Similar issues have been reported and most likely you are stumbling across a bug in that case.

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Sevesyko-ink

New Participant

Hi Kurt

Thanks for your response.

I'm running the latest version of illustrator.

Could the cause be from a 'corrupt graphic' affecting the document? (I'm not sure if that is even possible...)

I only mention this because I have tested a number of random shapes drawn in a new document and the phenomenon doesn't occur however when I copy and paste my original graphics into the new document all the objects experience this problem...

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

As stated in the initial post, this issue needs a fix.

In the meantime, you may use a little workaround:

- After selecting the objects with the Same Stroke Colour command, add just one object ("helper object") to the selection that is either filled or stroked with a non-global colour.

- Change the stroke colour of the entire selection.

- Delete the helper object (or keep it for further operations).

As far as I can see the issue does not occur with that method.

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lomaxdAuthor

Inspiring

Kurt,

Bless you and your magic mouse (or whatever input device). I despise workourands but I hate bugs in software more. I'll for sure be using this. All the while hoping the next iteration has a resolution.