Freeform Gradient Stops (Points) Disappearing

[kirbyl966632]

Hello,

I'm new to using freeform gradients and have been having trouble editing the location of the stops (points) once I click away to another object or use another tool. Clicking "Edit Gradient" opens the gradient window, but shows none of the stops on the gradient. Instead of being able to view/edit those stops and create new ones, my cursor changes to the circle with a line through it, blocking me from clicking on the rectangle with gradient. Switching the gradient type linear or radiant and then switching back to freeform (and thus having to start over entirely) is the only way for me to see and edit the stops. Any idea what I've done to make the points uneditable? (see screenshot for cursor and gradient window example) Thank you!

- Kirby

[maxwithdax]

Interesting issue. The program is behaving like your layer is locked, but from the layers panel you can see that it is obviously not. (Great screenshot btw.. really help. <3) Is this repeatable? Can you open a new doc and get the same results? What about just a new object in the same doc. I recreated your doc exactly and was able to match your layers and appearance but the only way to get that cursor was to lock the layer. Even tried turning off a bunch of stuff under the view menu and could not reproduce the cursor status. But once you lock that layer, the cursor mirrors your screenshot.

Really weird.

-Dax

[maxwithdax]

In your layers panel where the blue square is on the right, what happens if you click one of the layers above and then back to the rectangle layer with the freeform gradient in it?

-Dax

[kirbyl966632 · Accepted solution]

I tried a new document and it had the same problem, but I just closed the entire application and reopened and the problems seems to be gone, on both the old document and the new one! Should've tried that first, but I noticed the issue on MacOS and on Windows 7 so I thought it was some other issue. Thank you for your help!

[rcraighead]

I'm late to "Freeform Gradients" since I just installed 2019. I must say, I'm disappointed too. Dots cannot overlap, change transparency, move outside the object boundary or change aspect ratio. I find using the Appearance panel with multiple gradient layers MUCH more powerful and I can do that in AI CS. Maybe I'm seeing the glass half empty, but I'd rather see Adobe improve the existing tools, not adding dumbed down versions of them.