Illustrator Dialog Boxes Moving To The Left Of Screen on Illustrator version 30.1 on windows

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December 15, 2025
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Happens to me too, on Windows. Every export the dialog moves a little more left, until I have to move it back to the right. Seems like there should be a preferences option like Corel has: Center Dialog Boxes. But alas.

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Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @Iconix Digital Arts,

Thanks for jumping in and sharing your experience. I tested this on Illustrator 30.1 on my side and wasn't able to see the dialog boxes shifting at all, they stayed in place consistently. Could you please confirm the exact Illustrator version you're currently using? If you're not on 30.1 yet, I'd recommend updating to the latest version and checking if the behavior still occurs.

Please let me know your observations after testing.

Abhishek

Sticker Steve

Participant

I have the same issue on my work computer. Windows 10 Pro, using the latest version of Illustrator 30.1. When I'm working on Illustrator files and do a "Save As", and select "Adobe PDF", the "Save Adobe PDF" dialogue box starts out in the center of the screen, but every time after that when I do another "Save As" to a PDF, the diaglogue box moves to the left on the screen more and more each time it appears until I have to drag it back to the center of the screen and we go through this all over again.

Sticker Steve

Participant

Hi Sticker Steve& @Iconix Digital Arts,

We appreciate you trying the suggestions provided by Abhishek. Since we can't replicate the problem on our side, could you please create a brief video demonstrating the issue and send it to us? It appears that the problem has reappeared. We will move your comment to a new thread to ensure proper tracking with the product team, as this is an older post.

Thanks,

Harshika

I didn't take a video, as I'm not able to easily take that and upload at work, but I did take some photos showing it move. 5 photos each one the dialogue box moves further and further to the left from the piece of paper I taped to my monitor showing the dialogue box ligned up to the left edge of the paper on the first photo. By the last photo it is an inch or so to the left of the paper. I kept the same test Illustrator file open and all I did each before each photo was taken was go to "File", "Save As", "Adobe PDF", "Save" and the "Save Adobe PDF" dialogue box would pop up, further to the left each time I did these same steps. If I did it enough times, the dialogue box would be so far left that it would start to go off the edge of the screen.01.jpg02.jpg03.jpg04.jpg05.jpg

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