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Illustrator v29.3 | Stunning MomoChidori fonts, vibrant gradient fonts, and smoother performance!

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Feb 12, 2025 Feb 12, 2025

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Hello everyone!

Illustrator v29.3 is here with exciting updates! Create stunning Japanese text styles with Momochidori fonts, add vibrant gradients using COLR fonts, and save patterns and gradients directly to Creative Cloud Libraries. Enjoy enhanced Image Trace presets, refined East Asian text layouts with improved character positioning, and overall performance improvements for a smoother design experience.

Download the latest version to explore these improvements and boost your creativity!

 

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Try out the latest Features and Enhancements in Illustrator.


Elevate your artwork with stunning Japanese text styles using Momochidori fonts

These variable fonts offer adjustable weight, width, and slant, providing precise control for text styling. Simplify your workflow with dynamic settings that ensure consistent and adaptable designs across platforms, making it effortless to create cohesive, responsive text layouts.
Check out this page for more details!

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Add vibrant gradient effects to your text with COLR fonts

These fonts let you create rich, gradient-filled text with seamless color transitions, offering customizable color effects while maintaining scalability and enhancing your designs with depth and dimension. 
Check out this page for more details!

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Manage East Asian text layouts with ease

Now, directly from the Reflow Viewer panel, you can create outlines and add character positioning to East Asian text when editing documents created in older Illustrator versions.
Check out this page for more details!

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Japanese Text Improvements

Illustrator now features enhanced character positioning and kerning for Japanese text layouts. These improvements automatically adjust spacing, ensuring precise, high-quality text layouts with minimal manual effort.
Check out this page for more details!

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Enhanced Image Trace Presets

The Image Trace panel now features upgraded presets with support for gradients, transparency, auto-grouping, and shapes, delivering more precise and efficient tracing results tailored to each preset.
Check out this page for more details!

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Performance Improvements

File import improvements (open, place, drag-and-drop): Experience faster import of PNG, JPEG, TIFF, and Photoshop files from both local storage and network drives, streamlining your workflow.

Enhanced effects processing: Enjoy improved rendering speeds for frequently used effects like Drop Shadow, Blur, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, and Rasterize, ensuring a smoother design experience.

Optimized Layers panel: Navigate and manage layers more efficiently with smoother hide/unhide actions, faster expand/collapse operations, and improved panel scrolling.


Check out this page for more details!

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Enhancements inspired by your feedback

Preview Missing Fonts Without Installation

Collaborators can now embed fonts in the Illustrator files they share with you, allowing you to preview missing fonts without installing them. While you can view the text as intended, you’ll need to use a default or replacement font to edit it.


To embed fonts, your collaborator must save the file with Embed permitted fonts for file preview as Create PDF Compatible File may not embed all permitted fonts.


Check out this page for more details!

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• Update to Illustrator 29.3 to preview missing fonts.
• Your collaborator must also update to Illustrator 29.3 to use Embed permitted fonts for file preview

Measure the Area of Objects Using the Measure Tool

The Measure tool allows you to determine the area of selected objects on the canvas, including compound paths. You can also refine your measurement by excluding certain objects or overlapping segments from your selection, giving you greater precision and control.
Check out this page for more details!

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Save patterns and gradients to the CC Library

Easily save patterns and gradients to your Creative Cloud Library for quick access, seamless team collaboration, and streamlined workflows, ensuring consistency and efficiency in your designs.
Check out this page for more details!

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Fixed Issues

Illustrator v29.3 also includes several bug fixes. Take a look here.

We’d love to hear from you!

Try out the v29.3 and let us know your thoughts. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or need more tips!

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Not available in my area yet. Gonna use the time to make a COLR font.

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Feb 18, 2025 Feb 18, 2025

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Has anyone experienced any issues with this latest update? My illustrator opened with the bleed line faded and anything I import also opens faded. I dont know what to do. I checked my color profiles and they all seem fine. 

 

Has anyone else experienced this? I used Illustrator two days ago and it was fine.

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Feb 19, 2025 Feb 19, 2025

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Has anyone experienced any issues with this latest update? My illustrator opened with the bleed line faded and anything I import also opens faded. I dont know what to do. I checked my color profiles and they all seem fine. 

 

Has anyone else experienced this? I used Illustrator two days ago and it was fine.


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Please create a new thread in the forum and show screenshots.

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Feb 20, 2025 Feb 20, 2025

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In the latest update, the control bar has returned to the top. Is there any way to move it back to the right side? It’s very limited in terms of what it can display at the top.

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Feb 20, 2025 Feb 20, 2025

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You want to have the properties panel?

Turn off the control panel and turn on the preporties panel in the Window menu.

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Feb 20, 2025 Feb 20, 2025

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Thank you for your response! It was very helpful and I appreciate the information.

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Feb 20, 2025 Feb 20, 2025

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This is the control bar:

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It has never been possible to dock it to the side. Do you mean the Properties panel perhaps?

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Yes, thank you! I’ve found a solution now. I really appreciate your reply.

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