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Deeshana
Deeshana
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June 19, 2018
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My Illustrator crashes every time I open a pdf?

  • June 19, 2018
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For years I have been opening and editing pdf's in illustrator. For 2 days my app crashes every time I attempt it or freezes. What's going on? I updated, deleted and reinstalled the program in an attempt to rectify the problem

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      Correct answer Deeshana

      So I found out the problem, My graphics card was out of date.

      I had to go into preferences in Illustrator, Click on "performance" and untick "GPU performance"

      It is now working again.

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      Doug A Roberts
      Community Expert
      Doug A RobertsCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 19, 2018

      Does this occur with a particular PDF or all PDFs?

      Deeshana
      DeeshanaAuthor
      Participant
      June 19, 2018

      And with eps. files now that I have tried

      J
      James332730236ngr
      Participant
      October 30, 2023

      So I found out the problem, My graphics card was out of date.

      I had to go into preferences in Illustrator, Click on "performance" and untick "GPU performance"

      It is now working again.


      Only one of my pdfs are crashing my illustrator and I tried your method but my gpu tick box was already unchecked so sadly it didn't help my situtaion.

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