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New 2023 Illustrator Versions Getting Worse & Worse Completely Unstable

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November 24, 2023
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Seriosuly what on earth is going on Adobe?

Illustrator is meant to be the professional standard for the industry.

Millions rely on it daily for mission critical work.

It is completely unacceptable that with each update the product gets worse and worse and more unstable.

I have had our work flow widly interupted basically all year, I even had to get someone from Adobe take over my computer to create fixes which lasted nearly two hours and nothing has been the same since. Hugely inconvenient. The latest version has now stopped launching, just like every other version this year.

Need to go back at least 5 versions or more to make anything happen.

It's simply not good enough.

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Rob22176742nfo0

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100% Agree - its buggy, slow and glitchey, with pop-ups every-time you try and do anything - IT IS REALLY BAD
Just opened an illustrated map produced on CS6 and an old Mac 10yrs ago, Now using new MacBook Pro and 2024 Illustrator, it just cant process it, I cant even move around the screen - utter rubbish

Monika Gause

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@Rob22176742nfo0 schrieb:

Just opened an illustrated map produced on CS6 and an old Mac 10yrs ago, Now using new MacBook Pro and 2024 Illustrator, it just cant process it, I cant even move around the screen - utter rubbish

Do you perhaps have a Window manager installed, such as Rectangle, Magnet or Moom? (and there are countless others)

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DaddyDoom

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Still on this topic, because since the OP, there was no update or patching to solve anything whatsoever, AI continues to deal us with increasingly crappy performance.
Latest is that zooming in a file with only a low res PNG that I'm using to rebuild a chart. So... nothing else but a low resolution image and half a dozen text boxes with very few characters, some lines and rectangles.
I zoom in, and it takes about 10 DAMN SECONDS for the zoom actually happen. 10 SECONDS.
I already have GPU Performance and Animated Zoom off.
So, in a nutsheel, 10 seconds for AI to process a zoom in a document with very little information.
I don't know what the hell you guys are doing... seriously.
Far gone is the time where I opened the app early in the morning. Worked in it for a whole day, without crashes, freezes and other idiotic shenanigans.
Now I have to shutdown and reopen the app at least 4 times a day.
Just embaracing.

Nicky G.

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I agree about your user experience. 20 years ago I used Freehand to do everything (graphics, logos, various layouts), now I mostly use Indesign, also because due to the very uncomfortable user experience, Illustrator does not allow fluid, precise, stable and fast use. Crashes every 2x3, inaccurate snapping, GPU display bugs, slow to switch between sides etc. etc. and I'm talking about simple shapes and elements nothing 3D, or heavy effects applied. The problem is that I can't use Indesign to do everything!!! or the solution would be to suffer a little in using Affinity Designer for a year (I believe that after 1 year you are expert enough to use it with agility on all fronts) and abandon Illustrator definitively. But then once one step has been taken, others will be taken by moving on to the entire Affinity suite (they work and think in the same way anyway)...

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DaddyDoom

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All these UE trouble is a fairly recent issue, probably for the last two years (at least for me).
InDesign is also my weapon of choice for most things, but I still need AI for more vector based stuff.
I can't even think about moving to another app, because I work in a pipeline of several graphic designers who at some point need to work on each others files, so Adobe has to be used.
Every new release has lots of new features, but the stuff that needs to be fixed keeps on migrating to new instances, and this is frustrating.

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DaddyDoom

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Plus:
Adobe just announced a raise in the monthly fee, and yet software performance seems to be the least of their concerns.
Seems like AI is the focus now, and all the rest went to hell.
I depend on Adobe to work. They are my daily tools, and I happily pay for the service, but this is getting increasing frustrating.

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DaddyDoom

Inspiring

Performance is slower.

Rendering is terrible. I even get blurred vectors, and have to go in and out of wireframe mode to restore it.
And this happens even with simple stuff. I'm not talking about crazy heavy documents with millions of points and gradients. Its stuff that one year ago ran smoothly and now is just an absolute mess.
Photos inside clipping masks often appear completely weird and out of bounds.
The overall performance is just decreasing terribly, and was NEVER an issue before.

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

Can you go into detail about a single issue, with screenshots? It's difficult to help with nonspecific lists.

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DaddyDoom

Inspiring

I would, If I wasnt already behind schedule because anything takes 3 times longer now.

Surely I'm not the only user having this issue.

Blazethe1stAuthor

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Essentially, each version from 27.0 onwards we have encountered nuermous problems, especially around loading. Upon upgrade of each new release it will work from anywhere from a day to a few weeks and then progressively get buggier and buggier and then at next open will not open at all. It just gets stuck and will not open at all. Have had to revert back to 27.0

Doug A Roberts

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I feel like I've jumped in to the middle of a conversation here. Do you want to go into detail about any of your issues for the benefit of the forum?

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