Stroke and Fill Issues.

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November 22, 2024
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Hello wonderful community

I am having an issue with Illustrator 29.1 (64Bit), whereby I draw a simple shape, like a rectangle and it appears with a fill and an outline. The shape I want to draw requires an outline but not a fill. I click on the fill and choose the "No fill" option and it kindly obliges, leaving the rectangle with no fill and a black outline. I want it to have an orange outline, so I click on the Stroke icon, choose the RGB pallatte and enter the hex code. The outline remains black and it refills the rectangle to the inputted hex code.

My version is the most recent version (see above). I have rebooted the computer and ran some Windows 10 updates. I also tried creating a fresh file in Illustrator all to no avail.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Aled

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Kristi28317403rm30

Participant

Do you know if Adobe has come out with a solution to this issue yet?

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

It is fixed in Beta:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/49089431-using-color-mixer-in-control-panel-for-stroke-chan

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

You need to target the fill or stroke first to be able to change the color in the control or properties panel using sliders.

It is a known problem, you can vote here:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/49089431-using-color-mixer-in-control-panel-for-stroke-chan

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Aled278522732gpmAuthor

Participant

Hi Ton

Are you able to explain further what you mean, sorry. I'm somehwhat of a novice when it comes to Illustrator. I'm not a graphic designer but I use it a lot for my marketing materials. It's usually such an amazing piece of software and this must be the first bug I've ever encountered. It's usually a user error.

If it helps, I have tried using the options in the top left and the one in the Appearance toolbox and they both replicate the issue.

It's driving me potty at this point.

Please help!

Aled

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

At the bottom of the tools panel there are fill/stroke icons:

Whichever one appears 'on top' is the one currently targeted. You can change which one is targeted by clicking on them (or performing other actions, such as adjusting stroke alignment as you discovered above).

A bug was introduced in the most recent Illustrator update -- as such, whichever appearance (stroke or fill) is currently targeted is the one controlled by the colour sliders in the stroke and fill controls in the Control bar and Properties panel. The Illustrator team are aware of the bug and intend a fix in an upcoming release.

Bugs are unfortunately an expected part of using the newest major releases of software. I'm happy for you that this is your first such experience.