Stroke and Fill Issues.

[Aled278522732gpm]

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 

[Doug A Roberts]

Is this using the stroke and fill in the Control bar?

[Monika Gause]

Or the one in the properties panel.They are both buggy.

[Aled278522732gpm]

Hi Doug

I tried it using that one and the one in the "Appearance" toolbox.

I thought I'd sorted it at one point. I noiticed in the Stroke toolbox stroke alignment was set to "Inside". So, I changed that to "Center" and the stroke started working again. However, now the opposite scenario is broken. Now, trying to change the fill, changes the stroke.

So it must be something to do with the stroke alignment. I'll have a play with it.

Cheers

Aled

[Doug A Roberts]

It's the issue Ton linked in the post above.

[Ton Frederiks]

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-...

[Aled278522732gpm]

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]

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.

[Aled278522732gpm]

Aha! I see what you mean now. I was looking at the icons (top-left) under the File and Edit menus. 

It works now. Thanks very much for your help and so fast too. What an annoying bug though. Let's hope they fix it soon.

Have a lovely weekend.

Aled