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June 18, 2021
Question

Trim view not working

  • June 18, 2021
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I am on a time limit with a project I have been working on. For some reason, the trim view is completely greyed out when I select any layer on my artboard. Does anyone have any idea how to fix that so I can use trim view?

2 replies

Rockers
Participating Frequently
January 9, 2022

I`m having the same issue here.

Trim view worked just fine a few month back, but now it`s greyed out. I`m on Mac latest OS and the latest update of Adobe Illustrator. On Adobe Illustrator 2020 it`s not working either. I`m coming to believe this is related to storage and memory issues. 

robertf46352273
Participant
May 3, 2024

Same here. I lost Trim View on Mac

robertf46352273
Participant
May 3, 2024

just fixed it with ElStracho's trick 🙂

Srishti Bali
Legend
June 18, 2021

Hi there,

 

Sorry to hear about this trouble. I tried but couldn't replicate this behavior at my end. I would request if you could share a few more details like:

 

  • OS and version of Illustrator
  • Screenshot of layers panel (Showing all layers and sub layers)
  • Is the issue related to a specific document? If yes, could you please share the document with us? You can upload it to the Creative Cloud (https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/share.html) and share the download link. 
  • When did this start happening? Are there any recent changes made to your system? For example, any antivirus, system updates or web extensions installed recently. 

 

You may also try resetting Illustrator Preferences ( https://helpx.adobe.com/in/illustrator/using/setting-preferences.html ) and let us know if that resolves the issue.

Please note that resetting preferences will remove all the custom settings and Illustrator will launch with default settings. You can also take a backup of the folders in case you want to. Location is mentioned in the article.

 

We're here to help, just need more info.

 

 

Regards,

Srishti

Participant
July 26, 2023

I ran into this issue and realized that I had the artboards hidden (control/command+shift+H). That woudn't let me go to Trim View. Show artboards and it works, for me at least.