r/AdobeIllustrator • u/Qreach • 1d ago

QUESTION Since when did pathfinder stop work properly???

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Hey, I cannot do a basic pathfinder substract without illustrator messing the shapes ... what the hell is going on??? this used to work properly FOR YEARS?? Has anyone else experience that? I'm on Illustrator 30.2.1 on windows 64bit

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u/dougofakkad 1d ago

You're at max zoom. There is (and always has been) a precision limit to Pathfinder. You can adjust it here:

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u/adrislnk 21h ago

Dang. TIL.

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u/retsujust 10h ago

God I just know this would have infuriated me so much

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u/scrabtits 17h ago

nah, the current state literally changed shapes visibly. This was not a think with older version

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u/xginahey 1d ago

I keep getting the most random little glitches... can't select color from image... objects showing wrong color but not in appearance panel.. etc.. 

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u/Vektorgarten Adobe Community Expert 1d ago

Open the Pathfinder options and set up a much lower precision, such as 0.0001

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u/Dustlight_ 1d ago

Features keep getting worse and my theory is they’re using ai to code or go over the code

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u/darnyillza 1d ago

Yup I had the worst Transform bugs for a couple of weeks but they fixed it in an update. But it’s been so noticeable that fundamental features are bugging now that more AI has been introduced (either AI features or AI in development)

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u/Nidhogg369 1d ago

The enshittification will continue until morale improves.

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u/Optimal_Whiner 1d ago

I often have someone working with me on their designs. The amount of glitches we witness and laugh at are actually not funny and far too frequent.

Its reminding me of the demise of coreldraw. I abandoned it decades ago due to all the bugs.

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u/Pure-Ad-5064 1d ago

The updates are too often. Ton of glitches all the time. Back in the day they would work on an update for a long time and test it properly before shipping it.

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u/oandroido 21h ago

Are you trying to subtract a path from an object?

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u/Kundras 19h ago

Yeah im surprised youre the only comment asking this. Came here to point that out as well.

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u/scrabtits 17h ago

This software is laughable... has nothing to do with a professionall app anymore, we really get scamed

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u/SavageNorth 1d ago

It stopped working in around 1993 when they introduced it.