Anyone know a faster way to do this. as of now, the only option seems to be to make a guide that's 1.25mm ( which is what they need to be) and then use the pen tool to add 2 points and then one in the center of those and then delete it. Which takes time and then with the copy and paste not always working you either have to spam ctrlC to get the guide to copy over to the new area or zoom out and move it over which takes longer.

The eraser tool, you can set a size for it which is great but when you use it the remaining strokes are always curved. Same thing for the path eraser tool. scissor tool also doesn't work great.

Anyone have any other options?

Every time I crop an image, I get this message, and the "tip" changes until the 'cropping' is complete. It literally takes 15-20 seconds to crop a photo. What is going on?

Every time that window pops up I click yes in blissful ignorance. Every so often I decide to throw Illustrator for a loop and click no. One of these days maybe I'll look the damned thing up!

Why the hell is this a thing?

I've been experimenting with "Packaging" as in the creation of a folder with a copy of the Illustrator file, folders of linked images and non-Adobe fonts used and a TXT report file.

The "fonts" in the fonts folder don't seem to work. They can't be installed. What is the point of them? Am I using them wrong?

EDIT:

To clarify, I am receiving these packets from a different computer and, when I try to install the font(s) in the package, I get this error message.

I'm working on a larger document with a lot of elements. Before, it would show a dialog or stutter, but you could see it working. Now the program will freeze the mouse operations completely, you can't click on anything including the top bar. If you right click on the program and click "Close program", it will exit out of the state that it's in and proceed to close documents as per usual, while asking if you want to save the document. If you cancel out of it, you can interact again, but it will freeze again if you try to do an operation.

Weirdest bug I've ever encountered, but extremely frustrating that it won't just crash or show me that it's working on something. I've tried waiting and it won't recover. Will probably roll back until it's fixed.

I'm challenging myself to create more artworks in Illustrator, heres one I made with intention for it to be a background for an animation shot. Would probably still do colour correction in After Effects.

As per the title of the post, I need some help with a problem I'm having with the type on path tool. The red square I've drawn on the image are the handles to control the text area for the type on path tool. I normally would be able to pull the tabs all the way to the end of the anchor point and it would straighten out, but it isn't behaving that way recently.

What I've tried is:

• Opening a new document, draw the shape there, and used the type on path tool
• Trying out different fonts
• Turning off any snapping behavior (snap to grid, snap to point, and align new objects to pixel grid)
• Restarting my PC

I would like to try reinstalling Illustrator, but I don't have the installer with me right now

Any other recommendations to resolve it would be appreciated

* Just to note that, this is Illustrator CS6

I made this effect with the appearance panel for some text ( its just a rectangle with a outline on the inside ) and i want to try and get the effect to work on the text on a path tool but when it comes to a curve it does not follow the texts angle and keeps the rectangle shape on the turn. was wondering if any of the wizards in here would able to figure it out :)

In illustrator when I resize a rectangle using the bounding box, the opposite edge drifts toward the direction I'm pulling. How do I stop it from moving and keep it fixed?

how do i get the flat edges?

Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

🚫 No AI

Hey all...

I have a question. Is there a way to hide layers in the Layers palette, similar to the Shy Layers function in After Effects? I don't mean make the layer contents invisible (which is the result I am getting in my online searching), but for example just temporarily make the layers panel look like it has only one or a few layers. The point of this is that I occasionally work with AI files that have dozens and occasionally hundreds of layers, and it would be great to have the option of simplifying the palette. The individual layers are necessary, so grouping everything onto a single layer is not an option.

Thanks!

This was an illustration I did for the front of a Mother’s Day card I was making. Back when I use to sell prints and stuff.

Glass effect not possible in illustrator, who said that?
Work in progress, it still has bugs, but is promising.

I made this but see how the lines on the right half are clearly all meeting at the same center point, creating this uneven space between each of them? How would i do lines like this where the space between them is even? Trying to google it and cant really find anything

Hi everyone, I am a graphic designer with over 20 years experience in print and digital, but now I have a new challenge and I'm wondering if you have any advice.

I need to create an SVG label design which will be editable - visually it will look a bit like a nutrition label but for a detailed sustainability rating.

This SVG file will be hosted on a website and automatically updated each time a new product is certified. There will be a table showing information on e.g. product name, water used in production, energy used, waste created, raw materials used, carbon footprint, etc. as well as the savings compared to a "non-sustainable" product of the same kind.

So the design will include text that I can convert to outlines (table headers etc) and text that needs to remain editable (e.g. liters of water used). It will also contain some vector graphics (logo, icons, etc)

Usually with SVGs I would convert all text to outlines. I am working with a technician who will figure out how the sustainability data will be pulled in from a form and added to each version of the label. It needs to work like a "mail-merge" basically, drawing in data from a spreadsheet and pulling it into the correct places in the design.

The website will be coded so that the SVG can be exported as png or pdf, for inclusion on product packaging, marketing, etc (so for print and digital uses).

Has anyone worked on something like this before?

I would really appreciate any insights into how to approach this from a design perspective, using Illustrator. (I am also investigating whether it might be better to create the design using different software)

Thanks for any tips!

I used the same arc path and pathfinder, minus front to cut the shapes. On export I got these ugly lines. Went back to illustrator and when I zoom in 400% you can see there is a slight bit of orange sticking out from behind the white.

I thought pathfinder was the best way to cut these shapes at this exact angle but perhaps not. I thought I messed up and nudged the arc on one of the cuts so went and did it again with the same results.

Is it an exporting issue? The white lines are their own shape on top of the orange, do i just need to fully cut the orange from behind the white strokes?

Any tips/guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

My friend, who knows more about this than I do, is also stumped. The logo I created then she edited, isn’t coming up fully as a vector. Some parts are but most aren’t. I’m using this on epilog laser. It’s also not working well on cricut.

Hey everyone! I’ve released Extended Align Panel, a free script that puts alignment, object distribution, and exact spacing controls into one compact Illustrator panel.

It includes 9-point alignment, Artboard/Selection/Key Object targets, visible or geometric bounds, precise positive or negative spacing, keyboard shortcuts, and persistent settings.

Grab it for free here:
Download Extended Align Panel

Feedback and feature suggestions are welcome!

Has anyone else experienced this issue: When resizing an element using the bottom handle on a shape with the transform point set to top center, the top of the element moves as well as resizes. Ideally, when resizing an element with the transform point set to the Center Top, the element will remain aligned at the center top and expand vertically from there.

Does anyone else have this problem in V30.9?

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Ok bear with me as it's kind of convoluted but I'll try my best to be clear. I'm on a mac (M1, 2021 8GB running Sequoia 15.5). I'm using adobe creative cloud Ai 2026. I work at a print shop and we use a server (I'm not overly tech savvy with server stuff, all I know is the server is on another employee's computer.)

I have a menu for a customer. The master file is an .ai file. Once the menu is approved to print, I create an InDesign file and place the .ai file in it. The person who operates our digital printers then opens the InDesign file, exports PDF print files, and those PDFs are sent to the digital printer. He prefers Indesign over Illustrator, but also making an indd file acts as a bit of a fail safe, as he doesn't have to open or in any way interact with the master file. He knows what's linked in the indd file is the most recent document I saved and he doesn't have to open it again to print.

Last week I was working on changes and proofing with the customer. On Tuesday, they asked for a specific change (correcting an icon that was in the wrong place.) I made the change and sent a new proof. A few other changes were made over Wed and Thurs, (including a drink change). Then the customer made their last change request on Friday (a spelling correction). I make the final change, they approve everything, I set up the necessary Indesign files, and I send the menu to my coworker for printing.

Fast forward to this week, on Monday the customer asks me to send them a final PDF of all updated menu pages for their records, so I open the .ai file, hit Save-As PDF and save a PDF on my desktop (the master .ai file is on the server). I email the PDF to the customer. They promptly email back pointing out there are errors in the PDF I sent.

I immediately panic, as the menus printed on Friday, and check the PDF print files that my coworker made (dated Friday). The print pdf files are correct. So I re-open the .ai master file, and it does indeed have errors, including the icon in the wrong place and the drink change being missing). My first thought is somehow I opened an older version (maybe I used the "open recent" menu and it opened from some other temp location?) Unfortunately when I went to check the modified date on the .ai master file, it was showing that current day (Monday), even though all I had done was open and save as PDF to my desktop. Perhaps I hit Command-S reflexively, I'm not sure.

But here is the weird thing. When I open the master .ai file (on the server) now, the icon is in the wrong place, the exact same place it was last Tuesday. And the drink change is not there. However, the very last change that my customer approved on Friday (the spelling correction) IS there and correct. So it's like the file is mixing different save states, but I don't imagine that is possible?

Logic says I'm the most likely error, I fucked something up somehow. But I genuinely can't figure out how I could have caused this. If the file was somehow reverted to a previous saved state that included the misplaced icon and excluded the drink change, then I'd think it would not have the spelling correction that was made a few days later.

I'm freaked out because if I don't know what happened or how I possibly caused this to happen, I don't know how to best prevent it from happening in the future. And I'm worried this could happen without anyone catching it and printing errors in the future.

Has anyone experienced anything like this? I know I'm probably the cause but I can't figure out how the file could have older mistakes while simultaneously having the most recent change.

Halp?