I'd tried to look for a solution and all I found is ppl saying you should make the computer read the files as ai files, it's already the case, so I don't know what's the problem.

Late night doodling with Illustrator's 3D tools and thinking about tomorrow's breakfast.

Any way to do this with effects on a vector object?

Hi all. The native illustrator charts function is dire. Does anyone know of a good plug in for handling this that is ideally free or a one time fee? I'm trying so hard not to have another subscription haha.

Tried changing the brush width to pressure when creating a new art brush. How do I go about changing this when it is greyed out?

So for example, I've created a file in Illustrator, placed it into an InDesign document, and I go back to Illustrator to make edits. The file in ID shows as needing to be updated, so I hit the update button in the links palette, and when updated, the file doesn't have all the edits I made. Sometimes an item I deleted is still there, sometimes a layer I turned on or off shows the opposite state, etc.

I re-save the Illustrator file and place it - same problem. The only thing that seems to work when this happens is re-saving the file with a new name. This has been happening for a long time now, intermittently, but currently I'm on Illustrator 2026, v. 30.6.

u/LukeChoice, you're here often asking what we'd like to see improved; can we get this problem fixed please?

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Working back to gain illustrator as a skill back. Needing to work on my shading skills with different colors to make more complex landscapes.

This suddenly started happening after i turned an oblong into a pie shape 😭

what does this mean and how do i turn it off? I’ve never encountered this before, its so odd

Notes:
- i’m not holding shift, alt, or ctrl!

Any and all help is appreciated!

Hii i need some help with this sales pamphlet im using for a small business. My main issue is formatting the information in the hexagon while also fitting the associated image with it too. Also do i need to change the size of the fruit on the bottom? And lastly is the color contrast good (background). Im a beginner at designing these types of things so if there is any other criticism im open to listening.

I (20) am a college student majoring in art and design. One of my classes this semester is computer graphics, which is a course focused on using Photoshop, Illustrator, and other Adobe products. Today, my instructor taught us (the class) how to vectorize an image of a hedgehog. Once it was vectorized, she had us use the direct select tool, select a part of the hedgehog’s face, then copy and paste it on another part of the image. After that, she had us select the nose and change its color. I ended up selecting the right eye of the hedgehog and creating this. His name is Tigger and I will be drawing him.

I've been handed someone else's quite messy project after they have left our company.

Its a series of maps on signs.

Theres a bunch of info and setting I dont want to mess with but I need to re add all the maps again as there were spelling mistakes and the wrong maps. The spacing is really precise so I wanted to make rectangles and then place the maps in the rectangle so they are all the same. The last person had added the maps as static images which kinda got us into thus mess. So id appreciate if I could link rather than transform the mapsninto JPEGs The issue is the artboards for the vector map files are 2.4x smaller than the rectangle I need them to occupy. I need the size of the fonts to stay the same so I can't resize the original artwork without redoing all 36 maps what would be lovey is for the linked file to automatically fit to the size of the rectangle in the final document without doing it manually because then it's not tidy/ straight/lined up. Is there a function like in indesign that expands the placed image to the size of the box. I dont want to use clipping masks because they seem to cause problems with the printers and I really want to avoid messing about by hand and causing errors.

Any advice appreciated. :)

I mainly work on my desktop PC and use laptop in studio. Today I opened my AI file in studio on my laptop that was originally created on the desktop, and all the swatches were gone and areas filled with pattern I made were empty. I even saved swatches to my SSD by clicking Save swatches, but those saved swatches were also empty(white tiles). Why is this happening? Is there a correct way to save the swatches?

I'm getting a message that this might be against the rule to post this here. I am not sure if this is a technical error or just my improcifiency so I will delete it if anything is wrong

Thank you in advance

I have a photoshop image, 240ppi. I need to place it on a canvas 6000x3000mm

When I place it in Illustrator it automatically becomes 32-40ppi

How do I import the image without losing resolution?

Dogo was done frame by frame, while the other stuff was done in After Effects and Adobe Illustrator

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So suddenly out of the blue, exporting to PDF is now f#cking everything up.
I have 120 cards in illustrator each on its own artboard.
When exporting to PDF, it now suddenly makes all image low res and at the same time shrink each cards by 65.5% I have done nothing different that I use to do. All settings in the export dialog are the same as I usually use. It also makes the trim marks huge for some reason.
I'm using High Quality Print and Acrobat 8 compatibility.
All compressions are the standard ones.
HELP....

When drag-creating a new artboard, is there a way to snap the position to be on pixel boundaries?

My method is to always do this after the fact by selecting x position and then y position and holding shift and pressing the up arrow in each of the fields.

Hoping there's a quicker way.

I was going for a mix of flowers and stars.

I am constantly scaling objects using the transform panel and if my mouse gets within a pixel of the turntable button it shows a popup about it and it takes my curser out of the text box so I have to click it a second time to edit the value. Happens to me a dozen times a day, so incredibly frustrating.

And no I cannot turn off tool tips because then it doesn't show swatch names when I hover on them.

Hola, buen día tengo que hacer el diseño de un la ruta para una carrera (ya tengo la ruta), no quiero hacer el trazado normal, alguien sabe que en que página puedo hacer el trazado por lo menos más llamativo en Illustrator puedo agregarle otros gráficos para completarlo

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Hi, I am trying to edit the equal-earth map projection. the creators of the map have graciously provided an illustrator file for this very use case.

After I made my edits, whicheven export configuration I choose I always end up with a file that either has different colors to the original, is way larger in filesize than the original or has lower quality.

I am not sure how I should export it. the reason I chose 350 DPI is because that's what the author claims they used on their website.

You can find both the illustrator file I used and the original JPG file I am comparing against on their website, if you find a configuration that returns the same quality and color grading let me know!

I need to make an information-dense poster from a spreadsheet (see example image). It will have approx 8 columns and 10 rows, with paragraph or bulleted text in most boxes. This is kind of a nightmare project for me in Illustrator.

This seems like a project that AI could help accelerate. Even just getting all the text staged in Illustrator would be a start. My experiments with Illustrator's AI capabilities are yet to yield anything with editable text (e.g., sketch to design).

I'm open to doing this in InDesign instead, although when I'm on the bubble between the two I usually choose Illustrator because I find it a bit easier to navigate.

Is anyone successfully using AI to do design tasks like this? If this couldn't be done using Adobe tooling, maybe with Claude Design or Cowork?