Hello,
I have such problem. I have imported some maps into Illustrator, but some characters have been badly imported.
My question is: Is it a nice way to find them all in whole document and change them to proper characters ?
Or maybe you know why import went bad ? These bad fonts should be Spanish / Catalan.
Pic. 1- bad character,
Pic. 2 - character fixed,
Hi there,
I'm running mac os 10.11 with the latest version of illustrator on a MBP with two screens (external display non retina). For some reason illustrator is ontop of all other windows. this happens roughly once a fortnight and has been occurring for some time. Only happens to illustrator, no other app on my system.
Thanks!
How do I print an entire CMYK pantone chart (color swatches) from Adobe Illustrator using my ink jet printer. I want to see what colors my printer is actually printing.
I have successfully made two puppets using Illustrator and After Effects but they won't load into Character Animator. I am using After Effects CC2015 ver. 13.7.1, new updates are installed, Win10, HP computer with 8g of RAM and 1 T of Memory, a new Nvidia graphics card with open GL 2.0, and Quick Time is installed. The puppets are stored as Illustrator files. How can I bring them into Character Animator?
We have roughly 55cards that all have the exact same text. The titles and backgrounds differ among the cards. So I've made just one AI with the different backgrounds and all the text as one copy in a layer on top.
Now I can just hide each background layer and save as PDF. But even unchecking preserve editing capabilities, the file sizes let me know that it is still including the images and backgrounds for all the hidden layers. Doing a quick test and deleting all the hidden layers brings the file sizes done considerably.
I was under the impression that saving as a PDF without editing capabilities only saved what was needed for that particular PDF. It seems I was wrong. Do I just have to keep deleting the hidden layers for each copy?
Hi Guys,
I have a very high quality multi layer .psd file that I need to convert to adobe illustrator in order to export them into autocad.
As I'm very in exprienced, Ive tried to merge the layers in the psd file and then use Export -> 'Path to Illustrator', however when I open the newly created .ai file, it open a dialog box called 'Convert to Artboards' and whatever option i choose (either Legacy Artboard or Crop Area(s)' my new illustrator file seems to be empty.
I appreciate any file anyone can offfer.
Best Regards
Alex.
I'm using a retina I7 iMac and it takes about 10 minutes to open a fairly complex file and about 20 minutes to save it. On my 2009 MacBook pro it takes 30 secs both ways. What's happening?
About once a day, when I click on an object with the direct selection tool, the bounding box will be way larger than it should, implying another object on another artboard is included in the selection.
This happens when the object I am selecting is NOT grouped with anything else. Moreover, is seems buggy because the mystery object doesnt have its "edges" visible the way it would if it were legitimately selected.
I can deselect all, but then anything I click on, the selection's bounding box is expanded to include the mystery object. The only way I have found to deal with it is to drag a corner of the bounding box, then undo, and then click off again. Then Voila! I am able to select my object (or any other) without the mystery selection happening.
I use clipping masks a lot, as well as many artboards, and have wondered if it's related to this, as the mystery objects are sometimes masked images, and often on another artboard. However, the mystery objects are not always masked.
Anyone else having this weird problem??
I had it with CS5, and hoped it would go away with CS6, but it has not.
I've been working on a PDF project for a few weeks now and it's been working perfectly. However yesterday, I was suddenly unable to open the PDF as a whole and instead, I was prompted to select a specific page to open. The strange thing is that other PDF files that I've been working with will still open with multiple artboards but this file won't. Does any one know what's casuing this?
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!!
Hello, I've been using Illustrator for a month and I can't understand why there is a single white area showing between the letters 'th' in 'everything' on my artwork when I place it in Photoshop. When I delete the space between the letters in Illustrator, it shows as solid black and I've managed to get transparency on all of the artwork I've completed so far. Any pointers?
Thanks so much!!!
Here's what's happening when I place the .ai file in Photoshop.
I don't know how to form my question. Well with the new update there are on circles not the same transformation points horizontally. Instead there are some curious new transformation points (radius changing), which changes the size of the whole object. Always used the corners with pressed alt button, whis does the job to change the whole size of the object, so why changing the transformation points...
New Version:
This is what a want for horizontal transformation
Is there any support page for changes of the new version?
Hi there,
I'm Illustrator beginner, so I have one question, maybe it's dumb one, but I didn't find answer yet.
I'm using the same drawing on one document, copy that drawing and when I save file, it's big (around 5 MB). I'm wondering is there a better way than this, maybe some option to see this drawing as one file that is on different places on the file, so he will remember only one shape and different locations, so file size would by smaller?
I have the problem that i cant change the size of an object
Hi,
I'm looking for a way to be able to move objects that are connected with arrows or lines and to have those lines follow, stretch, compress accordingly to the movement I apply to one of the objects.
You can think about this as a diagram that has different elements connected together by lines. And now you want to reorganise those objects but not have to adjust the lines again.
Does anyone know how to do this?
I have received a reply from Adobe Support that I just can't fathom to be true. They said "We would like to inform you that if you are exporting your artboard to jpeg then you will not get the same dimension as of illustrator artboard." SERIOUSLY? I am not talking about resolution and/or pixels or any of that. I simply want to export an 8-1/2" x 11" piece of art as an 8-1/2" x 11" jpg. They spent almost an hour with me in an online chat yesterday. First they said it was because I had 2 clipping masks in my background. Then when I reduced it to one clipping mask and the problem remained, they said they would have to get back to me...then today, I get that email. Now, if I remove the background totally, I get an 8-1/2" x 11" jpg with a white line down the right side of artboard...what's that?? But with a background "of any size" - with no clipping mask, or with one clipping mask or with two clipping masks, I get a jpg image the size of image before clipping mask. And, Adobe is telling me either "that is basically normal" or "they have no idea"...what do you think? Windows 7. PC Illustrator CC Release 2015.2.1 Thanks for any input you have to share. PS It seems to me that I have been exporting jpgs for 20+ years and never had this issue before...??? Is this a new issue or am I just crazy? LOL
I use a mac and I get an error message that says Can't finish preveiwing. There is not enough memory.
What do I do?
It’s great that illustrator can edit PDF files and it’s great that Illustrator can save out un-editable PDFs. But why, for the love of sanity, would I EVER want to save an un-editable PDF but then have the original, currently open AI file vanish leaving only that useless little PDF file? I would ALWAYS want the original AI file to remain the main current working file. But it doesn't.
Or if, for some reason I can’t fathom, this behaviour is necessary and right, then at the very least it should display in no uncertain terms that I'm currently editing an un-editable PDF, and strongly suggest to me that I might want to save out an editable PDF or an AI file, or even do it automatically, before I close the file (or Illustrator crashes, as it is wont to do).
Say I'm working on an AI file and I need to save out a small un-editable WIP file for the client to view. I go for File-save as -> PDF/smallest file size/ untick ‘Preserve Illustrator editing capabilities’. I send off the PDF file to the client and carry on working and saving, assuming I’m working on the original. The file looks and behaves exactly as it did before I saved it so intuitively I assume it is the same, original AI file, with the PDF file as a copy. However, when I come back the following morning having closed the file, only the low resolution un-editable PDF file remains. The file is useless, and I have to re-do all the work from all the way back to the previous time I saved the file before I saved the PDF.
Much annoyance, hair loss, time wasted, face palms, etc.
The thing is, I now /know/ it does this, and I go out of my way to avoid it happening but, in the rush to finish work and send stuff to the client, and handling multiple versions of files, it still happens. Now clearly this is my fault but damn, Illustrator could behave a lot more helpfully in this regard!
I keep having this pop up when I'm using illustrator and it will switch to outline mode and cause the mouse to slow down or lag. I'm using a brand new Mac with 8gb memory so I'm positive that this isn't a memory problem. Anyone have any way of helping me solve this problem?
I try CMD+Y but it continues to give me the same error message: "can't finish previewing, not enough memory." Often shuts down whole program and I need to reopen with a recovery file. This is a BRAND NEW Mac desktop with a 512 GB hard drive, faster processor, added RAM, best graphics card, etc. What's going on??? Is this an issue with the Adobe Creative Suite or the machine itself? Please advise!
Ive seen this issue asked with no proper resolution found.
I'm working on Adobe Illustrator CC 15.2.1 version - just recently have had a pop up display message "Can't finish Previewing. There isn't enough memory. Error -108", the display then changes to outline and Illusrtator needs to be restarted to enable preview mode to be used again.
The memory has recently been upgraded so should be no issues here - we had the memory installation checked just incase. The shapes aren't complex. There isn't too many other things running on the machine. ie it's definitely an illustrator glitch.
On another post someone suggested it was the fonts used in the file - no fonts are used in these files.