Missing the join tool in Illustrator CC

It's just not there. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

Try overlapping shapes and changing the colors to a different color.

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How do I remove the stroke outline on the eraser tool in illustrator cc?

How do I remove the stroke outline on the eraser tool in illustrator cc?

Please show a screenshot.
Also:
How the eraser tool works
Illustrator Eraser tool | Veerle's blog 3.0

Has Adobe improved the Graphs tool in Illustrator CS6?

Does anyone know whether there have been any improvements to the graphing tool in Illustrator CS6?
I had thought that perhaps Adobe would be adding a graphs function to Indesign, but there has been no word of it with the CS6 release. And nobody has mentioned graphs in their "new features" reviews of either InDesign nor Illustrator.
The graphing function in Illustrator really sucks - it's been the same since Illustrator 88. Have they totally abandoned those of us who have to create graphs again? Or have they improved it but it's just not cool enough for anyone to mention?

I do a lot of reports - sometimes a 100 page report will have 40 or 50 graphs in it. I have to create over a thousand graphs every year. I have tried all the other products I can find and none of them create files that are really usable in a workflow where everything else is done in Adobe Creative Suite. I need to option click on a linked image of a graph in Indesign, open up an Illustrator file, and update the graph with new data from an Excel file. And I need the graph to look good.
Currently, the Illustrator graphing tool does not support live updating of the data very well at all and has severe limitations. Your data cannot have commas or percent signs or dollar signs. You cannot have numbers as categories (years, for example, as a category label all have to be typed in quotes). The graph labels cannot even have commas in them (you have to enter them manually after you plot it.) The entry dialog for the data is really primitive and hard to work with. And every time you update the graph data and replot the bars or lines, the tick marks are scattered all over the page and you lose your commas in the axis labels. Adobe really ought to be ashamed and embarrassed by how poorly this tool works, and I cannot understand how they can create tools like a perspective grid (which is cool, but I haven't needed it yet) and totally ignore such a basic productivity tool as the graphing feature.
I'm all for the cool stuff too . . . but you don't need live paint or live trace to do graphs if you can actually just import the numbers and do it right. But my graphs need to be accurate and based on plotted numbers, not hand-drawn. And so I have to come up with complicated workarounds and every time I update a graph I have to do all this stuff over again that should just be a one-click update.
If anyone out there is looking for a good business opportunity, build a graphing plugin for Indesign or Illustrator - I'll be happy to test it!

How do I set the shortcut to space bar for the hand tool in illustrator cc?

How do I set the shortcut to space bar for the hand tool in illustrator cc?

Thanks Larry, Mavericks OS. I managed to fix it by quitting Illustrator and reopening it. I have no idea why there was a problem in the first place, it just stopped working with the space bar shortcut and replaced it with a random alphabet.

Hi, I am having a hard time grasping the pen tool in Illustrator

Hi, I am having a hard time grasping the pen tool in Illustrator, but have a decent knowledge of it in Photoshop and was wondering is there any quality loss when making work paths in Ps and exporting to Ai?

EZEILL wrote:
None of these replies answer the question. Is there any quality loss when making work paths in Photoshop and exporting them to Illustrator?!
Do we know what version of Photoshop and Illustrator you are using? If you have a full CC subscription, then you can use Libraries to share assets between your Adobe apps. As far as I can tell, you need to turn your work paths into shape layers for this to work. Just select the Move tool, and drag from the document window into the Libraries panel. Even if Illustrator is still open, you switch to it, and your shape will be there in the Illustrator Libraries panel, and be fully functional (as in way more options that it had in Photoshop).
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The selecton tool on illustrator is not grouping or moving graphics around the page

When using the Selecton Tool on illustrator is not grouping or moving graphics around the page as per normal@

Try Cmd(Ctrl)-Shift-B which is the toggle for Show/Hide Bounding Box. Sounds like your problem.

Why is the brush tool in Illustrator CC inferior to the brush tool in CS6? It has less control of fidelity and smoothness. It is terrible - and I'm an illustrator. Can I use the CS6 brush engin in CC?

I loved the brush tool in CS6 Illustrator- by turning fidelity to the lowest setting, and smoothness down to zero, pumping up pressure sensitivity, it accurately reproduced the fine shapes of a drawn stroke. I'm an illustrator, so I don't want artificially smoothed curves, I want the line I drew.
This works really well with my Wacom Cintiq tablet... but now CC has removed this level of customisation for the brush tool. WHY? The program is called Illustrator, and as an illustrator, I can tell you having an accurate and finely adjustable brush engine to illustrate with is very important to me and to lots of other people who can draw, and draw for a living.
Now you get this dumbed down control panel when you double click on the brush tool icon- just one slider, with only 4 steps from 'accurate' (not very) to 'smooth' (almost indistiguishable from 'accurate')... it is like I have contracted a nerve disease - I draw a line, and it forms into something quite different to the path my pen took. WHY? Can I get rid of this rubbish engine? Trying the blob brush - what is the point of this brush? It is just like the old brush, except for a cursor that shows the largest size for pressure sensitivity... and it has the same crude 4 step smooth/accurate adjuster, that doesn't change the line much at all. I have the latest driver in my Cintiq, so I don't think that is the issue, and CS6 works better than CC.
I am very disappointed, Adobe. Do I have to go back to CS6 for all my Illustration work? Please improve the CC brush tool controls.
I am still reeling from Adobe's quiet removal of a whole tool: Inverse Kinematics/Bone tool from Flash CC JUST when I was finally using it to animate, but that's another story.
Honestly, having use them for a while, Photoshop,
Illlustrator, InDesign and Flash CC are, as far as I can tell, no step up at all from CS6, except that you have to pay for them forever.

More on this, now becoming known as the CC pencil tool fiasco, on these fora:
Re: PLEASE PLEASE adobe. The new pencil tool has become unusuble to me
Re: Changing line fidelity with CS6 Brush Tool
Re: All pressure sensitive brush presets gone!
If you are affected by the lower accuracy controls for CC's brush or pencil tools, use this Bug report/Feature request form to let the folks at Adobe know- they are actually hopefully going to fix this.......
thanks to Daniel for setting this up:
hey all, if you are going to file a bug report (as per Neeraj's suggestion), i've made up a draft to make the process easier. feel free to adjust it as much as you want, obviously; trying to equip us busy folk.
Obviously customer service & product development are two different departments, so if you're bummin out on the new functionality, submit a bug report!
link to submit bug report:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
******BUG******
Concise problem statement:
I was told to by Neeraj N(staff) to report this issue based on this link : (http://forums.adobe.com/message/6065706).
The Pencil / Brush tools have lost essential functionality with the addition of the new accurate / smooth adjustment preset. Users are no longer able to specify high-accuracy pen mapping, as the finest accuracy setting is now set to 2.5px (legacy versions allowed accuracy to .5px).
I would think adding additional slider nodes to allow more accurate mapping (while still using the accurate / smooth preset) allow for a minimal change in programming with a maximum return for power users.
Steps to reproduce bug:
1. open illustrator
2. use either pencil or brush tool.
3. draw erratic and high detail shapes
Results: shapes are smoothed to 2.5px smoothness, even when the accurate / smooth adjustment preset is set to full accuracy.
Expected results: shapes have minimal / no smoothing to maintain the integrity of the artwork.
Thank you for your consideration.

I miss the ratings tool bar...

.....with the default settings for 2.0 the ratings tool bar is missing. Anyone figured out how to make it.....reappear?
Thanks.

Yep. Press 'D' or 'SHIFT-D' to get the control bars back. At least, I assume you are looking for the control bars.
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Where is the Join tool?

My pencil tool only has three options, the fourth (shown in tutorial) is not there.

AP,
You may try the list.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file (you may have tried/done some of them already); 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to 3 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Where Is The Scissor tool In Illustrator CS4

I've selected a line and want to cut a piece out of the middle.
I've tried the knife tool but I don't understand what it is doing.
From what I read in the help I should use the Scissor tool.
I can't find it.

It's located with the eraser tool.

CS4 is missing the Pagemaker tool bar, is there an equivilant?

I did read in the description that the Pagemaker Tool bar (was renamed to something else for CS3) was removed totally from CS4. Is there any equivilant tool bar in CS4 that gives a lot of the same options like open and save buttons? I also used the increase and decrease all fonts button and the zoom in and out buttons all the time. Now it is forcing the user to go into the dropdowns to do a lot of the same stuff now which are extra steps. If there is nothing in CS4 like this anymore, are there any plugins to create something similar out there?

I don't know the answer to your toolbar question -- but all of the functions you mention have simple keyboard shortcuts, which are (in my experience) much quicker and easier to use than toolbar buttons (or menus), and keep me from excess mousing and repetitive motion injuries. And the lack of a toolbar gives me more screen real estate for doing actual work. If you do, in fact, use these commands "all the time," it's probably worth your time to at least try them. On the Mac, command-shift-angle-brackets increases or decreases type size of selected text by an amount you set in preferences; open and save are command-O and command-S; zooming is done with command-hyphen and command-equals (think minus and plus), and command-zero fits the page to the window.
The standard toolbar does at least have a place you can click to resize the currently selected text -- the little arrows next to the current font size.

Creating Objects with the Shape Tools | Learn Illustrator CS6 | Adobe TV

In this video you'll see how to use Illustrator's shape tools to create primitive shapes that you can use as the basis for objects. You'll also learn how to use the Shape Builder tool to combine shapes.
http://adobe.ly/JXWnRj

What tool did you use to drag between the skull and jaw to join them? You didn't share how you did that.

Missing the Type tool

I'm starting a new document for the first time on a free trial version of Adobe InDesign6. I watched tutorials before beginning, but it seems that the "T" type tool is missing. Does anyone know why or how to resolve? Thanks.

Thanks for your help. It seems that the "Type on a path" tool was showing
up instead. When I right-clicked on it, I was able to toggle it back to
just "T".
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I'm missing the "Package" feature in Illustrator CS6

I have just realised I do not have the "Package" feature in my Illustrator CS 6. ?? Should it be there? Do I need to reinstall the software? I mostly use Indesign where this feature has always been used for packaging projects.
Hear from some one soon - I hope!
Sandy

virgopiggie wrote:
I used to use the now unavailable Macromedia FreeHand MX, but cannot any longer due to the latest Mac OS. But this software has had the "Package" feature (actually titled "collect for output") since the 1990s !!!!
Yes, Adobe retitled the feature and is now claiming it to be "innovative and VIP", more than a decade later in Illustrator, fun huh?
You can read more in these threads:
Illustrator 16.1.0 vs 16.0.1 update
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4654698
Exclusive update release for Adobe Cloud customers
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4664536

Using the Pen Tool In Illustrator

I am a beginner and trying to re-create a logo with better resolution for a customer. I am having trouble with the e filling in with black.
I am attaching a screen shot to help you see what I am talking about. It will not let me take the color out???

If Larry's suggestions didn't work for you, you might have to just rebuild the "e". If you construct the outer and inner part in two separate paths, then select them both and create a compound path, it should difference out the inside of the shape and you'll be in business. Sort of the long way around, but an "e" isn't a complicated shape and if you're new to Illustrator the practice might not hurt.
Good luck!

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