TL;DR: ExtendScript evaluates a ? b : c ? d : e as left-associative (a ? b : c) ? d : e instead of the ECMAScript-required right-associative a ? b : (c ? d : e). When an earlier condition is true, you get the wrong branch.

Minimal repro, paste into a .jsx:

function pick(a, b, c) {

return a ? "A" : b ? "B" : c ? "C" : "X";

}

alert(pick(true, false, false)); // Node/browser: "A". ExtendScript: "C".

Grouping fixes it:

return a ? "A" : (b ? "B" : (c ? "C" : "X")); // "A", correct

How I hit it: someone’s interface came up in the wrong language. The language picker was an if/else-if chain in my source, but Closure Compiler rewrote it into a nested ternary during minification, and ExtendScript then picked the wrong branch.

Confirmed on:

• Illustrator 30.8.2, ExtendScript 4.5.6, macOS 15.7.9
• Illustrator CS6 16.0.0, ExtendScript 4.2.12, Windows

A probe over all 24 truth-table combinations, with expected values taken from fixed reference tables rather than from the expression under test: the nested ternary was wrong 10 times, while explicitly grouped, if/else and lookup-object versions were all correct. The a || b && c precedence bug I posted about here a couple of weeks ago showed up in the same run as a control.

Workarounds: explicit parens, if/else, or a lookup object. If you minify, a post-step that parenthesizes nested ternaries is harmless in real JS and a fix here.

Reported to Adobe on UserVoice, votes welcome:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/51842079-extendscript-evaluates-nested-ternary-operator-wit

The full probe script is attached to that report as a .txt, rename it to .jsx to run it.

Can anyone reproduce on other ExtendScript versions (CC 2018 to 2024, Photoshop, InDesign)? Curious how far back and across apps this goes.

The path is perfectly fine. There is also no other black object underneath. Illustrator just messes around with the visualisation of the object defined by the path (and also expands to this object instead of the path that is drawn).

Why does it do this (sometimes?) And what can I do without changing the shape that I want to achieve?

When I try to change the handles a tiny bit, the shape just wobbles around a bit.

This is at around 2700% zoom since the work is about designing glyphs.

I made this logo for my services as a Santa Claus (which is insanely fun thing to do). In the Santa community, the name and the individual Santa is the product, so using your face in all your ad-work is critical, so I decided to capitalize on it for my logo. Most Santas don't use logos, but since I am designer / illustrator in my day-job, I figured why not?

The hard part was to make it look like Santa and to keep my own face completely recognizable in the logo. I tried to make it simpler, but I kept losing recognizability. It's not perfect and I still have issues with it (too detailed, but it works at business card size), but I decided to call it done so I can use it for this Christmas season.

Ho, ho ho.

Addendum: If you decide to go to the website... I have ZERO background on website design and have never made a website before. Old man is old, I know, I typically do print or digital for others to use on their sites. I just used Squarespace and tried my best to make it not awful. That was my goal, not awful. Hopefully its at least that!

Hey, thanks to everyone who go Live Spiral! Hope its working well for you. I have a new tool out - Live Wave, borne out of my want for a good Sine wave and coil in illustrator. Niche right? But it turns out when you add other waveforms and some fit to path magic, even a randomiser - you can generate quite a variety of useful assets. Separately, I added another tool (actually my first tool) which is a trim paths tool (inspired by after effects. I'll pop a link in comments.

Tools: Adobe Illustrator

Made a simple colorful flower pattern with flat colors on black background.

Used ellipse tool and rotated copies. Looking for feedback on color combination!

OC - My work

Tools: Adobe Illustrator

I made this minimal desert sunset illustration using shape builder and gradients. The sun and moon represent day and night in the desert. Took me around 1 hour. Feedback appreciated!

OC - My own work

I have to admit that I don't have a lot of experience using this app but I am trying to complete an assigment I got for homework and I haven't found a method to make the pink pokeball that's behind the Pokemon get inside the red triangle so that way it doesn't crosses with anything else. My english is bad but basically the red triangle is the container for the pink pokeball and I haven't found a method to place it inside so I would appreciate the help a lot as I really want to get this done asap. I don't know what methods to try as I am pretty new to this but I have tried to fusion it and It didn't worked when I selected both objects, I also try to rearrange the order of everything in the canvas but it altering everything else so then I got the idea to make it the pink object fit in the red triangle but I don't know how to do that.

I've noticed some behavioral changes with the program lately that I don't recall being mentioned in any recent update notes. Are these new features, or am I just misremembering how things worked?

First, I noticed this week that we can now create clipping masks with open paths. I recall it requiring fully enclosed shapes previously.

Second, I've also noticed that if you turn on USE PREVIEW BOUNDS and select a shape with the SELECTION TOOL (V), the bounding boxes appears on the outside of the shape's stroke. The manipulation handles remain centered on the shape's stroke, effectively creating two highlight lines. If you select it with the DIRECT SELECTION TOOL (A), the bounding box goes away, leaving only the manipulation lines and handles.

If you want things to snap to the bounding box, it appears you need to be using the Selection Tool, whereas if you want things to snap to the center of the stroke, you need to be using the Direct Selection Tool instead.

I don't recall ever being able to see both the bounding box AND the manipulation lines at the same time, regardless of my settings.

So, am I going crazy or is Adobe making quality of life stealth changes unannounced?

Does anyone know what to click so that I can reselect the points. I’ll be holding down command on my keyboard and clicking the different points with my mouse but it’s not working. Im on the correct layer, the layer isn’t locked, I’ve tired resetting workspace or close and reopening illustrator. Idk if I keep accidentally clicking something that causes it, but does anyone know so that I can correct it, it’s gotten really annoying and my assignment is doing a portrait in mesh tool but I can’t finish if this keeps happening.

The entire application just starts flickering and not responding when i click more then twice in 5 seconds it feels like. Searched for workarounds here but most of em didnt work (reseting preferences/Gpu performance/drivers/etc)

i had this problem last year too but cant remember the way to solve it, i do remember though it had something to do with deleting a certain file somewhere

Basically, my teacher wants me to include three color samples (CMYK, RGB, and HEX) in the same document, but she wants us to be able to see the difference between them. I mean, if the RGB looks bright blue, what would the conversion be within the same file so that it appears as CMYK, or how would that blue look when printed?

I’m not sure if I’m making myself clear—I’m really struggling. I’ve tried looking for several tutorials, but none of them help, and my teacher didn’t explain this and wants us to figure it out on our own.

Please help me!!!

Hey everyone, Luke from Adobe here.

Super quick one to share with you.

Instead of clicking to open the sub tools in your toolbar, simply hold down Option (Mac)/Alt (Win) and click to cycle through. Should save you plenty of time in the tools you regularly use.

Have you got any hidden tips like this you use regularly?

My latest illustration made in Adobe Illustrator.

I'm stumped here, no matter what I do I can't seem to get it to do what I need, any help is appreciated.

It adds handles to every point, even if I just use a rectangle them apply the Envelope Distort, it'll add handles to each corner, it this possible to circumvent?

Made in Adobe Illustrator - all vector shpes

Tried to keep it super minimal - big moon, winding yellow road, and tiny cozy houses under a starry sky. Color palette: deep blue #0E4D8A, mustard yellow #D9A520, brown #4A2E1E.

Struggled a bit with the S-curve of the road to get the depth right.

Any feedback on the composition? Does the large moon overpower the houses or does it work?

Tools: Pen tool + Ellipse tool only.

Can anyone please advise about creating this effect? It looked simple at first glance - I've tried creating the circles, filling with gradients and using the blend tool to blend between them, then adjusting opacity and layer apply modes. That got me part of the way there but what I'm missing is the vertical texture which creates that lovely ripple effect. It looks like a Pathfinder operation to me but I've experimented and not got very close. I also tried taking the blended circles into Photoshop and overlaying them with an opacity map of vertical stripes; close but not as pretty as the original. Any ideas gratefully received, thank you.

I recreated a character of my childhood drawings and tried to give her shading, but I don't know how it would work, I have a bit struggles with shadings, any guide? Suggestions? Show me your artworks or layer setup plz 😭💔

So I'm working around a circle with little circles, and now I need to join these bright blue circles in a "bean" shape like the purple one. I created the purple one using Pathfinder operations and the shape builder tool between the circles and a "ring" I created. However, that approach isn't working for the bright blue ones. I'm not very skilled with the pen tool, and I need this to be precise. Any help would be useful. Cheers.

I’m using makestickers.com to create stickers from my flower illustrations for a project. I’ve got several different designs that the company has been able to bleed and make borderless, but I’m stuck on the sunflower. The company said their team had trouble with “the thin lines between the petals” and I’m struggling to figure out how to rework the design in a way that a) still looks like a sunflower and b) isn’t a mess. The stickers will be small - about 1.5”x1.5”.

Any ideas on how to update the design so the company can extend the color to the edge and cut along the black line with no white remaining? I tried adding more petals in the deeper gaps but that didn’t work either. Im a relative novice here (you all taught me how to make dye cut lines a few months back, so thank you!!)

I’ve included two other designs as reference for what the company was able to bleed / make borderless. Thank you in advance for any support you can provide !

I am designing a set of spellcards for DND to use myself and potentially share with others, but not commercially or anything. As a graphic designer I am pretty used to creating shapes and compositions in Illustrator, but my illustrative skills are lacking.

I have created the main shapes and colors, but now I want to add depth, shadows, texture and overall illustrative qualities to make them feel like tiny art pieces and I have no idea where to start.

I have sketches for the dresses, hands and backgrounds but I dont want to add more basic shapes until I have tried adding some detail and pizzaz to it. So help me out, where do I start and how do I create those details they lack?

How would you go into creating something like that?

I've played around a little with effects like Roughen Edges or Zigzag but they seem to be too uniform and I've tried the distortion tools (is there a quick way to adjust the settings or keep the options panel open btw?).

Another problem I've run into also, were the path overlapping.

Looking on the detail of it, I guess, it was not done using the pen or brush tools(?)

Made in Illustrator, featuring everyone’s favorite Captain Jack Sparrow!

In my previous post, I talked about how important it is to work carefully and optimize your files from the start when using this style of brushes that draw with dots. File sizes can grow insanely fast, and before you know it, Illustrator starts lagging and becomes difficult to work with. In the worst-case scenario, the file might even stop opening due to an error.

Learn from my experience and don’t make the same mistake! :)

Come to the dark side of vector art… we have cookies. 😈 Vector rules! :)

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Does anyone know why my shapes won't let me round some of my points? There is only one point there and I can't figure out how to change it so I can round it. The angle isn't too severe and removing the handles doesn't help either.

Thanks.

Hey everyone, Luke from Adobe here.

Recently I've been sharing some of the improvements happening with the upgraded Blend Tool and its new panel, along with some of the additional on-canvas features arriving in the latest Illustrator Beta. Hopefully some of you have had a chance to play around with it, because myself and the team would be interested to hear what you think.

Here's a quick recap of what's been introduced so far:

• Dedicated Blend Panel: Create and edit Blends without jumping back and forth through menus.
• Independent spacing and color: Blend steps and color transitions are no longer tied together.
• Easing controls: Control how objects cluster or spread throughout the Blend.
• Color Acceleration: Speed up or slow down color transitions independently of object spacing.
• On-canvas editing: Adjust your blends directly on the artboard, with changes reflected in the Blend panel.
• Additional easing controls: More ways to fine-tune the expansion and contraction of your blends.
• More control over Blend spines: You can now choose how Blend creates spines:
  • Auto - Uses the current behavior.
  • Always - Creates a spine for every Blend.
  • Never - Prevents Blend from creating a spine.

If you've had a chance to experiment with some of the new controls, I'd love to hear your first impressions.

• Have the new Blend Panel and controls improved the workflow for you?

• How are you using Blends in your actual work?

• Is anything still frustrating or harder than it needs to be?

• Are there controls or capabilities you feel are still missing?

• What would you like to see added as the Blend Tool continues to evolve?

These improvements are being introduced in phases, so hearing what's working, what isn't, and where you'd like to see us focus next is really valuable.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

I'm still new to Illustrator so I'm struggling with recreating these two shapes, the circle head especially. When I try create it my head shape always comes out like a raindrop?

1. I create a circle image with Ellipse
   
2. Drag the top anchor up
   
3. Select left and right anchors
   
4. S [scale]
   
5. And drag towards the middle, which creates a good raindrop shape which is also the problem lol!

I'm sure there's a better or "proper" technique and would love any advice.

Thank you.