Adobe Illustrator Things To Do
Rachelle Kun
A week ago, a few of my Adobe products began lagging when attempting a click-and-drag with the direct selection cursor. I noticed it first in Illustrator, but then noticed it in InDesign as well. I primarily use Illustrator in my day-to-day, so I'm posting here. After a fair amount of Googling, I discovered many people with the same problem over the past few years, all who had different solutions presented to them (to varying amounts of success). I've tried all sorts of things to resolve this issue, but nothing has worked. So I'm hoping to get some additional insight here. I'll outline the steps I've taken below:
Clicking on an object and trying to move it has a relatively huge delay on it. Trying to select multiple objects in quick succession also makes the cursor to "stick" causing some items to suddenly jump around. It happened suddenly and seemingly randomly one day after lunch. It's very frustrating when designing complex boards.
I think that's it so far. I'll update with anything else that I try. Does anyone have any other suggestions here? I've been limping along in Safe Mode during my work day, but that's not ideal since I don't have access to my fonts, etc. there.
Following up on this. We finally discovered the cause of the issue. An update to the DLP software Proofpoint was causing the "sticky click" or "click delay" on our machines. Removing Proofpoint takes care of the issue.
I recently noticed when dragging artboards around, the "laggy" cursor issue doesn't happen. It's only happening when clicking/dragging objects. I decided to screen record the issue in order to better document it, when I noticed something odd (see my attached screen recording). Not only is the cursor in Illustrator seemingly "lagging," but the screen record wasn't picking up the cursor movement either. You can see how my cursor clicks, then just sits there for a second or two before popping over to the spot on screen where I had dragged the cursor to. However, on my screen, I was moving my cursor around the whole time. Whatever is causing that lag seems to be affecting other programs/elements as well.
I'm having a similar issue with InDesign and Illustrator. Sinmply clicking on an element to select it has a delay. And when it get's selected, it almost always nudges the element as if I performed a click and drag.
I love you, had the issue for months, did everything, as fulltime graphic designer it was really annoying and you solved my problem (I'm a bit annoyed that a paid app does this, plus I used to use it really often, but still better to have illustrator without lagging)
Having the same issue recently, which is really weird. This wasn't happening last week, which made me think it's software related or OS related, but it was happening on both 14.1 and now 14.1.2. Could be something our IT department installed in the background(?) too but didn't see anything in the system report that stood out.
Random lagging when selecting and moving objects. Usually results in moving said object by a couple pixels, which is extremely annoying. Simply moving the mouse around the file within INDD rockets the CPU usage to around 65%, and when the lag/hitch occurs, it goes up to 75%. Not sure if the two things are related but thought it worth mentioning.
It may be another app that is conflicting with Adobe. Magnet requires special permission to control your system, and perhaps you gave this permission to another app on your system, which is causing the issue. To find out, go to System Settings > Privacy & Security > Accessibility. Check the apps one at a time by toggling the switch off and testing the peformance in Adobe.
If you can narrow it down to a particular app, then either exclude Adobe from that app (if such an option exists) or quit that app while running Adobe. If you rely on the conflicting app, you can use macOS Shortcuts to automate closing the app when opening Adobe, and vice versa.
Glad someone is seeing results with their troubleshooting! I got all excited reading your post, right before realizing we don't use the magnet app on these machines. Argh. It seems all sorts of things are causing this laggy cursor issue. I wonder if we'll see any kind of Adobe software update that will solve this. Some kind of umbrella patch maybe.
Magnet requires permission to control your system. Check your System Settings > Accessibility to see which apps you have that also require this access. Try quiting them one-by-one while testing Adobe's behavior. Perhaps you will find the culprit.
I am using Magnet, my machine is still on Ventura and weirdly enough, I have found that it is not causing the problem. In my case it is instead the BenQ monitor utility app Display Pilot 2. Switching off accessibility access or quitting the app solves the issue. I followed @fatmarker's suggestion to identify the cause. Hope this information could help.
I don't understand why Adobe tries to fix things that aren't broken. The properties tab at the top is where it needed to stay. Having moving properties to a side tab was a huge mistake. My workload has increased just trying to find where things have gone and I find it much less useful this way. You also have gotten rid of the expand button when doing in image trace. I'm sure I'll find many more things that have gone missing or much harder to find now. I feel like CS5 was the most perfected version of all adobe products and now that we have creative cloud I'm always running into bugs and dislike all updates since CS5.
You are so right, Craig. I just got upgraded to Adobe Illustrator 2021 at work and it is a POS. I have taken hours to do work that used to take me minutes. It is frustrating and STUPID. Some improvement!
Whatever crazy making Adobe enacted on 2021, please it switch back. I miss having the property tab, or control tab - whatever you call it. Used to be I would select an area of text and the font and the size and all the information I needed was right on top. Now I have to open character to get a pull down menu.
And I agree with Craig above. Adobe had a working set of products that since the cloud have become negotiations with the software rather than the designs I'm paid to create.
I prefer the essentials classic too but I work a lot with type and I have to open the character box at the top to see the font size. How can I put a character/type bar across the top when I am working?
Super wonderful solution. I have been stressing for a very long time about this. However, it is... click on the Window MENU TAB (not Window panel) and select control from the drop down. What a relief. Thank you, Boi.
I was trying to adjust myself in 2 months when the time I update My Illustrator hoping that it might be better when I get use to it. but no. there must be a solution for this. and I found my answer here. thank you guys!
How do you move the properties panel back to the top without having to switch from Essentials to Essentials Classic? I have completely customized Essentials and would rather not have to completely customize my layout again.
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