My version of Illustrator is exhibiting some odd behaviour.
For one thing, when i draw something and then move the object I often
get some sort of vestigal lines on the artboard. If I zoom in or out,
this sometimes clears the problem and they dissappear. I tend to get
this a lot when working with guides. Is this a bug in the program, or is
it just my machine? It's big irritation at the moment...
I have a pretty good graphics card [a 128mb nVidia]... I was wondering
of there where any issues with this brand...
Also, when I try to access my fonts from the character palette, they are
no longer there! Although they are still accessible from the main
drop-down menu at the top of the page...
D'oh! Are my prefernces buggered or something?

If anyone can help it would be appreciated,

many thanks

m.c.

MArtin Chiselwitt wrote:
> My version of Illustrator is exhibiting some odd behaviour.
> For one thing, when i draw something and then move the object I often
> get some sort of vestigal lines on the artboard. If I zoom in or out,
> this sometimes clears the problem and they dissappear. I tend to get
> this a lot when working with guides. Is this a bug in the program, or is
> it just my machine? It's big irritation at the moment...
> I have a pretty good graphics card [a 128mb nVidia]... I was wondering
> of there where any issues with this brand...
> Also, when I try to access my fonts from the character palette, they are
> no longer there! Although they are still accessible from the main
> drop-down menu at the top of the page...
> D'oh! Are my prefernces buggered or something?
>
> If anyone can help it would be appreciated,
>
> many thanks
>
> m.c.

What version of Illustrator are you using? Which point release is it?

Stuart

Sounds like a screen redraw issue... Try updating the videocard drivers?
Detonators?

n8


 
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> What version of Illustrator are you using? Which point release is it?
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> Stuart
>

MArtin Chiselwitt <none@none.invalid> wrote:

> My version of Illustrator is exhibiting some odd behaviour.
> For one thing, when i draw something and then move the object I often
> get some sort of vestigal lines on the artboard. If I zoom in or out,
> this sometimes clears the problem and they dissappear. I tend to get
> this a lot when working with guides. Is this a bug in the program, or is
> it just my machine?

I'm pretty sure it's your machine. This also happens to me on one of my
older Macs. I'm not sure what causes it but it's either your video card
(as someone else suggested) or not enough RAM. Try running only
Illustrator and reducing the number of undos to see if that helps.

If not,  you're probably going to have to put up with it or get a
better/upgraded machine.

Orchid

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> "MArtin Chiselwitt" <none@none.invalid> wrote in message
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> same thing.
> Illustrator CS (& ATI, Catalyst 4.9 and before)
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yeah , i was afraid someone was gonna say my machine was crap!
as it happens the card I have was highly recommended and I have 512MB of
ddr ram... ho-hum :(

Hecate wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:32:05 GMT, MArtin Chiselwitt
> <none@none.invalid> wrote:
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> MArtin, what exactly are your specs?
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> veni, vidi, reliqui
i have a gforce4 Ti 4600 card and 512mb ram. my cpu is athlon 2400+

i just did a clean install and re-install and now all seems fine.. very
wierd...

:-0

"MArtin Chiselwitt" <none@none.invalid> wrote in message
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> yeah , i was afraid someone was gonna say my machine was crap!

!?
I just wrote that I have the very same artifacts in Ill. CS with radeon
graphic card (although I don't think it's the card's fault)






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> "MArtin Chiselwitt" <none@none.invalid> wrote in message
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> !?
> I just wrote that I have the very same artifacts in Ill. CS with radeon
> graphic card (although I don't think it's the card's fault)
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like i said in above post, i did a totally clean install [i.e.
reformatted my machine] and now the problem has gone away...
beats me... illustrator seems to be very buggy generally... who knows?..

MArtin Chiselwitt wrote:
> My version of Illustrator is exhibiting some odd behaviour.
> For one thing, when i draw something and then move the object I often
> get some sort of vestigal lines on the artboard. If I zoom in or out,
> this sometimes clears the problem and they dissappear. I tend to get
> this a lot when working with guides. Is this a bug in the program, or is
> it just my machine? It's big irritation at the moment...
> I have a pretty good graphics card [a 128mb nVidia]... I was wondering
> of there where any issues with this brand...
> Also, when I try to access my fonts from the character palette, they are
> no longer there! Although they are still accessible from the main
> drop-down menu at the top of the page...
> D'oh! Are my prefernces buggered or something?
>
> If anyone can help it would be appreciated,
>
> many thanks
>
> m.c.

What version of Illustrator are you using? Which point release is it?

Stuart

"MArtin Chiselwitt" <none@none.invalid> wrote in message
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> beats me... illustrator seems to be very buggy generally... who knows?..

I use CE fonts - Illustrator was unusable (crashed within 3min after
starting) without a patch...



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