29.6WindowsmacOS
June 2025 (Illustrator 29.6)
Added
- Use Generative Expand to expand the dimensions of your vector artwork and to add print bleed in your own style (not available in mainland China).
- When using the Pencil tool, preview styles, effects, and curve fitting live as you draw.
- Repeat your last artboard action—move, duplicate, or scale— using Ctrl + D or Cmd + D .
- Paste objects directly onto selected artboards using Paste in Front , Paste in Back , or Paste in Place .
- Rearrange your selected artboards, anywhere on the canvas.
- Calligraphic Brushes and Art Brushes ( Window > Brushes ) render effects faster.
- Operations such as move, scale, rotate, and duplication are smoother and faster.
Fixed
- In Illustrator 29.4, images inside opacity masks shift to the artboard center when reopening files created in earlier Illustrator versions .
- In Illustrator 29.4 and 29.5, live path preview is missing for the Pencil tool .
- Exiting isolation mode causes objects to disappear .
- The Direct Selection tool can't move off-grid anchor points when Snap to Grid and Smart Guides are enabled .
- Visual elements outside the artboard are not captured while exporting assets .
- Illustrator displays a script error on startup due to an unmatched brace .
- Previewing documents in Illustrator 29.0.1, results in appearance processing errors .
- The Eyedropper tool samples incorrect colors from filled clipping masks .
- Illustrator files open with IllustratorDiagnosys by default instead of Illustrator, disrupting workflows .