30.0WindowsmacOS
October 2025 (Illustrator 30.0)
Added
- Use the enhanced font browser to find, apply, and organize fonts.
- Preview and pick colors faster with the enhanced color picker.
- Apply dithering to gradients to reduce banding and create smooth transitions.
- Use perceptual interpolation in gradients for more natural color blends.
- Start with ready-to-use gradient presets to speed up projects or spark inspiration.
- Snap lines tangentially to arcs or circles.
- Snap paths perpendicular to lines or curves.
- Access artboard actions like Duplicate , Rename , Lock , Export and more directly with a right-click.
- Export selected artboards directly from the canvas.
- Lock all objects on an artboard instantly to prevent accidental edits.
- Apply background colors to artboards for better visual clarity and easier workspace management.
- View artboard labels directly on the canvas and rename them in place for faster organization.
- Easily spot the active or selected artboard with a clearer black border.
- Save complex edits in your artwork faster with the enhanced Save in Background setting.
- Recover your work quickly and reliably after an unexpected crash with the enhanced Save in Background setting.
- Experience real-time on-canvas editing with move, scale, rotate, and duplicate operations without lag or interruptions.
- Create shared spaces in Projects to organize and collaborate on your files.
- Access Generation history from the Illustrator homescreen or workspace to work with the raster images generated on the Firefly website.
- Find the template you need directly from the Illustrator homescreen and refine it in Express.
- Choose between Firefly Vector 4 and Firefly Vector 3 models to generate scenes, subjects, and icons (unavailable in mainland China).
- Use the Generative AI button in the toolbar or the Object > Generative menu to access all generative AI features in one place (unavailable in mainland China).
- Hide the perspective grid easily with the new, distinct Hide Grid widget.
Changed
- With version 30.0, Illustrator has dropped support for macOS Monterey (version 12), Windows 11 v22H2, and v21H2 devices.
Fixed
- While dragging an artboard's anchor point to align with an object, the alignment snaps to the cursor rather than the actual anchor .
- All text objects in a document disappear unexpectedly upon opening the file .
- Image map URL links disappear in exported PDFs .
- Exporting files with large amounts of outlined text using the High Quality Print preset produces corrupted PDFs on macOS .
- Illustrator freezes or slows down during file save .
- Pattern fills don't scale with objects when transforming objects .
- Placed PNG image cannot be selected or moved after scaling .
- The Save dialog defaults to a PDF file instead of an .ai file for new documents .
- Function keys ( F6 to F9 ) don't work for Japanese input conversion (e.g., Hiragana, Katakana, etc) .
- Pressing the Esc key fails to exit text editing mode.
- Drop shadows render inconsistently .