My only remedy is to restart the program every 15 minutes or jump into CC 2014. It doesn't lag immediately, more like 15 mins or so into my work that the mouse cursor, menus, and general interface begins to stutter and lag. Our print shop will need to continue using 2015 19.0.02 on all printing machines until then.I noticed after upgrading to Illustrator CC 2015 that no matter what project I am working on.heavy or light, my system grinds to a halt when using Illustrator 2015. I will not mark this issue as answered until I receive a patch for this or an explanation from Adobe. This could be catastrophic to businesses using this method after upgrading their software and not realizing that the transparent opacities are all automatically set to 100% anytime a pdf file is placed within Illustrator. For the last 6 years we've been able to place pdfs 100% accurately by just using the Place command (and 'linking' new pdf files in place of old ones, with the same dimensions). I wonder if Adobe has any explanation for it. However, it seems to be an unnecessary step (whether intentional or unintentional from Adobe) to have to complete. I appreciate your temporary 'solution' to this issue. This step, if forgotten during pre-press, would cause serious issues when it went to print. You are correct! For whatever reason, now Illustrator CC 2015.2x+ requires you to EMBED a placed pdf in order for it to correctly display ANY semi-transparent images. Just tried your suggestion to Embed the placed pdf.

The CC 2015 19.2.0 and all earlier versions would always place the pdf files within the Illustrator file correctly. I should also note that the '.2-up.ai' Illustrator file that we use was created on Adobe CS6 with CS6 compatibility). Something happened with CC 2015 20.x and beyond, to not respect the opacity settings of a pdf when placed into an illustrator file. It is brown, not black!? (C:41 M:72 Y:91 K:53 )Īs said, for years we've been doing this, and with multiple versions of Illustrator and multiple versions of pdfs, without a hitch until now. The semi-transparent settings are a simple 25% Opacity, as set on the Transparency panel (No blending mode). I see options for Acrobat 7 and 8 on the Save Dialogue's dropdown menu, but we've never found a need to select the later versions.

To address your questions, all of our pdfs are created with various versions of Adobe Illustrator CC 20, and all are natively saved as the default Acrobat 6 (PDF 1.5), without Illustrator Editing Capabilities. The pdfs are then created and used because they embed fonts and flatten things so other machines can easily complete the 2-up process of our pdfs.

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