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Installing Adobe CC 2019 on Windows 10 LTSB 2016 without upgrading

i am a happy Windows LTSB 2016 user and I am not willing to upgrade it. However Adobe wants me to upgrade my OS in order to install their newest Adobe Products. Is there any Fix/Bypass to get around ...
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Stylus on the touch-screen of a laptop that can detect "pressure", "tilting" and alike

My laptop (Lenovo) has a touch screen. I want to use a professional stylus for drawing in Adobe Illustrator on Windows. I was wondering whether or not the "pressure", "titling", etc are detectable on ...
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How do you search for a local font by it's PostScript Name?

How do you search for a local font based on it's PostScript Name? I found this nifty way to generate a list of PostScript names for Mac computers but that doesn't help me at all here, below is an ...
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How do I open .ai files on Windows 8.1?

Specifically this file https://stock.adobe.com/stock-photo/flux-vague-de-dollars-illustration/35571058 I tried to rename the file with .pdf extension, but FoxIt would not open it. I tried to install ...
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How can I use shortcuts in this minimalist Windows folder browser dialog?

This is the folder chooser window that pops up on Adobe Illustrator CS6 running on Windows (8.1 pro) when a script calls for a file or folder to be selected (on the left below - this example is from ...
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Illustrator files created and exported on Mac look stretched on Windows

Hopefully someone knows what's going on here. A file created in illustrator on Mac then exported to PDF or PNG looks stretched when viewed on Windows! I can't find any settings for aspect ratio etc, ...
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Installed Font, but can't use it in any application, it previews but can't be used

https://github.com/olton/Metro-UI-CSS/tree/master/fonts I tried the ttf. It's a bunch of metro icons/glyphs. Installs fine in OSX or Windows and neither detect any problems with it. I can preview it ...
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Adobe Illustrator CS5 64 bit on Windows

Trying to find out if there is a seperate or included 64-bit version of Adobe Illustrator for Windows like Photoshop has.
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Adobe Illustrator raster image dimensions?

I have a PNG image file with the dimensions 1024px x 1074px when I bring it into illustrator it gives me the dimensions of the image as 768.107px x 805.612px. I even tried to export the image (for web)...
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illustrator crashes on open preferences

My Illustrator (CS3, windows xp sp3) crashes when I select Edit...Preferences. This is a new error and has only started to happen recently. I can only guess my preferences have somehow become ...
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What are cheaper alternatives to Adobe Illustrator on Windows, Mac, Linux?

Background: I'm mostly a Mac user and have tried out Inkscape and even created SVGs with it, but it is highly user-unfriendly, it uses CTRL as the modifier key. I found VectorDesigner which seems ...
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