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: Use File > Save As and select PDF . This often bypasses the error, allowing you to then re-open that PDF and save it back as an .ai file.

Navigate to /Users/[Username]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator [Version] Settings on macOS.

Modern Illustrator leverages your GPU heavily. If the graphics driver returns an unexpected response to a rendering request, Illustrator interprets that as a parameter error. : Use File > Save As and select PDF

While the error message itself is ambiguous, community patterns and Adobe developer logs reveal several primary culprits:

If the error only happens with one specific file, an asset inside that document is likely broken. Open the problematic document and create a backup copy. Modern Illustrator leverages your GPU heavily

A new SVG opened in Illustrator. All 147 layers were gone—flattened into groups. The gradient mesh had become a raster image. But the composition survived.

Regularly clean up your system fonts using Font Book (Mac) or Font Manager (Windows). Open the problematic document and create a backup copy

Diagnostic approach (systematic, stepwise)

Corrupted or duplicate system fonts stalling the text engine.

If you run JavaScript (.jsx) or AppleScript (.scpt) files:

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