Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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FIND SIMILAR FONTS - Doesn't work. And hasn't since 2018. Mac and Windows
As the title says.
Find similar fonts doesn't work on mac or pc. On any version. Even on freshly installed or brand new system.
This hasn't worked now since 2018. When will this be fixed?
3 votes -
Add more space character widths
I would like to see the space characters menu expanded to include the Sixth, Eighth, Quarter, Third.
3 votes -
The transparent areas of (point) text boxes should not be selectable.
It is difficult / impossible to select any object below any portion of a (point type) text box, even when the area under the cursor is completely empty / transparent. In the attached screenshot examples, the pink line is not selectable because it is covered by a text box, even when there are no active pixels or vector data under the cursor within the text area. No other objects in Illustrator behave this way. Transparency is supposed to be non selectable. Illustrator treats the entire text box as an object with a fill, even though text boxes completely lack a…
2 votes -
Convert Text Frame to Shape
Convert text frame to regular shape while preserving geometry and appearance
Please add a command to convert a rectangular text frame into a regular vector shape while preserving its exact dimensions, position, fill, stroke, and stroke weight.
For example:
1 Select a rectangular area-text frame with a stroke.
2 Choose Object > Content > No Content (similar to InDesign), or another appropriate command.
3 Illustrator converts the text frame into a regular rectangular vector path.
4 The exact geometry and appearance remain unchanged.This is particularly useful when working with Illustrator files that contain text frames which need to become…
2 votes -
Random image being added while editing a text box
I'm using Illustrator and a random image is added while I'm editing text. It deselects the item I'm editing and creates an image out of nowhere.
2 votes -
Add a option for leader or select leader button
In this case of tabs, I wanna change the dot leader to be smaller and have more spacing, but I can not select multi tabs and change it at oncce.
2 votes -
Adjust spacing between bullets and text
Currently, the bullet-to-text gap is an automatic setting that cannot be controlled by the user, despite placing tab stops on the tabs ruler. There is no mechanism to control this either, in the paragraph tab. Whereas in apps like Word, the spacing can be adjusted between the bullet and text directly.
2 votes -
Warichu’s Adjustment value is limited to an integer in point
Confirmed in Illustrator 30.3.0 and CS4.
It's probably a problem that occurs in all past versions.The "Warichu" using for vertical writing text, under use in Japanese environment.
The adjustment value is set only to integers of points and it is very troubling.
In that state, I can only do a rough job too much.
I would like to improve so that more detailed values can be set.<Japanese>
Illustrator 30.3.0 および 14 (CS4) で確認済み。
おそらく過去のどのバージョンでも発生する問題です。割注設定の行間がPoint整数値ごとにしか設定できない。
これでは大雑把な仕事しかできない。
細かい値を設定できるよう改善して欲しい。また、テキストオブジェクトの拡大・縮小に追従されない。
<検証手順>
1. テキストに割注を設定し、行間をpoint以外の整数などにする
2. 割注設定を再び開いて値を確認する- 割注の行間に目安となる長方形を作成
- テキストと長方形を選択して拡大・縮小
<結果>
2. 値がpoint整数値に四捨五入されている
4. 割注の行間は長方形とずれてゆく<理想とされる結果>
2. 割注の行間は入力した値をキープすること
4. 割注の行間はテキストと同様に拡大・縮小されること6 votes -
Make zooming in respect the text insertion point (text cursor)
With or without the Zoom to Selection option (in Preferences > Selection & Anchor Display), zooming in (I use Cmd/Ctrl+Plus a lot when I edit text) into the edited text won’t respect the blinking cursor’s position. So If I decided to zoom into a text I’m editing, Ai would just zoom in the middle, hiding my point of interest out of the view.
Thanks to Brian Wood for bringing the attention to it.More of it — if I START typing (or press an arrow button), hoping for the view to adjust (like it used to do) — it won’t…
6 votes -
Text frame coordinates are different "before undo" and "after redo"
Version: Illustrator 29.7.1 (but occurs in earlier versions as well)
Problem:
Text frame coordinates become inconsistent after undo and redo.Reproduction Steps:
1. Create point text with two or more paragraphs
2. Move arbitrarily (required)
3. Resize (using the dialog of Scale tool)
4. Undo
5. Redo
In the above steps, the result of step 5 is different from the result of step 3.Desired Result:
Steps 3 and 5 must match〈にほんご〉
「取り消しの前」と「やり直しの後」でテキストフレームの座標が異なるバージョン：Illustrator 29.7.1（しかし以前のバージョンでも発生する）
問題：
取り消し，やり直し の操作でテキストフレームの座標が狂う。再現手順：
1 2つ以上の段落を有するポイントテキストを作成
2 任意に移動（必須）
3 拡大・縮小（ダイアログで行う）
4 取り消し
5 やり直し
以上の手順で、手順5の結果は3の状態と異なる。望ましい結果：
手順3と5が一致していること30 votes -
Display a warning about missing fonts when saving a file
Display a warning when saving a file if there is a font issue—either via a pop-up or perhaps during the saving process, similar to the warning about pixelation at 72 dpi.
We get a warning during assembly, but once the assembly is complete and we create versions within that assembly, we don't reassemble it, and we no longer get any warnings about missing fonts. The only thing to do is to manually check whether the “Resolve missing font issues” option is enabled or not, and not everyone does that.
2 votes -
Native Math Type
Can we get a native Math type text editor inside Illustrator (or Creative Suite). The LaTeX or Math Type apps are really difficult to use inside Illustrator.
2 votes -
Add a forced 'lowercase' option in the Character panel’s menu, similar to one InDesign has
InDesign has a way to force a selected text to be always displayed in lowercase.
Illustrator does not offer this option, as the attached screenshots show.
This option would be useful for cases when a font relies mostly on lower-case characters, using its upper case for emphasis, rather than a traditional usage of it, for starting sentences and given names with capitals — not uncommon in comics.
A current workaround is to run the native Type > Change Case > lowercase each time a text gets pasted (or setting up a custom routing with third-party apps to change the text…7 votes -
Make "Create Outlines" not greyed out when text is selected
If I am creating a text element for the sole purpose of converting it to outline, it is confusing that the "Type > Create Outlines" option is greyed out when the text is selected.
"Create Outlines" should not be greyed out, and when the user clicks there could potentially be a warning the first time saying:
"Creating Outlines will make it impossible
to edit the text box, would you like to proceed?[ ] Do not show this message again"
Although one could assume that the user knows what they are doing, and that the warning message might be annoying…
2 votes -
Rename the 'Typing' history step for auto-bullet conversion to a clearer label (e.g., AutoFormat)
Using Undo to roll back the auto conversion of bullets now works as it should (thanks to this report: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46954429), but the history step is just called with general 'Typing', and it doesn’t add clarity.
Compare it with something like Microsoft Word, where the step is called 'AutoFormat' — still a broad name, but much easier to spot!
Plus, Word offers to undo the auto-formatting right there in text when typing with a widget... and it offers a way to disable it completely right THERE.
Ai’s solution is rather blunt and cheap and lacks elegancy in this current form.…3 votes -
Cannot select some character in Thai
Normally, I can select every character in Thai. Now it cannot be separately selected, especially the tone mark and the vowel. Please see the attached picture for reference.
2 votes -
In the Font Palette, under Filters, please add English, or Latin, or Western European Roman. PLEASE!!!
The lack of a Western European or Roman filter is insanely stupid. The way it works now, if I want to work in Burmese, I can have a nice short font list. But if I want to work in English, I have to show ALL LANGUAGES, so I wind up with a list of 400 fonts, most of which are unusable. This seems prejudicial, if not negligent. Why on earth was this obvious filter item excluded????
4 votesAs per the team, they do understand that it’s an issue for folks working across multiple languages.
In Illustrator, however, the font filtering is based on script, not a simple language grouping. Hence it’s not very straight forward to do for Latin. There is no concrete plan or timeline to make it resolved, but it’s now added to the backlog.
Thank you all for raising this up. Feel free to share more thoughts, do report, request, comment, and upvote — this really helps to steer the development.
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Error con el cambio de tipografía.
Resulta que cuando creo un cuadro de texto (cualquier opción) voy a la barra lateral derecha y cambio la tipografía no la toma, es decir vuelve y cambia a la que esta configurada por defecto, pasa con archivos nuevos y con archivos antiguos, cambie en configuración el tipo de letra, borre la memoria cache, y algunas otras cosas y siguió igual. lo único que me funciono fue poner una nueva barra de herramientas en la parte superior y desde ahí si me deja modificar y cambiar a cualquier tipografía sin ningún inconveniente. El tema es que visual mente y por…
2 votes -
Add ability to hyperlink text (properly this time)
In June of 2023 the Illustrator team fixed a old bug with hyperlinks added through Attributes panel being dropped while exporting as PDF.
The team thought of it as a solution to this request: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/40418827 — and marked it as such.I do not agree.
The solution is nowhere final, done in the most basic way possible, merely a bug fixed, like if no-one in the team did try to make it useful at the level of today's standards.
— A partial text selection can't be made into a hyperlink.
— No widgets are given on the canvas to see…53 votes -
Reinstate the Full Retype Editing Functionality
I have been a dedicated user of Adobe products and have greatly appreciated the advanced features that facilitate creative workflows. One such feature was the "Retype" function which allowed users to edit text directly within images. This feature was incredibly useful for many of us in the creative and professional fields, as it streamlined our processes and enhanced productivity.
However, the Retype feature now seems limited to only identifying similar fonts rather than enabling direct text editing within an image. This limitation has significantly impacted the utility of this tool.
Could you please consider reinstating the full functionality of Retype…
28 votes
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