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  1. Allow legacy behavior for "Rearrange Artboards"

    While I'm sure some people welcome Illustrator's new features for rearranging the artboards, I have found it to be finicky and weird. There should be an option that defaults to the center of the work area, like it used to do automatically. This new behavior, of having to select where the artboards go just complicates a once simple process.

    90 votes
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    Completed (Comments Open)  ·  AdminKoustav Saha (Product Manager, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    Starting with Beta 29.7.1 the Rearrange dialog got a separate dedicated feature, currently called 'Align Manually'.

    With it disabled, artboards get positioned instantly in the center of the canvas, as it behaved previously.

    When this is enabled, you will enter the positioning mode after pressing OK — to allow rearranging only some artboards, to address this request.

    With more than 1 artboard selected (but not all), the mode gets enabled automatically (and becomes locked).


  2. Active artboard should correspond to the focus of the mouse or object(s) last placed on it.

    The active artboard should either be activated by the position of the mouse, or from the placement of the last object. For example, using the mouse, I move an object from one artboard to an adjacent one. Therefore, the active artboard should be the adjacent one since I just placed an object on it. The reason this important for me is when I want to place this object on a new artboard and immediately center it to the page. However unless, I click on this new artboard first to activate it, Illustrator still has the previous artboard as active, and…

    3 votes
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  3. Recognize Artboard Overlapping

    I often run into times where I try to drag an artboard and I might accidentally overlap artboards which then grabs the art on the other artboard. If Illustrator can recognize artboard overlapping and warn the user of it or have a smart option which recoginzes and keeps the art on their respective artboards even if they are overlapping, that would be really nice.

    3 votes
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  4. Automatically reset the ruler to zero when clicking on a different artboard

    Sorry, this feature request should just be as standard.

    If I have 5 artboards and I click on artboard 4, I don't know why the ruler doesn't automatically default to zero. Instead I have to double click the corner of the ruler to reset it to that artboard.

    Surely working on separate artboards, require separate ruler zero placements.

    This should be the default, with an option to set the ruler to zero on the first artboard, in case each artboard is making up one big picture, then it makes sense for all artboards to share one ruler zero setting.

    I…

    2 votes
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  5. I would like the Share for Review links to show the file name instead of the random letters and numbers.

    I would like the Share for Review links to show the file name instead of the random letters and numbers. When I have 90 documents to share among a dozen reviewers, they get really hard to track.

    2 votes
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  6. Make a Display settings of artboards more visible

    Hello!
    When I'm using a one of this options: Show Center Mark, Show Cross Hairs, Show Video Safe Frame during the projecting time and I want them toggle off/on I have to go to the artboard options and toggle them there. The way for toggle this is too long and I realize this just now when I need to create something and switch this kind of helpers from time to time. Rest of the grids or helpers have own shortcuts or event they are available in Properties panel, but not this one.

    Is there any chance that dev-team can implement…

    2 votes
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  7. Our own custom new document templates

    It would be great if we could have our own folder in which to store our customized NEW DOCUMENT TEMPLATES and have it in the row where RECENT, SAVED, MOBILE, WEB, PRINT... are stored.

    There is also an error when saving a template in the templates folder:
    http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/50416839

    2 votes
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  8. Rotate Artboards

    Enable artboards to be rotated individually. Simple. Here's an example of my currently workflow: if I have a large map with a winding road in illustrator, and I want each of my 5 artboards to be aligned with that road, I have to make rectangles where I wish the artboards could be, and then make the actual artboards encompass the rectangle. Then I export as an image, and rotate and crop in Photoshop to match the rectangle. This becomes especially annoying if the boundaries overlap, and I have to export artboards one by one, turning off the rectangles of other…

    4 votes
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  9. Local Artboard Editing Mode

    Illustrator already notionally works on one artboard at a time... the one that's zoomed to with Cmd-0, or pasted to with Cmd-V...

    Perhaps there could be a mode switch, similar to the 'Draw Inside' mode where all operations are confined to objects on the current artboard. Useful for Cmd-A for example. This would override unlocked artboards of course!

    This mode of operation is already familiar in InDesign where only current spread-object appear in the Layers.

    3 votes
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  10. Artboard Properties as Menu Commands

    Add "Maintain Width and Height Proportions" to Menu Commands so that it can be assigned a shortcut. Other artboard features like "Move artwork with Artboard" and "Scale artwork with Artboard" would also benefit from this, I lose a lot of time checking and unchecking these boxes.

    2 votes
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  11. Lock Highlight (Unlock) mode

    I've always wanted some kind of Lock Highlight feature:

    Much like editing a Group after double-click (which grays out all other artboard objects while you edit only that grouped object), I'd like to be able to see a grayed out preview of all the locked objects.

    With a keyboard shortcut (e.g. Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Click), you could Unlock individual elements, then exit Lock Highlight mode and keep working.

    That would keep you from needing to go back around and relock other elements you didn't want to disturb.

    3 votes
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  12. All Inputs / Panels Follow Dimension Tool Scale

    I want to be able to create and edit all of my art in scale.
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    I would like to be able to make a 2" rectangle in 1:2 scale and have it illustrator draw me a 1" square on the page.
    This would be very powerful for things when expanded to the object info box to get area and path dimensions, being able to make a font 3' tall in the character panel.
    Every place that you can control shapes with math, it would be amazing to be able to do it to scale in the program without having…

    3 votes
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  13. Allow to name new artboard copies by incrementing numbers in their names

    I often have to make documents with many artboards. And every time when I copy it, Illustrator add " copy" to name.

    Common, I name it like "name 01".
    I want to in this case the copy of this artboard named "name 02" ...

    4 votes
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  14. Automatically name artboards based on the file name

    Can we have a feature like, when creating a new artboard, the artboard named automatically as per the file name rather than naming it a default - Artboard number.

    2 votes
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  15. Make an option to allow resizing artboards with their content to affect hidden and locked layers/objects

    Current problems:

    1. It does not resize hidden layers/objects
      (huge problem, which I only realized later after unhiding a layer, and had to revert to a previous save. I see now there's a warning, but that doesn't solve the issue).

    2. It does not resize locked layers/objects
      (It should work similarly to Resize Image in photoshop where everything resizes.)

    3 votes
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    AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    Illustrator allows to affect hidden and locked object and layers when resizing artboards.

    Go to Preferences > Selection & Anchor Display and enable Move Locked and Hidden Artwork with Artboard option.

    I’d agree it should say 'Move and Scale', and there is a separate request to allow to toggle this option right next to the buttons that enable 'Move/Copy' and 'Scale' modes in Control and Properties panels — please upvote it.

  16. Allow to set a linear guide by 2 points and an arc guide by 3 points

    I would like to suggest the addition of 2-point guides, the ability to rotate guides, and 3-point guides for circular guides. This would allow for dynamic guides that can be adapted to any type of design.

    2 votes
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  17. Display Move Locked and Hidden Artwork with Artboard option in Control panel and Properties while using Artboard tool / mode

    The Move Locked and Hidden Artwork with Artboard option should be displayed when the user is actually in the "Edit Artboard" mode, using the Artboard tool. It is common problem when you want to duplicate an artboard and you have locked background. In most cases, I want to move my artwork with the background.

    7 votes
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  18. Eliminate the 2 different size canvas modes

    There are scaling issues in large size canvas mode. For instance, when creating a file in large size canvas mode and saving as PDF with trim marks, the trim marks will be scaled up 1000%. Instead of them remaining .375", they scale up to 3.75" (http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/44115801)

    Additionally, several third party plug ins do not work properly in large size canvas mode because of this scaling issue.

    Ideally, Illustrator should eliminate the 2 different canvas modes and simply allow any document to be scaled up to the same dimensions as "large size canvas" mode but leave all scaling as…

    3 votes
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  19. An option to add extra space around when creating an artboard base on an object

    When using Artboard Tool (Shift+O) to create an artboard around a selected object, an option to add some extra space around the selection would be really handy

    2 votes
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  20. Make a way for Scale Artwork with Artboard mode to NOT scale strokes and effects

    It’s good to finally have Scale Artwork with Artboard option (http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31500847), but I really wish for it to respect Scale Strokes & Effects option.
    For now Scale Artwork with Artboard behaves as if it’s always enabled... I realize scaling strokes is natural for this mode, but the current way means if we need to scale an artboard, but NOT scale the strokes — we can’t do that.
    It almost feels like it should be a separate option specifically for it.

    4 votes
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