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  1. False translation in preferences window

    In preferences window's unit section the "type" text is translated wrong.
    Type must be translated as "yazı" or "yazım" as in the top menu.

    The text "tür" must be corrected as "yazı" or "yazım".

    1 vote

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  2. Please solve my problems.thank you

    Please solve my problems.thank you

    1 vote

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  3. Guide Colors to match Layer Colors

    Guides are already assigned to different layers. When a layer is locked, that guide is locked, even if you "Unlock Guides".

    It would make a lot of sense, and be very helpful, if guides were the same color as the layer they are attached to.

    I run into many instances when guides are very close to each other and I'm not sure which guide I should be trying to align to, so I have to take the time to figure it out. It gets frustrating quickly, especially when trying to edit multiple layers together. If guides were the same color…

    3 votes

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  4. Command Line

    As a frequent user of a diversity of software (like AutoCAD, SketchUp and so on), I noticed that Illustrator is very time demanding and the workflow isn't great. Sometimes to do a simple command I need to click 4 times throughout menus and windows (actually I already have tendinitis because of the need to keep repeating a lot of clicks to do a simple command in IL, as other software I don't have the same problem).
    So a command line (a simple and smart one like AutoCAD) will be great and will improve the time to create stuff in illustrator.…

    3 votes

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  5. Custom swatches/brushes in saved workspace

    When working with a lot of custom brush and swatch libraries I noticed that every time I saved the work space it does not include the custom content.

    Instead the windows are positioned like saved but I have to import all the libraries manually again.

    I wish for Illustrator to save this content as well. so before starting a project I have a set of custom brushes and swatches available.

    4 votes

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  6. Smart/Adaptive Cross-Colorspace Swatches

    It's industry standard to define brand colors in more than one colorspace. Usually you have at least PMS, CMYK and RGB definitions of each brand color you're deploying.

    I'd love it if Illustrator (or the whole CC suite, as a matter of fact) would help this routine, like this:

    Let's have a new swatch type: Cross-Colorspace Swatch. This special swatch type would enable the designer to define variations of the color in any/all color spaces, inside that one swatch definition.

    Instead of defining say three different swatches, you would define one, saying: "This is Brand color 1. In cmyk colorspace…

    10 votes

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  7. You cannot add a Freeform Gradient to the Swatches Panel

    FREEFORM GRADIENT, the new feature in Ai CC 2019. You can create amazing gradients, however, you cannot save any free form gradient created to the Swatches panel or the Cloud Library... why?

    Its a great feature, however, it makes for so much extra work if you want to use any free form gradient you create in one file, in another file or project in the future... it would be logical to be able to save this new style of creating gradients to the CC Library and to one's Swatches Panel.

    50 votes

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  8. Allow Color Coding for windows and tabs

    I appreciate the many ways Adobe has updated the workspace in Illustrator to be as efficient as possible. However, one thing that I constantly find myself running into is the slight frustration of having to click, or read, or hotkey through the different tabs or windows in order to perform a new function or locate a file.

    A project may require many windows in my workspace or I'm working with multiple files I'm having to bounce between.. I'm in a good creative workflow zipping through my project, and then, I find myself having to stop and do a little search…

    1 vote

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  9. concentric texture tool

    it would be very useful to have concentric textures and not just from a point to a point.
    Another request for textures would be to be able to define in some situations the starting point of the plot, the point of arrival and maybe even the point of intersection.

    1 vote

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  10. Stacked bar chart to support positive AND negative numbers in the same chart

    Refer to https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2615233
    This is the type of graph that I want to create, and be able to update it EASILY, and not manually moving bars from two different graphs.

    6 votes

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  11. Please allow us to apply proper strokes to clip groups: centered, inside, outside

    Currently you cannot apply strokes to clip groups -- including using the "draw inside" function (see example 1). I would like to be able to apply strokes to clip groups. This might not seem like a big deal, but they also don't work when you apply a stroke to the entire layer appearance (see example two). This means I need to take multiple extra steps to outline something, which is very frustrating.

    21 votes

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  12. Create Tables

    Create tables by anyway, it shouldn't have much options, such a simple table (simple borders), instead i have to draw lines to get a view of table.

    46 votes

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  13. .ait files

    There is a problem with .ait files that cannot be opened unless you drag them into the illustrator

    1 vote

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  14. error postion

    Hi. when I open lower version artwork with new illustrator 23.1 and 24.02, content in layout deviation, but I opened the older version there was no problem.

    1 vote

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  15. Allow to add / place / drag-n-drop several / multiple symbols to the canvas / artboard at once

    Being able to select more than one symbol from the symbol library and adding to the canvas. Instead of mousing back and forth repeatedly.
    The way the Library panel works is great. You can select multiple objects and drag to the canvas, placing each at the desired location, quick and easy.
    This would be a great function for the symbols panel.
    Thanks!

    18 votes

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  16. Lasso select tool selection lines should be always be visible, even when selecting over black fills.

    I often use the lasso select tool and often i am selecting over top of objects that are black filled, and the lasso line is invisible over these black objects.

    Conversely, in photoshop, the lasso line is drawn so it always contrasts the colors behind it, so no matter what colors we are selecting over top of, the lasso line is still visible.

    Illustrator desperately needs to replicate this functionality from photoshop

    6 votes

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  17. Hide / disable unwanted fonts

    There is a long list of fonts that I just don't use. There needs to be some way to hide fonts. Especially with all the fonts that get added, plus any fonts that the os has installed.

    67 votes

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  18. swap stroke and fill in swatch panel

    This would seem self evident to me, but being able to swap stroke and fill in the swatch panel as opposed to going all the way over to the tool bar, or swapping to the color panel would be a definite time and focus saver.

    8 votes

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  19. Selection dependent tool display (context sensitive)

    In Adobe Illustrator, I find myself searching for tool panels a lot.
    How great would it be when Ai only displays relevant tool panels,

    For instance:

    -Selecting the Eyedropper brings up color related panels, and the Info panel
    -Selecting Paths brings up Pathfinder, Stroke and Fill
    -Selecting Text brings up Paragraph and Character

    E.g: currently, it can happen that Pathfinder hides a type related panel, while text is selected.
    Pathfinder is not relevant at that moment.

    2 votes

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  20. 回転させる時にある程度拡大しないと出来ないのを改善欲しい。

    バウンディングボックスの角にカーソルを持って良いって回転させる時にある程度拡大しないと出来ないのを直して欲しい。昔は出来たような気がします。

    1 vote

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