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  1. Include Photoshop's Gamut Warning feature

    Photoshop has a great feature that, in the color picker, greys out any colors unavailable in CMYK. This makes choosing appropriate colors for a project much faster and easier. It would be nice if Illustrator had this same functionality.

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  Colors, Swatches, Patterns  ·  Admin →
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  2. Linked assets swap feature

    Being designing 748 cards for EDU purposes, I suggest a feature that will let us swap assets stored in the cloud libraries the way we do with symbols.

    The reason :
    Linked assets between documents is a very handy feature
    But symbols cannot store linked assets .
    And symbols can be swapped in their own libraries which is also very handy, but these libraries are not linked between documents.
    As linked assets can store symbols, if we could swap linked assets containing symbols, it would be a big time saving.

    Regards
    Rodolfo Santos.

    3 votes
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  3. Apply For Digital Cutter To Connect With AI Format Cutting File Directly

    Hi, Good day!
    I'm David Jia from Sinajet Tech. We are a digital cutter manufacturer for sign industry.
    More our customers have AI format cutting file, now they need to transfer AI to DXF, and send DXF file to our digital cutter for cutting process.
    We hope our cutter can connect with AI format cutting file directly. Once I get AI format I/O or a DLL, then our digital cutter can work with AI format cutting file directly. It will be more convenient for customers.
    Please kindly let me know how to proceed.
    If you have any other request, please…

    1 vote
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  4. Have a clear path to turn off tool tips/ rich tool tips and tours

    I appreciate you want to make your software more accessible but these features ruin the pro-user experience add better control over libraries while your at it I should be able to disable libraries once and globally.

    13 votes
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  5. Add "Apply to all" button to Embedded Profile Mismatch window

    Please add an "apply to all" check box to the "embedded profile mismatch" pop-up. It is incredibly time consuming to click the box for every link in a document, especially when there are many.

    Please also add an "apply to all" check box to the "Photoshop Import Options" pop-up so the same settings can be applied quickly to multiple links when embedding.

    11 votes
    5 comments  ·  Images, Links  ·  Admin →
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  6. Full Alignment Center Option (both horizontally and vertically)

    Instead of having two tools (Horizontal and Vertical Align Center), can we get a tool that does both in one called something like Fully Align Center. I've included an image of what the tool might look like.

    72 votes
    13 comments  ·  Align, Distribute  ·  Admin →
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  7. Make symbols work in brushes

    When you save symbol as brush, it stops being symbol.
    This makes impossible live update of the brush, when brush changes as soon as you make changes.
    This video shows such live update (after Spiro part):
    https://youtu.be/3OaLZuFZxdk
    Making symbols stay symbols in brushes seems to be the easiest way of having such a behavior in AI.

    23 votes
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  8. STOP changing the behavior of the tools!

    I have used AI for over 20 years -- I've even been featured in books!! Why the F is the team changing the behavior of tools. IT AINT BROKEN and you're making it worse.

    Just in the last 5 minutes I've found that I can no longer rotate a text box and have the text rotate, as well. Now the text stays put and the box rotates. WHY?

    Also, when I save a new document (with it set to AI editable pdf) it's saving some other copy and the document that's currently open is still unsaved and untitled. How is…

    2 votes
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  9. Recolor Artwork Link Harmony Colors on by default

    We only ever need to use the Recolor Artwork feature with the Link Harmony Colors on. Is it possible to have it remember the last setting that you used rather than defaulting to it not being on.

    Not a big thing but would be handy!

    2 votes
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  10. Best feature proper text completed circle rounded as Macromedia Freehand MX

    Text completed circle rounded as Macromedia Freehand MX
    Type toolbar insert fonts small, medium, large, huge

    4 votes
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  11. JSON for ExtendScript

    JSON is a standard JavaScript data format. Considering how close ExtendScript is to JavaScript it is very baffling that common functions like JSON.parse and JSON.stringify are not supported.

    Support for JSON would be very appreciated.

    14 votes
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  12. Automatically push guides to a single layer

    It'd be great to have an optional feature that pushes every newly created guide to a dedicated guide layer. I think many people work with an extra layer for guides on top of their layer stack to toggle visibility and lock, and manually collecting all guides gets tedious.

    14 votes
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  13. Keyboard command for "Find and Replace" Text or ability to add a Keyboard Shortcut.

    In Adobe Illustrator: Why is there not a keyboard command to bring up the "Find and Replace" dialog box or the ability to add your own Keyboard Shortcut to do this?

    2 votes
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  14. "Change Case" not working.

    Nothing changes when I alternate between the all options.

    1 vote
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  15. Flow chart connectors

    Basic flow chart connectors- making either end of a path object stick to the edge, middle or corner of another object surely isn't that hard programmatically for your coders? Leave it to us to sort out where the paths go if you like but this functionality seems pretty basic (and universally demanded) for the Illustrator user.

    92 votes
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  16. Blending doesn't work, I hate to create outlines for text for it to blend.

    1 vote
    1 comment  ·  Effects, Appearance, Graphic Styles  ·  Admin →
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  17. Select a few words at the same time / non-contiguous text selection

    I would like the ability to select single words at the same time in a document (helpful to put emphasis on words e.g. bolder text).

    9 votes
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  18. Your ******* product ******* sucks. Go suck a ****.

    Seriuosly, this program is crashing more often that I jack off. Thats saying something.

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  Other...  ·  Admin →
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  19. Can't show others drive

    I can't show other drives but why?

    1 vote
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  20. Blurry text on dialogue prompts (such as Export)

    On the prompts that have the options for "Use Artboards", the text is blurry.

    1 vote
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