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  1. Non-breaking space (NBSP) should work

    AI ignores NBSP when it's places as symbol. 'No break' option is an option but ridiculously hard to be applied quickly. Anyway NBSP should work

    42 votes

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    Illustrator Beta 29.2.10 now supports Nonbreaking space (U+00A0).

    It can also be added with Type > Insert WhiteSpace Character > Nonbreaking Space command.

    Please try this build and see if it works for you as expected.

    My sincere congratulations to everyone. This symbol means a lot!

  2. Advanced 360° circular duplication - side by side distribution

    Circular duplication already exists, but not the advanced function that distributes duplications so that they touch each other side by side and the ability to adjust their magnification.

    2 votes

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  3. The ability to offset paths multiple times all at once

    The ability to offset paths multiple times all at once would be so useful!

    Freehand used to have this ability. Comes in handy!

    As it is now I need to go in multiple separate times to do this. Makes it awkward and time-consuming.

    5 votes

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  4. I am trying to display on Illustrator the diagraming of sentences. Here is an example: Constructing that image requires typing on a pat

    See attached file with a screen shot of what "Type on a path" might accomplish if the path were to be made visible on a project for diagramming sentences.

    1 vote

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  5. Transform Effect with manually adjustable anchor position

    The current Transform Effects has a very limited anchor position setup (that 9 squares in the bottom corner). To make a custom anchor position, we must input "horizontal" and "vertical" value manually which is very ancient.

    Rotation tool with Transform Again method is an alternative when creating a mandala thingy, but it if we want to alter the shapes, we have to repeat the rotation and transformation again, which is another ancient stuff.

    Adding a simple clicking right on the artboard for placing the anchor point of Transform Effects would be great. We can just set up the anchor point…

    7 votes

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  6. Improve resolution of dock panels so they're the same as other Adobe apps

    The resolution of the dock panels (Layers, Art boards, Character etc) are all a lot bigger than in other Adobe apps, please make these the same size as the other apps.
    I have a second screen with all relevant dock panels opened. If they were the same resolution as PS/ID then more could fit on the screen.

    1 vote

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  7. Just fix the grammer

    The "document will be closed after the save is complete" popup has a button that says "close anyways." That's hillbilly, not English.

    2 votes

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  8. escape full screen

    Why does the Escape key exit the user from full screen mode in Illustrator. Why does Illustrator not behave like Photoshop?

    The F key could cycle through the different screen modes: Full screen, Full Screen with Menu Bar, Full Screen Mode.

    Escape should have no effect on this because it's used while drawing or typing.

    2 votes

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  9. We want you to make file size light even if we save by "Create PDF compatible file".

    Selecting “Create PDF compatible file” saves the file size. We want you to be able to choose a resolution such as "350dpi" or "72dpi", and you can see the preview and reduce the file size.

    4 votes

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  10. Insert a new artboard in a specific order position

    I usually work with a lot of artboards around 100 per file.
    I would like the possibility to enter the number of the position of the artboard!

    The problem consist when I have a lot or artboards and I create a new one it is the last in artboard panel. Then I need to drag it up to the preferred order position. If it needs to be in the third place I need a lot of scrolling up!

    25 votes

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  11. Add middle click to close document

    Hello!

    It would be convenient if we could middle click on the open document tab (not just the x), to close the document, similarly to like the tabs behave in the any web browser.

    It's sometimes inconvenient to aim for the x, and they change location as I close a bunch of documents.

    5 votes

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  12. Please make my «Align To:» choice recordable in actions. («Align to:» in the Align palette)

    I would like to be able to record my align to-choice in actions.
    Action 1: Align to center (Artboard)
    Action 2: Align to center (Key Object)

    4 votes

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  13. Additional arrow-key nudge values by using key combinations...

    I would like the ability to specify multiple nudge values for the arrow keys to be used when certain key combinations are used - so that different nudge distances could be achieved with different arrow key combinations, such as:

    Shift+Arrow
    Ctrl+Arrow
    Alt+Arrow
    Ctrl+Shift+Arrow
    Ctrl+Alt+Arrow
    Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Arrow

    32 votes

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  14. 2 votes

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  15. Editable stroke profiles

    Add a robust window where you can non-destructively edit the stroke profile (maybe with Bezier handles). This would allow users to taper strokes beyond the good but limited presets in real time.

    3 votes

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  16. I hope CS5.6 sale

    私はCS3使用時の機能要望をいくつか取り入れて戴いたCS5.5ユーザーです。
    CCは経済的負担が大きいので使っていません。
    Win10にCS5.5を入れましたが、特に問題なく使えています。
    CCになってからデザイン業界を除く個人ユーザーが更新しなくなり、
    古いバージョンのまま使っているユーザーが多いのは認識されているはずです。
    画面デザイン的に繫がりがあるのがCS5.5までで、
    CS6からは大きく変更になりました。
    OSが実質Win10だけになり、動作環境の面でバージョンアップを迫られているユーザーが多いはずですが、
    それでもCCは無理と考える人が大多数です。
    バージョンアップしたいユーザーが受け入れやすいCS5.5をベースに、
    パッケージ(売り切り)版を再販して貰えば、需要がある事は明らかです。
    ここで、最低2つの機能改善を行い、CS5.6としてリリースしてはどうでしょう。
    機能改善は、
    1.描画編集中などにナビゲーター画面が逐一全画面更新され、データが重いとスマートガイドやコピー&ペーストなどのキー動作が不安定になる。長い文字の入力編集中は特に酷い。これを極端な話、ナビゲータ画面に付けた「更新」ボタンを押すまで画面更新しなくていいようにする。
    2.現状、文字の縁取りが文字の塗りの上になっているが、文字の塗りの下に設定できるようにする。これで一々「文字を全てコピー」「背面ペースト」「縁取り設定」をやらずに済む事になり、データが軽くなり、修正も楽になる。なぜ今までこれが出来ないのか不思議と思える基本的な機能です。

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  17. An option so anchor points within a user specified proximity of the selected anchor point will move relative to it.

    So many times have I found a need for an option like this. An option where you would be able to move an anchor point, and the surrounding points would move relative to it.

    Some complex vector images with lots of anchor points can be hard to reshape, whereas, instead of moving every single anchor point to expand a section or redoing it, you would select a single point, and the surrounding points would move relative to it's position.

    1 vote

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  18. Percentage calculation of object space

    Hello! Wondering if illustrator can have the capability to fill a certain percentage of an area/object.

    3 votes

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  19. New symbol info window should retain properties of previously created symbol

    When creating a new symbol, it should remember not only the export type, but the symbol type and registration as well, instead of having it default to dynamic-center every time. Usually when creating symbols, they are of the same type as the last. This is how Flash handled symbols way back in the day and it was an invaluable time saver for projects containing dozens of clips (such as site plan artwork).

    3 votes

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  20. Fix it so that it isn't so laggy and so that keyboard shortcuts work (on a Mac)

    Fix Illustrator so that on a Mac the performance isn't so slow and laggy that I can count to 13 before menus drop down, and I end redoing so many things because the lag caused me to overclock. Keyboard shortcuts don't work either, 99% of the time. Used to be great software, but now it is almost unusable. It's lack of performance ate up at last 65% of my work time. It takes hours now because of lag time to do something that would have taken 30 minutes in vision 2018 and earlier. I have no lag or performance issues…

    1 vote

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