Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Allow to nudge or rotate individual elements along the path for Objects on Path
Objects on Path needs more options and in its current setup is very limited in its usefulness. This tool feels like it's still in beta. Whilst it's good at doing the one thing it's designed to do, it's missing a lot of useful capabilities.
One of missing bits is the ability to nudge or rotate individual elements along the path.
Other two requests are:
1. Objects on Path needs an ability to keep orientation of objects relative to page/path, similar to blends — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/48984890
2. Add an option to measure gaps between objects in Objects on Path by their bounds,…18 votes -
Make Path Direction Attribute editable for non compound paths too
In vector graphics, every path har a direction. This direction has major influence in several situations, suchs as variable width strokes, object on path, and compound paths. Unfortunattely the path direction can only be accesses/changed when the path is part of a compound path. Please make the attributen changeable for every path.
3 votes -
Allow to customize color of text used by Distance Guides
Recently Illustrator received Distance Guides (can be disabled in Preferences > Smart Guides > Invoke Distance Guides), thanks to this request: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/34302196 (it uses Opt/Alt, not Cmd/Ctrl)
For some reason the color of text in these is black — while the lines use the one set for object guides (magenta by default today). It makes it very hard to see when working with dark designs.
Dimension Tool uses magenta color for the same text... I think it should be either magenta as well, or a separate option should be used to set the color.
6 votes -
Bring back the ability to make Picture Clipping Files!
In illustrator you used to be able to drag any art in illustrator to your desktop and it would create a .pictclipping file.
The file would then be a ready to use symbol or pice of art preserve spot colors, Layers, Grouping, Overprint, Any Attributes! It's simple and easy to use and so easy to share with my coworkers! More importantly, because of how simply it operates, better than the current library/symbols functions. I don't understand why they would phase it out.
It's just not as easy to share standardized art through adobe's available functions. We get some new graphic…
3 votes -
Tab To Edit Next Artboard Name in Export for Screens Window
Hello,
In the Artboards panel, when you edit an artboard name, you can hit tab to key into the next artboard to change its name without having to reach back to the mouse to double-click the next artboard name to change it.
However, in the Export for Screens window, in the artboard section, if you hit tab when editing an artboard name, the Select: > All radial button becomes highlighted.
This is not the behavior I expect in this context, and is inconsistent with the behavior in the Artboards panel.
As a compromise, perhaps we could have conditional behavior, where,…1 vote -
Global lighting and render settings in 3D Effect panel
Please add the ability to globally change lighting, enable/disable shadows, and enable/disable ray tracing in the render settings when selecting multiple objects with a 3D effect but with different color fills, for example.
2 votes -
J'aimerais pourvoir faire de la cartographie de façon simple en important directement des données des SIG (gpkg, GeoSON, BD Topage ...)
J'aimerais pourvoir faire de la cartographie de façon simple en important directement des données des SIG (gpkg, GeoSON, BD Topage ...)
1 vote -
Force swatches when directly opening an image
When we drag-n-drop / open an image into Illustrator, a new document is created with an artboard created to fit the image (when possible), and the image is put there.
The Swatches panel in this case is empty (as well as Brushes, Symbols, Graphics Styles).
While it makes sense (image have no presets stored within), for some users it’s extremely irritating — they treat this workflow as a way to quickly create a new document based on an image, with the fitting document profile used (even though if they have no idea about document profiles — thanks to the modern…
8 votes -
Artboard titles should respect bleeds and be placed above them, when 'Show Artboard name on canvas' is enabled
Consider Bleed Size When Showing the Artboard Title
1 vote -
Export to generate video in Firefly
It improves workflow and integration with Adobe Firefly video generation.
1 vote -
Share for Review - Ability for teams to update links
Currently in InDesign and Illustrator, the person that created a review link is the only one able to update the review link. There are times when another person on my team needs to update a file and send an updated review link, but to do so, they have to create a copy of the file and make a brand new link. This is a bit tedious and doesn't keep the history of comments, which we sometimes need to refer back to. I would like to suggest the ability to allow teams on Create Cloud to be able to work on…
5 votes -
Make it possible to have NO active Artboard
I often take screenshots of my work within Illustrator for Proofing purposes and more.. but when doing this I'm often stuck with the dark outline of the active artboard mixed in with multiple other images that do not have the dark artboard line. yes, often times I can simply hide artboards and get what I need, but other times what I'm looking for is only within my Trim view. So even when I go into Trim view and try to hide artboards to remove this dark outline, it does not. I recently learned that toggling to overprint fill turns the…
1 vote -
Add Copies field in Transform Each dialog
Transform effect dialog looks a lot like Transform Each dialog.
Perhaps Transform Each should get the same Copies field that the effect’s dialog has, to avoid hitting/holding Ctrl+D and to be able preview the result like the effect allows.Original idea by Enisio
3 votes -
Scale tool with value input and custom anchor
I'm not necessarily looking for a script—I’m just curious if a tool could be developed to enhance Illustrator’s Scale tool. Specifically, I’d love the ability to input a custom scale value (e.g., uniformly 125%, 100% height, 20% width, etc.) while also being able to position a custom anchor point, as currently available in the Scale tool.
I understand that the Transform Each function allows users to select individual objects, input values, and place an anchor point. However, this feature has limitations:
The anchor point can only be placed within the object's bounds.
To uniformly scale multiple objects, users must group…3 votes -
Right side docked panels overlap document tabs & ruler
When the dock is placed at the top, opening palettes (like Swatches) overlaps and blocks:
• Document tabs (when many are open)
• The double arrow used to access hidden tabs
• The rightmost part of the rulerWhen the dock is placed at the bottom, palettes don’t block the document tabs, but they still cover part of the ruler.
The palettes should dynamically adjust so they never block tabs, the tab overflow control, or the ruler—regardless of dock position.
2 votes -
Recolor Artwork with Color Theory / Harmony
A selectable feature to automatically recolor artwork using standard color theory harmonies like Complementary, Analogous, Monochromatic, Triadic, and Tetradic positioned within Edit > Edit Colors > Recolor Artwork.
This would allow users to quickly explore different, harmonized color schemes for their designs.
1 vote -
Allow to actually drag-n-drop swatches on canvas to create a Swatch Info object
Von Glitschka originally requested this here — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/40192993 — but instead we got a buried menu command we can’t assign to a hotkey (here’s a request about this: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/49612313)
Please allow to create these with the actual drag-n-drop!
Make it so we can hold a modifier key while doing this to have a dialog (and do it silently by default instead).
Allow to add dragged swatches into the existing Swatch Info objects, highlight the exact positions these are going to be added, on canvas.6 votes -
Play actions WITHOUT expanding them in the panel
When playing an action, it expands.... so that it visibly "walks" through every step.
I have the Playback Options set to "Accelerated", so the walking is rapid, yet the action expands and I see the panel highlight every single step of the action as they are quickly walked through.
I want to click play, and the action runs while it stays collapsed. I only need an action expanded in the panel if I intend to edit it. I find myself collapsing, now open, actions over and over and over.
In addition re Button Mode:
I don't use button mode specifically…
4 votes -
Persistant "Try Now" and "Learn More" toast/nags should time out
These grey feature nag alerts now appear for various features with calls-to-action like "Try Now" and "Learn More" eg. rearrange artboards, pasting to multiple artboards, ungrouping multiple/nested groups
Unexpected behaviour: These alerts only close when the user clicks the little X on the right.
Preferred behaviour:
– These alerts should close after a certain time (say 10 seconds) or after a number of interactions on the artboard (say 10 clicks)
– There should be an option to disable these alertsReason: Some users don't want ANY interruptions or distractions while working.
While I understand the benefit/opportunity to coach/educate about new…
2 votes -
29.7.1 bug with TEXT
-Paragraph text- There is an issue with text in the latest version. Illustrator seems to be loosing text attributes, weight etc.
1 vote
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