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  1. Drag and drop artwork between documents in same place

    Photoshop allows to drag-n-drop artwork between documents in same place, when you hold Shift.
    In Illustrator, no matter what you hold, artwork would be dropped where cursor is pointed, with no respect to original X,Y coordinates.
    I desperately need this!

    Quite often I have to copy artwork, containing huge raster images, from one document to another. I need them to be placed in same place, snapped on grid, but AI just drops it. The only way to keep coordinates — is to copy/paste in front/place, which takes an EON to do with my big raster images.

    17 votes
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  2. 2 votes
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  3. Center point invisible while moving object with dragging

    Center point (set in Attributes palette with 'Show Center' button which is default for Live Rectangle and Ellipses) becomes invisible when you drag an object. And because I often use center to match position to certain point on a grid, I cant properly position object and get angry.
    Hulk illustrate!
    Please see animation attached for clarification.

    14 votes
    2 comments  ·  Snapping  ·  Admin →
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  4. Add features to the Rearrange Artboards dialog

    I create a lot of new artboards ( 1 for each screen I am designing). Since Illustrator always puts new artboards at the right of the current top row on the workspace (regardless of the order specified for rearranging artboards), I often have to use the Rearrange Artboards command to make more space for the next artboard. The more artboards in the file, the more often I have to rearrange artboards.

    It would be great if I could tell Illustrator to:

    1. Add new artboards at the location indicated by following the layout pattern in the Rearrange Artboards dialog, with an…

    27 votes
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  5. To arrange Artboards alphabetically by their names!!

    To have an option where I can arrange artboards by their names

    12 votes
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  6. Add a search bar in the Swatches panel for color books

    I would like to be able to search swatch books from the Swatches menu. This could be implemented globally for various search items, menus, tools, etc. (Similar to Photoshop's new search function.)

    4 votes
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  7. 27 votes
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  8. Return greeking of vector graphics

    AI is never fast enough. Pan is slow.
    Why did you remove greeking completely? If I wanted to better have nice looking art while panning, I would tick an option in Preferences! But now there's no such an option.
    InDesign still have greeking option fro both text and vector art.
    Please return it back as an option (and add slider for quality, as ID has).

    23 votes
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  9. An option to enable and use geometric centers for equilateral shapes (polygons)

    Please enable the option to use the geometrically correct centerpoint as the intersection of the edge-normals for odd-edged polygons instead of using the "half the height, half the width"-centerpoint, or at least enable it as an option. Drawing the circumference-circle really is annoying.

    44 votes
    7 comments  ·  Tools  ·  Admin →
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    Hello everyone,


    Lately we have been thinking about improving the snapping / smartguide experience on Illustrator and we need your help in this process.


    Please spare us some time of yours where we can come together on a online meeting and discuss your needs and pain point around snapping.


    Please use this link to book an appointment :

    https://calendar.app.google/jT6qzFZHNwXsvkrK9


    See you soon!

  10. Stencils: Pencil or Brush Draw Inside/Outside Any Guide or Path

    I'd really like to see an implementation for stencils and drawing along rulers, guides and inside/outside any path.

    See this implementation of Escape Motions app Rebelle 3.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzFyk4r47EY

    https://www.escapemotions.com/products/rebelle/

    2 votes
    2 comments  ·  Tools  ·  Admin →
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  11. A big persistent Color palette offering RGB and HSB and Grayscale at a glance.

    When making Illustrations, I switch between RGB / HSB and Grayscale all the time. I have a 30" screen - room enough to show all mixers all the time.
    Please make this possible.

    20 votes
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  12. Less Application Chrome

    Illustrator could have less application chrome.

    • Ability to remove scrollbars and status bar
    • Ability to disable "Application Bar" while "Application Frame" is selected (Controls take the place of the Application Bar)
    • Adjustable-height panels e.g., a Swatches panel that's sized according to the number of swatches, not some fixed height
    • Mac-native full-screen mode that hides the macOS menu bar (without having to toggle AI's view mode)

    etc etc etc etc

    3 votes
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  13. Make it so I can edit an embedded image

    Make it so I can edit an embedded image in photoshop and save back to Illustrator like editing an image in Acrobat Pro

    17 votes
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  14. Zoom to selection / Fit Selection on Screen, with an assignable hotkey

    Just a simple keyboard command that fills the screen with whatever you have selected.

    30 votes
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  15. Offer to not show again the message about discarding CMYK profile

    Please add a "do not show again" option to the "Your current color settings discard CMYK profiles..." dialogue box.

    12 votes
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  16. Duplicate artboard hotkey

    It should be possible to duplicate artworks not only with Alt + Drag but with a button in the artboard options aswell - just replace it with the text that says "Press Alt + Drag Cursor to duplicate artboard" and keep the Hotkey function.

    6 votes
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  17. Star live shape, with on-canvas controls, better tool

    Better Star tool, with side widgets to change the number of points, the rays’ length, etc.
    Possibility to re-edit anytime the number of points in a star.
    Also, the possibility to adjust the thickness of the star "arms".
    (like Freehand was doing long time ago...)

    16 votes
    8 comments  ·  Tools  ·  Admin →
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    Star is now a live shape and available in the all the public builds starting from V 28.3.0.

    You can now customise your star in any way you like; may it be changing the no of sides, corner angles, or even the corner radius. 

    Please try it out and let us know what y'all think !

  18. Make incrementation looped in angle value fields for Move, Rotate and other dialogs

    Problem Description:
    AI can do math in fields and that is awesome.
    But I always swear a little when I use angle fields.

    For example:
    1. Move an art with Move dialogue at 10mm and 360 degrees
    2. Select another object and invoke dialogue again
    3. Type in '+30' in angle, so it would become '360+30'
    4. Press Tab or Enter

    Actual Result:
    AI says DING (or whatever sound is set for it in your OS) and does nothing

    Expected Result:
    AI should turn this typed value into '30', that is make one revolution and don't bother me, as a…

    22 votes
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  19. Better handling huge images in clipboard

    When I cut huge images, AI literally puts them in clipboard and it takes minutes to complete and sometimes crashes AI.

    But I usually do this only to immediately paste them in front/back of other objects, to make desired order.
    AI don't have commands in Layers palette like 'Move in front/back of selected objects', so this is almost the only way to achieve this.
    Dragging selected objects (including images) within Layers palette is very incovinient, because I don't know exactly where targeted object is located there (but I can clearly see it on page).
    I also can cut image from…

    23 votes
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  20. CMD - CMD + : Zoom to center screen as in Previous versions

    In new versions, CMD + and CMD - Zoom to center of a selected object rather than always the centre of the screen.
    It would be great if the possibility to restore the old feature was given.

    Thank you!

    37 votes
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    Hi,

    We are pleased to inform you that your request is available in the latest release of Illustrator version 22.0.
    Visit your Adobe Creative Cloud Application and update. If you do not see an update on the application please check for update from the flyout options on the application after clicking on three vertical dots. For step by step process please visit: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/download-install-app.html#Checkforupdates

    Warm Regards,
    Ashutosh Chaturvedi | Sr. Quality Engineering Manager – Illustrator
    Adobe. Make It an Experience.

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