Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Arrowhead style should be retained so I can continue drawing lines with arrowheads
Arrowheads are way too difficult to apply. If I want to draw multiple lines with an arrowhead style, I have to keep going back to stroke palette and keep applying the arrowhead style, OR use the eyedropper tool. This is inefficient. Being able to set my line weight, color, etc. and then choose arrowhead style and continue to draw multiple lines using the style would be VERY useful and a big time saver.
2 votes -
Kinda like... 9-slice symbol scaling, more like, locked side scaling
9-slice symbol scaling works FOR CORNERS. But can you make it so that the TOP, BOTTOM, OR SIDES can stay in place and you can just make the length of an item longer? It's not always about Rounded corners, sometimes it's about an ARCHED TOP or CURVED SIDE, which is static but box needs to grow. This is important to me because I'm in signage and every template we work with can be for example: 6" wide or 8" wide and vary in length or width. So that we do not have to re-draw every shape, or hand extend every…
2 votes -
Illustrator and Photoshop show fractional CMYK color values differently
I have a CMYK document, and it has a linked image in it, with an intentionally chosen profile, with some specific colors set for the background, and these have to be the part of the background, because of blending modes used.
Now I need to grab those colors form the clear parts of the background to quickly transfer them into vector part of the design. But when I try — Ai lies about values.Instead of
70-15-0-0
0-35-85-0
0-95-20-0
I get
69.8-14.9-0-0
0-34.9-85.1-0
0-94.9-20-0Not much, right? Just 0.2%, why are you mad?
But these would be enough to break…8 votes -
Select > Object > Select All Symbols
Please? It would be handy to be able to select all symbols in one grab instead of doing them one symbol type at a time.
3 votes -
Change layer thumbnail background so white objects are visible in the Layers panel
Currently, I'm working with white text for a logo design and because the layer thumbnail background is white and the text is also white, it is impossible to see what objects are in my Layers. Illustrator for ipad already has this feature, so why isn't it in desktop?
2 votes -
Show a progress bar for 'export for screens' when it's taking a little while
Maybe it's just me making absolutely pathological files (7k paths that expand to 72k paths and 6k images) but sometimes 'export for screens' can take a while. And I just wanna close the file and get on with my life but I can't until it's done, and I'd like to know how long it's gonna take.
Maybe pop up a progress bar at the top of the screen along with the "this is saving in the background and will close when it's done" grey box? Or maybe just, well, pop up a traditional window with a progress bar that's not…
3 votes -
Add an option to distort objects to conform the path in Objects on Path
Having an envelope distort option on Objects on Path would be nice too.
3 votes -
Image Trace needs 'Simplify' option we can disable
Image Trace is still not functioning properly. The 'Simplify' feature is still missing. Forcing Simplify should not be allowed.
5 votes -
Stroke Malfunctioning
Stroke keeps changing to 1pt black on an object when attempting to update fill color. Must either undo the fill action or reupdate the stroke again. I would like Illustrator to leave my color and pt settings as I had them, not randomly decide to change them.
2 votes -
How to Modify the Default Stroke Style?
How to Modify the Default Stroke Style?
2 votes -
CAD like selection (direction of the marquee toggles Enclosed mode)
Illustrator now allows to use Enclosed Mode to select objects within the marquee (originally requested here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31863601), but the only way to do it is tap E key.
Make an option to enable this method also:
Click - Left drag: select everything INSIDE the marquee.
Click - Right drag: select everything CROSSING the marquee.Many CAD programs work this way. It makes selections much simpler.
17 votes -
Zig Zag effect Ridges per Path option
Illustrator allows us to set ridges per segment when applying a live Zig Zag effect.
Cool, we can use it creatively... sometimes... in very rare occasions...But most of times we need the frequency to be uniform for the whole path, like Roughen does.
We can’t use a brush to do it really, and we can’t make Ai to re-divide a path into segments of equal length (a cool request on its own, but it won’t solve the problem anyway... but I ahve to mention the PathScribe plugin allows this).There is this cool Random Zig Zag script that that…
3 votes -
Control which tool is activated by the eraser end of my stylus
I do all my work with a drawing stylus and have never found the native Eraser tool to be useful. Instead I use Astute's Opacity Brush, which lets you quickly paint opacity masks for the selected objects.
I'd love to be able to access it by flipping my stylus over and eraser-clicking, but that only gets the Eraser tool.
Before the Opacity Brush came up I've had other thoughts for this - how about assigning the eraser end of the stylus to your favorite selection tool instead of constantly hitting hotkeys to switch to and from it, for instance?
5 votes -
OMC Optical Music Recognition
OMC Optical Music Recognition, where the software will automatically recognize scanned or digital photographs of music sheets and intelligently convert it to Adobe Illustrator Vector Graphics or postscript format so you can change the lyrics font to what ever font you want to use and even use an intelligent music tool to make adjustments and changes to the notes.
Just as I requested OCR technology in 1990 and it happened and how I told IBM that you should be able to make computers understand what you are saying by analyzing your sound waves of your speech so as to be…
1 vote -
Keep name of dynamic symbol after break
Static symbols after the Break Link command are transformed into layers with the name of the original symbol. But dynamic symbols form a group without a name, although the original dynamic symbol has a name. The user has to manually rename the groups. Make a single logic for static and dynamic characters so that the name is automatically assigned to the group after the Break Link command.
4 votes -
Perpendicular Line Tool to Path
When I draw a line at any angle with the pen tool, I want to be able to draw a new line exactly perpendicular to that line. The name of the feature I want is "Perpendicular Line Tool". A tool that will ensure that the second line I draw is perpendicular to the first line when I draw a line in any direction, and will find and show me the 90 degree angle to each other. Please add, this should be a default feature in Adobe.
4 votes -
On Export to PDF, for "Page information" - Include the Artboard Name, not just the page number. Also let us edit the label placement. Basic
On Export to PDF, for "Page information" - Include the Artboard Name, not just the page number. Also let us edit the label placement.
Basically, I want to be able to call my artboards something like "Pane A1" - "Panel A2" - etc...
Right now, if I have a multi panel project, I have to manually place panel labels in all corners of a layout. But where bleeds overlap, I can't place labels, because that label would appear in the print field of the other panel...
Also, the offset of the "page information" should be editable, or default to the…
4 votes -
Edge Effects on Line Segment instead of Full Shape Border
It would be nice to be able to create a shape that has different edges between different points. At the moment, the closest that you can get with this is the width tool or by deleting a segment (which causes a host of issues, since it would no longer be a shape).
More broadly, by isolating line segments as editable aspects of a shape, it would be great to be able to apply edge effects (feathering, roughen, blur, etc.) only to a select number of segments on a shape.
This would give finer control over shapes in Adobe Illustrator and…
3 votes -
Highlight linked files with mismatched color profiles.
It would be great if there was an option to either highlight or have a warning icon applied to links in the links list when there is a mismatched color profile. It would save me lots of time when hunting down links that need to be changed to match the working space when I am cleaning up a complex composition.
2 votes -
Editable text in dimensions
Please let designer edit the text inside the dimensions. Sometimes for mockup purpose is not possible to set a proper scale and if you place a dimension obviously the size has to be changed. Now you need to expand the aspect to let the text be editable. It would be great if the text can be editable by default.
There is no worries for people with right scales since the value will be correct, but it will be a smart edit for others who have to change it.3 votes
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