Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Distribute Spacing dialog
The new Distribute Spacing dialog is extremely useful when a key object is set and the function is accessed through the menu.
I'm aware that a keyboard shortcut can be assigned to open this dialog quickly. However, what I'd really like is the ability to trigger the same key-object-based distribution directly from the Distribute buttons on the panel, by holding a modifier key while clicking them.
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Photoshop効果「シャープ」のメニュー復活とUI改善の要望 Bring Sharpen / Unsharp Mask effect back
以前のバージョンで利用可能だった「シャープ」や「アンシャープマスク」がメニューから消去されている現状は、作業効率を著しく下げています。
リクエスト：
メニューへの直接配置： 画像を鮮明にするのは基本的な操作です。「効果ギャラリー」の奥に隠したり、Photoshopの起動を強制したりせず、Illustratorのメニューから直接選択できるように戻してください。
用語の分かりやすさ： 「アンシャープ」といった内部処理の名称ではなく、ユーザーの目的である「シャープ（鮮明化）」という名称で直感的に使えるUIにしてください。
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Provide angle / rotation in Info panel, for text and other parametric objects
For Parametric objects, like text objects, Ai knows the rotation, if applied. Please give the user that information in the Info panel, when a rotated parametric object is selected.
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In the Font Palette, under Filters, please add English, or Latin, or Western European Roman. PLEASE!!!
The lack of a Western European or Roman filter is insanely stupid. The way it works now, if I want to work in Burmese, I can have a nice short font list. But if I want to work in English, I have to show ALL LANGUAGES, so I wind up with a list of 400 fonts, most of which are unusable. This seems prejudicial, if not negligent. Why on earth was this obvious filter item excluded????
4 votesAs per the team, they do understand that it’s an issue for folks working across multiple languages.
In Illustrator, however, the font filtering is based on script, not a simple language grouping. Hence it’s not very straight forward to do for Latin. There is no concrete plan or timeline to make it resolved, but it’s now added to the backlog.
Thank you all for raising this up. Feel free to share more thoughts, do report, request, comment, and upvote — this really helps to steer the development.
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2 votes
View > Snap to Glyph option regulates these smart guides
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Performance
Please make huge improvement in performance. I've been working for prints for years but Ai just keep slowing down every version. Even slower than Photoshop. And the canvas so limited. I could only split my design to 4 sizes to get Ai safely working to prevent hang or not responding and plus rasterized the contents.
How come the actual vector software could not handle so much vector (paths, shapes, etc).
Hope you make a huge breakthrough in development. Couldn't wait!3 votes -
Accessibility Feature for Mouse users
Combining the hand and zoom tools would be ****. Cannot use keyboard shortcuts, left. hand. is unusable. I'm on desktop, mac, mouse only. The toolbar is low contrast can it be a diff color than artboard. I'm also now low-viz user, Illostrator is NOT v welcome to some...
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Fast Skew Option in Illustrator
I’d love to see a faster skew workflow in Illustrator.
Currently, skewing objects requires extra steps, and it feels slower than it should be for frequent transformations.
Suggested behavior:
- When an object is selected, the normal bounding box appears.
- When the cursor moves near the left, right, top, or bottom edges of the bounding box, the cursor automatically changes to a skew icon (two opposite arrows).
- Click and drag from those edges to quickly skew the object.
- This would work similarly to how "rotating or scaling" works near corners, but specifically for skew transformations.
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Why are PDFs from illustrator so much larger than from INDD?
I could have the same layout in illustrator and in INDD, use the same export settings, and illustrator PDFs are always super big. Maybe it's because they hold data from artboards that weren't included in export. I've tried opening the PDFs back into Illustrator to delete unnecessary artboards, and random stuff on pasteboard. I've tried deleting all hidden layers. Rasterizing masked photos doesn't work either. I could have a 4meg pdf from INDD, or one from AI would be 80megs. Thanks for considering.
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Transparent Glass Effect Options in Adobe Illustrator
Dear Adobe Team,
I hope you are doing well.
I would like to request a new feature enhancement for Adobe Illustrator that I believe would greatly benefit designers and streamline creative workflows.
Feature Request:
A dedicated Transparent Glass Effect option within Illustrator, offering the ability to apply both plain and textured glass styles directly as an effect.
Currently, achieving a realistic glass look requires multiple manual steps involving opacity adjustments, gradients, blurs, and overlays. A built-in effect—similar to other appearance presets—would save significant time and allow for more consistent results across projects.
Why This Would Help:Faster creation of modern…
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3 votes
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Make Global Edit work in pattern mode
If I need to replace all ducks in my pattern into chicken, I can surely use symbols... no, I can’t, these aren’t supported in patterns — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/51662026
...OK, I can use Global Edit... no, I can’t. It says nothing it can’t though, it just fails to find copies.
Please make all things Ai has work with all other things Ai has.1 vote -
Allow to use symbols in patterns
Imagine I have a star used in several patterns.
I want to replace it with a donut. I’d have to edit each pattern swatch that uses it and replace each star with a donut (I could have used Global Edit to make it faster, but surprise (no) — it doesn’t work in the pattern mode).And if we were allowed to use symbols in patterns, I could have select all the instances of the star in a pattern and quickly replace it with a donut symbol, or just change the core symbol instead, making a copy of it to have…
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Handle highlight like in Photoshop
Why in Photoshop, a raster-based editor, we get Bezier handles getting highlighted when hovered over with Direct Selection tool, while in Illustrator, a vector-first editor, the wannabe-king of vector graphics, we get nothing?
Just look at the GIFs.
No, I won’t enable Smart Guides just to see 'handle' and a small 'x' that I barely see, along with all the other labeling and snapping.
No, changing the style of handles to hollow doesn’t help.I’d trade all the Turntables in the world, along with all the GenAI moss you grow on the mighty carcass of Illustrator for this one and…
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Make the color of Snap to Grid annotations different
Some time ago Illustrator reworked snapping to grid to use the Smart Guides engine, to allow both to work at the same time (thanks to this request: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32421028), display annotations and more.
But now we have two different snapping behaviors color-coded using the same color.
Why Snap to Glyph allows to pick its own color, but Snap to Grid doesn’t?
In a busy document and both snaps enabled, this would help to distinguish two systems easier.1 vote -
Suppress messages with no choice in Actions
I have a very simple action I created ages ago:
— ungroup
— release compound path
— make compound path
It’s a simple technical action, and I use it co convert single color outlined texts from a group into compound paths (because we never got an option to prefer compound paths for this when possible: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/33627964 and https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46559167)... why? Because these stay in one piece when exported to a PDF and imported in other apps, for example...But I digress. This simple was one of my earliest one, used so heavily I have it at F3.
...but when I…1 vote -
Bigger text input files for generative prompts
Two lines are way too less in many cases. Make it scalable. Preferably automatic ;-)
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Show the number of all and selected layers in the document
Please add an indicator showing both the total number of layers in the document and the number of layers currently selected for potential operations, in the bottom-left corner of the Layers panel.
Attached you will find a screenshot illustrating a possible implementation of this feature.I am confident that you will consider this proposal carefully and evaluate the integration of this functionality into Adobe Illustrator, helping make the user experience even more efficient and intuitive.
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Export for screens with subfolders organized by artboard
Often I am having to export multiple file formats for all artboards in a single working file. E.g. when sending a group of signs to a printer, they will want an individual native .AI file, a PNG full-res preview, and a JPG thumbnail. Currently, you can create subfolders based on Scale or Filetype, but it would be immensely helpful if there was the ability to create subfolders based off of Artboard Name, since it is often the specific design that someone is looking for.
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Add the "Align to center vertically and horizontally" button to Properties panel
I really liked the neewly added "Align to center vertically and horizontally" button, I often had to use two buttons to center in the artwork the objects, but now I miss that option in the Properties panel, which is always present.
2 votes
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