Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Why was the copy and paste function forcibly changed?
Why do you guys change my personal settings?
Please don't change my settings under the pretext of updating. Do you know how disturbed we are when arbitrarily changing the settings of existing users to receive new users?
Until yesterday, the option key + arrow direction was copy. But now I've changed the option key + arrow to change the line and space of the letter. What are you doing? I was annoyed because I kept updating like this before, but I can't stand it. Why do you change the existing user's setting so recklessly?
Do you know how long this…
1 voteAlt/Option+arrow changes kerning when a selection has only text objects within and makes a copy when you have a textless selection.
In much older versions pressing these for mixed selections (text + non-text) used to change kerning too, but do make a copy now instead, but no changes were made recently to revert it. -
Need Better (and Less-Hidden) Accessibility Tagging Options
Please make it much easier to add accessible alt-text to InDesign documents. There should be an accessibility panel and pre-check to make it very easy for designers.
As it is now, it's too hidden: https://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/indesign/alt-text.html
Posted in reference to my tweet, at the request of Adobe Support: https://twitter.com/exkclamation/status/1424788475698499585
1 voteYou were right making this request in InDesign’s UserVoice as well: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/43967871-need-better-and-less-hidden-accessibility-taggin
Please vote there!As for this one — I have to close it, because it is irrelevant for Illustrator.
But please add other requests for Ai if you use it. Thanks!
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Make it easier as a new user to fill a shape
There's no fill or paintbucket tool. For new users this is really yucky. I am trying to use the paintbrush tool and I keep selecting a fill color since that is the only thing I can find that has anything to do with filling but as soon as I go to draw with the paintbrush the fill color I selected vanishes and is replaced with that no fill icon. It doesn't make any sense to me and is really hard to use. Why not make your interface more intuitive for these most common things people would want to do right…
1 voteBrushes in Illustrator use stroke color rather than fill, because a brushed stroke is a stroke. This is just how it works and it most probably won’t be changed ever.
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We need improved selection tools! Maybe lasso, select by same color/appearance, etc
We need improved selection tools! Maybe lasso, select by same color/appearance, etc
2 votesAs Jeron said in comments, Illustrator has the Lasso (but not the Object Lasso it once had: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/44462988), and a range of Select > Same / Object commands, along with Global Edit function.
If you have any other specific request, please log them as a new separate ones.
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Why doesn't Redo command work on transform operations?
I did a shear operation on an object and wanted to repeat it on another. Redo doesn't work on this type of operation. It took me some searching to find out that Transform operations had their special Redo, called Repeat transform. Why can't it use Redo like any other command on any other software? You can maintain the Repeat transform command for people who are accustomed to it, but why impose special redo's for each different command?
1 voteRedo makes an operation that was undone with the Undo command to be returned again. If one wants to repeat a transformation, the Repeat Transformation command should be used instead.
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New Features of Photoshop CC 2021
Lightroom cc classic is now a backdated software and not so beginners friendly and not so easy to control and learn compare to the lightroom Cloud Version. So instead of developing the lightroom cc classic version, it would be great for all end adobe users if this cloud version of the Lightroom CC turns into an off-line software like other adobe software!
5 votesThis place is for Illustrator feedback only. If you want to request features for Photoshop or Lightroom (or report bugs), you have to use dedicated forums for that: https://community.adobe.com
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Please allow an option to disable to home screen.
It's annoying to have this thing pop up every single time you close a document. In every app. Give us an option to turn it off.
2 votesAs Egor mentioned in comments section, you can disable the home screen. Go to Preferences and uncheck the option (Preferences→General→ Show the Home Screen When No Documents Are Open)
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Fresco - Give freedom to remove all gestures from the app - let the apple pencil be the only option
This was meant for the wishlist for Fresco, but there was no option. But, my issue was that the palm of my hand activates the undo function in Fresco. I would like to turn this feature off since it's too sensitive for my hand. I thought at the same time it would be great for palm rejection to be able to turn off all gestures.
4 votesUnfortunately for us, Fresco team does not read these forums. You can submit a request using this general form: https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html — or you can make a post here at general forums, in the Fresco section: https://community.adobe.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/Fresco
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PLEASE BRING BACK PEN TOOL!!! Curvature Tool SUCKS!!!
Please make a legacy option for the curvature tool to revert back to the Pen Tool I have been using the Pen Tool for like 20 years. I have found a work around by reverting back to an older Illustrator edition so I can again have that option. I WILL continue to do this because it is FAR more productive for me than using the curvature tool which I know well enough to say I am proficient in it. VERY UPSET HERE and I'm talking over a month of upset, not a bad day of upset. Thanks!! Adobe you still…
5 votesHi Adam,
We have not changed the behavior or removed the pen tool, it still exists in the toolbar. Curvature Tool is a separate tool altogether, it has not replaced the Pen Tool.
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symmetry
This is more of a feature request for Project Gemini rather than Illustrator but I made the mistake of assuming that "Photoshop for the iPad" would obviously come equipped with the symmetry tool available in Project Gemini but I understand now the consequences of assuming. I tend to use Adobe Draw for most the majority of my work for those nice hard illustrator friendly vector lines. I often try and just draw half of a character and then duplicate flip and merge together but this never really works quite the way I'd like it to. So, basically what I'm trying…
1 voteRyan, Project Gemini is now Adobe Fresco. That is this request is a completely wrong place :)
Use this space instead: https://adobefresco.uservoice.com
Fresco is not Illustrator :) And while Fresco might not having symmetry yet, both desktop and iPad versions do. Happy illustrating!
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Bring back the "+ Shift" command for scaling objects
Please, bring back the "Shift" command that allows you to scale objects with the regular Selection Tool (V), and give the new tool as an option, not a default.
1 voteThe behavior you refer to is the Photoshop only change, and it does not relate to Illustrator.
As for Photoshop — they fixed it with giving the option to change it back. Not giving it was a stupid decision.
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'Units' dropdowns
Add 'units' dropdown to transform panel so you don't have to go to preferences to change them. This also separates the input box from the dialogue so its easier to type and tab through modifying dimensions.
1 voteYou can press Command+Option+Shift+U (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+U) to cycle through all measurement units.
Also, type whatever unit in a value field to force Illustrator to recalculate the values into default units.
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Adobe to acquire or license useful tools from Astute Graphics UK?
A buddy told me Adobe was considering purchasing or licensing tools/features from Astute Graphics, UK? Any validity to this?
Been saying this for years... a
1 voteAstute is available as a separate purchase on their website: https://astutegraphics.com/
They have been our trusted partners for long and we are not working on purchasing or licensing features. -
background
Can someone teach me how to create backgrounds like this in Illustrator please. Thank you.
1 voteThis background feels like a raster texture, a scan of a paper. Illustrator does not offer tools to create fractal textures like this. -
Properly viewable and properly printable files NEEDED!
When creating a final file from Illustrator for a printer, I change type into outlines so that there will be no font problems. Then I save as a PDF. The PDF is VERY inconsistent in how it shows straight lines of letters. ie: lower case "L", cap "I", hyphens, dashes, and other letters with "straight" lines -- p, d, M, etc. The pdfs look terrible unless you blow them up very large. AND when you print them out, you can also see the differences in thickness of the letters on different printers. Questions: How do I tell my customer "Oh,…
1 voteIf a PDF file is viewed in Acrobat, one can disable the option which tries to make thin lines fatter in Preferences > Page Display > Enhance Thin Lines.
This is something viewers make to deal with the now-unhinted results outlined fonts. With properly prepared PDFs outlining is not necessary and cause more problems than solves.
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Short cut for 'outline stroke'
Could there maybe be a short cut for 'outline stroke'? There only is one for letters but not for lines and stuff.
5 votesHi, We do give the option of creating your own custom shortcut for certain commands. To know more, please read: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/illustrator/using/customizing-keyboard-shortcuts.html#Definenewkeyboardshortcuts
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Bring back: Unlock-Guides and they Appear, PLEASE.
It used to be that when GUIDES were hidden and locked and you UN-LOCKED the guides (with the keyboard shortcut), they would also appear (View-Guides-Show Guides). It was a VERY useful, quick and easy way to know for sure that the guides were unlocked.
Right now there is no indicator that guides are unlocked, without having to annoyingly go through the menu. You have to unlock and lock repeatedly and keep making attempts at selecting a particular guide before you know that you have actually selected the guide, and not a near-by path.
Thank you!
2 votesFor both locked and unlocked guides, there is a different cursor feedback for the Selection and Direct Selection tools.
While we will be making improvements to guides, in future, there are no plans around mixed behavior of show/hide & locked/unlocked.
Thanks!
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Anchor points in Illustrator Draw (mobile app)
The Mobile Adobe Illustrator Draw needs more vector functionality. It'd be great if anchor points could be created and edited within the app.
I'd also like to see like to see the functionality of the pencil tool in Illustrator, how one can re-trace over the line to edit the path.
If this functionality was available, I could use a tablet to replace my wacom.
6 votesPlease request and report features and bugs for Illustrator Draw in the dedicated forums: https://forums.adobe.com/community/draw
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Get rid of that awful new document screen. It's annoying for experienced users.
Please have a way to turn off that new document screen the same way I can turn off the "Start Workspace".
Experienced users don't need (or want) doc creation on-boarding.
4 votesAs Ian mentioned in comments section, you can disable the New Document screen. Go to Preferences and check the option (Preferences→General→ Use Legacy “File New” Interface)
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CC 2017 Zoom
Can we please change the zoom back to how it used to be previous to CC 2017.
The auto select zoom is driving me crazy!
"In Illustrator CC 2018, Adobe finally fixed this by adding a check box under preferences Section & Anchor Display. You can disable Zoom To Selection. It is enabled by default."
Can we please see this option in CC 2017
2 votesDeclined ·
AdminNitish Agarwal (Illustrator on Web/iPad Team)
(Lead Software Engineer, Adobe Illustrator)
responded
Hi,
New options can only be made available in the newer release. If you want to turn off that preference you will have to update to Illustrator CC 2018. If you are facing any other issue with 2018 log that on user voice or contact support team.
Thanks & Regards
Nitish Agarwal
Illustrator Team
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