Skip to content

Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests

← Adobe Illustrator
'Add paragraph break as a special character in Find and Replace window' has been merged into this idea

When entering a new feature request, please provide:

  1. Description
  2. Why is this valuable to you?

How can we improve Illustrator (desktop)? Vote or share a new idea — one request per entry, please.

(thinking…)

Enter your idea and we'll search to see if someone has already suggested it.

If a similar idea already exists, you can support and comment on it.

If it doesn't exist, you can post your idea so others can support it.

Enter your idea and we'll search to see if someone has already suggested it.

  • Hot ideas
  • Top ideas
  • New ideas
  • My feedback

46 results found

  1. SDK access to Perspective grid

    Please add SDK interface for plugins to get and set values in the perspective grid, and to add and move art on the perspective grid. I want to extend the functionality of the perspective grid for technical illustrators.

    2 votes
    0 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  2. QuickLook Preview Support for EPS Files on macOS via Adobe own framework

    As of macOS 15 (Sequoia), Apple has officially removed all system-level support for rendering Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files in QuickLook. This change began in macOS 12 (Monterey), when Apple deprecated the internal PostScript conversion frameworks (notably PSNormalizer.framework), and culminated in macOS 14 (Sonoma) and 15 (Sequoia), where these frameworks were entirely removed.

    Historically, Finder’s QuickLook preview for .eps files relied on these system frameworks to convert PostScript content into a previewable image. Many third-party applications (including Illustrator) used the same system calls to provide file previews. Even QuickLook plugins like Illustrator.qlgenerator or others that claimed .eps support were not rendering…

    5 votes
    3 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  3. Bei einem Update vom Illustrator sollten bereits in den Presets vorhandene Skripte übernommen werden.

    Nach einem Versionsupdate müssen bereits verwendete eigene Skripte manuell in den Presets-Ordner kopiert werden. Dies sollte beim Update automatisch geschehen.

    20 votes
    6 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  4. Multiline tooltips

    Plugin developers can’t make tooltips go in several lines. Extensive tooltips are forced to be one long line, and it’s hard to read in time.
    Comes along with this request: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46645348

    9 votes
    0 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  5. Custom exposure time for hover tooltips for third-party developers

    A narrow enough request. At the moment developers can’t customize the time each hover tooltip gets displayed. When the text is long, it vanishes too soon.
    Comes along with this request: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46645378

    9 votes
    0 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  6. SDK access to add items to contextual menu

    Can the SDK add an option for third-party plugins to add items to the contextual (right-click) menu the way it adds items to other menus? Of course, there needs to be some method to toggle when those items are automatically inserted or removed from the menu depending on the current context.

    5 votes
    1 comment  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  7. Better ExtendScript sockets

    Please add socket support to ExtendScript's Illustrator engine. Also add support for HTTPS.

    2 votes
    0 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  8. [UXP, ExtendScript] API access to Link Info

    Idea: to provide simple script API access to placed image information as displayed in the Link Info section of the Links Panel. Especially pixel dimensions, PPI, scale and rotation. Currently there are no simple ways to get this information via script.

    Note: if too late for ExtendScript, please consider this while implementing UXP.

    I posted this here because this information is something I have wanted for my own scripts, and we get quite a few questions about this on the user forum, too, so it seems like a considerable lack at the moment.

    6 votes
    0 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  9. Save SVG without the enable-background style property being added

    The enable-background property seems to be automatically added into the svg code when created. That attribute is deprecated and no longer recommended to be used. There doesn't seem to be a way to avoid it being in there, and the only option is to manually strip it out of the svg code. Could a feature update be made to stop automatically adding this property?

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  10. Add performance scripting options

    Currently the options to increase scripting performance are limited. Please add ...
    - the ability to process documents without openingen them visually. The documents should remain hidden during processing
    - an option to disable screen redraw
    - an option to minimize the application window

    These scripting options would be useful ...

    7 votes
    0 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  11. Add Trim View command in the API

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  12. API for getting the reflection/flip property of an image frame

    We would like to get the flip property of an image frame..
    It can be in a similar way to the way we get the rotation by passing the matrix:
    AIAPI void (*AIRealMatrixGetRotate) ( const AIRealMatrix *m, AIReal *angle );

    If this is not possible, then as a workaround we can get some notifies, for example: kFlipHorizontalNotifier or kFlipVerticalNotifier in order to know that the user selects to flip the image.

    Thanks,
    Chen

    11 votes
    0 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  13. Please allow us to set the ruler origin to the top left corner of the canvas using scripting

    Please allow us to set the ruler origin to the top left corner of the canvas/workspace/pastboard using scripting

    2 votes
    0 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  14. Pantone color scripting support

    Currently, there is no scripting support for Pantone colors. Please add this.

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  15. Allow symbols to be modified using scripting

    Currently, symbols can't be modified using scripting. Please allow us to access and modify items present in symbols.

    4 votes
    0 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  16. Add a new API to delete the swatch

    There is a problem with global gradient swatches, described at https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/908050/suggestions/44461230

    Illustrator applies changes to all copies of a gradient in a document when this gradient is changed via a script. It makes sense from a practical point of view, but is devastating for scripts in general.

    We can’t duplicate gradients with a script properly, like we can do with any other swatch, because when it's done, the gradient swatch get forcibly added to Swatches and then corrupt the art which uses them when deleted... and it does not break this global link anyway.

    At the moment we copy a…

    8 votes
    0 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  17. Support stroke/fill color, position, rotation, scale, corner radius, alignment, font (family, variation, size) in the Variables panel

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  18. Debugger

    When working on any non-trivial script, debugging is absolutely necessary. Currently, Window.alert() is the only usable method of debugging. $.writeln() also exist, but I don't even know where to look for that.

    6 votes
    2 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  19. Better documentation

    Current documentation sucks. There are no explanations what some properties mean, when something is null/undefined, when something throws an error and why. I have to try everything myself.

    8 votes
    2 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

  20. Get position of center point of a pathItem, group and so on

    Unfortunately there is no command in Javascript for Illustrator that allows you to read the position (x,y) of the centre of an object. This would be very helpful for many operations such as rotation and movement via Javascript.
    For polygons that have their own centre point, like the triangle (3 sided polygon) this would have to be considered.

    Suggestion:
    var vCenterpoint = getCenterpoint(vPathItem); // x,y values

    2 votes
    0 comments  ·  SDK and Scripting  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?
← Previous 1 3
  • Don't see your idea?

Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests

Categories

Feedback and Knowledge Base

(thinking…)