Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Auto-fill file name in search bar when re-linking / replacing missing links The process of replacing missing links could be less tedious if Illustrator would auto-fill the name of the file in the search bar of the file browser. For me, it is often easier to perform a search for the file name rather than navigating through multiple depths of folders. An option to auto-fill the file name rather than manually typing it would make this regular task much smoother.
I regularly collaborate with other designers and am constantly re-linking files when someone else has created or edited the design file or when projects are re-organized. So the task of replacing missing…
2 votes -
Rename linked file If I want to rename a file which is linked to a file (for whatever reason), I have to perform a humiliating process: find a link in Explorer, rename it, return to Ai, wait until it finds out the file is missing, search for the file in a dialog.
When this would be so much faster just to right-click the file (on canvas or in Links panel) and do 'Rename linked file'.
10 votes -
Relink Image Using Context Menu / Command+Click Why do we not have a relink option in the right-click menu when an image is selected? How did this ever get by y'all?
2 votes -
Placing a multi-page PDF It would be great if we were able to place a multipage PDF instead of each link clicking through the finder window to the same file and going through the PDF pages one at a time again and again to place them in a document.
3 votes -
Placed psd layer comps keep their visibility regardless of color space(s) Make layer comp visibility overrides work regardless of color space. When placing layer comps from PSD, the color spaces for both documents need to be the same in order for the layer comp visibility overrides to be sticky in AI. If one is CMYK and the other is RGB, and the layer comps are changed, the placed comps do not keep their original comp visibility overrides.
This is related to this thread: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/placed-layer-comps-don-t-keep-overrides-when-amending-originating-psd/m-p/13024880#M3260732 votes -
Retain layer blend modes from Photoshop when placing in Illustrator. Please, allow the layer blend modes from Photoshop files to be retained when placing them in Illustrator. It's done within Corel, it should be native to Adobe products.
2 votes -
Unembed filename and format I don't get why images can't be unembedded in the original format they were embedded in, but assuming there's some internal format limitation, there's certainly no reason why all the unembedded images should default to the generic "AI_Image.psd" filename when you have the original filename right there in the links palette!!!!
Throw us a bone here, please!3 votes -
“Embed All” button when embedding links. Sometimes i work with files that have a lot links and when i send to factory i have to embed those links which can take what feels like forever! If there was a Embed All button it would save so much time.
2 votes -
Missing link visual preference option Allow an option in preferences for missing links to be view or show an empty image box. The visual image can be an issue with some industries dealing with a variety of clients and file volume.
Previewed file with the image
Printed file without the image2 votes -
Make duplicate image an instance, not a copy! InDesign has this in place, and so should Illustrator :)
When you import an image file into Illustrator and copy it, it will make a new copy, instead of a new instance. If you work on a file where an image file is included multiple times, the Illustrator file itself often becomes too large.
This would never have happened if the duplicates of the image file were instances instead of copies.
It is also impossible to relink duplicates of the same image when they are copies. You have to do it manually. It's both time-consuming and outdated.
Turning the image…
4 votes -
Ask user before updating links (AI 26.0.1) When opening a file containing linked images that have been revised AI will automatically update images without any alert.
This is pretty dangerous for anyone working with a team or refer/update old projects.
Would love to have it ask me first or at least tell me which links were updated. Something to create awareness that things have changed since it was last opened.
3 votes -
Improved links panel (with Relink All) Improved links panel. List all instances of a linked image under one 'primary' link, append the filename with " (xx instances) ". Use a chevron that points right to indicate that there are multiple instances under the "primary" one shown in the list. Clicking the chevron makes the chevron point down, and displays the list of all instances.
Clicking to select the "main" instance and clicking the re-link button should allow the user to replace all instances of the same image. Allow the user to expand the list downward as described above and select a single, or multiple instances to…
8 votes -
icon hit info loked on layer adding a locked icon on the layer with the layer number on hover, you would make an unlock this link
1 vote -
Option to open folder containing linked file when relinking Option to open folder containing linked file when choose "Relink file" instead of open last folder
2 votes -
Consider a document as 'unsaved' (dirty) when a linked image gets updated Illustrator think that updating a link is not an operation.
This leads to problems with documents that use PDF-compatibility option.Imagine you have an already saved document that have some linked images in it. You open it in Ai and then Edit a linked image in Photoshop. Make some changes in the image, save them in Ps, go to Ai and agree to update the link...
But Ai still considers the document as non-'dirty', as if no changes were made.
You can’t save the document and re-write the PDF content, to see these changes appear, say, in the InD document,…
17 votes -
Unembed JPEGs & PNGs Please return the feature from the older versions that lets you unembed JPEGs & PNGs. I hate that it's only possible to do with TIFFs and PSDs now. It's such a pain when you're trying to reduce the file size.
1 vote -
Nommer les images incorporées Pour avoir la possibilité de retrouver les images incorporées au besoin.
Dès que l’image est pixellisée ou recadrée, nous perdons cette précieuse information.2 votes -
リンク切れ画像のファイル名をコピーできるようにしてほしい 画像のリンク切れをアラートしてくれるが、
ファイル名を取得できないので、ファイル検索がしにくい。
リンク切れ画像のファイル名をコピペ出来るようになれば、
ファイル検索がしやすくなると思う。5 votes -
Update all linked files When you have a large number of linked files changes, but you have a manual mode with the confirmation, you can’t say 'Update all links' in the dialogue window, and you don’t have it as a button in the Links panel.
28 votes -
Save cropped image Ability to save a cropped image is unintelligible, not intuitive. Help function is no help at all!
1 vote
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