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  1. Layer style effects - Bevel & Emboss, Drop Shadow, Outer glow...

    Illustrator needs a panel for object effects similar to ID and PS.
    Especially bevel and emboss effects. Affinity Designer has this option.

    4 votes
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  2. FXG

    Please bring back FXG.
    SVG is no solution for coworking with complex files in Flash and Illustrator.
    Since years i've installed old cs6 version of Flash and Illustrator only for the FXG export / import.
    Thanks!

    1 vote
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  3. Melhoramento na ferramenta Seleção Direta para demarcadores, segmentos e pontos de ancoragem

    Gostaria de solicitar algumas ideias para deixar mais dinâmico os trabalhos de tratamento vetorial. A ideia seria juntar algumas ferramentas em apenas uma, ou simplesmente atribuir mais funções na ferramenta de "Seleção Direta" (principalmente)

    • Utilizar na ferramenta de "Seleção Direta" um Duplo Click para transformar o segmento de um demarcador selecionado em uma reta e, novamente com um duplo click e mantendo segurado, arrastaria para transformar o segmento em uma curva novamente.

    • Com uma tecla de comando precionada, ela poderia adicionar ou excluir pontos de ancoragem, isso deixaria o trabalho mais rápido, mesmo utilizando as teclas de atalho…

    2 votes
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  4. make one layer from more layers like in photoshop

    Hello, I would really like it if different layers could be used to create one layer, just like in photoshop.
    (so if you work with a lot of layers, and you repeat the design on the same page, or want to create a pattern, this doesn't work)
    I very much hope that this will be possible in the future

    1 vote
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    Resolved (Comments Open)  ·  AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    You can do that using Layers panel’s menu (a hamburger icon in top right corner). Select layers you need and choose one of three available commands: Merge Selected, Flatten Artwork, Collect in New Layer.

    Also, you can operate with a selection of object on canvas. Select object you need there, focus a layer you want you objects to be in and apply Object > Arrange > Send to Current Layer.

    Finally you can drag a square marker of a selected objects in Layers to another layer to move them.

    Please comment on how it works for you.

  5. Adding overprint toggles in the Separations Preview window

    Currently, the overprint toggles are only in the "Attributes" panel but the overprint preview toggle is in the Separations Preview panel. Including overprint toggles in the Separations Preview panel allows the user to see the overprints in the file and toggle off/on any visible overprints prior to exporting/printing. This would save on workspace real estate by choosing to exclude the Attributes panel solely for overprint toggles.

    2 votes
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  6. Touchpad Gestures recognition for Windows

    Same gestures as on Mac should be on windows (now that its possible to zoom in and out on a lot of applications in windows 10) - like pinch to zoom and pan

    16 votes
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  7. Character Styles should only contain deviations from paragraph styles (like in InDesign)

    In InDesign, I can simply design a paragraph using a paragraph style and then apply deviations (such as bolding) via a character style, because I can create a paragraph style that contains the sole information "style: bold". So that when I change the font in the paragraph style, the character style will simply apply the bolding to the new font.

    In Illustrator, however, I need to select a font for the character style before I can select the style. This means that if I change the font in the paragraph style, I would also have to update it in the…

    10 votes
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  8. Selection dependent tool display (context sensitive)

    In Adobe Illustrator, I find myself searching for tool panels a lot.
    How great would it be when Ai only displays relevant tool panels,

    For instance:

    -Selecting the Eyedropper brings up color related panels, and the Info panel
    -Selecting Paths brings up Pathfinder, Stroke and Fill
    -Selecting Text brings up Paragraph and Character

    E.g: currently, it can happen that Pathfinder hides a type related panel, while text is selected.
    Pathfinder is not relevant at that moment.

    2 votes
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  9. Color Reverse

    I've been making icons and when I have to reverse them to be on a dark background it would be great to be able to do that with one click.

    2 votes
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  10. why is there no illustrator workspace file location?

    why is there no illustrator workspace file location? i need to control workspaces that i save as the way they are currently handled is rubbish. why cant i save the workspace as a file? please make this possible

    2 votes
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  11. Adaptive Shapes

    Adaptive shapes would be shapes that can change size according to the amount of text inside of them.

    It makes having a highlighted text effect a lot easier. A rectangle with text inside it can stretch as you add more words.

    Maybe a bit harder but it’d be cool if it can be applied to more complex shapes like a speech bubble shape, while retaining the ability to customize the notch and corner radius.

    Doing any of this precisely and manually is not easy

    1 vote
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  12. Combine Separations Preview & Color palette.

    Why not combine the Separations Preview and Color palette into one? It seems like there's plenty of space if you change the "C, M, Y, & K" to toggle buttons that turn on and off those colors and the percentage total at the bottom right. And maybe include the additional spot colors with a text link or expansion of the palette.

    2 votes
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  13. Workspace remembers panel size and collapsed state

    I use Illustrator on my laptop screen and also when plugged into an external monitor.
    When switching between these screens I often have to adjust which panels are collapsed, and the size of each panel, particularly when going from the smaller laptop screen to the external monitor.

    It would be very helpful if the workspace settings could remember not just which UI panels you have open, but their size and collapsed state. This way I could have a preference for when Illustrator is displaying on a 15" laptop and one for my 27" monitor.

    2 votes
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  14. Pathfinder: show preview on hover

    An improvement in the Pathfinder panel.

    Show a preview of the result on hover and execute the pathfinder command on click.

    2 votes
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  15. Take off the text on the Home Screen

    Take off the text that says things like "Let's Design Great Graphics Today, [Your Name]"

    It is very irritating to a designer to get a pep talk from his software. It comes across as patronizing.

    It discourages use of the software because it is irritating. Please make this minor cosmetic adjustment and either take off the text completely, or simply say "Welcome to Illustrator."

    Thank you

    1 vote
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  16. Crop Image tool

    With the Crop image tool, it would be nice if the initial crop bounds were to the exact size of the selected image. Right now when you select an image to crop, it creates a random selection, that requires more work than if the crop selected the outer bounds of the image instead of a small selection.

    1 vote
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    Resolved (Comments Open)  ·  AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    Eric, this behaviour is regulated in Preferences > General > Enable Content Aware Defaults.

    Notice that checking this off will also disable auto-placing of color stops in Freeform Gradients and of, pins in Puppet Warp.


    If you want to be able to regulate these separately, perhaps you might want to vote for this request:

    https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/44156430-enable-content-aware-defaults-is-an-all-or-nothing

  17. Allow ZOOM when using spacebar while scrolling

    When holding spacebar to pan over the document, please allow ZOOMING by scrolling on the mouse. Rather than having two separate keys. Quite tedious.

    2 votes
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  18. Expand selection

    when I have something selected, I can shift+option click the art board somewhere else to expand my selection box and select everything between.

    1 vote
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  19. Lamé / Squircle rounded corners

    It would be great to add a way to create Lamé curved corners with rounded corners. (See the section "Optical corner rounding" in https://medium.muz.li/optical-effects-9fca82b4cd9a for an example of this.) Right now, one can make geometric round corners in Adobe Illustrator (and InDesign), but it would add greater flexibility to designs to use Lamé curves to create these more nuanced curves.

    29 votes
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  20. More desciptive warning

    When switching to CMYK in the New Document panel, a yellop triangle with an exclamation mark appears.
    Why? No further info is given.

    1 vote
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