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  1. Allow Symbol Instances to update during master symbol editing

    When making patterns or complex design based on instanced symbols it's vital to see how the seams between repeated symbols update. It would be good to see all instances (in view) update as you're editing a "master", and for the alignment tools to take the other instances into account so you can make pieces align with each other across a grid. Today the instances will only update AFTER you're done editing and it makes for a lot of going back and forth.

    3 votes
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  2. Better fine tuning blob brush

    Hello,
    I would like to have a better setting option for the accuracy of the blob brush. The middle setting is actually too straight for me. Lines are straightened mercilessly. If you move the slider one point to the left, they are not straightened enough. That's why it would be great to have four additional options (see screenshot, red lines).

    Thanks a lot
    Gabi

    1 vote
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  3. Send proof to customer

    We proof every item to customers before printing. It would be great if there was a tool to send a proof that could be approved through all common design programs. Giving the customer the ability to submit for changes and do a final approval before the job goes to print.

    3 votes
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  4. Copy and paste propieties

    Can you add an option for copy and paste the object’s dimensions and X,Y points?

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  5. Export for screens: poor JPG compression and custom JPG settings

    The compression and quality when "exporting for screens" in JPG is really bad compared to "Export for web".

    • You cannot customize the quality of the JPG
    • It embeds the color profile in the file, even if you have selected not to do so.
    4 votes
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  6. Export for screens: remove suffix "-1" in the name

    It adds the suffix "-1" when exporting artboards, even if you have the field for "suffixes" empty.

    6 votes
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  7. Stop changing the name of Illustrator application.

    Most applications retain the same "Application" name between versions. This makes transitioning between versions easy when working with a script-driven automation workflow. Illustrator is unique because the application name changes with every "update". This greatly complicates our ability to easily update Illustrator in our workflow. Please consider maintaining the same application name like most applications do.

    1 vote
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  8. les outils sélection sont inversés !

    les outils de sélection et sélection directe sont inversés !
    Si on sélectionne l'outil de sélection directe (icône flèche pleine) il apparait évidé sur le plan de travail et inversement....C'est énervant !!

    1 vote
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  9. Paint, Draw, Spatter on Vector like Raster for Visual Digital Artisans

    It takes conversations like this to know what customers want to dive into if they see Adobe, & for years I tried but run away from Adobe, it was extreme, even Illustrator. It didn’t feel like the art drawing, medium, etc.

    I grew up learning. No one grew up as a child to use Adobe. But they can if it feels like it on screen. You are #1 and growing too, my voice hopefully adds more light that.

    Combine easier icons that newbies know, more raster in style (Rebelle, Artrage), but Adobe all in one vector that combines the two,…

    1 vote
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  10. Aggiungere opzione margini interni e formati di lavoro per social network

    Sarebbe molto utile avere a disposizione i principali formati di lavoro di alcuni social network (post Instagram o Facebook) e tra le opzioni avanzate la possibilità di aggiungere i margini interni al documento.

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  11. AI 2021: Can't see previous path outline while transforming

    It took me awhile to be sure I was remembering this right (even though I have over two decades of experience with AI), but I feel sure of it now: the ability to see the present state of a path while you are dragging or transforming it has disappeared. This is a major problem — I have always relied on that path to, for example, shrink something in one dimension while not affecting any other.

    I looked through the Preferences and View options carefully, I don't think I'm just missing it. I guess maybe the AI team thought they were helping…

    2 votes
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  12. Add URLs to objects in PDFs

    Have the same functionality as InDesigner, where you can sign URLs to objects, making them interactive in PDF format. The current workaround of opening and adding the link in Acrobat isn't good enough - if you need to edit the illustrator file you then have to re-add all of the links!

    1 vote
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  13. Please make default character styles accessible by all new illustrator documents and easy to manage and edit.

    Please make it much, much easier to cause Illustrator to default to a common set of character and paragraph styles. Having to go into a hidden user folder to modify print.ai is an insult. In the styles menu, please include a "save to common styles". I have thousands of lines of code that automate adobe illustrator, and every time the software is updated everything comes crashing down. Having a shared, common repository of character styles that are available in every document should be simple and easy to manage.

    4 votes
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  14. Ctrl+click the swatch to mix it with the current color

    There is a small thing in Corel Draw, that AI could benefit of too.
    If you have an object selected and click in a different swatch with a Ctrl held, it adds a bit of clicked color to your current one, blending them.

    Like if you have a yellow CMYK 0-0-100-0 and Ctrl+click in 0-100-0-0 magenta swatch, you will have 0-10-90-0, 0-19-81-0, 0-27-73-0, getting more like the clicked swatch with each click. Same in EGB Very convenient for adding color reflexes and picking a color in general.

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  15. Allow to export without antialiasing on Large Canvas Size

    Please allow for anti aliasing: none on large canvas size. I need a large canvas for my project but I also need to be able to export pixel perfect PNGs. More info here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/large-canvas-size-makes-pixel-perfect-art-not-possible/m-p/11698876?page=1#M256965

    Oh and in the meantime PLEASE PLEASE publish this limitation in the known issues section on this page: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/illustrator/kb/large-sized-canvas-troubleshooting.html#sa_src=web-messaging

    thanks

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  16. Global Edit in Isolation mode

    Global edit is very powerful but not a fully realized feature.
    Many things are missing from it (like this one: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-feature-requests/suggestions/35768314-create-symbols-from-global-edit)

    Another one is that the Global Edit button is completely missing when you are in isolation mode. So instead of entering a group and editing similar objects only in this particular group, we are forced to lock similar objects manually (because GE won’t allow to do it), EXIT the isolation mode, start GE and edit found similar-s with everything else NOT isolated (which obstructs editing).

    Let me provide a practical example I am working on. I have several…

    17 votes
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  17. Não estou conseguindo

    Não estou conseguindo abrir um documento que está salvo no creative cloud, e também não consigo baixar ele.

    1 vote
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  18. Straight lines with Eraser tool

    Many users have been asking for this feature for a long time: draw a line between two points with the eraser freely, without it being at 45°.
    Why is that not possible? Like drawing with solid lines, without having to convert the contour line thickness (like the Blob Brush). Or constrain the brush as a spot between two precise places, which would amount to the same.

    3 votes
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  19. Illustrator - Text format

    Hi,

    This may be a problem specific to biologists, but I often have imported figures with text that has to be partially italicized (species names mostly). It would be very helpful if text formatting commands could be repeated by a keyboard shortcut - preferably Ctrl/Cmd Y so my fingers wouldn't have to learn anything new.

    It would also be useful if Find and Replace included a formatting option, so all instances of a particular string could be bolded or italicized or whatever.

    Thanks,

    Barbara

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  20. Inserir aviso ao aplicar pincéis em uma figura complexa

    Hoje precisei criar pincéis a partir de aquarelas fotografadas e vetorizadas, no entanto, cada vez que precisava editar algum valor de um pincel nos testes e estava, acidentalmente com uma figura complexa selecionada (no caso o próprio vetor da aquarela) o Illustrator passava a tentar aplicar o pincel aos contornos da imagem e o resultado era, invariavelmente, a interrupção do funcionamento do programa, com longos minutos de espera.

    Tudo isso poderia ser evitado se, considerando a complexidade da pergunta, um aviso fosse dado antes para o usuário.

    1 vote
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