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1. Symmetrical Anchor Point Handles snapping

   It would be incredibly helpful if the handles of an anchor point could be positioned symmetrically and equidistant, as shown in the attached image. This feature would streamline the design process by eliminating the need to create half a path, copy it, and mirror it.

   Thank you for considering this feature request!

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2. Make Create Gradient from swatches command to respect the order of selection

   Recently Illustrator added a dedicated command to create a gradient form selected swatches, following this request: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/38592196

   While the function works, there is no way to create a gradient respecting the selection order of swatches — the gradient will always use their order in the panel. I wish it worked! If we need the direct order of swatches, we’d just selected like this.

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3. Show build number on splash screen

   Ai is evergreen, sure, SaaS and things...

   But it’s extremely important to know what exact build we are using all the time since features and bugs differ.
   Help > About shows the build number, but why not show it directly on the splash screen as well?

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4. Unify / bring closer the contextual task bar with the simplify/smooth adjustment bar

   When I chose Edit Path from the contextual task bar to smooth or simplify a path, the slider bar for the smooth menu pops up somewhere near the path not on the same contextual task bar, so on multiple actions that means a lot of mouse travel from the contextual task bar to the simplify/smooth adjustment bar.

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5. Add the ability to "freeze" layers.

   Once upon a time, back around 2000, there was a natural media vector program called "Expression", by a studio named Creature House. It did a lot of heavy, complex rendering, yet retained pretty speedy performance on the machines of the time. But Microsoft bought Creature House back around 2003 and ended support for it; "Expression" became a Windows-only tool with greatly limited functionality.

   One of the ways it kept its performance snappy was by having an additional state for layers. Like Illustrator, they could be visible or invisible, and they could be locked or unlocked - but they could also be frozen.

   Frozen was sort of a super-lock. A frozen layer was locked and uneditable. But freezing a layer was also an explicit hint to Expression's renderer: I am not planning to do anything to this for quite a while; please render it to a bitmap and cache it for speedy performance. You'd start to see pixels when you'd zoom in far enough but that was fine. Saving it as a jpeg/png/tiff/whatever would ignore the frozen image and render it at full resolution.

   This was a great feature. I do some pretty complicated stuff now and I constantly miss it. All I can do now is turn a layer off or set it to render as outlines and that's nowhere near as useful as having a low-res proxy that I've explicitly asked Illustrator to use instead of rendering it again and again.

   There were a lot of other great ideas in Expression. If a few artists on the Illustrator team got Expression 3.3 running in a virtual machine and played with it for a couple of weeks they'd probably find a lot of ways to make Illustrator a more capable program for artists.

   (I would swear I asked for this before? I can't find it in the system. Maybe I asked for it in the old feature/bug form, before Uservoice. I've been using this thing as my main art medium too **** long.)

   Once upon a time, back around 2000, there was a natural media vector program called "Expression", by a studio named Creature House. It did a lot of heavy, complex rendering, yet retained pretty speedy performance on the machines of the time. But Microsoft bought Creature House back around 2003 and ended support for it; "Expression" became a Windows-only tool with greatly limited functionality.

   One of the ways it kept its performance snappy was by having an additional state for layers. Like Illustrator, they could be visible or invisible, and they could be locked or unlocked - but they could also… more

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6. Ability to view comments by date

   As well as filtering read/unread comments, it would be ideal to be able to sort by date

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7. ZWNJ (Zero Width Non-Joiner)

   Please enable the shortcut for ZWNJ (Zero Width Non-Joiner), It's commonly used in Arabic and Persian Language. In other programs, we can type it by Ctrl+Shift+2 or Shift+Space ...
   کتاب‌ها
   Between "کتاب" and "ها" is a ZWNJ character, without that it will join:
   کتابها

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8. Show gradient annotator for Live Paint selections

   Version 29.3 finally allows to adjust gradients for individual Live Paint regions on canvas: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/35930962

   While these can indeed be adjusted now, the annotator is still missing.
   I suppose it requires more hacking to make it work, but still I’d like to see the controls on canvas, to tweak the look and not remaking it from scratch each time.

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9. A Node View mode for the Appearance Palette, and a complete revamp of what it can do.

   I feel like I have a lot of things I want changed about the Appearance palette that cannot be done in the form of a one-dimensional list of effects.

   I'd like to suggest something inspired by the "node view" in programs like Blender or Toon Boom or Unreal. Give me a 2d canvas upon which I can arrange strokes, fills, and effects, and let me plug them into each other in complex ways. Let me control exactly when a brush is applied to a stroke by moving its effect around. Let me dynamically generate an opacity mask for an entire object, and another one for three of the seven fills and strokes I have on it. Let me generate complex pieces of plumbing that do crazy things based on me drawing one simple path.

   Keeping the Appearance palette around and adding a new Appearance Nodes palette would be fine. Or it could be a new mode in the existing palette. It's also perfectly fine if the existing Appearance palette can't edit Appearance Nodes and just displays a polite apology. There's a simplicity to the existing palette that might be worth retaining, I dunno, when it gets to the point of being in a beta, ask people how they'd feel about losing the old one, and be aggressive about hunting for ways it might break existing appearance stacks - ask us for our craziest piles of native and plugin effects and build a nice set of test cases!

   I am probably asking a lot here. This is feels like a big enough change to be one of the top features of an entire release. Possibly even more. It'll probably involve changing some assumptions that are made deep in the parts of Illustrator nobody understands any more. And it's entirely for the most hardcore users, who're using it in the most esoteric ways. Good luck convincing the people who control the budget that a significant part of Illustrator's development budget for a year or three should be devoted to something that's got zero noob appeal.

   But after about a decade of exploring its possibilities, I'm constantly butting up against the limitations of the Appearance palette. It's time for something to change. Maybe it's just time for me to figure out how to survive a couple months of zero productivity because I'm figuring out how to turn another, younger program into something I can whip out art even half as fast as I can do it in Illustrator. And probably get animation capabilities and some amount of 3d into the bargain. I dunno. I'm fifty years old and I've loved using this program as my main art tool for half my life. Change is complicated.

   I feel like I have a lot of things I want changed about the Appearance palette that cannot be done in the form of a one-dimensional list of effects.

   I'd like to suggest something inspired by the "node view" in programs like Blender or Toon Boom or Unreal. Give me a 2d canvas upon which I can arrange strokes, fills, and effects, and let me plug them into each other in complex ways. Let me control exactly when a brush is applied to a stroke by moving its effect around. Let me dynamically generate an opacity mask for an entire… more

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10. Retain original, unexpanded art for pattern swatches.

    "This pattern contains active content (symbols, effects, etc, it's a long list) that must be expanded to create a swatch. If you edit the pattern again, the expanded content will no longer be active."

    There's a lot of clever, well-paid people at Adobe. I bet someone there can figure out how to store the original pattern art along with the expanded pattern art, and edit the former rather than the latter when I double-click on the pattern swatch. I have workarounds for this but they are tedious and annoying ones.

    Also I would like to thank whoever wrote the dialogue text I quoted, it would have been so easy to just say that the pattern contains Forbidden Art and leave me to figure out exactly what triggers the warning.

    "This pattern contains active content (symbols, effects, etc, it's a long list) that must be expanded to create a swatch. If you edit the pattern again, the expanded content will no longer be active."

    There's a lot of clever, well-paid people at Adobe. I bet someone there can figure out how to store the original pattern art along with the expanded pattern art, and edit the former rather than the latter when I double-click on the pattern swatch. I have workarounds for this but they are tedious and annoying ones.

    Also I would like to thank whoever wrote the dialogue… more

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11. Correct View > Snap to Grid shortcut from Cmd/Ctrl+" to proper Cmd/Ctrl+'

    My request is a bit nerdy, but hey! I have been using Illustrator for 'ages' and one of the shortcuts is simply not correct. I always think it's cute, in a way, but still.
    The shortcut to show or hide the grid is listed as Ctrl + "
    This is impossible to achieve since you need the 'Shift' key to type the double quotation marks :)
    So, I think it should be Ctrl + ' .
    The shortcut to snap to the grid is fun in this light; it's Ctrl + Shift + "
    So, I was wondering if anyone had ever thought 'Wait a minute...'

    Oh, and this also applies to the shortcut for 'Snap To Point', which is listed as Ctrl + Alt + "
    I am very curious!

    My request is a bit nerdy, but hey! I have been using Illustrator for 'ages' and one of the shortcuts is simply not correct. I always think it's cute, in a way, but still.
    The shortcut to show or hide the grid is listed as Ctrl + "
    This is impossible to achieve since you need the 'Shift' key to type the double quotation marks :)
    So, I think it should be Ctrl + ' .
    The shortcut to snap to the grid is fun in this light; it's Ctrl + Shift + "
    So, I was wondering if anyone… more

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12. There should be a way to select a different font folder. That way we don’t have to scroll through ALL of our system fonts
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13. Allow to disable 'Create PDF Compatible File' option when saving AIT templates

    Compatibility with PDF takes a ton of disk space, and .ait templates don’t really need it, because these are no intended to be imported or placed — just launched. Perhaps you should disable it by default?

    As I understand, these are actually just .ai files, but the different extension causes Ai to process them differently...

    I don’t expect a full-blown dialog when saving, but why not?
    Take a look at this related request:
    Allow to choose file version when saving AIT templates
    http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32518300

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14. Make an option to allow resizing artboards with their content to affect hidden and locked layers/objects

    Current problems:

    1. It does not resize hidden layers/objects
       (huge problem, which I only realized later after unhiding a layer, and had to revert to a previous save. I see now there's a warning, but that doesn't solve the issue).

    2. It does not resize locked layers/objects
       (It should work similarly to Resize Image in photoshop where everything resizes.)

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    AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    Illustrator allows to affect hidden and locked object and layers when resizing artboards.

    Go to Preferences > Selection & Anchor Display and enable Move Locked and Hidden Artwork with Artboard option.

    I’d agree it should say 'Move and Scale', and there is a separate request to allow to toggle this option right next to the buttons that enable 'Move/Copy' and 'Scale' modes in Control and Properties panels — please upvote it.

15. User Friendly Subscription Services

    Change the subscription model from yearly to monthly as default. In it's current state, the basic subscription is misleading. It claims it's monthly but locks you into a yearly contract. There are two ways to fix this.

    1. Use an honest model that is fully monthly with no contracts.

    or..

    1. Create better easy to read text that clarifies if the subscription is monthly or yearly.

    Please fix the subscription services to better reflect their intentions.

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16. 線の塗りを設定しているオブジェクトがマスクされてしまう

    macOS14.7.2

    Illustrator29以降にアップデートしてから現れたバグです。（現在29.2.1）線の塗りを有効にしているオブジェクトを下位バージョンへコピー＆ペーストするとマスクされた状態になってしまいます。マスクを解除すれば戻りますが、オブジェクトが複数あるものはグループが解除されてしまいます。
    ご対応頂けると助かります。

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17. Add ability to use artboard names when exporting.

    When you export PDF it would be nice to save artboards to individual files with the artboard name. Naming artboards doesn't really do much right now.

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18. An ability to have an exact width without tracking

    The width should be based on the actual vectors and not the letters with Tracking (Kerning). If I add 100 tracking to the text, it is wider then the actual vectors and that creates issues with making sure the letters will fit on a wall that they would be attached to.

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19. Preference for keyboard increments in NUMERICAL value boxes

    I love being able to use the up/down keys to change the values of the numerical values in panels and dialog boxes such as OFFSET PATH.

    The problem is that the incremental jumps are to far (1/8 of an inch when set to inches). We can use modifier keys to increase or decrease this jump, BUT it is still big jumps.

    I can find no other way to adjust this other than moving to Points or pixels for the measuring through right clicking the ruler, even though I am working in inches. This moves the increment to those base values: in Point, the keyboard increment jump is 1 point and the Command modifier drops it to .1 increments.

    I would love a way to adjust this. for example in inches, I would love to set the numerical incremental jump to 1/64 and still use the modifiers when using the up and down arrow keys.

    I love being able to use the up/down keys to change the values of the numerical values in panels and dialog boxes such as OFFSET PATH.

    The problem is that the incremental jumps are to far (1/8 of an inch when set to inches). We can use modifier keys to increase or decrease this jump, BUT it is still big jumps.

    I can find no other way to adjust this other than moving to Points or pixels for the measuring through right clicking the ruler, even though I am working in inches. This moves the increment to those base values:… more

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20. Make Package to find ALL links used by linked files themselves

    Would be great if Packaging to into account all linked AI and PSD files and made sure those files and their links were included.
    So when I create an AI file that links in another AI the links for that file are also included, or if a PSD is linked the links in that PSD are also included! And vice versa for PSD files that have linked AI files with PSD links in those said AI files...

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