Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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invert blending mode
You have Normal, Multiply and Screen but there is no simple invert blending
transparency mode for layers or objects
I've seen it in other vector based programs and would love to see it in AI (and PSD)eg
When a black ring (set to INVERT) overlaped a solid black circle, the portion of the ring that overlaps would turn white.eg
When a Blue Circle overlapped a Yellow Circle the boolean area would turn green.This was VERY popular years ago in design, both in the 1930s and again in the 1980s in early graphics software, but it seems to…
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Allow to drag CC Library items directly to Asset Export panel
I've just finished dragging 24 logo variations to the CC libraries pane and named each individually.
Now I want to export each of these in various formats, but I can't drag directly from the CC Libraries pane to the Asset Export pane.
Instead, I have to rename every single one manually when dragging all 24 into the asset export pane.
What a pane!
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Editable path smoothing for pencil and brush paths
I'm proposing smoothing that may be applied or removed after a path has been created with the pencil or brush tool by the user. When a path is being created, the program would capture necessary coordinate information and the path would be represented on screen as drawn, or with a certain amount of smoothing (set prior to drawing in tool panel). If the user wanted more or less smoothing applied after creating the path, the amount could be adjusted by selecting the path and changing the amount applied. If the path would no longer need adjusting, it could be expanded…
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When exporting .svg from .ai file text kerning is not correct.
For example, the letter-spacing is not correct.
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Add web sockets to ExtendScript AI Engine...
Please add web sockets to extendscript for AI. It's a pain ********** to have to use bridge.
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Stop the "Color" sidebar window from auto opening no matter what.
Stop the "Color" sidebar window from auto opening no matter what. I do not use the "color" tab ever. I know others might, but making it always auto open drives me bananas. Can it be open only if chosen, instead of no matter what?
Thanks.2 votes -
Action save as pdf preset recording problem
hi
problem is; when you record new action save as pdf and change pdf preset saving format to pdf/x-2008 or any preset not saving recorded action, its saving as only illustrator defaulf pdf preset format. i have allot artwork needs to save as small preset pdf. but not working. please fix the problem. thank you.
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Power Efficiency
Since I've moved to working remotely entirely, I've noticed how quickly using several Adobe programs burns through my laptop battery. I'm running a brand new 16" Macbook Pro with the latest MacOS Catalina version, and I'm lucky if I get an hour and a half of battery life while running InDesign and Illustrator at the same time. When I review what is using the most battery life, my Mac lists InDesign, Illustrator, and Core Sync as the main culprits.
Now, I understand that these programs at times are fairly graphically intensive, but the battery life I'm getting is absymal, and…
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'Load Paragraph styles' does not work as expected
In InDesign, if you 'Load Paragraph styles', any Paragraph styles with the same names get updated, and any text that has those paragraph styles applied change appearance.
In Illustrator, this doesn't happen. It ignores the imported styles as it already has styles of that name. There is no 'import options' to able to change this behaviour.
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Automatically incorporate the .jpeg .png name into the artboard name
When working with multiple assets (png's and jpegs) and wish to import them in a document for various purposes: resize, remake them as vector for "overwrite" purpose it would be really helpful to:
When importing a .jpeg or a .png file into a document, by clicking on the .png or .jpeg with the arboard tool, instead of creating a generic name, the artboard tool should "take" the name of the file automatically.
When working with hundreds of small assets, it is very painful having to rename every single file in order to batch export them.
Very helpful in, mobile, web…
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Find and Replace Text in Object Name in the Layers Panel
Add the ability to perform a find and replace in the names of object. For example: If I have a seating chart with 10 rows, I want to be able to name each seat in the row such as "Row A - Seat 1", "Row A - Seat 2", etc...
After I create one row then copy and paste it to create Row B, I need the ability to highlight that grouping and replace all the "A"s with "B"s and so forth with each row.
See attachment as an example
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Please add weibei-TC-bold font back to adobe applications.
I am unable to use "weibei-TC-bold" in my previously saved AI files from 2018 and 2019. I have been using this font for my business logo for two years.
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Other pen enabled laptops compatibility for adobe fresco
I have a Dell laptop with a pen and I wanted to get adobe fresco. It seems like adobe made it exclusive for surface owners however I wanted to see if I could have access to it. There's little difference between my pen on my laptop and the pen on the surface laptops so I hope it wouldn't be too hard to add.
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You have 'deactivate all fonts' feature. But we need also 'activate all' feature
You have 'deactivate all fonts' feature. But we need also 'activate all' feature.
I have contacted one of your support regarding font issue, most of my activated fonts are gone in the software, but active in the website. He told me to deactivate all, I did but the thing is I want to activate again all my font that previously deactivate all but you don't have that option, now I have to spent my precious time to activated all one by one, and that is bad!2 votes -
Change paths to links when a project is duplicated
When I duplicate files with their respective links in a new folder, in order to produce a new art in the same format as the first. Illustrator does not change the link address, when I click on "Edit Original" it opens the link of the first folder, if we are not aware, we end up editing the link of the wrong folder.
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A hotkey to jump to the first typeable box in properties panel would be great
When something is selected, being able to type cmd-6 in Indesign gets you straight to the first typeable box, and from there it's easy to tab or shift-tab around quickly.
I can't find anything similar in Illustrator, though the properties panel in here is supposed to make life easier.
I work with a lot of hotkeys doing quite repetitive tasks, so being able to utilise this panel in a speedy manner would really speed up my workflow.
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The ability to open Fireworks PNGs as editable PNGs with layers retained in Illustrator
We have thousands of Fireworks PNGs that are now useless having updated to Mac Catalina OS and finding fireworks no longer works. We really need to be able to open them in Illustrator as editable pngs with the layers still retained. I'm aware this is possible in Photoshop, but that's not suitable for our vector-based graphics. Thank you.
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Scrubby Zoom can still be used in pixel previews
I enabled the "Pixel Preview" function in the "View" menu, and "Scrubby Zoom" is not available under this function. Please stay in pixel preview view and still use Scrubby Zoom
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Option for anti-aliasing in Outline View
Please allow us to turn on anti-aliasing in Outline View. It’s a very useful view for path editing, but it can be difficult to assess the fidelity with all the stepping due to anti-aliasing being off. Making it a toggle would be ideal. Many thanks!
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Stop making new features the default.
It's really annoying that you introduce a new feature that works in a different way to how it's been for years and then you make it the default. It seems like a bug or something's not working. Then we go online and google it and find out it's a new thing and to add insult to injury it's the default and we can't default it back to the old way, that we use a hundred times a day.
The dynamic symbol is a great example of that. People have been complaining about it since 2017 and still the default.2 votes
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