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  1. Repeat between Guides option for Art Brushes

    Please make an option to allow "Repeat between Guides" rather than just stretch. If you are creating a textured brush - stretching it renders it useless. Allowing for repeat would make textures lines work at infinite lengths.

    4 votes
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  2. Nest library groups

    Groups are nice to have now in the library but some of us have very large libraries that we're using. Please consider adding the ability to nest library groups for better organization.

    4 votes
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  3. Allow to set opacity values separately from color values in gradients, like in Photoshop

    Would be nice if the Gradient Tool would function more like the one in photoshop.

    Mainly the ability to set different opacity values separately from the colour values. Not once I found myself changing my gradient shades in order to get the required transparency effect.

    In addition, it would be nice to have the variant gradient selection photoshop offers, such as Radial, Reflective, and Diamond.

    4 votes
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  4. Masks should be applied to single objects with a simple right click

    Masks should be applied to single objects with a simple right click. It's so cumbersome (and quite frankly, very outdated principle) to have to create a white object, select two objects, then 'create mask'. No one does this anymore. (look at Sketch)

    We should be able to simply right click on an object and set it as a mask. Then anything that is above that mask or in that mask's group layer, should be masked out.

    Which brings me to another point, layers in illustrator are so bad. Why for the love, has the layer structure not been updated since…

    4 votes
    0 comments  ·  Clipping, Intertwine  ·  Admin →
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  5. Panel undocking delay, PLEASE

    There should be a delay to undock panels. When I click a panel icon and accidentally perform an imperceptible drag (like, clicking quickly and not even sensing that the pointer has slipped a millimeter on the icon), the panel immediately undocks, and this happens all the time (and did not happen in previous versions of Illustrator -- WHY the change???).

    There must be a delay before the panel actually undocks. UI design 101, if you ask me.

    4 votes
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  6. Eyedropper tool picks up and applies object size: height, width, or both.

    I am constantly resizing vector objects to fit over clipped images, to make Spot UV objects, and it would be great if I could just eyedropper the image, rather than opening transform, copying, clicking the shape, pasting. Seems simple until you do it a lot. Adding this to eyedropper seems simpler.

    4 votes
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  7. Selectable content in the Links Palette info

    Selectable content in the Links Palette info pane. Currently, the only interactive line is the path link. This would be useful for example to have the ability to select and copy the percentage of scale so that I can place a second image at the same scale in a separate function.

    4 votes
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  8. Add "Crop Image Data to Frames" option to PDF Export (after first adding PDF Export).

    InDesign can crop image data to frames, which can significantly shrink PDF files. Why is this long existing InDesign feature missing from Illustrator? Please add it. There is no excuse.

    4 votes
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  9. Unit Error Fix

    Adobe Illustrator CC refuses to remember General Unit setting on Restarting the program it switches back to Points, even tho i set it to mm under Preferences - Units - General. This was never the case in any itterations of illustrator & should be categorized as an error fix rather than an improvement, i would like to see this changes asap as its rather disruptive

    4 votes
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  10. Provide ability to use polygon tool from the corner of the bounding box

    Most shapes in Illustrator (e.g. the ellipse and rectangle tools) draw from the corner by default or from the centre when holding Option/Alt, but the polygon tool doesn't provide this option.

    When using the polygon tool, holding the Option/Alt key should switch to dragging from the corner of the bounding box, which would make it much easier to draw a polygon of a specific height (allowing the user to lean on features like Smart Guides for alignment).

    4 votes
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  11. Right click lock unlock on layer will lock inverse and lock/unlock

    Sometimes I have 10-20 layers, half of which are unlocked. i then want to work on just one so i would lick to right click the lock symbol and it isolates that layer, locking all others

    4 votes
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    Need More Info  ·  AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    It woks in Ai already. You have to hold Opt/Alt and click the lock icon next to the layer’s name. First click will unlock any other layers first, but second will lock all other layers but the one clicked.

    Does it solve the problem?


    Same works with Toggle Visibility column.

    Photoshop does it a bit differently and skips the Show / Unlock All step.

  12. Can't access the document directly after double clicking on the file and it gets stucked on the "recent cc files" page.

    even tried to double click on the document after the ai screen pops up with the recent cc files page, but still can't access them. same goes to the create new and open buttons.

    4 votes
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  13. Spell Check Ignore Icon Fonts

    Spell check should recognize icon fonts and stop recommending corrections to them. In a document with many icons, I don't want to have to add every icon into the dictionary or have to know that if I capitalize that word it would actually break the icon it creates.

    4 votes
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  14. Support for 9-slice scaling for assets in libraries

    Many projects rely on the sharing of assets, but when these can't be correctly scaled or stretched due to the lack of support for 9-slice scaling, the shared library is of little use. It is especially a problem in responsive projects, where a number of items can have varying heights or withs such as menu bars, buttons and modals.

    This has been a problem for years now.

    When can we expect to see this remedied?

    4 votes
    0 comments  ·  Cloud, Libraries  ·  Admin →
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  15. We should get Find and Replace option such as Microsoft Office has

    4 votes
    3 comments  ·  Type, Fonts, Text  ·  Admin →
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  16. Import (or convert) Adobe Sketch and Adobe Draw files as paths instead of shapes

    Please give an option in Illustrator to import or convert Adobe Sketch files as paths instead of shapes.

    4 votes
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  17. Add a search bar in the Swatches panel for color books

    I would like to be able to search swatch books from the Swatches menu. This could be implemented globally for various search items, menus, tools, etc. (Similar to Photoshop's new search function.)

    4 votes
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  18. Introducing Column feature for the Artboards panel

    Having columns in the artboards will be great, Now, If we have more than 50 artboards, We spend a lot of time scrolling up and down just to replace artboards.

    4 votes
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  19. Hardware Acceleration is not useful for textures...

    Hardware acceleration using GPUs does not seem to improve texture rendering performance, for example at 300 dpi or higher raster render quality, the UI lags a lot for complex files.... Same is the case for effects such as blur, glow etc. GPUs are much more capable in rendering than CPUs and Illustrator doesn't seem to take advantage of their rendering power. For example it lags on a GTX 1070 with an 8 thread CPU once you start using raster effects/textures. Please improve texture/raster effect performance using hardware acceleration and optimisation for multithreaded systems.

    4 votes
    0 comments  ·  Performance, Enhancements  ·  Admin →
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  20. 【要望】ファイルを開いたときにサブレイヤーを展開しないようにしてもらいたいです。Please not expand sublayer each time I open file.

    レイヤーをスッキリ見せるためにサブレイヤーを使用しています。
    しかし、ファイルを開くたびにサブレイヤーが展開され、逆にごちゃごちゃ見えてしまいます。
    展開しないよう、改善してもらえたら嬉しいです。

    I am using a sublayer to make the layer look simple&clean.
    However, every time I open a file, the sublayer expands and conversely looks messy.
    I would be happy if you could improve it so as not to expand it.

    4 votes
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