I don't understand why this hasn't already been done to be honest. It should be a toggle setting at least, not something you have to mess with every single flipping time. it is so annoying and time wasting!

Hyphenation is good for justified text to prevent rivers of word spaces up and down the columns, but for aligned left copy it should not be the default as one uses align left to avoid having this problem. I second non-hyphenation as the default. One can turn on hyphenation to break lines for aesthetic reasons.

yes please too

Yes please

That's good... but I'd be much more interested in your making sure that auto-hyphenation doesn't create garbage text in fields that *already* contain more than one hyphen in a row. Has that been fixed?

Can you please make realistic, not true view? Thank you.

Yes!

Yes! Please, please, please change this. Especially in Illustrator - if you are doing a lot of text in Illustrator (instead of InDesign) it is because you are doing something more graphically oriented than text-based, and hyphens are not visually appealing.

Flyers, posters, handouts, worksheets - I do tons of these, and manually work to not have hyphens, orphans, or widows because they don't look nice graphically. Thanks!

it's not ideal, but if you change hyphenation in your [Normal Paragraph Style] in the "New Document Profiles" inside Application Support, this will be the default for new documents. You can even remove Myriad as the default font.

I keep a set of startup documents free of Symbols, Swatches, Graphic Styles with the type settings I use for defaults. whenever there is an illustrator update i replace the startup files with mine.

Concur. Ideally, the default would not include hyphenation for Illustrator. InDesign, yea. Illustrator, nay.

Agreed. Hyphenation should be opt-in, not opt-out. Or at least provide an easily accessible check box, not hidden away in the paragraphs menu.

Totally agree here. Illustrator is not InDesign where someone might create a long document.

I agree.. a system preference would be the way to go

Yes.

Yes

Make this an option that can be set in the illustrator preferences as a "sticky" setting. That way the user can have the default hyphenation style they prefer.

YES.