Allow to edit predefined and add new preset sizes for each document profile (like A1, A5...)
I regularly design flyers in A5 size and it would be great to have that as a new document preset in addition to A4 and A3

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Brent Chester commented
Spent countless hours trying to find workarounds with no luck. Would love to have this quality of life option.
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J commented
It would save so much time to be able to add to/edit the default artboard dimension options. I have never and probably will never need both Apple Watch artboard dimension options, but basic common print sizes A0-A6 (if not all the way to A10) should be easy default artboard options as they are commonly used by many designers, both when opening a file and when creating new artboards in already open files. This should be really basic & easy and would make me very happy, thank you!
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Thiago Leoni Amaral commented
Illustrator needs this urgently, photoshop has had a similar feature for a while, it's a shame illustrator doesn't have the same!
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Steven Scott commented
The whole point in presetting templates is to aid productivity, if you can't add your own presetting what is the point in even calling it such. Another reason for me to question why the **** am I paying for your software!
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Hello again, Hans.
'There is no clear way to do that’ means that Illustrator does not provide a clear way to include our own presets to this list.
To have something appear in Templates, you have to put in in the designated folder, something like %AppData%\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 26 Settings\en_US\x64\Templates'Why can't you just add common social media templates as well' — I can’t add anything, I am not an engineer, I am a mere user with the badge and some knowledge :)
The Saved tab is not meant for user-saved presets... yeah, it’s stupid, I know. It supposed to have downloaded and imported templates.
The help says: 'Quickly access templates that you've downloaded from Adobe Stock (Saved tab)’ — https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/create-documents.htmlSo it’s not the functionality that is missing, but the name is wrong and misleading.
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Hans commented
Hi Egor. Not sure what you mean with "there is no clear way to do that"? You already have blank document presents like A4, Poster etc. Why can't you just add common social media templates as well?
Another thing, the saved tab makes no sense because when I create a custom template and save it, it does not appear in the saved tab.
We need our custom templates to appear when we want to create a new document.
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There is no clear way to do that, but you can save a prepared document as template and later quickly create a new one using File > New from Template.
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Megan Le commented
Adding size presets for specific platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc. would be helpful to easily create posts, profile banners, and story graphics
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Lance commented
This is pretty easily do-able in the legacy new document dialog.
Add documents to this folder to make them available in the drop-down list:
C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 26 Settings\en_US\x64\New Document ProfilesIf you want to make your own templates (*.ait files) and have them available via the "Templates...", save them here:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 2022\Cool Extras\en_US\Templateslocations will be different on OSX, they may be in a hidden library folder somewhere. The directory structure should be very similar though.
update:
The new document profiles location on OSX *might* be here:
Hard Drive\Users:[user name]\Library:Application Support\Adobe:Adobe Illustrator 26\[language]\New Document Profiles
this is from a site posting instructions on how-to for CS5, with notes about updates for CC versions up to illustrator 2015 (version 20)
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Lelani Orffer commented
Add an option to the "Saved" tab on the "New Document Window" to add your own Template/Documents. i.e I want to add a blank template for A5 size and always have it handy when I create a New Document.
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Michael Chan commented
Voted for A5 in preset size.
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Anonymous commented
same here. another reason to get annoyed with Ai for years, can u guys fix up all these little annoying things?
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Anonymous commented
Yes, thoroughly agree but also please make it easier to change the presets units to eg millimetres too! Who honestly uses points as a page dimension unit in most of the world? Is that an American thing Adobe?!
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Anonymous commented
And allow us to change the default measurements on them into other units eg millimetres!
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Lanika commented
2021 and still annoyingly lacking A family preset sizes
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Anonymous commented
Yes please, A1-A7, thanks! @adobe
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Laima commented
Can we please have the ability to add our own presets in categories we select? Thanks...
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simon commented
It would be so nice to be able to create blanc templates (not only A5 but every custom format) an put it in the wanted section like «print» | «web» | «mobile» etc…
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Andrii commented
While Adobe does not add new templates I use the following workaround:
Create a new document with desired dimensions (once) -> Save as template -> somwhere_you_like/(MY_TEMPLATE.ait) -> move this file to /Applications/Adobe Illustrator XX/Cool Extras/en_GB <or your_language>/Templates/Blank Templates/ (requires password).
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Ken commented
sigghhhhhh... looks like Adobe still hasn't bothered fixing this issue then, even with the latest update I've just done. Its such a basic essential option too!