Save Illustrator pattern swatches to palettes in Creative Cloud libraries
It would be great to be able to save pattern fill swatches and pattern brushes, as patterns and brushes. Currently it works fine if you save a graphic that uses pattern fills and brushes. But for me it would be useful to save and organize them in their native Illustrator format.
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Mark
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Le M Numérique
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I too would like to be able to save custom patterns to my swatch library.
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AJ
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I hope Adobe will soon make it possible to save Pattern swatches directly into our Libraries.
It would make workflow less counterintuitive for many Adobe Illustrator pattern designers.
On the Adobe user forums
https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/how-can-i-save-a-pattern-in-cc-library/m-p/10688779
2 expert users suggested workarounds.
But we should not be having to work around this still in 2021 coming up 2022.Patterns are a fairly fundamental aspect of Illustrator. And if we are able to save Objects containing pattern fills into our CC libraries I fail to see why it is not possible to get our pattern swatches saved in there as well.
In AI 2020 and 2021 Adobe improved the interface of basic pattern editing without the need for 3rd party plugins. That is great. Now if you could please allow us to better manage the swatch collections of what we make.
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Bonnie Retief
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Gradients and patterns can also not be added to Groups (see attached).
A gradient and a pattern should function in the same way colour functions. They are all "fills".
I will also add that even when adding a rectangle filled with the pattern to your library as a workaround so that in other documents you can drag and drop the graphic—that graphic does not bring the pattern swatch into your swatches palette.
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Bonnie Retief
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It's crazy that this is not possible. Patterns are often very much a part of visual identities. Libraries exist in part to manage and provide easy access to visual identity assets.
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Sonja
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YES PLEASE! :)
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Michael Bo Jensen
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Exactly, missing that same feature too!!!
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Gavin Anderson
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100% agree. Was very surprised to find that I could not.
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mariahp
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YESSSSSS PLEEEEASSSEEE.
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Susan
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Yes, please!
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Crysta
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Agreed! and you should be able to save gradients as well.
