Make units and grid settings to be bound to file
I work for screen and print media simultaneously in different files
I work in metric units.
I need to have 'mm' for general-stroke-type in design for printing and 'px' in other file for screen.
I'm so tired to change units every time I Ctrl+Tab between them. By hand, every time!
Ctrl+Shift+U change only general units, and I have to skip all picas-inches I never use.
I have to Ctrl+K, click Units and drop down three menus every time I need to see units I need in file I need!
PostScript is cool, point reassigned as a strict fraction of an inch is cool, so USA don't notice much when points-pixels turn into inches.
But other people, living in huge metric world, freak out seeing grid step 28,35px instead of previously set 10mm and 35,28mm instead of 10px!
Bind units to file already!
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
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Another request somewhat related to the problem:
Existing documents open to your preferred units, even if they were created in different units
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/44015871 -
Related to this request:
Keyboard Increment per document type
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/37295527 -
Clayton Shima
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Added a separate idea, please vote both!
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Clayton Shima
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Adding to this idea:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-feature-requests/suggestions/32403850-make-units-and-grid-settings-to-be-bound-to-file#commentsI work with both printed and digital formats, on top of that much of my work is multilingual, involving English, Japanese, Portuguese and other languages (at least we don't deal with LTR type... for the time!).
As such, I'm constantly changing units from mm to pixels and points, type from points to mm to Q, it's a mess! And I do that several times a day.
I guess the easier path would be to bind the units settings to the workspaces, as binding to the files would require changing the .ai format. But what do I know?... Please make this a feature already, it would give me a reason to actually use Workspaces for a practical purpose besides just backing up the position of my palettes...
If Adobe decides to assign the units to the workspaces:
1-Please also consider adding a visual cue to the units somewhere in an unused part of the UI (i.e.: besides the tool indicator in the bottom left of the document screen? Something like [Unit: px Line: mm Type: pt EAL: Q]
2-Please don't stop at units and assign also the units for increments of text and leading, tracking ems, baseline shift and nudging, also drawing angle and rounded corner radius, and grid spacing and grid subdivisions! (hehe)
And last, if you do this, please tell the Photoshop and InDesign teams to do the same.
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Arnault
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default settings like keyboard increment, angle, grid are calculated from imperial.
How many users Adobe have outside USA?
In France, we always paid previous Creative Suite higher than USA because of support and translation... units? who cares? Users! :-) -
Anonymous
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It would be great if Illustrator would store the measure and grid settings with the document (tab and/or file), it would be cool for that users, who works on print and online materials simultaneously.
So when I open the old document it would be brings those settings that I configured when I created it. Thank you so much.