Ability to select & rearrange invisible (switched off) layers and objetcs
It is incredibly annoying when I'm trying to group, move or rearrange objects or layers, only to be told by Illustrator that I need to turn visibility on before I can do any of this. Why?
In Photoshop I can move layers which are switched off with no complaints. It is a ludicrous process in AI to have to turn on a layer's visibility, move it, then turn it off again. And VERY annoying.
Paul Roper
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Agree, it makes little sense. The most stupid is that Ai does not even tell you nothing happens, no 'forbidden' cursor, no error sound, nothing...
And I can’t see how this is 'intended' :/ -
Paul Roper
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It's really annoying not being able to do simple things like re-order items in a layer if that layer's visibility is set to OFF. I assume it's "as-designed", but feels like a bug to me. I don't necessarily need a layer's visibility to be ON to adjust things on it. It's as if turning off a layer puts it into a locked state. Which is just silly. In After Effects, if a layer is set to invisible, I can still adjust all of its parameters. Let's make AI more like AE.
