Editable text underline feature as available in Indesign
Illustrator is the industry standard application for the packaging design and artwork industry. I don't think that this was the original plan for Illutsrator but this is now just a fact of life and millions of users around the world in the packaging industry use this day in day out for very technical builds where printer specifications must be taken into account. There are hundreds of features that could be added to make our lives easier as we work the lack of certain features to get it to do what we need. But the most glaring ommision for many of us is the lack of editibilty of the text underline feature in the character menu. Because it is not editible we usually have to create vector underlines for text so that we can ensure the thickness of the stroke will meet a printers minimum specification. This often causes inconsistency in positioning across ranges and we have to manually edit it everytime text is amended. It also means that applying any automation for text with underlines is impossible. Please Adobe, make a packaging artworker very happy.
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Sergey Osokin
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Unfortunately, we still have no information on whether Adobe Illustrator will ever have a text underline feature. For myself, I chose to create the "HighlightStroke" paid script that draws vector underlines for texts, which can be re-created if the text changes and styled like regular strokes:
https://sergosokin.gumroad.com/l/hgltext/(Edited by admin) -
Will
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I use Illustrator for digital design visuals and would like to be able to use custom underline styles for links, specifically line weight, colour and offset.
That would make it much easier to design link styles common for modern web styles.
Thanks,
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Anonymous
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Hi,
from my earliest days till now... I always wonder, why if I type some "Lorem ipsum important text", set it's color to, let's say, PANTONE 871 C, assign stroke 0.3 pt with Overprint Stroke, then highlight the "important" word, apply Underline... the underline does not have a stroke on it... is it really that hard to implement?(Edited by admin)