Auto Layout, Grid layout & Padding
Auto layout is a property you can add to shapes and many things, to create designs that grow to fill or shrink to fit, and reflow as their contents change.
Also can add padding and margin , this help us when we design C.V., Menu, branding guideline & ...ect
Grid layout easly and helpfully.
Salim AlALeeli
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Zach Hayter
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Yeah this would be a game-changer for Illustrator and needs more attention.
Adding responsive behaviour in the form of an auto-layout function similar to Figma.
Allowing users to create designs that automatically adjust and align elements based on resizing.
Making workflows more efficient and design consistency easier to maintain.
This post needs a bump for real.
This could change a lot of people's daily lives 🙏
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Anonymous commented
I switched to Figma, just because Adobe Illustrator lacks all these vital features for creating advanced layouts
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nicolas
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I agree this is really missing in Illustrator, where so much things have to be placed manually one by one. Even in InDesign you can insert objects within a text box or hack something out with tables.
Reference implementations:
– Flex in CSS
– Flex layout in Penpot
– Auto layout in Figma
– Smart layout in Xd -
Similar to this request:
Liquid Page Layout (Artboards)
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46611841 -
Andrew Anderson
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Would love this. Illustrator is great because of the many effects it offers, but it lacks this 1 feature that would make it great for UI mockups.
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Neat
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Ex: I create a button that consists of a rectangle with the text "submit" centered in it. No matter how wide or tall I make the rectangle, I want "submit" to remain centered horizontally and vertically within it.
Sketch allows this via "pinning". I can set a parent object-- in this case, the rectangle-- and tell a child object---in this case, the text-- to maintain a certain distance from the top, left, right, and/or bottom of the parent object, or to remain centered to the object at all times, regardless of how the parent is scaled.
In addition, multiple objects can be pinned to the same parent-- for example, if the button said "submit" followed by a checkmark icon, I could tell "submit" to maintain X distance from the left edge of the parent, and the icon to maintain Y distance from the right edge of the parent.
This would be a HUGE time saver for those of us who do UI work in Illustrator. I'm sure it would be a lot of work to implement, but if doing so is at all feasible its inclusion would be amazing.
Thanks!
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Peter Gala
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It would be great to have the possibility to constrain object dimensions and distances inside groups according to their parent or the whole canvas. This function is a basic setting in many UI/UX applications (responsive behaviour for layout, buttons, etc.)
