Is there an option to set single keys and function keys as hotkeys?
Is there an option to set single keys and function keys as hotkeys?
I'm used to another vector drawing program in conjunction with Illustrator and that program has some very easy to use hotkeys that are essential for shape alignments, like C for horizontal centering, E for vertical centering, B for bottom of a shape and T for top, etc. On Illustrator I can't set a single keyboard key as a hotkey for the alignment functions without the use of Ctrl or Shift before the key. That's just a no go for me.
And since I use F5 as a command on one of my mouse's side buttons, I would love to use it as a hotkey for the selection tool on Illustrator, but it doesn't let me set function keys as hotkeys.
Look, Adobe developers... If I have to adapt to the program instead of it giving me the options to adapt it to my preferences, then it makes no sense for a user to pay for the program.
And yes, those options are perfectly possible and probably easy to implement.
The big question here is why these options are not yet present after SO MANY versions of Illustrator?
William Tael
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You're welcome. Hope AHK can solve issues for you.
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William Tael
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Hi, Egor Chistyakov! I wish there was a button here to answer to you, but it seems there's none.
Anyway, thank you for the advice. -
Hehe, William, this is a painful topic :)
The broad answer to your questions would be 'Because Illustrator is old and this is how it used to be before it was possible or considered to be a better way'.You are on Windows, so there are some external solutions to your problem (yes, many CorelDraw users find Ai's Align controls rudimentary). Autohotkey, for example, provides a way to script your own routines and remap keys. It takes some time and skill though. There are many tutorials an snippets on web.
And yes, I agree that Ai should rethink it's hotkeys model.
