New Align Setting: "Align to Nearest Artboard" (Smart Artboard Awareness)
Illustrator’s "Align to Artboard" should be viewport-aware.
Currently, if I’m zoomed in on Artboard 10 but Artboard 1 is technically "active," objects fly off-screen to Artboard 1 when I hit align. This is counter-intuitive and forces a constant cycle of "Undo" (Ctrl+Z) and manual clicking to re-activate the correct board.
Proposed Solution:
Add a setting for "Align to Nearest/Visible Artboard." The software should automatically align to the artboard the user is currently looking at or the one the object is physically overlapping, without requiring a manual click to "activate" it first.
Make the alignment tool smart enough to understand the user's current context.
ARt FRiedl
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This is something that happens with me also...
There is behavior I noticed:
— If we release the mouse while making a marquee, Ai would activate the artboard under the cursor when the mouse is released.
— But if we drag an object over an artboard and release the mouse, Ai won’t activate the artboard under the mouse!I think this is the root cause for me. I can’t tell if fixing this would solve all the problems with the artboard-not-in-focus (please try to track it), and surely I can’t tell if it won’t break something for others... I’d offer to have both behaviors exposed in Preferences (even though more options means more options to track) — and perhaps include this option with smart detection there too.
Thanks for raising this up!
