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  1. Support SVG property 'paint-order'

    Add support for the paint-order property. By default the fill is painted and then the stroke is placed on top. The paint-order property allows this order to be defined so the stroke can be placed under the fill. Without support for this a svg can look very different than the imported version in illustrator.

    The file attached is an example of the property in use.

    Example:
    https://mdn.mozillademos.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/paint-order$samples/Examples?revision=1530134

    See the following resources:
    https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/painting.html#PaintOrder
    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/paint-order
    https://caniuse.com/#feat=mdn-css_properties_paint-order

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  2. Upload Adobe Draw files to Creative Cloud as .ai or .eps files

    Adobe Draw currently has the option to Save files to CC as PDF or PSD files but it would be great if we could save them as .AI files

    Thanks for your consideration

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  3. Save a Copy from Adobe Cloud Document.

    I've noticed that when you use the new Save to Cloud Documents feature (which is very nice and convenient) the option to Save a Copy is disabled.

    I'm working on a manual to be viewed as a PDF on mobile devices, so I have to constantly save a PDF copy of my .aic document in order to send it to myself via WhatsApp (which is the target) and review it.

    Not having the Save a Copy option is quite inconvenient. Could you guys enable it?

    Thanks a lot!
    J.

    11 votes

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  4. Export BMP on various artboards

    When will it be possible to export more than one image of the same artwork on different artboards in the .bmp?
    The 'Use artboards' option is disabled for this format.

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  5. Network drives support

    I can't believe what I read on this Adobe support page (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/illustrator-support-networks-removable-media.html) about using Illustrator files only on your LOCAL drive.
    How is it possible Adobe drove it's software into this nightmare?
    If we really can't acces and save our files on a local network drive then I am really done with it...

    11 votes

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    Need More Info  ·  Anish Kumar responded

    Hi,

    Apologies for the inconvenience caused. Please provide some information in order to reproduce the issue on our end. Please provide the below information –
    The version of Illustrator you are using ?
    Hardware details?
    Your operating system?
    Is this happening even with a small file?
    Can you please share the file with which this is happening every time you save on server?

    This will help us to investigate into the issue.

  6. Export Multiple PDF Presets (at the same time!) in "Export for Screens" Menu

    Export Multiple PDF Presets (at the same time!) in "Export for Screens" Menu

    At our design and print shop, when exporting projects, we use a number of PDF (and image) presets to create print ready files, proofs, and web files.

    The Export for Screens feature will not allow us to export multiple PDF Presets (i.e. export print ready PDFs at the same time as smallest file size PDFs).

    11 votes

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  7. Adobe have to improve the SVG exportation tool

    Adobe have to improve the SVG tool, because we need to create new document to be able export SVG CODE directly from Illustrator file...
    Will be better, if we colect files to export, and on this function, be able to export not just SVG file, but also the SVG code, to use diretly on CSS and HTML.
    Will be a great help to web designers.
    Cumpz :)

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  8. Opening Multi-Page PDFs should have a larger preview or scalable preview

    The Open PDF window box that comes up when you try to open a Multi-Page PDF should have a larger preview. In the Open PDF window much of the text can be garbled, which doesn't help if you are not sure which page of a 49 page document you need to open.

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  9. Ability to export to PSD but retain folders and layers

    Ability to export to PSD but retain folders and layers. Critical for taking artwork prepared for Character Animator from Illustrator to Photoshop in order to use tools such as puppet warp to create easy frame by frame animations.

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  10. Allow us to choose a preferable file format on Export or keep the last chosen one

    Please create a hotkey for the "Export as" function. It would also be nice if I could set AI to always remember my preferred filetype instead of always defaulting to png.

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  11. Remember last used SVG / SVGZ save and export settings (Responsive and others)

    We often need SVG and SVGZ that are NOT responsive to the web area (we need to control the viewable font size for psychometrics purposes).

    Illustrator default switches to Responsive being checked after every Illustrator restart. It would be great if every time I restart Illustrator the check box for "Responsive" remembered that I want it UNchecked (our workaround is to create a new SVGZ file immediately after every restart and uncheck the Responsive box, and if we don't remember to do that task our work must be tediously re-exported).

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  12. Overprint simulation on image file exports (JPEG for example)

    I think that it would add great value when Illustrator exports to image file the option to add overprint simulation, in the same way as InDesign easily does.
    I would add great benefit to our jobs and would simplify some steps (not going to InDesign just to do that).

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  13. Open, import, save, and export .CGM files

    Illustrator CC advertises compatibility with the Computer Graphics Metafile (.CGM) format.
    While it gives me the option to open a .CGM file, all of the older .CGM files I work with throw an "unknown format" error when I try to open them.
    I would also like an option to save .CGM files.
    Illustrator should include these features.

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  14. Set class info for SVG

    You can set the name of a path that becomes an id in the svg export.
    If you are programming in javascript to animate items in the svg, you need the id, but also classes. This would mean we could manipulate many different objects in one command.
    What we need is to set a list of classes (in the Properties window, probably). So if you set the list to orangeStyle, dark, tobeResized (probably with a + sign to add another class) and the svg output will have class="orangeStyle, dark, tobeResized" inside.

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  15. import chart data from Excel or CSV

    Need to be able to import data from an Excel (or at least a CSV) file, to create chart with Charting tool. Rather antiquated to have to copy/paste to get data for a chart. (In more than 30 years of using AI, I've NEVER been given a data file in TXT format--the only option currently available to import graph data.)

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  16. SVG option to convert text to outlines when exporting

    When exporting SVG I have ran into wonkyness with fonts so sometimes we export SVG graphics with text as shapes...

    But then I some times get distracted by a email or chat message and save the ai version with out undoing my text to outlines conversion...

    Why not just have a check box on the SVG export panel "convert all text to shapes" then when I export this option parse the document and convert all text to shapes...

    So I do not have to worry about undoing my convert text to shapes when I save the master ai file.

    Stephen

    10 votes

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  17. Files saved to an older version (CS6, or lower) using 30.2.1 build give errors when opening in older versions

    After the last update, saving an .ai file in version CS5 or lower and then trying to open it in Illustrator CS5 results in an error: invalid operator: "<fffe>"

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  18. Toggle Off Large Canvas Scaling when Saving as PDF

    Any artboards created larger than 227 x 227 inches are changed to a large canvas setting, which adds a scale factor to the canvas. So Illustrator will say a document that is 300 x 300 is actually 30 x 30 and just scaled by 1/10 of the size. This setting causes issues with my printer software where it reads it as a 30 x 30 and not the true size, it is disregarding the scale factor. I have to take these files and chop them up into smaller panels to print them. When I chop them up it is still…

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  19. XMP Meta Data、MM:Historyの機能改善

    現在、IllustratorではXMPメタデータ上のHistoryの記述が最大で２個となっていて、初回保存時に１つ目、別名で保存時に２つ目が記述され、以降、別名で保存によるファイル派生が生じた時に２つ目のHistoryが更新される仕様になっています。
    Photoshopでは、このHistoryの項目に保存履歴だけではなくconvertやderived等の主要な編集イベントの情報も記述されます。InDesignにおいても保存イベントは詳細に記述され履歴の確認が可能になっています。
    Illustratorにおいても、もう少し細かく履歴情報の記述を行っていただきたい。

    以下に各サンプルを挙げておきます。
    ※Photoshop
    ＜xmpMM:History＞
    ＜rdf:Seq＞
    ＜rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource"＞
    ＜stEvt:action＞saved＜/stEvt:action＞
    ＜stEvt:instanceID＞xmp.iid:fa197c48-1372-49d9-8ae1-f5cc273d4aae＜/stEvt:instanceID＞
    ＜stEvt:when＞2019-01-25T20:48:06+09:00＜/stEvt:when＞
    ＜stEvt:softwareAgent＞Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Macintosh)＜/stEvt:softwareAgent＞
    ＜stEvt:changed＞/＜/stEvt:changed＞
    ＜/rdf:li＞
    ＜rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource"＞
    ＜stEvt:action＞converted＜/stEvt:action＞
    ＜stEvt:parameters＞from image/jpeg to application/vnd.adobe.photoshop＜/stEvt:parameters＞
    ＜/rdf:li＞
    ＜rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource"＞
    ＜stEvt:action＞derived＜/stEvt:action＞
    ＜stEvt:parameters＞converted from image/jpeg to application/vnd.adobe.photoshop＜/stEvt:parameters＞
    ＜/rdf:li＞
    ＜rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource"＞
    ＜stEvt:action＞saved＜/stEvt:action＞
    ＜stEvt:instanceID＞xmp.iid:779a3d47-4ae6-4b0e-be0b-b1a7f2ee5007＜/stEvt:instanceID＞
    ＜stEvt:when＞2019-01-25T20:48:06+09:00＜/stEvt:when＞
    ＜stEvt:softwareAgent＞Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Macintosh)＜/stEvt:softwareAgent＞
    ＜stEvt:changed＞/＜/stEvt:changed＞
    ＜/rdf:li＞
    ＜rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource"＞
    ＜stEvt:action＞saved＜/stEvt:action＞
    ＜stEvt:instanceID＞xmp.iid:f343692b-df77-40bb-8ee4-6fefc6341435＜/stEvt:instanceID＞
    ＜stEvt:when＞2019-06-05T21:28:08+09:00＜/stEvt:when＞
    ＜stEvt:softwareAgent＞Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Macintosh)＜/stEvt:softwareAgent＞
    ＜stEvt:changed＞/＜/stEvt:changed＞
    ＜/rdf:li＞
    ＜/rdf:Seq＞
    ＜/xmpMM:History＞

    保存以外の様々なイベントが記述され確認が可能です。

    ※InDesign
    ＜xmpMM:History＞
    ＜rdf:Seq＞
    ＜rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource"＞
    ＜stEvt:action＞created＜/stEvt:action＞
    ＜stEvt:instanceID＞xmp.iid:FC7BA4FD42206811822A93784E262F37＜/stEvt:instanceID＞
    ＜stEvt:when＞2012-05-11T15:56:45+09:00＜/stEvt:when＞
    ＜stEvt:softwareAgent＞Adobe InDesign 7.0＜/stEvt:softwareAgent＞
    ＜/rdf:li＞
    ＜rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource"＞
    ＜stEvt:action＞saved＜/stEvt:action＞
    ＜stEvt:instanceID＞xmp.iid:CEC84C1347206811822A93784E262F37＜/stEvt:instanceID＞
    ＜stEvt:when＞2012-05-11T16:26+09:00＜/stEvt:when＞
    ＜stEvt:softwareAgent＞Adobe InDesign 7.0＜/stEvt:softwareAgent＞
    ＜stEvt:changed＞/;/metadata＜/stEvt:changed＞
    ＜/rdf:li＞
    ・
    ・
    ・
    ＜rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource"＞
    ＜stEvt:action＞saved＜/stEvt:action＞
    ＜stEvt:instanceID＞xmp.iid:3aa516e9-6e10-4d30-8213-1d01b5e0c6e8＜/stEvt:instanceID＞
    ＜stEvt:when＞2021-05-18T19:03:52+09:00＜/stEvt:when＞
    ＜stEvt:softwareAgent＞Adobe InDesign 16.1 (Macintosh)＜/stEvt:softwareAgent＞
    ＜stEvt:changed＞/metadata＜/stEvt:changed＞
    ＜/rdf:li＞
    ＜rdf:li…

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  20. Open Ai file in Fresco

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