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  1. More options to adjust UI scaling

    Yesterday I downloaded Illustrator (26.0.2) for the first time. But the small User Interface stops me from using the product. The text is so tiny, especially in Properties and Layers panels. For me the possibility of a larger text is important. If there is no option for enlarging, I stop using the product. But I really want to use Illustrator and to create beautiful things.

    I tried to fix the issue with Edit > Preferences > User Interface < Adjust the UI Scaling slider. But the changes are insignificant on the highest possible value. I think the UI Scaling slider…

    4 votes

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  3. Return setting values by scrolling mouse wheel in "New Document" dialog

    It was very useful feature in older versions of illustrator and did my work faster. I wish it will return back

    4 votes

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  4. Zoom factor that shows all artboards

    I'd like to have an additional zoom factor in the zoom drop down field that says "All artboards" that zooms out so far that all artboards are visible.

    4 votes

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  5. Try to Eliminate Modal Dialogs

    There are entirely too many Modal dialog boxes in Illustrator. It would be nice if there were none. Everything that currently pops up and steals focus (completely obscuring everything behind it) should be done in a "settings panel" that can be opened or closed as necessary.

    For example, there is nothing so urgent about the line tool that it should require a modal dialog box to open. If I want to configure the settings, they should appear in a panel called "settings" and I should be able to change them easily without having to stop everything, fill out the form,…

    4 votes

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  6. 「ビューを回転」で0°にスナップして欲しい

    カンバスビューを回転出来るようになりましたが、リセットの操作をしなくても、回転させているときに0°に近くなったら0°にスナップする機能が欲しいです。
    今は+-5°くらいでスナップしますが、このスナップはあまり必要ありません。

    4 votes

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  7. REMOVE THE FRUSTRATING LIGHT BULB "LEARN" FEATURE BEFORE I CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION!

    I would curse here normally but I am trying to refrain, I have taken 10 minutes from my day today to see if this irritating feature that I have never used and even as a newcomer would never use either can be disabled as it infuriates me.

    User experience research was not undertaken with this feature clearly as many of the community have voiced their frustrations with this exact feature.

    REMOVE IT PLEASE, else I will look at cancelling the subscription just due to this, that's how irritating this pointless feature is, and this is not the first time Adobe…

    4 votes

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  8. Right click menu for typography

    One of my biggest pet peeves working with fonts in Illustrator is when I am switching fonts within a document. When I highlight copy then right click to bring up the menu to change to a "recent" font, I have to scroll through the "fonts" option which sometimes engages to open but has a huge delay because it has to read ALL my fonts first. Why not reverse the order of these two menu items? I believe it would be a nice enhancement everyone would enjoy.

    4 votes

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  9. Tool nesting groups

    I'm on a laptop. With the nested tools off to my right you can organize them to be in little clusters when you use them. Its great. When you have the three window options for color / gradient / swatches it would be nice to be able to click and drag a swatch onto the tab of one of the nested sets for a second and have it switch to the underlying window. For example, you drag a swatch square onto the gradient tab and then you could drop the swatch color right into the gradient slider. Now, you have…

    4 votes

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  10. Make "Transform" in top toolbar show measurments without a click

    I wish Illustrator would show the dimensions of a selected object in the toolbar, like InDesign. Currently, I need to click on "toolbar" to make changes. It would be great if this didn't require an extra click. InDesign's toolbar is far more accessible.

    4 votes

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  11. Always show all options for all panels

    The fact that we now have to click a button to show optional items for the Character panel in Illustrator hinders my workflow. It would be nice if we could make the options visible be default (always have them shown). For anyone creating logos or working with type, this is an absolute must!

    4 votes

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  12. Bring back the moon phase option in the info bar at the bottom left of the document window.

    Once upon a time, one of the choices you could make for the info bar in the bottom left of the document window was the lunar phase: you'd get a little graphic, and the name of the current phase. It was a silly hidden option along with "Mordy's Home Phone Number" and "Eyes". But I liked it, and I always kept it set to the moon phase. It reminded me that the world outside existed, and gave me a quiet connection to the stars that I liked.

    When the whole UI got rewritten a while back, it vanished. Along with…

    4 votes

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  13. Allow to set custom keyboard shortcut for tool size larger and smaller

    If you have an AZERTY (French) keyboard it is IMPOSSIBLE to increase or decrease the tool size using a key shortcut. Allowing users to set a custom key would at least permit them to work around this limitation, at the same time as it would enlarge the customization of the tool.

    With AZERTY the default keys [ and ] aren't accessible except using the Alt Gr modifier, and this does not work. This is confirmed after extensive searching by the community from a question I asked here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/square-bracket-keys-on-azerty-touche-crochet-avec-clavier-azerty/m-p/11154730?page=1

    Allowing to resize the tool with the keyboard is important for graphic…

    4 votes

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  14. Shut the blue survey pop up!

    We paid so much for monthly subscription, and this is what we get? I searched all over the web, and there's no way to shut this thing off? Are you kidding me? The adobe softwares are getting more ******. What are the engineers doing anyway? CS6 works a hundred times better than this.

    4 votes

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  15. Allow workspace saved setting to honor position of multi monitor settings

    Currently workspace needs to be reset on each startup to correct position of saved workspace.

    4 votes

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  16. Stop making new features the default.

    It's really annoying that you introduce a new feature that works in a different way to how it's been for years and then you make it the default. It seems like a bug or something's not working. Then we go online and google it and find out it's a new thing and to add insult to injury it's the default and we can't default it back to the old way, that we use a hundred times a day.
    The dynamic symbol is a great example of that. People have been complaining about it since 2017 and still the default.

    4 votes

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  17. Wider Vertical Ruler ?

    Is it possible to get a wider vertical ruler? The numbers are awkward to read and slows you down.

    Just wide enough for the numbers to read horizontally instead of from top to bottom.

    It's just impossible to easily find individual measurements if they go to more than two digits.

    This looks like there is an error in the UI.

    4 votes

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  18. basic grammar in alerts please.

    "close anyways" ? “anyway” is an adverb and it is impossible for adverbs to be plural.

    4 votes

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  19. When I toggle panels by pressing tab, please do not move my view.

    In Illustrator:
    (Make sure to have some docked panels)
    Press tab, have a look at your screen.
    Press tab again, look at your screen again.
    WHY DID IT MOVE? It's an expensive repaint, and costs performance on complex documents. Please don't do this :(

    4 votes

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  20. Add dropdown with blending modes to transparency block in Properties panel

    Please add a dropdown with blending mode to transparency properties panel. This will make it easier to see what transparency mode is applied to an object by just having it selected. It will also make it slightly quicker to change transparency modes on objects. See attached image for a mockup.

    4 votes

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