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  1. Combine Separations Preview & Color palette.

    Why not combine the Separations Preview and Color palette into one? It seems like there's plenty of space if you change the "C, M, Y, & K" to toggle buttons that turn on and off those colors and the percentage total at the bottom right. And maybe include the additional spot colors with a text link or expansion of the palette.

    2 votes
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  2. Workspace remembers panel size and collapsed state

    I use Illustrator on my laptop screen and also when plugged into an external monitor.
    When switching between these screens I often have to adjust which panels are collapsed, and the size of each panel, particularly when going from the smaller laptop screen to the external monitor.

    It would be very helpful if the workspace settings could remember not just which UI panels you have open, but their size and collapsed state. This way I could have a preference for when Illustrator is displaying on a 15" laptop and one for my 27" monitor.

    2 votes
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  3. Allow ZOOM when using spacebar while scrolling

    When holding spacebar to pan over the document, please allow ZOOMING by scrolling on the mouse. Rather than having two separate keys. Quite tedious.

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  4. Close tabs to the right

    Internet browsers have this option to "close tabs to the right" when right clicking on an open tab. I feel like this could be a nice extra to all of the Adobe programs, where one can work with tabs.

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  5. escape full screen

    Why does the Escape key exit the user from full screen mode in Illustrator. Why does Illustrator not behave like Photoshop?

    The F key could cycle through the different screen modes: Full screen, Full Screen with Menu Bar, Full Screen Mode.

    Escape should have no effect on this because it's used while drawing or typing.

    2 votes
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  6. Create New Layers by Dragging and Dropping Groups or Objects from Original Layers

    Please give us the ability to drag and drop Objects in-between Layers in order to create new Layers--without having to "Collect in New Layer."

    On top of that, please retain the object's name as the Layer name when doing this action.

    2 votes
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  7. STOP changing the behavior of the tools!

    I have used AI for over 20 years -- I've even been featured in books!! Why the F is the team changing the behavior of tools. IT AINT BROKEN and you're making it worse.

    Just in the last 5 minutes I've found that I can no longer rotate a text box and have the text rotate, as well. Now the text stays put and the box rotates. WHY?

    Also, when I save a new document (with it set to AI editable pdf) it's saving some other copy and the document that's currently open is still unsaved and untitled. How is…

    2 votes
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  8. Custom background color for tool windows

    Currently working with dual monitors, one monitor has most of my tool windows.
    If I am using one window of tools most of the time, it would be nice to set the base color to orange so I can spot it easier. Or even group windows that are similar to say green, and rarely used windows would remain grey.

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  9. Illustrator works terribly with the Microsoft stylus.. both the interface needs to be completely overhauled to work with touch

    Illustrator needs a complete overhaul in order to work as a touch interface with a stylus... the 'touch' workspace is a step in the right direction but needs more features including layers.. also the performance is terrible in working with a pressure sensitive stylus and results in misleading line weight lagging and locking up and freezing.. I am using the surface pro (5)

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  10. Keeping my tool preference

    Since Adobe's CC platform, I actually dread major updates because they seem to wipe my user preferences forgetting all my shortcuts and forcing me behavioural changes each and single updates.

    The latest was the disappearance of Illustrator knife tool from my tool set. Little did I know that the knife tool is under advanced tool section, and that I needed to switch to my tool to advanced mode in order to use the knife tool. There may have been other nifty Adobe ways to access it, but I just simply don't have time to relearn all that stuff.

    Adobe, let's…

    2 votes
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  11. Extra clicks in Properties

    Why I need to click the More Options to access all the Pathfinder functions in Properties? There's plenty of space. I don't understand this change.

    2 votes
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  12. marquee zoom

    Is marque zoom gone from Illustrator?

    Why on earth each update increasingly becomes pain as they keep removing good features.

    I bet they've never tried to work with pen tablet. Zoom out with CMD+1 then quickly zoom-in to an tiny icon with Z+select the bit to zoom to.

    With marquee tool it used to be dead simple and lighting fast, with the 'new', ****** scrubbing tool we have to wear down the tablet surface in order to zoom to a desired element. Well done Adobe.

    2 votes
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  13. Respective Scale (transforming from the center of multiple selected items)

    Imagine being able to scale 50 icons up to 125% from their respective centers all at once.

    Need an example? Watch the attached clip :)

    2 votes
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  14. Option for "Don't collapse panel"

    I never want Layers panel to collapse completely when I enlarge other panels. Other panels are less important to my workflow and I don't mind what they do, but I'd like to have the option to lock open a heavily-used panel so I'm not constantly having to expand it.

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  15. Ai Feels Old and Unintuitive Next to New Adobe Products

    Illustrator feels old. I find myself trying to do more and more vector work in XD or Photoshop simply because Ai feels like something from the 90s. There is very little consistency in how things work in Ai versus the other adobe apps. Swatches from CC are endlessly frustrating. Too many tools appear to do the same thing slightly differently. The app seems to assume everything will eventually be printed.
    I know this is very general, but perhaps a new vector creation tool is needed in the lineup. I've tried Draw and Sketch on the iPad but they also feel…

    2 votes
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  16. More effective info panel

    Let Info panel automatically appear when Measure Tool or Eyedropper are active and when Guides are moved.

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  17. go back to scaling the old way, change tools back to old way

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  18. Add menu highlighting the same as the new InDesign feature

    I find the new menu highlight option very useful in InDesign. It would be helpful in all Adobe products.

    Please add menu highlighting the same as the new InDesign feature.

    In the attached I have highlighted PDF and Print Presets.

    2 votes
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  19. File preview in home screen limited to artboard

    In the home screen previews of the most recent files are available, but the preview includes all objects in the document, regardless of the artboard(s), so that the preview does not necessarily reflect the artwork very well.

    (I routinely include loads of stuff outside the edge of the artboard, copies of elements I’m working on, template objects, etc. Which are part of my work process, but are just noise when it shows up on my preview.)

    I therefore suggest that the preview only includes objects (or parts of objects) within the artboard(s).

    2 votes
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  20. Disable autocrop suggestions

    The aggressive new autocrop suggestions in Illustrator 23.0 are a huge hassle. Every new crop I make I have to move the suggested crop lines back on 2-3 of the sides of my cropping image, or risk losing as much as 70% of the original image. Very much a waste of my time and a headache.

    2 votes
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