Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Missing a Modal Pop up
Dear Adobe...
If I spend time organizing my art and putting it onto multiple layers and contains HUNDREDS of pieces, when I make a masking layer you take my artwork and smash it all into one layer WITHOUT popping a modal saying this will smash it all into one layer and waste a day of your life having to re-organize it into layers again because a stakeholder requested edits...You failed me. Bad Adobe BAD.Please fix this, it's really not cool. When I think of all the hours of my life that you have wasted on things like this over…
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The default unit of measure option for stroke shouldn't be pixels.
The default unit of measure option for stroke shouldn't be pixels, because I don't think that's a good way to guide the flock.
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Extended Tools Panel
Less frequently used tools (in my case: Scissors, Paint Bucket) are hard to find in the standard Tools Palette. Wouldn't it be great when Illustrator had a preset to show all tools at a glance (on my 30" screen...)?
I know that it is possible to create custom tools panels - but especially when creating those, it's nice to have a view on all tools at once!
2 votesIn latest version one can click small three dots at the bottom of the Tools panel and see all tools at once, including those which are already in the toolbox.
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Efect menu
I would like to provide a suggestion, to the "Effect" menu of Illustrator, they will take the same aesthetics from the rest of the menus. "Effect" looks very Windows 95.
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Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
I am new to CC 2017 however I am getting a very annoying error message each time I open the CC up.
The heading is: Assertion Failed!
I have attached a screen grab for your attention.
Look forward to hearing from you!2 votes -
Highlighted cursor markers on rulers
I would love to see an option to enable a highlighted cursor marker on the ruler. To explain what I mean by cursor marker, I mean the small, light gray line that follows where your cursor is along the x and y ruler. This light gray line is very hard to distinguish its exact position against the background ruler markers, since there is literally no contrast between them. I would love to see an option to change it to any of the system swatches.
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Could there be a more logical place for show center and path direction than the Attributes panel
The Attributes panel seems like the junk drawer of panels. Wouldn't the show center check box seem more at home in the transform panel, and the path direction seem better suited for stroke or pathfinder panel. Just one less panel taking up space on the artboard.
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Enable the ablility to keep swatch catagories in my tool panel.
I would love to keep tool swatches in my tool panel. I do have the ability to take one and put it off to the side among my tools, but when I restart Illustrator the tab is gone leaving me to conclude this is not a supported feature. I use one particular swatch category a lot and this would save me time.
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Scroll value changer
A feature we just had.. after the latest update seems we have lost it. When you go over a value window you could place curser over value and scroll and the value would go up or down and switch to 10 count when holding Shift. The idea is to get that feature back :)
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Help user to show open panels
Sometimes UI panels are covered by others. When choosing those panels from the menu, a blue outline hints on their position.
Why not bring it to front? in 99,99 % of the cases, that is what users want.1 vote -
'Click to copy value' button in Color doesn’t indicate the value gets copied clearly
I don’t like how the 'Click to copy value' button in Color panel is designed — when it gets pressed, it selects the value and that’s it. It makes us think we NEED to copy it, and the button just selects... other editors in similar or related conditions show a shy message or change the icon for the button, indicating the copying happened.
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Artboards panel scrolls too fast when using touchpad / trackpad
The fact that we have to test our timing when dragging the artboards to organize them in the Artboards panel is silly. I spent a whole minute trying to arrange the artboards for the storyboard with the trackpad. They should make the scrolling animation slower.
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O tutorial da barra de ferramentas fica aparecendo a todo momento, atrapalhando a visualização e o fluxo do meu trabalho
O tutorial deveria apenas aparecer após a atualização conforme era antes. Agora aparece a todo momento, várias vezes durante o dia, isso atrapalha muito.
1 voteThere’s no automated condition Illustrator follows for this, we decide ourselves when to turn these off.
We can hide these hints by disabling the Show Rich Tool Tips option in the Preferences > General.
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Default Sort
Allow users to define what they want to see on the home page, and allow defaults to that definition to be saved. For example, in Version 29, when I open the program, it defaults to "Your Files" and they are sorted by "Name". Whenever I open the program, that's what shows. It's perfect for me. In Version 30, now that doesn't work. It opens to "Recent Files" and then I have to click "your Files" or "View All Files" for that to show. Then I have to click on the sort (because some genius changed the default to in the…
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Allow to disable labels when resizing or rotating an object
When we rotate or scale an object with bounding box, Illustrator shows a label with the rotation angle or width/height changes.
While the label looks similar to the Reference Labels for Smart Guides, it’s not it (and it’s larger).
Ai doesn’t allow to hide these, and sometimes it obscures the art we work with.
Please introduce a toggle!1 vote -
Tab To Edit Next Artboard Name in Export for Screens Window
Hello,
In the Artboards panel, when you edit an artboard name, you can hit tab to key into the next artboard to change its name without having to reach back to the mouse to double-click the next artboard name to change it.
However, in the Export for Screens window, in the artboard section, if you hit tab when editing an artboard name, the Select: > All radial button becomes highlighted.
This is not the behavior I expect in this context, and is inconsistent with the behavior in the Artboards panel.
As a compromise, perhaps we could have conditional behavior, where,…1 vote -
Can we please move the "Close all" button away from the "Save" button in the "FILE" dropdown menu
Maybe move the "Close" and "Close all" buttons to the bottom of the "FILE" dropdown menu, instead of having them sit so close to the "Save" and "Save as" buttons.
I have accidently closed various projects because of this.
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Confusing migration confirmation dialogue box
Please fix the confusing migration confirmation dialogue box (popup), which is is needlessly unclear and needs revision. It asks a yes-or-no type question and provides a very clear negative option for a response. However, it provides two options for a positive response (I think), but which are bewildering. Each button just shows a version identifier: 29.7.2, 29.7.1, etc. Is this the new version and the version I was using last? Is this two versions where settings were detected? What version am I using when I see this? (Hmmm. I don't know. I can't check without answering first.) What happens when…
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Portability or cross-device synchronization of Illustrator workspace organization.
Portability or cross-device synchronization of Illustrator workspace organization.
I have a standard way of working and organizing windows, icons, and other tools in the Illustrator workspace, and I'd like these settings to be synchronized across my devices, given that I work on my laptop and desktop in different locations at different times of the day.
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Make color choosing UI consistent
I never like it when the big color chooser with the square color gradient and numeric fields pop up.
Why does it exist?
Would like to have a user preference to choose the color picker in stead of having Illustrator to popup with several different color mixers.When double clicking the stroke or fill color, the big unusefull (imho) thing pops up, when clicking a swatch, a compact mixer pops up.
For me, it would be nice to construct my own combination of color mixers: RGB and HSB in 1 view, with sliders, without the big picking gradient, without cmyk,…
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