Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Show slices names
I'm looking for a simple but very useful option for slices:
"Show slice name"Currently in setting of Illustrator there are only option:
"Show slice numbers", - file attached.
But it's doesn't give me anything actually.
I've created names for each slice and I need to check these names visually, without need to select each slice and goto it slice settings..2 votes -
Illustrator Zeichenflächen
Es wäre wünschenswert, mehrere Zeichenflächen gleichzeitig markieren zu können. Außerdem mehrere ausgewählte zeichenflächen gleichzeitig verschieben zu können oder über das Ausrichten Werkzeug oder Koordinaten organisieren zu können.
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An option for the pen tool to behave like Photoshop
As a Photoshop user most of the time, I would find it would be much easier to have bezier curve anchors not delete themselves when closing a path or reselecting a path. It would also be great if nudging points with the arrow keys would not interrupt and unselect the current path.
Some preference to toggle these behaviors would be fantastic!
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Character Style info
A kind of Character Style Swatch, automatically displaying:
- Font name
- Weight (Regular, Bold, etc.)
- Uppercase and lowercase alphabet
- Numbers and punctuation
- Optionally, a live text preview
And then simply drag it into your brand guidelines, just like a colour swatch.
It would be incredibly useful for creating brand guidelines!
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Integrate the Scripts menus from After Effects and InDesign
Please make the rather basic Scripts interface more accessible:
From After Effects, copy the way to access last used scripts and a Key-shortcut for the latest one used.
From InDesign copy the way to point to a Scripts folder to show up directly in the app.(In fact, this a CC-wide request)
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Grid Repeat Needs Option for Different Directions
Presently, a Grid Repeat assumes that the source item is always in the top-left corner of the Repeat. There are many practical situations where the source object should be repeated in a different direction than towards the right/bottom. Users might be tempted to put negative offset numbers into the Grid Options, but alas, this results in unexpected behavior. The X and Y offsets already have icons next to them that indicate the offset is relative to positive-X and positive-Y directions -- this feature request asks that the X and Y directions can be toggled to be in either a leftward…
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Create a new export setting for Export for Screens
I want to add a "JPEG 70" setting to the list of available export settings in Export for Screens. I see "100, 80, 50, 25" but I want to use 70. Please add a way to create a new export setting for Export for Screens.
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Add a toggle button group in Control to switch between text and path of an area type
The Control panel doesn’t have a button to quickly switch between the area type as a wholesome object and its path (similar to what InD has and to the toggle we see when working with clip groups).
To select the path only, we now have to actually use Direct or better Group Selection tool and aim precisely. This is a crucial step to 'extract' the path with no text, that was discussed here: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/517518121 vote -
When duplicating an artboard when there is no more space on the canvas, Illustrator will ask and rearrange your artboards to make space.
I need to duplicate an artboard, but because I have been sketching all over it says there is no room. But I can see that if I rearrange the artboards tighter together there will be space. Instead of saying "there is no more space on the canvas" what if it asked you if it is okay to rearrange the existing artboards closer together to make more space on the canvas?
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Accessibility Feature for Mouse users
Combining the hand and zoom tools would be ****. Cannot use keyboard shortcuts, left. hand. is unusable. I'm on desktop, mac, mouse only. The toolbar is low contrast can it be a diff color than artboard. I'm also now low-viz user, Illostrator is NOT v welcome to some...
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Make Global Edit work in pattern mode
If I need to replace all ducks in my pattern into chicken, I can surely use symbols... no, I can’t, these aren’t supported in patterns — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/51662026
...OK, I can use Global Edit... no, I can’t. It says nothing it can’t though, it just fails to find copies.
Please make all things Ai has work with all other things Ai has.1 vote -
Allow to use symbols in patterns
Imagine I have a star used in several patterns.
I want to replace it with a donut. I’d have to edit each pattern swatch that uses it and replace each star with a donut (I could have used Global Edit to make it faster, but surprise (no) — it doesn’t work in the pattern mode).And if we were allowed to use symbols in patterns, I could have select all the instances of the star in a pattern and quickly replace it with a donut symbol, or just change the core symbol instead, making a copy of it to have…
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Handle highlight like in Photoshop
Why in Photoshop, a raster-based editor, we get Bezier handles getting highlighted when hovered over with Direct Selection tool, while in Illustrator, a vector-first editor, the wannabe-king of vector graphics, we get nothing?
Just look at the GIFs.
No, I won’t enable Smart Guides just to see 'handle' and a small 'x' that I barely see, along with all the other labeling and snapping.
No, changing the style of handles to hollow doesn’t help.I’d trade all the Turntables in the world, along with all the GenAI moss you grow on the mighty carcass of Illustrator for this one and…
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Make the color of Snap to Grid annotations different
Some time ago Illustrator reworked snapping to grid to use the Smart Guides engine, to allow both to work at the same time (thanks to this request: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32421028), display annotations and more.
But now we have two different snapping behaviors color-coded using the same color.
Why Snap to Glyph allows to pick its own color, but Snap to Grid doesn’t?
In a busy document and both snaps enabled, this would help to distinguish two systems easier.1 vote -
Suppress messages with no choice in Actions
I have a very simple action I created ages ago:
— ungroup
— release compound path
— make compound path
It’s a simple technical action, and I use it co convert single color outlined texts from a group into compound paths (because we never got an option to prefer compound paths for this when possible: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/33627964 and https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46559167)... why? Because these stay in one piece when exported to a PDF and imported in other apps, for example...But I digress. This simple was one of my earliest one, used so heavily I have it at F3.
...but when I…1 vote -
Please allow Compound Shapes in patterns
Patterns are super restrictive. Compound paths are obviously allowed, but compound shapes, being just a tiny bit more complex (from a user’s POV) aren’t.
I had a specific task where I had to invert some patters from being black or transparent to transparent on black. Using subtract compound shapes was the easiest method that would allow the original intact. Now I have to double them. A minor workaround... scratch that, it’s not. Duplicating pattern swatches is a nightmare.1 vote -
Opt/Alt-clicking Recent Colors should apply these to a selected gradient stop
Opt/Alt just doesn’t work when Recent Colors are clicked to assign one to a selected gradient stop, it works only for the actual swatches.
Also, there is a report clicking ordinary swatches with Opt/Alt doesn’t always do this as well: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/51498197
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Make GenAI tools to be able to use selected artwork as context
As a branding designer, I often build my layouts directly in Illustrator before using AI tools.
Illustrator's generative AI tools, especially Text to Vector Graphic, should be able to use selected Illustrator objects as design context.
Currently, the AI generates new content without understanding the editable artwork already on the artboard. It ignores selected text, vector paths, colors, gradients, and layouts, which makes it difficult to maintain a consistent design language in professional branding workflows.
I suggest adding a "Use Selected Artwork as Context" option. This would allow the AI to understand selected Illustrator objects and generate graphics that match…
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I hate how this entire software is organized
This software is beyond confusing and incredibly user UNfriendly, im sure its not hard to add a ******** "Crop" feature
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Allow isolating a blended object
I can isolate a blend, to avoid selecting things around/above/below it.
This includes a spine (if exists) and all the blended objects.If I want to isolate further, to edit a single object, without affecting other objects in the blend or the spine, Ai won’t let me.
Please allow isolating further, like in a group.Related requests:
— Make Isolate work for components of a compound paths/shapes — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/40684777
— Allow to isolate a compound path when only a part of it is selected — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/406848371 vote
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