Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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PDF saved won’t save full artboard for big scaled jobs
Please bring back PDF print on the Mac. I work on big scaled jobs and PDF save does not save the full artboard.
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Preview artboard on my smartphone
A feature where I can i.e. sync my artboards to my smartphone when designing mobile interfaces.
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Mobile Creations
In the 2015 version of Illustrator, when opening the app, there was a Mobile Creations section where I could open any of the drawings I had made on my iPad. While I was only able to open these if no other Illustrator files were currently open, it was at least easy to access tese items when needed.
Currently, there isn't an option for this and I have to install the older version after mine updated automatically.
It would be helpful to be able to access these mobile items easily from the landing page in Illustrator and from a customer Open option in the File menu. While I recognize that I can "send" these items to Illustrator if needed, my results with that flow are wonky at best and it's sensible to have a way to pull up ALL my documents in CC, not just computer-based files.
In the 2015 version of Illustrator, when opening the app, there was a Mobile Creations section where I could open any of the drawings I had made on my iPad. While I was only able to open these if no other Illustrator files were currently open, it was at least easy to access tese items when needed.
Currently, there isn't an option for this and I have to install the older version after mine updated automatically.
It would be helpful to be able to access these mobile items easily from the landing page in Illustrator and from a customer Open…
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Please make the slicing more like Fireworks with naming and sizes individual for each artboad (like stages/pages in Fireworks).
Currently I can not export bitmap icons with the the right names and in the right sizes as in Fireworks including padding.
And when I go to another document for a different platform (an app), I have to include the different sizes again.
Also I have no preview like in legacy before I overwrite the old picts.
Making graphics for mobile devices, your presets are based on the lowest resolution (@1). Some user control please...
Bring back Fireworks...4 votes -
Double Click last point to close a shape with the pen tool.
When making a shape with the pen tool, double clicking the last point made should close the shape, instead of having to go to the first point manually.
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Zoom to selection disable button please
A simple disable button for this new feature, i've been using illustrator for over 20 years and this is one of my most used key commands and i'm being driven close to madness. Thanks
4 votesThis option is available in the latest shipping version 22.0.
It is present in Preferences > Section & Anchor Display > Zoom to Selection -
Randomizer
We've all come across a time when we needed to repeat an element, but it needs to be transformed slightly different in each instance, whether that be position, rotation, reflection, scale or shearing. So, I propose a randomizing tool/function that you could use to make that happen. First you draw the elements you wanted to be randomly affected, then draw a shape to enclose them all. Select "Randomize" and they become something like a group.. You select one, and they're all selected. You could transform one, and the amount that you transformed it would be the limit any of them could be transformed.
So, if you had 20 circles and you wanted them all to be slightly sized differently, you could Randomize them all, then select the "group" and transform the scale to increase to 105%. This would make them increase anywhere from 100.00% to 105.00%, since they're already at 100%
It would be fun and useful!
We've all come across a time when we needed to repeat an element, but it needs to be transformed slightly different in each instance, whether that be position, rotation, reflection, scale or shearing. So, I propose a randomizing tool/function that you could use to make that happen. First you draw the elements you wanted to be randomly affected, then draw a shape to enclose them all. Select "Randomize" and they become something like a group.. You select one, and they're all selected. You could transform one, and the amount that you transformed it would be the limit any of them…
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Easy portability of customization
I really want easier customization portability in AI.
Workspaces and Keyboard Shorts specifically.
I'd love to be able to use any computer and just by signing into CC have these come along.
And if not that at least a far more straight forward/intuitive method of moving them from one computer to another and from one version to the next.
It literally takes me a half hour to set things up as I like if I have to do it from first principles (and longer for keyboard shortcuts — I usually don't even know what I have until I try and do something and get an unexpected result).I really want easier customization portability in AI.
Workspaces and Keyboard Shorts specifically.
I'd love to be able to use any computer and just by signing into CC have these come along.
And if not that at least a far more straight forward/intuitive method of moving them from one computer to another and from one version to the next.
It literally takes me a half hour to set things up as I like if I have to do it from first principles (and longer for keyboard shortcuts — I usually don't even know what I have until I try and…4 votes -
Reinstate The Functionality Of The Swatches Panel In CS 5.5
I’d like to see the functionality of the Swatch panel that was in (Windows) Ai CS 5.5 reinstated. Specifically, when the panel was opened, I used to be able to toggle through the Color Modes by holding Shift and clicking on the color square (thumbnail). If I held Cntrl, it would toggle to the color compliment. These were two great features that were eliminated with CS 6 through to the current version of CC 2017. Bring these back!!
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Density pixels and screen pixels unit to include to design mobile apps
Always as designer we have to calculate or check the calculation in other sites for dp or sp to px. It will be helpful if you include these units in adobe illustator.
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Prototype mobile / web feature in Illustrator itself
It is helpful to integrate prototyping for mobile and web to show clients in Illustrator itself
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Change the layer an object is located on
If you have a large artboard with multiple objects and layers it is really time consuming to organize your layers when all you can do is drag and drop. I think it would be useful if you could right click on an object and "move to layer" like you can in muse.
4 votesThere is a way – let us know if this works for you.
- Select the object(s).
- Highlight the layer you want the selection to go to.
- Object menu or right-click > Arrange > Send to Current Layer -
Change the Gradient panel back!
The new update ruined the Gradient menu panel. Its terrible, I want to access and save my gradients from the gradient panel not go back and forth between the gradient, swatch and libraries to find my gradients. With every update adobe programs are getting worse and worse. I've working with illustrator and photoshop for 20+ years and I am about ready to start using free software.
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Favorites for presets (like swatches and brushes)
First of all, I am really excited about the new textures and brushes released in the latest versions.
It occurred to me that it would be useful to add a "favorite" flag for each of these tools.
This way, a "favorites" folder or filter could be created, making it much faster to locate the resource.
Also, I was wondering if the texture previews could be made even larger, so they can be viewed more quickly.Thanks.
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FIND SIMILAR FONTS - Doesn't work. And hasn't since 2018. Mac and Windows
As the title says.
Find similar fonts doesn't work on mac or pc. On any version. Even on freshly installed or brand new system.
This hasn't worked now since 2018. When will this be fixed?
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Change pattern colors, possibly with an Expand or Colorize effects
If I have a design that uses a pattern, and I need to have the colors in this pattern to change, I’d have no choice but to create several copies of it and change colors in each one.
It means that if I change a pattern later, I’d have to either change all the copies of the pattern, or repeat the changes in each copy of the original. And surely I can’t utilize global swatches for this, because duplicating one doesn’t work as expected. We don’t have proper variables to use also.
Symbols won’t work in patterns (they get expanded silently if you try to use one by drag-n-drop — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/51662026), so I can’t utilize them to build pattern copies faster.There are certain hacks...
I can make a black-and-white variant of my pattern and put it in an opacity mask of a shape, as a giant rectangle, to allow me editing the colored shape later.
There’s this great trick — https://x.com/toyotoyo2ro/status/1611781124635910144 — that uses flat front 3D legacy Extrude and the Pathfinder Exclude (you can see how it works in the file attached)... it crops, trims, cleans the pattern much more effectively than a manual expand and further cleaning would sometimes, but the Classic 3D is capricious and can 'hit the RAM roadblock' at any moment.
So...
Perhaps you can make a dedicated Expand effect, that would allow us to expand patterns live? It’d still need to know how Appearance work and how you can arrange attributes and effects...
Or perhaps introduce a colorize effect we can assign to a pattern fill/stroke and force colors — something like this Shift Color effect by Astute graphics allows? — https://docs.astutegraphics.com/phantasm/shift-to-colorIf I have a design that uses a pattern, and I need to have the colors in this pattern to change, I’d have no choice but to create several copies of it and change colors in each one.
It means that if I change a pattern later, I’d have to either change all the copies of the pattern, or repeat the changes in each copy of the original. And surely I can’t utilize global swatches for this, because duplicating one doesn’t work as expected. We don’t have proper variables to use also.
Symbols won’t work in patterns (they get expanded…3 votes -
Managing Plug-ins
Isn't it about time Adobe offered a better solution to enabling and disabling plug-ins? A simple list with enable and disable option would suffice. It would really make debugging a lot quicker. Especially in Illustrator.
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Add more space character widths
I would like to see the space characters menu expanded to include the Sixth, Eighth, Quarter, Third.
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Synchronize Gradient Angle Across Multiple Objects While Preserving Individual Gradient Colors
I would like to suggest a native Illustrator feature that allows designers to synchronize the angle or direction of gradients across multiple selected objects without replacing each object’s individual gradient colors.
For example:
Red → Orange — 30°
Blue → Cyan — 120°
Green → Yellow — 240°After applying Match Gradient Angle → 30°:
Red → Orange — 30°
Blue → Cyan — 30°
Green → Yellow — 30°The key requirement is that each object keeps its own gradient colors and color stops. Only the gradient angle or direction is synchronized.
This would be especially useful for vector illustration, icon systems, infographics, branding, packaging, UI assets, pattern design, and other complex multi-object artwork where consistent lighting or gradient direction is important.
I would like to suggest a native Illustrator feature that allows designers to synchronize the angle or direction of gradients across multiple selected objects without replacing each object’s individual gradient colors.
For example:
Red → Orange — 30°
Blue → Cyan — 120°
Green → Yellow — 240°After applying Match Gradient Angle → 30°:
Red → Orange — 30°
Blue → Cyan — 30°
Green → Yellow — 30°The key requirement is that each object keeps its own gradient colors and color stops. Only the gradient angle or direction is synchronized.
This would be especially useful for vector…
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Randomize options for symbol sprayer
I like to use the symbol sprayer to quickly place a cluster of shapes, but it never looks organic because every symbol is identical. I wish there were settings on the symbol sprayer to randomize the size and rotation of the symbols, similar to settings you might choose when editing a brush in Photoshop or Fresco.
3 votes
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