Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Bevel tool for Embossed Shapes and Text - Fully interactive
A tool to create a nice 3D-looking edge to an object, making it look raised from the page.
It can raise the object visually, by using the colour of the object and creating light and dark sides to it.
It would be great to be able to change the light direction, light height as well as other parameters such as the type of bevel - round, chiselled, etc. to give your object a physical appearance.
To create the tool with teh possibility to drag handles directly on the object to adjust depth, contrast, and light elevation in real-time.
This would be so amazing. And other vector drawing tools do have this.
A tool to create a nice 3D-looking edge to an object, making it look raised from the page.
It can raise the object visually, by using the colour of the object and creating light and dark sides to it.
It would be great to be able to change the light direction, light height as well as other parameters such as the type of bevel - round, chiselled, etc. to give your object a physical appearance.
To create the tool with teh possibility to drag handles directly on the object to adjust depth, contrast, and light elevation in real-time.
This would…
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Dynamic Dimension Tool
Happy New Year
Just a thought for the upcoming year.
Add the ability to automatically extend the length of a dimension after the dimension is set and have the dimension to adapt to the new measurements.
Currently the measured distance is static, WYSIWYG. Would make placing objects in Illustrator a lot easier.2 votes -
An option to not highlight the active artboard in Trim View
It would be great if the Artboard Display Highlight Color could be hidden when in Trim View. So it doesn't interfere with the visual look of the artwork and yet could be larger in the standard display mode to enable easier workflow.
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Recent Color Swatch Used Keybind
In short, a recent color swatch keybind would increase efficiency during creating projects. Currently I am working on a project where I have to use the same colors repeatedly. If there was a keybind to automatically change the color to the most recently used color it would be nice.
Ex. You have to type out a text on a card and you want to change the color of certain words quickly without having to go into the swatches board and having to highlight.
Instead of that you could:
Use a color once
Highlight the new uncolored text
Do a keybind (ex. ctrl+shift+x)
It changes the color of your text to the most recently used color swatch.In short, a recent color swatch keybind would increase efficiency during creating projects. Currently I am working on a project where I have to use the same colors repeatedly. If there was a keybind to automatically change the color to the most recently used color it would be nice.
Ex. You have to type out a text on a card and you want to change the color of certain words quickly without having to go into the swatches board and having to highlight.
Instead of that you could:
Use a color once
Highlight the new uncolored text
Do a keybind…2 votesThis can be achieved with Actions panel. It allows to record certain operations and assign F-key-based shortcuts to call them later faster.
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Allow to manually sort and rename Variable Stroke Width profiles
It would be great if we had the ability to manually sort VSW profiles.
For now the only way to do it is to delete all the native ones and carefully name your own (and the UI doesn’t offer us to change the name of a profile later).
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"Width Profile" option to Select Same menu
Can we add "Width Profile" option to Select Same menu
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Guys, why don't you have a "Behance Project" on the New document screen? This should help a lot.
Guys, why don't you have a "Behance Project" on the New document screen? This should help a lot.
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Função Encostar
Deveria ser adicionada a função "ENCOSTAR" para não ter que ficar mexendo as coisas com o mouse pra elas ficarem ENCOSTADAS
2 votesThe current description is too brief, please elaborate: what should it do exactly (some before / after images would help), where should it appear, what’s the reason behind it.
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Display the confirmation when a HEX value is copied from the Color panel
Today, when we click the dedicated button to copy a HEX value, either in the Color panel or in Swatches Options dialog, Illustrator selects the value (and copies it), but the fact it gets copied is nowhere stated.
I’d use the Ai’s 'shy message' to inform the users about this instead ( '#XXYYZZ copied') and would not select the value — but would select it by clicking the '#' symbol instead, to match the 'click the caption to select the value' paradigm Illustrator uses in all other fields.2 votes -
Bi-color contour brush
I want to suggest to the Adobe Illustrator developers the creation of a brush that allows for precise adjustments of both the line width and the outline width in millimeters, and that, when lines intersect or overlap, it combines the elements and creates a continuous outline around them. This would allow you to create patches for milling machines.
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Snap Bézier handles to consistent lengths
Would it be possible to add more precise settings regarding the snap behavior of the Pen tool’s anchor points, especially for the handles? This feature exists in Figma and is very useful for ensuring that handles have the same length, distance, and alignment.
In addition, these handles are often difficult to click. They should be made more accessible, either by increasing their size or by enlarging them by hover.
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Allow to share a document by directly emailing it from the Share dropdown
New "Share" dropdown is horrible. It does so much less. I miss being able to email directly from Share dropdown. Backwards tech!
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Enable Display Font Names in English by default in non-CJK versions
Previously we got a dedicated option for this, based on this request: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/35995396
But it should be the default choice in non CJK versions.
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Dynamic Stroke Weight for Pencil Tool
I want to suggest a feature for the Pencil Tool: the ability to automatically apply a Variable Width Profile based on my real-time input.
Currently, the Pencil Tool only draws lines with a uniform stroke (or with a VSW profile from the selection)
I propose adding a new option in the Pencil Tool preferences to link stroke weight dynamically to: Pressure Sensitivity (Tablet Users) and Drawing Speed Sensitivity (Mouse/Trackpad Users)
This single addition would transform the Pencil Tool into a powerful, intuitive instrument for design.
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Alias/map similar colors to a proper swatch via an Ink Manager similar to InDesign
The header pretty much describes it. Sometimes links don't have properly named spot colors or such and instead of spending time editing those links it would be easier to add the proper swatch in AI and then "map" the link colors to that color.
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Allow to detach Variable Stroke Width profiles dropdown as a separate panel
A fly-out panel would be good for VSW profiles, same as in this request for arrowheads: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/50777822
When there are a lot of profiles, selecting them from a dropdown menu is hard.
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Arrowhead style should be retained so I can continue drawing lines with arrowheads
Arrowheads are way too difficult to apply. If I want to draw multiple lines with an arrowhead style, I have to keep going back to stroke palette and keep applying the arrowhead style, OR use the eyedropper tool. This is inefficient. Being able to set my line weight, color, etc. and then choose arrowhead style and continue to draw multiple lines using the style would be VERY useful and a big time saver.
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Kinda like... 9-slice symbol scaling, more like, locked side scaling
9-slice symbol scaling works FOR CORNERS. But can you make it so that the TOP, BOTTOM, OR SIDES can stay in place and you can just make the length of an item longer? It's not always about Rounded corners, sometimes it's about an ARCHED TOP or CURVED SIDE, which is static but box needs to grow. This is important to me because I'm in signage and every template we work with can be for example: 6" wide or 8" wide and vary in length or width. So that we do not have to re-draw every shape, or hand extend every box, it would be great if there was a "tool" to keep the template in "easy access" that can be easily modified to length or width without modifying the artistic shape, like arch on top which distorts if you don't grab the points. Consequently, it's also hard to hit an exact 8" measurement when making it bigger by pulling out the points without zooming in, you always get a random 8.023" (perhaps this is another setting I need to adjust but, in one grouped way it works, on this subject, when enlarged, it is better when the numbers are 8" not 8.023". As we are using trying to obtain a yield from a sheet of material.
9-slice symbol scaling works FOR CORNERS. But can you make it so that the TOP, BOTTOM, OR SIDES can stay in place and you can just make the length of an item longer? It's not always about Rounded corners, sometimes it's about an ARCHED TOP or CURVED SIDE, which is static but box needs to grow. This is important to me because I'm in signage and every template we work with can be for example: 6" wide or 8" wide and vary in length or width. So that we do not have to re-draw every shape, or hand extend every…
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Can you add a "Recently Updated" and "Recently Resolved" sorting options to web list?
I want to see what updates occured in feature requests and bug reports.
Can you add a "Recently Updated" and "Recently Resolved" sorting options to web list?2 votes
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