Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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The Reflect tool should respect stroke variable width and Use Preview Bounds option
The original idea by Johan Perjus, from https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/things-i-wish-adobe-would-address-with-adobe-illustrator-4796a89e1bae
Notice how the thicker stroke width moves to the outside of the circle when using the reflect tool, meaning that the reflect tool currently does not take the stroke width in consideration when performing a reflect (or mirror). One therefore have to manually edit the stroke width after using the tool in order to achieve a truly reflected version of the object.
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A proposal to fix the mess that is Preferences > Units
The original idea by Johan Perjus, from https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/things-i-wish-adobe-would-address-with-adobe-illustrator-4796a89e1bae
Units of measure settings are a mess right now, units can be set for General, Stroke and Type on a “global” level under Illustrator > Preferences, but “General” are overridden by Unit settings on document (local) level, however it does not apply to, nor can it be changed for Stroke and Type on document level. Thus adds a lot of unnecessary back and forth visits to Preferences > Units if you are working with delivery for different mediums (who isn’t?) print, web, motion graphics and so on, add multiple markets to that (imperial vs metric) and it becomes a bit of a mess.
See one of two attached images for an example of the confusion around units of measure that is currently plaguing Adobe Illustrator (26.5)
I therefore suggest that a checkbox option to “Honor” or “Translate” Units of measure are added to Preferences > Units, or are removed from Global Preferences altogether, more on that later.
See the second image, an animation of a screenshot of the Adobe Illustrator Preferences > Units panel proposing adding a checkbox at the top to either “Honor” or “Translate” any units of measure input to the software interface.
The “Honor Unit Input” setting will change the unit of measure setting to any unit of measure added in conjunction with a value in any given numeric input field (cm, mm, ft, feet, in, inches, ', ", px, pixels). Similar to how numeric input for Height and Width values are currently implemented in Photoshop**.
Example; if you enter “4 px” in the stroke width input field, the stroke width will transform to, and display as 4 pixels wide and also change the document unit settings for Stroke to Pixels, thus change current and/or override previous settings or preferences until changed. Obviously only entering “4” will only change the value and not the unit of measure.
“Translate Unit Input” will translate the unit of measure entered to the unit of measure selected in the document settings and/or preferences.
Example; if you enter “1 in” (or 1") in the stroke width input field and the stroke width preferences are set to Millimeters (global or local), the stroke width will transform and be converted to the equivalent width in millimeter value and display as 2,54 mm.
Now I imagine the use cases where one would want to input in one unit of measure and yet have it display as another would be rare, hence why one could consider to simply remove Units from Preferences altogether.
Instead simply make all numeric input fields behave as described under “Honor Unit Input”, however the “Translate” option could be useful in some cases, for example if one would need to output work in Metric but is more familiar or comfortable working in Imperial, or vice versa. But for the above reason I suggest the default Unit Preference setting would be “Honor Unit Input”.
The original idea by Johan Perjus, from https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/things-i-wish-adobe-would-address-with-adobe-illustrator-4796a89e1bae
Units of measure settings are a mess right now, units can be set for General, Stroke and Type on a “global” level under Illustrator > Preferences, but “General” are overridden by Unit settings on document (local) level, however it does not apply to, nor can it be changed for Stroke and Type on document level. Thus adds a lot of unnecessary back and forth visits to Preferences > Units if you are working with delivery for different mediums (who isn’t?) print, web, motion graphics and so on, add multiple markets to that…
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Allow for negative value input and Option click with Line Segment Tool
The original idea by Johan Perjus, from https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/things-i-wish-adobe-would-address-with-adobe-illustrator-4796a89e1bae
As you may know, holding down the Option key and clicking on your artboard with any of the shape tools (Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Star) creates the shape centered on where you clicked, as opposed to the right and down from where you clicked. Please also apply this function to the Line Segment Tool as well as allow for negative value input in order to create the line in the opposite direction of the current angle value, just as you can enter a negative value to move an object in the opposite direction of the set angle with the Selection Tool. This would be a lot faster than first typing the value and then changing the angle value from for example 0° to 180° when you want to draw a line going right to left instead of the default left to right.
The original idea by Johan Perjus, from https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/things-i-wish-adobe-would-address-with-adobe-illustrator-4796a89e1bae
As you may know, holding down the Option key and clicking on your artboard with any of the shape tools (Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Star) creates the shape centered on where you clicked, as opposed to the right and down from where you clicked. Please also apply this function to the Line Segment Tool as well as allow for negative value input in order to create the line in the opposite direction of the current angle value, just as you can enter a negative value to move an object in the opposite direction…
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Make documents honor artboard settings when adding additional artboards
The original idea by Johan Perjus, from https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/things-i-wish-adobe-would-address-with-adobe-illustrator-4796a89e1bae
When you create a new document, under More Settings you can indicate how you want the succeeding Artboards to appear (see the image).
However, if you add more artboards to the same document after it was created, this setting is not honored, but appears with the default setting, which is to the right of current Artboard. Even when the down and left icons are selected under Properties > Artboards > Quick Actions > Rearrange All Artboards.
On the positive side, Illustrator does appear to at least honor the Spacing setting (thanks to this now fixed report: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31986955)
The original idea by Johan Perjus, from https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/things-i-wish-adobe-would-address-with-adobe-illustrator-4796a89e1bae
When you create a new document, under More Settings you can indicate how you want the succeeding Artboards to appear (see the image).
However, if you add more artboards to the same document after it was created, this setting is not honored, but appears with the default setting, which is to the right of current Artboard. Even when the down and left icons are selected under Properties > Artboards > Quick Actions > Rearrange All Artboards.
On the positive side, Illustrator does appear to at least honor the Spacing setting (thanks to…
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Allow to remove a 3D effect directly from 3D and Materials panel
I would like to see a simple button that is in 3D and Materials that I can press to remove the 3D effect.
Going to Window > Appearance is fine but its an extra step. It would be quicker and easier to just have a button in the 3D and Materials panel.
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2 votes
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Don’t drop selection from all the selected links when using Embed
If I have several images selected and hit Embed, in the end I get them all embedded, but only the last image processed selected.
Why? I never wanted to alter my selection, I just wanted to have them embedded. I makes sense from the programmer’s point of view, since these get embedded one by one. But form a user’s point of view it’s a batch operation, Embed ALL. I selected ALL, and I want to keep them ALL selected.
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Alt/Option-click on the "New style" icon to open a text style definition dialog directly
It would be a giant leap forward for Illustrator to match InDesign's UX for paragraph and character styles management.
Allow us to Alt/Option-click on the "New style" icon to open the style definition dialog directly, avoiding nonsense names like "Paragraph Style 1."
The same approach is used for Graphic Styles, so it should be allowed for text styles as well.
Original idea by Alan Gilbertson
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Show status for Hide/Show Edges
It would be really useful if you had an indicator in the toolbar that shows if Edges are currently Hidden or Shown. It could also be a toggle, but just showing the status clearly and always would be enough.
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Add an option to create a preset for layers
It would be very helpful if there's an option to create a layers preset where I can customize the names, colors, & etc of the layers & sublayers and save it as a preset for when I needed it.
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Add 'Apply to All' from the property panel to the size 'Control Bar'.
Add 'Apply to All' from the property panel to the size 'Control Bar'.
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Make it easy to colour pie charts using colour libraries.
Unable to use the libraries colour menu to colour a pie chart. This is ridiculous. I had to make a separate box on the page and use the eyedropper to transfer the colour to the pie chart. Even the Eyedropper wouldn't work directly with the colour in the colour library and that is where all our brand colours are stored.
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Ajout d'un plan de travail calé sur une sélection
L'idée est simple : un bouton permettant de générer un plan de travail sous la sélection en cours.
Le cas concret : je dois isoler chaque colonne "mois" d'un calendrier complet, afin de pouvoir importer ensuite chaque colonne indépendamment dans InDesign. J'aimerais pouvoir sélectionner mon mois de Janvier, et cliquer un bouton afin de générer un plan de travail sous ma sélection, directement aux dimensions piles.
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Make Split Into Grid applied to a path to respect the path’s outline
Did some playing around with Split Into Grid and got an unexpected result. I had hoped a shape would split into a grid but each shape is converted to a square!
Is this what's meant to happen?
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Automatically rearrange are resize selected objects in columns / rows with uniform gaps
Could you have a function that automatically arranges links or shapes in the layout space with an equal distance in width and height?
Have a nice day.2 votes -
Bleed option for multi-color object
Currently if you expand an object with more than one color the paths will overlap where they meet. It would be beneficial if the expanded paths split the difference where they meet to better setup objects with bleed.
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Having '.2' at the end of a filename makes Save As dialog drop actual file type when saving
I need to save multiple Files withe Pos.1, Pos.2, Pos.3 etc.. Every time i want to save a file with the filename ".2" at the end wil not save the file.. In the Explorer will be the file but in a unreadable file type.
2 votesIt turns out some application added '.2' as a file type, and Ai had to comply with it when auto-completing file names in OS-managed dialog.
Follow the solution in the comments if you have a similar problem.
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Please add 'Save as preset' to the file menu
The homescreen says in a promising way that we can Save and Find our own Document Presets. But how?
Please add a way to save document presets, without having to struggle with permissions and cryptic folder names.
And, please let thee presets migrate when Ai is updated :-)
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コピーアンドペーストにエラーがある
あるドキュメントから、別のドキュメントにカット（コピー）アンドペーストしようとしても、一回目ではペーストできません。
もう一回コピーしなおして、再度ペーストするとできます。
このエラーを修正お願いします。2 votes -
Quick access to the grid, more artboards operations, advanced snapping options
New features in the future?
Quick access to the grid:
Allow the grid to be activated directly from the main interface and to personalize the isometric grid or the classic grid , without having to navigate through the software settings or preferences. video demonstration 4Management of multiple canvases:
Not only allow multiple canvases to be displayed in the same workspace and make it easier to copy and paste one or more objects between canvases (something that is already present), but more importantly offer the ability to flip the canvas and rename the canvas name directly and immediately. video demonstration 3Advanced snapping options (magnet/calamite).
Provide more options for snapping functionality, such as:
Snapping to objects
Snapping to the grid
Snapping to guide lines
Snapping to canvas edges
Snapping to distances and reference dimensions
Snapping to shapes and tangents
Snapping at points
Snapping by collision and formation
Ensure that these options can be used simultaneously without conflict, as is already the case in Affinity Designer and VectorStyler more or less. image magnet 1,2
image demonstration magnet affinity 1,
image demonstration magnet vectorstyler 2.
New features in the future?
Quick access to the grid:
Allow the grid to be activated directly from the main interface and to personalize the isometric grid or the classic grid , without having to navigate through the software settings or preferences. video demonstration 4Management of multiple canvases:
Not only allow multiple canvases to be displayed in the same workspace and make it easier to copy and paste one or more objects between canvases (something that is already present), but more importantly offer the ability to flip the canvas and rename the canvas name directly and immediately. video demonstration…
2 votes
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