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1. Exporting TIF with transparency

   Unless I've gone completely mad, I could swear there used to be the option to Export a file to TIF with transparency (a checkbox in the export settings). This no longer appears as an option. How does one export a transparent TIF these days??

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2. gcode

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   I would be absolutely DELIGHTED if you could introduce a way to export G-Code from Illustrator. I have a laser engraver (Cubiio) and the only way I can turn vectors into G-Code at the moment is by using Inkscape and an extension by J Tech Photonics. I hate Inkscape with a passion so I grind my teeth every time. This is what I have to resort to when working with vector files that I would like to convert: https://cubiio.muherz.com/gcode_instruction.html

   There is a G-Code extension available for Illustrator, created by https://diegomonzon.com/illustrator-to-gcode/ , but I have been unable to get it to create code that the Cubiio accepts. Every time I've tried the Cubiio freezes and has to be rebooted.

   I've seen this discussed on a number of forums, so I am under the impression that a built-in G-Code generator would be greatly appreciated by a number of Illustrator users. So pretty please, with sugar on top?

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   I would be absolutely DELIGHTED if you could introduce a way to export G-Code from Illustrator. I have a laser engraver (Cubiio) and the only way I can turn vectors into G-Code at the moment is by using Inkscape and an extension by J Tech Photonics. I hate Inkscape with a passion so I grind my teeth every time. This is what I have to resort to when working with vector files that I would like to convert: https://cubiio.muherz.com/gcode_instruction.html

   There is a G-Code extension available for Illustrator, created by https://diegomonzon.com/illustrator-to-gcode/ , but I have been unable to get it… more

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3. Allow users to set direction for X and Y axes

   Several versions ago Adobe decided to flip Y-axis, so origin now is placed TOP-left instead of BOTTOM-left, as it was before.
   They say it was done for compatibility with Photoshop and InDesign, which both have y-axis going down.

   I think that breaking people's workflow, deciding only ONE direction is right, was wrong.

   InDesign is a publishing software, it works with a flow. I don't know anybody who reads from bottom to up (RTL — yes). When you move an object there, you don't move it up, you move it backwards

   Photoshop is raster graphics editor, it works with a readable grid of pixels, which are written from top left (we see it every time when images load slow in browsers). Using Photoshop since version 5 I never experienced any trouble with axis going down, because it just never mattered! I retouch photos mostly. People, who uses it for drawing web-design (!) are still OK, because web pages go down. Anyway, PS even hasn't precise move dialogue controls.
   And of course, the fact y-axises go one direction, is just a coincidence (when there is only two variants for y-axis to go — it's highly occasional) — because these two programs care for different fields.

   But Illustrator is about vectors.
   Y-axis goes up in Cartesian coordinate system.
   We move objects up meaning up here.
   It was a consistency for the sake of consistency.
   It was convenient for devs and not end users.
   It was a mistake to do.
   Adobe should have asked users to vote about denying common sense.
   And Adobe should never ever ever had not given users ability to flip it.

   In fact, there IS a way to make y-axis to go down, as it was before: you have to manually set flags in prefs file:
   /isRulerIn4thQuad 0
   /isRulerOriginTopLeft 0

   BUT it causes Move dialogue to be broken (I also have this bug reported). And since there is such an ability and I can flip it in Prefs file — I will fight for an ability to work fully (the worse thing Adobe can do now — is to kill this opportunity).

   I don't ask for ruler origin to be changed to bottom left by DEFAULT, NO, Adobe already had given us an opportunity to change this by editing flags! The ideal outcome would be just a switch in Preferences within AI (and a bugfix for Move dialogue that is set upon existing and approved behaviour).

   I know quite a lot of highly valuable people from Adobe forums who still votes for y-axis go up:
   CarlosCanto (he even wrote a script to undo your unexpected making, https://forums.adobe.com/message/3859338)
   JETalmage (you should have seen this post back in 2009! https://forums.adobe.com/thread/497089)
   Jacob Bugge and all other people who agree with them in comments.

   Nobody among my colleagues I know personally likes this. And only two of them having spoken about it at forums. Imagine how many just cry silently.

   Xara allows to flip axes.
   Canvas allows to.
   Inkscape seems to be able too.
   Affinity can't, but YET.

   Please.

   Several versions ago Adobe decided to flip Y-axis, so origin now is placed TOP-left instead of BOTTOM-left, as it was before.
   They say it was done for compatibility with Photoshop and InDesign, which both have y-axis going down.

   I think that breaking people's workflow, deciding only ONE direction is right, was wrong.

   InDesign is a publishing software, it works with a flow. I don't know anybody who reads from bottom to up (RTL — yes). When you move an object there, you don't move it up, you move it backwards

   Photoshop is raster graphics editor, it works with a readable… more

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4. Allow adding of Freeform Gradients to CC Library panel

   Allow adding of freeform gradients to CC libraries. Very inconvenient to have to re-open legacy files each time I need the gradient. This gradient is used consistently for our brand packaging across different products and designs.

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5. Right click menu for typography

   One of my biggest pet peeves working with fonts in Illustrator is when I am switching fonts within a document. When I highlight copy then right click to bring up the menu to change to a "recent" font, I have to scroll through the "fonts" option which sometimes engages to open but has a huge delay because it has to read ALL my fonts first. Why not reverse the order of these two menu items? I believe it would be a nice enhancement everyone would enjoy.

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6. Add Export JPG/PNG option to Package Feature

   Please add an "Export As..." option the Package feature settings so we can export JPG or PNG files in the packaged file folder. This would be immensely helpful! Thanks

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7. Add features to the Rearrange Artboards dialog

   I create a lot of new artboards ( 1 for each screen I am designing). Since Illustrator always puts new artboards at the right of the current top row on the workspace (regardless of the order specified for rearranging artboards), I often have to use the Rearrange Artboards command to make more space for the next artboard. The more artboards in the file, the more often I have to rearrange artboards.

   It would be great if I could tell Illustrator to:

   1. Add new artboards at the location indicated by following the layout pattern in the Rearrange Artboards dialog, with an option to 'wrap' when you get to the edge of the workspace.

   2. Align the group of rearranged artboards in the workspace after a rearrangement. The choices should be

   • Centered (as happens now), and
   • Top Left (which leaves the maximum space for adding new artboards without having to rearrange them.

   See the attached file for how the updated Rearrange Artboards dialog might look.
   Thx!

   I create a lot of new artboards ( 1 for each screen I am designing). Since Illustrator always puts new artboards at the right of the current top row on the workspace (regardless of the order specified for rearranging artboards), I often have to use the Rearrange Artboards command to make more space for the next artboard. The more artboards in the file, the more often I have to rearrange artboards.

   It would be great if I could tell Illustrator to:

   1. Add new artboards at the location indicated by following the layout pattern in the Rearrange Artboards dialog, with an… more

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8. Export for Screens in AI should be just like PS's Version

   PLEASE make the export for screens function precisely like the one used in Photoshop.

   In particular:

   (1) it needs to be possible to export at <0.5x, which is currently the upper limit. If I am producing assets for iOS @3x for whatever reason -- say, they include an unscalable PNG from PS for instance -- to produce the 1x asset I need to export @0.33x, which you don't allow, but PS does. (less important but also mind-boggling is why you don't allow upscaling beyond 33.3x.)

   (2) The default export option should be to export to the SAME FOLDER IN WHICH THE FILE IS SAVED. This ridiculous omission costs me valuable time every time I have to export files in different locations. PS also has this correct.

   (3) Your defaults should be the default and they should change based on the file I have open, not based on the export options I had selected for the last file I had open, e.g. if I choose to export File A as 1.0x, 0.67x, and the aforementioned impossible 0.33x, the next time I export those options should NOT now be the default for an entirely different file, where most likely 1x, 2x, 3x are appropriate.

   PLEASE make the export for screens function precisely like the one used in Photoshop.

   In particular:

   (1) it needs to be possible to export at <0.5x, which is currently the upper limit. If I am producing assets for iOS @3x for whatever reason -- say, they include an unscalable PNG from PS for instance -- to produce the 1x asset I need to export @0.33x, which you don't allow, but PS does. (less important but also mind-boggling is why you don't allow upscaling beyond 33.3x.)

   (2) The default export option should be to export to the SAME FOLDER IN WHICH… more

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9. Ability to export all text at once, for translation

   Please make a way to export the text for translation and then import again. Like InDesign's IDML files. You have so many users that would like to translate their content for foreign language markets and no good way to do it with InDesign.

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10. Share for Review - Ability for teams to update links

    Currently in InDesign and Illustrator, the person that created a review link is the only one able to update the review link. There are times when another person on my team needs to update a file and send an updated review link, but to do so, they have to create a copy of the file and make a brand new link. This is a bit tedious and doesn't keep the history of comments, which we sometimes need to refer back to. I would like to suggest the ability to allow teams on Create Cloud to be able to work on the same files together and update the same review links.

    Currently in InDesign and Illustrator, the person that created a review link is the only one able to update the review link. There are times when another person on my team needs to update a file and send an updated review link, but to do so, they have to create a copy of the file and make a brand new link. This is a bit tedious and doesn't keep the history of comments, which we sometimes need to refer back to. I would like to suggest the ability to allow teams on Create Cloud to be able to work on… more

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11. Package command should have option to choose file version

    Package command should have option to choose file version

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12. Feature to be able to edit class name of SVG file. We faced some issue, when using svg of same class names in a single page.

    If we are able to edit class name of SVG files, there wont be any class override and style overide issues.

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13. PDFs in Libraries: Why I can't edit them?

    In Libraries:
    .AI files are editable with a ctrl-click > Edit
    .PDF are not.

    Please allow PDF files to be open in Adobe Illustrator.

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14. Automated/AI-powered file names in Asset Export

    Asset Export needs more options to automate and/or use variables. Designers often need to export large groups of files (e.g. variations of a logo in multiple colours and sizes, with/without a claim or other element) which then have to be tediously and manually renamed and sorted to reflect things like size, color.
    It would be great if there were more option to automate the output by adding variables such as dimensions custom text fields, names of swatches used, etc This could even be an area where the use of AI might be useful to automatically detect the content and create a system of short, descriptive filenames

    Asset Export needs more options to automate and/or use variables. Designers often need to export large groups of files (e.g. variations of a logo in multiple colours and sizes, with/without a claim or other element) which then have to be tediously and manually renamed and sorted to reflect things like size, color.
    It would be great if there were more option to automate the output by adding variables such as dimensions custom text fields, names of swatches used, etc This could even be an area where the use of AI might be useful to automatically detect the content and create… more

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15. Recently Added Items

    Hi. My name is Reza Alavi, Design Manager in XBOX design studio Microsoft. We use Adobe Illustrator as our base software for illustration and we recently started using the cloud library which is really great. However we have a suggestion to add a feature that might help us a lot. It would be awesome to have a view of libraries of "recently added items"

    Right now there is a filter for "date modified" but it's not clear what items were added/modified, just a resorting of the library lists.

    This would help us to know what new items are added recently as we are growing the library and we can have that list in our weekly newsletter to announce it to the larger team. Thank you very much

    Hi. My name is Reza Alavi, Design Manager in XBOX design studio Microsoft. We use Adobe Illustrator as our base software for illustration and we recently started using the cloud library which is really great. However we have a suggestion to add a feature that might help us a lot. It would be awesome to have a view of libraries of "recently added items"

    Right now there is a filter for "date modified" but it's not clear what items were added/modified, just a resorting of the library lists.

    This would help us to know what new items… more

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16. Open Library file

    It would be great if the initial Illustrator screen included an "open from Library" option. This may already be there but if it is, it was not obvious enough for me to find 😬. I often want to edit or open library assets and I think it would be great if I didn't have to create a new file in order to be able to open library items.

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17. Ability to use CC Library colors directly within Recolor Artwork dialog (without having to create swatches first).

    When recoloring a large batch of individual vector files, it's cumbersome to have to add swatches from CC Library for every single file in order to use those swatches in the recolor artwork dialog. It would be great to use the colors stored in CC Library directly in the recolor artwork dialog.

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18. Reduce memory used and improve whole application performance speed.

    Improvement of whole application performance speed.
    Reduce the amount of memory used. (But keep a nimble performance)
    User thinks that performance improvement is the most important, but please do not correct it so that it will improve by using a lot of memory.

    Reasons :
    Recently, memory management has improved, but application crashes due to illegal memory access still occur.
    If the operation speed is slow, I think that work efficiency will be the most degraded.
    Reduction in time to start up and performance greatly affect all work.
    Not all users are using the new and high spec machines.
    Although the specifications of the machine are good, the performance is bad, so it will be helpful to improve it.

    (Translated to Japanese)
    動作速度を改善するとともに、もっと使用メモリを減らして軽快に動くようにしてほしいです。
    パフォーマンス改善が最重要ですが、メモリを大量に消費して対処するような開発はやめてください。

    理由：
    近年メモリマネジメントは良くなってきいますが、まだまだ不正なメモリアクセスによるアプリケーションクラッシュが起こります。
    動作速度が遅いのは、一番作業効率を低下させると思います。
    起動するまでの時間短縮とパフォーマンスはどのような作業をするにしても影響が大きいです。
    すべてのユーザーが最新､最高スペックのマシンを使っているわけではありません。
    マシンのスペックがいいのに動きが悪いです。
    速度改善されてもこれ以上推奨メモリ容量が上がるのは厳しいです。

    Improvement of whole application performance speed.
    Reduce the amount of memory used. (But keep a nimble performance)
    User thinks that performance improvement is the most important, but please do not correct it so that it will improve by using a lot of memory.

    Reasons :
    Recently, memory management has improved, but application crashes due to illegal memory access still occur.
    If the operation speed is slow, I think that work efficiency will be the most degraded.
    Reduction in time to start up and performance greatly affect all work.
    Not all users are using the new and high spec machines.… more

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19. Save color separations in separate files

    Can we save JPG in each color separation? Because we can only see the separation in print preview, but we can not save the jpg in each color.

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20. Cannot key in units like cm, mm, etc.

    Hi,
    In the most recent update that I have, 22.1, the ability to resize an artboard by typing in a number and its unit has been removed. Was this intended? Please restore this function as it makes working with various units more convenient. Thank you.

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