Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Crop command embedding linked images
I would be thankful if linked images remain linked (instead of being embedded after using the crop command). I would like to believe that this can be made possible. This is the normal behaviour in other graphic design software.
1 voteIf you want to keep a cropped image as a live linked image, you should Clip it instead. Press the Mask button (in Control or Properties panel) and Ai will create and select a rectangular path with the same dimensions. Transform this path with any tool you like or with the bounding box, and the image inside will remain unembedded.
Crop command, on the other hand, is intended specifically for 'physical' cropping, and since Ai won’t edit the original placed image, it gets embedded and then cropped.
Just use the method you need.
Please comment back if it works for you.
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Update linked assets for large number of files
I have an asset in CC Libraries that I used in 50+ ai files. Those ai files are then used in a layout in InDesign. If i change the asset in CC Libraries I would like a way to force an update of that asset to all those AI files so that the update propagates through to my InDesign layout.
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Intuitive drawing: "Pencil tool" in mode adding "Blob brush tool"
Hi,
I would like to be able to draw, draw and model using the Pencil Tool in edit mode like the "Blob brush tool".
Eg.
1 • Pencil Tool. I draw any shape.
2 • I mark this shape and draw another one
3 • The effect is the automatic joining of these shapes into one summary.Such a simple, fast and intuitive way to draw ketor shapes for the cartoonist.
Attention.
• Drawing with the "Blob brush tool" is a different shape effect without sharp lines. Eg saw. E.g. lasts or coat or hair cartoons.
• drawing many objects and then combining them with the Shape bulider tool is not the same. This is not a quick and intuitive drawing. Requires re-selection of objects.
• Turning on the "Pencil Tool" "Keep selected" + "edit Selected" option creates a hassle in the intuitive and quick work of the illustrator, because you have to finish a new shape on the line of the old object, if I do not do this (I will leave with an electronic pen using the tablet) The combined shapes of complex lines and illustrator completely change the shape creating a net result of the third shape, a completely surprising effect. This mode is not for cartoonists who draw shapes intuitively. Constantly enabling and switching two options "Keep selected" + "edit Selected" while working is some fun with the patience of the illustrator.P.S.
A surprising impression from using Illustrator for so many years.I do not know any of my colleagues who draw Adobe Illustrator seriously at the stage of creation because of the lack of intuitive and thought-out solutions for this stage of creation.
The name "Illustrator" is so really the idea of the creators of this tool completely forgotten in today's interface and the philosophy of drawing objects in this Adobe tool.
The current version of Illustrator has its very good and strong points. Many programmers work hard, but their use is so annoying. There is so little missing.
The stylus era is new??? Amazing.
Best Regards.
Hi,
I would like to be able to draw, draw and model using the Pencil Tool in edit mode like the "Blob brush tool".
Eg.
1 • Pencil Tool. I draw any shape.
2 • I mark this shape and draw another one
3 • The effect is the automatic joining of these shapes into one summary.Such a simple, fast and intuitive way to draw ketor shapes for the cartoonist.
Attention.
• Drawing with the "Blob brush tool" is a different shape effect without sharp lines. Eg saw. E.g. lasts or coat or hair cartoons.
• drawing many objects…1 vote -
Option for drag select to ignore text paths
Whenever I am working on an artboard for brand identity, I have a lot of text paths on objects. Whenever I try to click and drag over an element, it ALSO grabs the path of the text, which I do not want. Is there a way to only click and drag over the elements you want to touch without having to lock the text paths?
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Make the GPU renderer realize when it is grinding to a halt and turn itself off automatically.
The GPU renderer is great. If you're on a machine with a hefty GPU. If you're not throwing a bunch of bitmaps and/or bitmap effects at it. If you're not working with a lot of overlaid transparency.
If one or more of these is false, it starts slowing down the preview rendering. And not by microseconds. I have files that render the preview a little sluggishly, but still usably, with the CPU renderer, and take minutes to update with the GPU renderer.
I myself have permanently turned off the GPU renderer, as I regularly fail all three of these ifs - I'm on a laptop with an integrated GPU, and I do a lot of bitmap effects and layered transparency. But I regularly see new users asking why AI is so apocalyptically slow, and turning off the GPU renderer almost always fixes this.
The Data Recovery auto-saver is smart enough to realize when it's taking forever, and turn itself off, with a helpful little alert for the user. The GPU renderer is not. Please think about how to give it this ability.
The GPU renderer is great. If you're on a machine with a hefty GPU. If you're not throwing a bunch of bitmaps and/or bitmap effects at it. If you're not working with a lot of overlaid transparency.
If one or more of these is false, it starts slowing down the preview rendering. And not by microseconds. I have files that render the preview a little sluggishly, but still usably, with the CPU renderer, and take minutes to update with the GPU renderer.
I myself have permanently turned off the GPU renderer, as I regularly fail all three of these ifs…
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Smart guides to work with artboard
I suggest enabling smart guides when you work with artboards as well, feels like it should help with workflow.
1 voteSmart Guides can be used to align artboards almost the same as other shapes. If you have a feature request or a bug report on the behavior you don’t like about — please upvote an existing one or make a new one.
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Sell a 2 pick your own software Adobe bundle.
I find the adobe suite to be too expensive, specially since I only use Pshop and Illustrator. But getting them individually is also too expensive. Would be awesome if Adobe provided us with a bundle for like 25 bucks where we could pick any two adobe programs if its the 20 dollar ones or 15 if its the 9.99 ones.
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Apple Touch bar with "slide bar" for setting values
Hi,
I suggest using the Touch Bar to display the slider in the window option with a value, e.g. stroke thickness,Best Regards
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Being able to colour Group as well as layers in the Layers Panel
Want to be Being able to colour Object Groups as well as layers in the Layers Panel
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ワークスペースに記憶されるスウォッチ
ワークスペースの機能をとても気に入っています。作業をしていてどんなにパネルをごちゃごちゃにしても、一発ですっきりと自分のお気に入りの環境に戻せるからです。
しかし、残念なことがひとつあります。
私は、よく使う色を、aiにまとめてスウォッチを作っています。
そのスウォッチを読み込んで、そのパネルを、ワークスペース内の他のパネルとくっつけて、私の理想的なワークスペースをいくつか作りました。それに名前をつけて保存しておきました。ところが、Illustratorを再起動すると、ワークスペースから自作のスウォッチのパネルだけが無くなってしまいます。他のパネルの配置や状態は変わらないのですが、自作のスウォッチの状態だけは記憶されていないようです。
ところが不思議なことに、新たにワークスペースを作って、Illustratorを終了するまでの間は、自作のスウォッチも含めて記憶されているように見受けられます。パネルの配置を変えてしまってから、「ウインドウ > ワークスペース」で保存したワークスペースのリセットを行うと、自作のスウォッチも含めて、元の状態に戻ります。
ああ、素晴らしい。快適だなあと思うのですが..
次にIllustratorを起動したときには自作のスォッチのパネルだけ忘れられているのです。とても惜しい。もうちょっとで完璧なのに！1 vote -
「トリミング表示」を改善していただきたい。
「トリミング表示」を改善していただきたい。
アートボードが重なって複数存在する場合、一番大きなアートボードでトリミングされるようです。任意のアートボードを指定できると嬉しいです。ご検討お願いします。1 vote -
always auto alignment / scale to fit to artboard for dragging in assets
when drag in assets, able to pop up selection to tick, able to remember the settings and able to unable it at preference settings.
below is the option.
[ always auto align center artboard ]
* able to select alignment point for example top left, bottom right etc[ always scale to fit artboard ]
[ always scale to certain percentage ]
main purpose - to further shorten working time
Thanks. Adobe.
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境界線を隠すコマンドについて
境界線を隠すコマンドを以前の仕様に戻してほしいです。
せっかく境界線を隠すコマンドを使用しているのに、複数オブジェクトを選択するとはじめに選択したオブジェクトの境界が現れます。
また、テキストの一部文章を選択した際も選択範囲が強調され、選択部分のみのカラー変更をする際に変更がリアルタイムに確認できません。1 vote -
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Convert Text to outline now only works with Acrobat 4, Plz make it possible with all acrobat version.
Text to outline while exporting to PDF now only works with Acrobat 4, Plz make it possible with all acrobat version. Saving in Acrobat 4 will lose transparency and effects
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Allow us to control the saving of cached copies of raster effects.
I use a lot of raster effects in my work. A lot. I can easily have several thousand paths with effects on them. (Mostly Gaussian Blur, thanks for speeding that one up a few versions ago!)
Some experimentation with saving multiple copies of an effect-heavy file with different raster effects resolutions confirmed my suspicion that the file size varies greatly with the effect PPI:
300ppi: 70.8MB
150ppi: 28.8MB
72ppi: 14.4MB
2ppi: 5.4MBReloading the 300ppi copy made it obvious that there's a cache of raster effects in the file, as I didn't have to wait through a half a minute of progress bars while AI rendered a few thousand gaussian blurs like I did a little earlier when I bumped the resolution up.
I would love to be able to reclaim a ton of disc space by saving my files without all these images. I am perfectly happy to accept the tradeoff of it taking a moment to render them all when I load in a file.
I envision another checkbox in the Save dialogue, probably right under the 'PDF compatibility' checkbox. "Include raster effect cache"? Defaults to on for new documents, will come up as off if I do a Save As on a file that I've already saved with it off, just like all the other checkboxes in there.
I use a lot of raster effects in my work. A lot. I can easily have several thousand paths with effects on them. (Mostly Gaussian Blur, thanks for speeding that one up a few versions ago!)
Some experimentation with saving multiple copies of an effect-heavy file with different raster effects resolutions confirmed my suspicion that the file size varies greatly with the effect PPI:
300ppi: 70.8MB
150ppi: 28.8MB
72ppi: 14.4MB
2ppi: 5.4MBReloading the 300ppi copy made it obvious that there's a cache of raster effects in the file, as I didn't have to wait through a half a…
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Switching tabs doesn’t show the correct image in High Sierra
It’is absolutely impossible to work on Illustrator 2020. I have version 24.2, and there constantly switching tabs doesn’t work correctly. No matter what tab I've selected, I can only see 1 file. This happens randomly, and I have to restart the program to get the tabs to work properly again.
By the way, this is also observed in Photoshop 2020.
This bug is at least one year old. I don’t know how to fix it.
P.S. These screenshots are not mine (I don’t know how to cause this bug). But I have exactly the same situation
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Delete artwork together with artboard
There are times you want to delete artworks and the artboards as well. It would be lovely to do both in one command.
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整列のキーオブジェクトをキャンセル
24.2から追加された、整列のキーオブジェクトをクリックでキャンセルする機能を、
元にもどすか、設定でONOFFできるようにしてほしい。
キーオブジェクトを解除する状況が想定できない（意図しない操作になることのほうが多い）1 vote
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