Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Effect/Filter parity with Photoshop/Indesign/After Effects
Many of the effects in Illustrator seem to be only half implemented (in comparison to PS/AE/etc). Illustrator's glow/shadow/etc effects only have a few options compared to the same effects in other Adobe apps, which makes them less adaptable & powerful. Please beef up the effects (and add new ones, such as directional feather/gradient feather/inner shadow) in Illustrator so that they match the offerings in Adobe's other apps.
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Make Layers Panel Options global (not per document) and keep it after relaunch
The default row size is far too small on a 5K screen. I set my row size to be at least 50px, but I have to do this every time I start a new doc. It would be nice if defaults could be set in preferences.
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Please add rotate button to the Control panel like in InDesign
Please add rotate button to the Control panel like in InDesign
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Astute Graphics Features to adobe illustrator
It'll be cool if Adobe will make Astute graphics features to be a out of the box feature of adobe illustrator on the next release.
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Allow items in libraries to exist in multiple groups or allow items to be tagged and filtered by tag.
At the moment, items in a CC Library can be ungrouped, or added to a single group. Often though (certainly the way I use them), items may belong to multiple groups. If for example I have an icon that represents the status of something but also has a person in, it could possibly exist in both the "people" and "statuses" groups.
It would make cataloging items much easier especially in larger libraries.
Either that or tagging, so each item could be tagged potentially multiple times so that I could then filter by tag?
Cheers
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Ability to create Layer masks in Ai that can be used in Ae
I would like to have the ability to create masks in Illustrator that carry over to Ae. It would make the process much faster and more streamlines to build it all in illustrator before I transfer over to Ae for animation.
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Separations Preview Panel has the same layout as Swatch Panel
When using Separations Preview it would be very beneficial to have the colour list arranged in the same order, format and groups as the Swatches Panel.
This could allow grouped colours to be turned on or off in groups and matching the list order would make the whole thing more logical.
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Fix Find & Replace to keep formating of font being changed
Find & Replace has never worked correctly and still doesnt. If I do a find and replace Illustrator will change the formatting of the text being replaced to the formatting nearest to it, it doesnt keep the formatting of the characters being changed if they are different than the characters either side of it within the same text block.
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Drawing custom perspective grids
Most projects don't start in Illustrator or need at least some kind of reference to draw around - for example a product picture or rough sketch. So in most cases Adobe's perspective tool in Ai is absolutely useless. There is simply no way to always find the right perspective in your reference with that tool!
Many professionals draw custom grids with the help of an odd star with very long and thin end points. They draw one, two or three stars depending on how many vanishing points they have. This is a super old and powerful technique of illustrators and anime artists - but there is no such thing in the same called program to help... We need a more usefull perspective tool with the feature to shift your objects on to one side, floor or ceiling like Adobe's tool does. That's genuinely a good feature but the setup of this grid is just a drag! Make it as easy as drawing to lines on your object that are likely to touch each other when extended and BAM right there will be a star with as many endpoints as you like or just even a slice, not a full circle.Most projects don't start in Illustrator or need at least some kind of reference to draw around - for example a product picture or rough sketch. So in most cases Adobe's perspective tool in Ai is absolutely useless. There is simply no way to always find the right perspective in your reference with that tool!
Many professionals draw custom grids with the help of an odd star with very long and thin end points. They draw one, two or three stars depending on how many vanishing points they have. This is a super old and powerful technique of illustrators and…4 votes -
Add a dieline Fold Plugin Similiar to Origami by Appsforlife
Add a dieline Fold Plugin Similiar to Origami by Appsforlife
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Illustrator needs Photoshop’s 3D Workspace feature for sketching and painting with 3D Layers in 3D Mode
I think that the 3D Workspace, sketch and drawing (in Illustrator CC Desktop App) with 3D Layers in 3D Mode is the modern 2D creative design App must-have feature today. The Photoshop CC Desktop App feature is being used by more and more designers in 2D creative design, look! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZydZ72iUKDQ
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"The Pattern Contains Active Content... And Must Be Expanded"
This limitation is such trash.
I shouldn't have to expand my brush strokes in order to save a pattern. This totally kills the ability to edit the pattern later!
Please overcome this limitation instead of offloading the tough work on your users. Or charge less for your half-baked software.
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This option already exists in Illustrator, in Preferences > General, although the name of it is quite obscure — Show/Hide Rulers. Once it’s enabled, each new or opened document will have rulers enabled.
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Allow large format canvas for outdoors/billboards design without scaling
Using Illustrator (or InDesign, for that matter) to make outdoors/large printing projects is a huge pain - many times the production team (which is usually NOT the same team that designed the thing) doesn't read properly the instructions, and then errors happen.
Also, other older software packages don't suffer from that kind of artwork / artboard size limitations.
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Eyedropper automatically adds colour to swatches
I would suggest a function where eyedropper automatically adds picked color to swatches. Sometimes I take color from the picture and I have to first create an object, use eyedropper and then add it to swatches.
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Convert embedded images between different formats/compression schemes...
Currently, if I embed an image as a TIF, the resulting AI file will be larger than if I embed the same image as a JPEG. It would be nice if I could convert embedded images between file formats and have control over compression methods / levels so that I could convert the embedded TIF to something lighter in size such as a JPEG - all from within illustrator.
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Font menu starts where you stop when opening list
The font list always starts at the top when you expand the menu. If you type "M" to jump forward in the list you can only view those "M" fonts before you scroll back to "A" (top of list). If you type "My" you can only see fonts with "My" and nothing else.
The old versions would always expand the menu so that you would be at the font you have currently selected. I would love this feature back.
I explore fonts a lot, the current situation with the menu is really debilitating.
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Dragging swatch to a gradient point does not replace it but places it right on top.
As the title says
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Artboard dimension pop up box when using Artboard tool.
Would love for the Artboard tool in the tools panel to operate like the rectangle tool so that when you click inside the work space it pops open a box to input
desired dimensions instead of dragging to desired dimension.4 votes
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