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1. Display copies of links' duplicates as instances, like in InDesign

   It would be nice if Illustrator's link panel was more link InDesign's in that it collapsed instances of the same linked file into an accordion. The user can then update multiple instances of a file to the same new link or link them individually to separate new links.

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2. For complex artboard setups: Artboard groups, folders, labels, hide/show toggles and other enhancements to the Artboards window

   Currently the Artboards window lists all artboards in a single numbered list. The only customization available for the list is the ability to renumber the artboards. A helpful enhancement to consider: Add the ability to organize artboards list into nested groups and folders. For more complex situations, features like color coding with custom labels, and tags and filters could be helpful. To help de-clutter complex overlapping artboards, it would be helpful to be able to toggle the view on and off for artboards similar to how layers can be shown or hidden.

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3. Have a search bar at the top that searches all menu items.

   Ok, the Adobe menus have a LOT of menu items and features. You guys should create a search bar that searches all the menu items and features to make it easier to find things.

   Microsoft has this feature in it's Office Suite and it is SUPER useful.

   For example have a bar that asks the user "What are you looking for" They can type anything, for example "Alignment" and it would bring up the alignment menu. Or "pathfinder" will bring up a button for the pathfinder menu.

   Think about it guys, would save EVERYONE who isn't a pro SO much time.

   Ok, the Adobe menus have a LOT of menu items and features. You guys should create a search bar that searches all the menu items and features to make it easier to find things.

   Microsoft has this feature in it's Office Suite and it is SUPER useful.

   For example have a bar that asks the user "What are you looking for" They can type anything, for example "Alignment" and it would bring up the alignment menu. Or "pathfinder" will bring up a button for the pathfinder menu.

   Think about it guys, would save EVERYONE who isn't a pro SO much… more

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   Completed (Comments Open)  ·  AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

   The latest 2022 release has the Discover window that you can quickly call using F1 by default, which searches most if the commands available.
   Have you tried it? Please tell us how it differs from what you expect from the global search you have in mind? What is missing or can be improved?

4. Add ability to hyperlink text (properly this time)

   In June of 2023 the Illustrator team fixed a old bug with hyperlinks added through Attributes panel being dropped while exporting as PDF.
   The team thought of it as a solution to this request: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/40418827 — and marked it as such.

   I do not agree.
   The solution is nowhere final, done in the most basic way possible, merely a bug fixed, like if no-one in the team did try to make it useful at the level of today's standards.
   — A partial text selection can't be made into a hyperlink.
   — No widgets are given on the canvas to see if an object has a hyperlink assigned or not, and to open the link directly from the canvas (with or without a modifier).
   — Attributes gives no way to jump to a previous/next hyperlink in the document.
   — The 'browser' button uses the IE browser, not the assigned one at the OS level.
   — If I cover an object which has a hyperlink assigned, with another object that has another hyperlink, the area they shared together is overtaken by the one which is below, and not according to their z-order.
   — 'Polygon' image map option does not work, the object gets a rectangle area still. The sacred knowledge about creating polygonal image maps in Ai is long lost, and the only mention the official manual has about it is here (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/slices-image-maps.html) — but it never actually tells how to create these. Surely not via rectangular-only slices. It should just happen automatically, and it does not.
   — What about automation? To have the links to be auto-tagged, like this solution for InD does (https://www.id-extras.com/products/hyperlinkpro/)?
   — What about auto styling, like InD provides?
   — Will we be able to fine tune the look of the Character’s 'Underline' option? Nobody places lines this close to text anymore on web.

   So yes, this should be made BETTER.

   In June of 2023 the Illustrator team fixed a old bug with hyperlinks added through Attributes panel being dropped while exporting as PDF.
   The team thought of it as a solution to this request: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/40418827 — and marked it as such.

   I do not agree.
   The solution is nowhere final, done in the most basic way possible, merely a bug fixed, like if no-one in the team did try to make it useful at the level of today's standards.
   — A partial text selection can't be made into a hyperlink.
   — No widgets are given on the canvas to see… more

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5. Please revise the new tool to simplify paths once again

   Hello, the new tool to simplify the paths will be great for many people. But I draw my lines deliberately blurred. With the old tool I always set the value to 98% or 99%. But even if I set everything to maximum in the new tool, the paths will be really smooth. But I don't want it to be that smooth. Please rework the settings again. The paths should look blurred, but have as few anchor points as possible. With the old tool it always worked great. Many thanks

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   Completed (Comments Open)  ·  AdminSanjit Samanta (Senior Product Manager, Adobe Illustrator) responded

   Dear Users,

   We have taken the feedback provided and have released with improvements as a new update (24.0.2) to Illustrator. Please update to the new version and let us know your feedback on the current version that has been released.

   We aim to do continuous improvements and your feedback helps us to get better. Keep sending them.

   Thanks,
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6. Make Asset Export settings Per-Project not Global

   It doesn't make sense to have global settings for Asset Export, as the exporting requirements vary between projects. Each project should have its own Asset Export settings so this doesn't have to be set up every time when exporting from different projects with different settings.

   Changing back and forward is time consuming and error prone.

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7. Allow to set font-size by setting x-height and cap height

   I very often create designs where I should have certain x-height.
   Now I have to achieve this using long workaround (I do it very quick now, but now quick enough, and its not actionable):
   1. Create copy of typed text with Ctrl+C, Ctrl+F
   2. Outlining copy
   3. Finding symbol with flat top an bottom (x or X or similar)
   4. Choose Direct selection tool
   5. Shift+click chosen letter
   6. Deleting unwanted symbols from copy
   7. Scale outline of chosen letter 1000%
   8. Going outline mode (enlarged letter will probably take whole screen)
   9. Shift+click at live text behind letter
   10. Set desired x/cap-height as height of selected art multiplied ten times
   11. Shift+click live text
   12. Delete outlined symbol
   13. Exit outline mode
   Thirteen steps!
   While there could be expandable fields in Character palette only where users could type desired height and apply it, because both ratios are written within the font, as far as I informed.
   There is WR-captialSize script by Wolfgang Reszel which can help with this, but the feature from the box would be better.

   I very often create designs where I should have certain x-height.
   Now I have to achieve this using long workaround (I do it very quick now, but now quick enough, and its not actionable):
   1. Create copy of typed text with Ctrl+C, Ctrl+F
   2. Outlining copy
   3. Finding symbol with flat top an bottom (x or X or similar)
   4. Choose Direct selection tool
   5. Shift+click chosen letter
   6. Deleting unwanted symbols from copy
   7. Scale outline of chosen letter 1000%
   8. Going outline mode (enlarged letter will probably take whole screen)
   9. Shift+click at live text behind letter
   10.… more

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   Completed (Comments Open)  ·  AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

   I am glad to remind all who voted for this feature that it is now possible to set a font size as x-height or cap height with Show Font Height Options toggle enabled in Character panel menu.

   
   

   Some issues still remain, yes, like, wrong size calculation if a font has rounded stems that end below baseline (https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/44639661-font-height-options-misbehave-with-rounded-fonts), or inability to focus the dropdown with Tab (https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/41836618-font-height-options-tab-order), or calculating font height by measuring glyphs instead of reading the actual value within the font (https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/41615035-cap-height-setting-not-using-font-cap-height), but overall this is done, works, and super cool, don’t you think?

8. Remove Text to Vector from Properties panel

   Would like an option to remove it from Properties panel as it sometimes opens on its own after I have closed it and it impedes my workflow having to close it again because it obstructs actually useful things Properties panel.

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   Completed (Comments Open)  ·  AdminAkshaya Saxena (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

   We have released an update (version 28.6) which takes care of this particular ask. Please upgrade your Illustrator application to latest versions and let us know your feedback.

9. Japanese characters in Japanese fonts are misaligned in Vertical Text Alignment

   Starting with v24.3, vertical text alignment is now available. This is a great feature we have been waiting for. However, characters in Japanese fonts are misaligned at the center and bottom, as shown in Figure-1.

   This is probably due to the fact that the bottom edge of the character is used as the baseline.Maybe we need The Last Baseline option.It's a tough road. But the Illustrator team can make it happen, I am sure of it.

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   v24.3より、垂直方向のテキスト配置が利用できるようになりました。これは待ち望んでいた素晴らしい機能です。しかし、日本語フォントの文字は、Figure-1に示すように、中央揃えと下揃えの位置がずれてしまいます。
   これは、文字の下端をベースラインとしていることが原因と思われます。末尾ベースラインオプションが必要かもしれません。大変な道のりです。しかし、Illustratorチームはそれを実現できる、私はそう確信しています。

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10. Provide an option for making artboard names / numbers visible on the artboard (like when editing artboards)

    Provide an option in Adobe Illustrator to show artboard names and/or numbers on the artboard / on top of the artboard (like when editing artboards). This visible naming would greatly help to keep artboards organized in large, multiple artboard files. This would be so helpful!

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11. Please allow to track time spent on a project in Illustrator
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12. 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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13. We need custom font filters / tags / folders

    We have Favorites in Font Family drop-down list, but that's not enough. Allow us to create our own custom filters / tags / folders and manage them.

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    Under Review  ·  AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    This is an area where many teams at Adobe are exploring ways to make it easier for users to discover and use fonts. Stay tuned.

14. Create Tables

    Create tables by anyway, it shouldn't have much options, such a simple table (simple borders), instead i have to draw lines to get a view of table.

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15. Percentage rulers

    Photoshop has Percentage as a unit for its ruler, and I find it very useful when one needs to center an element, or drag a guide in the middle or the third of the image, especially as one can stick to the ruler marks.

    I always wondered why Illustrator did not have that functionality.

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16. An option to hide the HEX field in Color or make it pop in RGB/HSB only

    Starting version 27.6.1, we are given a permanent HEX field in Color panel, following these two request:
    1. https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/38816713-make-the-hex-code-box-visible-for-all-color-modes
    2. https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/37009090-show-hex-value-in-swatch-panel

    But some users do not like seeing it all the time and would like to be able to disable it, or at least pop only for RGB and HSB only.

    Please add this option into Color panel’s flyout menu.

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17. Add ability to apply gradient to text without using new fill

    AI allows to make live text colored with gradient only by applying new fill to a text. This knowledge often comes occasionally, when users finally got into Appearance. AI just doesn't says it't wrong, shows no hint, does nothing when people try to apply gradient as they do for everything else.

    Meantime, each symbol within text can have their own fill.
    And when you apply gradient with a drag to an ungrouped set of path objects, AI applies gradient to all of them, placing each gradient into right position.

    Thus I just don't understand, why AI still doesn't allow to apply gradient to each symbol within text the same way? So each one of them will have copy of applied gradient, automatically placed in correct position.
    Continuing, when two symbols with same gradient are adjacent, their will share center and edge of this gradient.

    Just imagine how cool it would be to select three letters inside text and make them gradient when other letters will be colored differently, while text is still live?

    AI allows to make live text colored with gradient only by applying new fill to a text. This knowledge often comes occasionally, when users finally got into Appearance. AI just doesn't says it't wrong, shows no hint, does nothing when people try to apply gradient as they do for everything else.

    Meantime, each symbol within text can have their own fill.
    And when you apply gradient with a drag to an ungrouped set of path objects, AI applies gradient to all of them, placing each gradient into right position.

    Thus I just don't understand, why AI still doesn't allow to… more

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18. Release to Layers should inherit custom names from original objects

    When I Release to Layers, all of the objects within that layer are renamed to "Layer 1, Layer 2, Layer 3" etc. and I'd love to be able to have the new layers be named the same as when they were objects.

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19. 2018CC version Preferences - Units go back to "points"

    Preferences Units go back to "points" even after I change it to "millimetres" on 2018CC version. I go to Units (no document open) and change from default POINTS to "mm". When I open a new document it is reading POINTS again!

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20. The Color panel pops up when you click on stroke/fill selector

    The Color panel pops up every time you click on the stroke or fill selectors. There is no way to disable this panel from popping up, even if you close it, it will open and come to the forefront. Many of us don't need or use the color panel; we use the swatches or other panel. Why is this panel being forced on those of us who don't use/want it?

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