Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Add "Command-\" to justify the second line of bullets and paragraph text to that location similar to how this works in In Design. Please!
Adding a little extra functionality to Illustrator's copy ability would be great. Sometimes for short-form pieces I'm using Illustrator instead of In Design. This would save a ton of time and add efficiency to copy styling.
2 votes -
Please increase the number of fonts in ”Recent Fonts” option
I work with two different typeface families in daily base (since 1987 when I start with Illustrator). In preferences maximum value of recent fonts is 15. That is a half amount of what I need. Is it possible to increase that value to 30?
3 votes -
Keyboard command for "Find and Replace" Text or ability to add a Keyboard Shortcut.
In Adobe Illustrator: Why is there not a keyboard command to bring up the "Find and Replace" dialog box or the ability to add your own Keyboard Shortcut to do this?
2 votes -
Tabs panel doesn't work well with multiple-area text
Draw a pair of text areas side-by-side (e.g., a two-page spread). Link them and fill with placeholder text. Open the Tabs panel.
The Tabs panel wants to be the width of both columns if you click the "Position Panel above Text" magnet icon. This probably means that much of it is shooting off-screen in one direction or another, as I would typically zoom in to work with a single column of text at a time.
Go somewhere in the second area and type a line like:
"foo bar stuff"
with tabs between the words. My desire is to have the…3 votes -
Text block with paragraph styling
I dream for text block with automaticaly applied paragraph styling to every text in it. If you have linked text blocks, each with its own style, you can put text from a database or a worksheet and avoid formatting each row individually. Present sheet with business cards where name, address, job, etc. are linked to text boxes and you put in them data from excel. You have to format each item in the style. If the blocks carry the style of the text, it is enough to make sure each text is in its box.
1 vote -
Forced column break
Can we get some decent text handling features that mimic at least fundamental options such as column breaks and a table feature within Illustrator? It's been 30 years now can't you get this done for once and for all?
13 votes -
Copy the 'Indent to here' command from InDesign
'As it says on the tin'
So many times you start out creating a graphic and you're in two minds whether to use Illustrator for it's superior vector tools, or InDesign for its superior type control.
When I need to quickly add a couple of bullets it would be so much easier if I could fake the tab stop of the first line with an em dash and then an 'Indent to here' (Ctrl+) so that any wrapped text is quickly brought into line.
8 votes -
Special characters like in InDesign
It would be reat to have special characters (especially hyphens and white spaces) like in InDesign... and that they work just as good. So far, for example, the "nonbreaking space" doesn't always react well when the text is justified.
5 votes -
Tab between textboxes
Easy "tab" or jump beetween empty textboxes for faster fill-ins. Custormer name, project number etc.
2 votes -
Since the last update I have no been able to clock the import font from type kit button
Please help. I am trying to import the motor font. It has disappeared from my computer and i can no longer click the button to add new fonts thanks
1 vote -
Please set type (text) edge area as it has exactly, it show more area than real area and disturbs while alignment text. As in CorelDRAW
Text Selection Area
2 votes -
Inline graphics
It is important when you want to create bullets with Glyphs you can simply insert the type tool next ot the sentence and make it part of the sentence (like in Design)
6 votes -
Accents / Diacritics accessibility
i'm using Illustrator and I need to type in Portuguese/Spanish so i need to use accents like áàê
Everywhere else on Mac OS if I long press the key I get an accent pop up, like this:
In Illustrator, this never shows up.
I know there are workarounds (glyphs window, other mac shortcuts and keyboard viewer) but none of those is practical.
That accent pop up is shown everywhere else in the system except for Illustrator, which is very frustrating2 votes -
Short Cut for eye dropper tool can be engaged while working on type
Right now the eye dropper tool works really well.
I am currently using it to copy styles from other type that I am working on.
I normally select type, then manually select the eyedropper tool. But when repeated over and over I have to de-select type, short cut to type tool, select type, manually select eyedropper.I propose that the eye dropper tool use an alt or ctrl key in addition to "I" so that you can switch to the tool with a short cut while you still have type selected.
1 vote -
Bug Report: Variable data from XML file with Special Character Does not work
Variable data from XML file with Special Character like "&trade"; or "®" within a text field does not get populated - this is a BUG alert
Please
1 vote -
remove trailing whitespace
I would like to be able to remove trailing whitespace from images in Illustrator. I would use InDesign but I want to be about to use the flexibility of artboards in illustrator.
2 votes -
fix type on path
Please fix the Type on a path Tool!!! Wherever u click on a path, is where the cursor should begin! Left justified with left & right handles fully extended to the far ends. Don't start at the bottom, don't make me rotate it on a circle and then flip inside out, don't disappear and make me criss-cross the handles to the opposite sides to reveal my text again... Even short line paths have the handles too close together to reveal the text. Come on, it's been going on far too long. Let's fix this. Please. I'm begging you.
5 votes -
Numeric scaling of text box should not scale text inside!
I'm working on keyboard layouts right now, which demand alot of precision - the reason some might argue why I use Illustrator in the first place...
I draw a lot of text boxes so I can use them to mark down the whole space of the key cap. It's just more handy than just a text field where you have to manually align the text to the key cap. >>> Image for reference (text-box-field).
See the other two images (scale-textbox-...):
The one I scaled by hand, having the expected result: text doesn't change, only size of box changes, automatically aligns…3 votes -
Need to be able to design an imege of W 3000CM and 2500 H
As Illustrator work with Vector files. Vector graphics are computer graphics images that are defined in terms of 2D points. They can be scaled to a bigger size.
1 vote -
Let us Favourite fonts during font search
Right now you can favourite fonts, but only during browsing fonts normally. If you search for fonts there is no favourite column in the results.
6 votes
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