Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Support (like all other software) Ctrl-Ins, Shift-Ins and Shift+Del for Copy, Cut and Paste
It's a common behavior on windows the Ctrl-Ins, Shift-Ins and Shift+Del for Copy, Cut and Paste.
Adobe software doesn't support this at all.3 votes -
MacOS Full Screen Mode
Utilization of the OS level window management to perform and launch full screen mode like the vast majority of all other apps.
68 votes -
Stop nagging me to update
I'm well aware that there is a new update. I do not have time to deal with the nonsense Adobe is known for in their constant "updates". Quit nagging me about it with the ridiculous pop-up.
2 votes -
Ability to invert the zoom direction when using option+scroll.
I'm scrolling down to zoom in & up to zoom out (using option+mouse scroll)- there should be an option available to invert this methinks. Just seems that it should be the other way around.
3 votes -
Customize Application Menus with COLOR in Illustrator
Help! I love that Photoshop gives us the tools to change the way our toolbars look by highlighting the text in the columns with beautiful colors to the ones we use the most. I have yet to find this in Illustrator and I'm pouting; my memory depends on color coded hints... because that's what they taught me in kindergarten.
I added an image with screen shots for my artsy comrades as we are all visual beings. I'm going to wait in my happy place until I hear from you. Thank you in advance.4 votes -
Split View on Mac
Split View on MAC, allows for full screen view while running 2 apps, with ability to interact with both sides of the screen. Its available on all apps, except Abode! I check PS and AI - they both don't work in this view.
33 votes -
"Video Safe Areas"
Hi. I've been asked to remove the video safe areas, margin and center mark from a new Video document, and had to look online to find that those "guides" where related to the artboard (each artboard, btw) and not to the document's preferences (which makes sense, btw).
Where I searched for them : in the view menu (and read carefully), in the preference, UI, in the properties panel. Took me a while to get to the artboard tool, then artboard options.
May be the 3 "guides" could be linked to a single button in Artboard tool properties panel…
2 votes -
Tool palettes docked in touch bar
I would like to be able to dock tool palettes in the touch bar.
3 votes -
Cycle transparency modes with middle mousewheel
In the transparency panel (upon mouse-hover), cycle through transparency modes (Multiply, overlay, etc) with middle mouse wheel scrolling.
Similar to the wheel on "The Price Is Right."
Would be even cooler to preview all transparency modes at once within a thumbnail window.
4 votes -
Export for Screens - bigger window size for "prefix"
On export for screens, the "prefix" section: In addition to adding a checkbox for AI filename, make the prefix window longer. I frequently have longer prefixes and it is a minor pain to scroll over to change a prefix name. There's plenty of room in that box to make it the width of the rest of the export screen.
10 votes -
get back old buttons and arrows look
could you get back old (prior to CC) look of buttons (non-rounded), and old small arrows? these new ones look pretty ugly.
2 votes -
1 vote
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Keyboard commands to cycle through layers similar to Photoshop
Please consider a way to navigate, activate, delete and move layers using keyboard commands, similar to photoshop.
5 votes -
Notes Feature
Create a notes panel to write notes for yourself, the next person working on your file, the print house, etc.
The notes would pop up first thing when you open a file, and can be printed, amended, deleted etc... they could be print instructions, or time logs, or anything deemed of value to associate with the document.
These notes would travel with the document.
37 votes -
Make the interfaces equal
InDesign and Illustrators interface designs (and shortcuts) are too different. It's hard to switch. Please make it equal.
For example: Transformation panel. See attached.3 votes -
Properties Panel, values are not selected by clicking on the symbol in front of their field
If I click on a symbol in a panel for a property like W or H or X or Y the current value gets selected. This does not work in the Properties panel, nothing gets selected and I have to double click inside the property field to select it.
It slows down and is not consistent with the way it has worked for years.4 votes -
Layer panel options
Layer panel options
Hi, for 5K screen users is it possible to increase the size of the layer thumbnails more than 100px ? if not it can be a request I think :). thank you4 votes -
More details on "an error occurred while processing the appearance of an object".
When you start doing complicated work with a lot of effects, you start getting the above-mentioned dialogue. It is incredibly unhelpful: which of the several thousand objects in my illustration is causing problems? What layer is the offending object on? Where in the appearance stack did things go awry? Maybe I'd like to find out which object caused this - how about a button to select the offending object, unlocking whatever containing objects may be locked?
To make an analogy for the programmers: imagine if your compiler just said "some errors happened while compiling your project", and didn't even tell…
17 votes -
Magic Wand tolerance slider more convenient.
Please make the tolerance slider for the Magic Wand tool more convenient.
Two clicks (or three) is unnecessary.
C'mon team. The tolerance slider could be immediately available on the Magic Wand Palette.
Simultaneous numbers with the slider would be ok.
The tolerance number could be visible as a "hover" with a blank space for anyone seeking a specific tolerance.
Please make the slider immediately available. Thank you.
3 votes -
Radial interface (popup) for previewing ALL THE SWATCHES.... S I M U L T A N E O U S L Y.
If a user wants to preview ALL the swatches in the swatch library at once, the time and sequence of events to do so is extremely unnecessarily tedious.
"Preview all swatches" button -> BAM: radial view of all swatches on screen. (doesn't even have to be legible. text can be upside down. Maybe rotate it with the mouse wheel. Click one swatch set -> then Bam! That's the swatch docked to the panel. All the others dissapear. or "Unsummon the swatches" button.
"Smithers Release the hounds"
1 vote
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