Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Blend tool with Freeform Gradients does not working properly
Blend tool not working with shapes that contain gradients. (preview box is greyed out as well)
It won't work from the start with shapes that already contain gradients and only produces black shapes and an error message when the color is applied after making the blend.20 votes -
Why the heaven does shift make an object stable, when you drag an object? It is extremely disturbing
Why the heaven does shift make an object stable, when you drag an object? It is extremely disturbing
1 vote -
Change values of recorded actions
It would be great if the values of recorded actions can be changed in the actions panel.
5 votes -
Lag, slowdown and crashing
Illustrator starts lagging all the time on my a brand new, fully upgraded MacBook Pro. It also crashes almost every day. It's embarrassing that Adobe are charging for a software that barely works. Especially when competitors like Figma is free and also feels like 10 years ahead overall. Solve this or I will end my subscription for good.
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Infinite Canvas
I find myself using more and more Figma to brainstorm and create my designs as I have a single document containing all of my visual explorations.
For print assets I go back to Illustrator and create the final file, but I really wish I could have done it all in illustrator. So just removing the canvas limit.
Not artboards or number of something — just being able to spread and spread your ideas in the same place.26 votes -
Your UX Team Should Be Fired
Feature Request:
When I click an "X" that clearly indicates close. Close the thing! Your UX team should be fired.1 vote -
Feature to export custom Keyboard Shortcuts
Those of us that frequently customize our Key commands and want to easily transfer them to other versions of Illustrator.
7 votes -
Invert blending mode
You have Normal, Multiply and Screen, but there is no simple Invert blending transparency mode for layers or objects.
I've seen it in other vector based programs and would love to see it in Ai (and Ps).eg
When a black ring (set to INVERT) overlap a solid black circle, the portion of the ring that overlaps would turn white.eg
When a Blue Circle overlapped a Yellow Circle, the boolean area would turn green.This was VERY popular years ago in design, both in the 1930s and again in the 1980s in early graphics software, but it seems to…
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Copy / Apply object coordinates
Copy object coordinates / Apply object coordinates would be useful when you want to move an object temporarily, or apply the same coordinates to another object.
5 votes -
Support SVG property 'paint-order'
Add support for the paint-order property. By default the fill is painted and then the stroke is placed on top. The paint-order property allows this order to be defined so the stroke can be placed under the fill. Without support for this a svg can look very different than the imported version in illustrator.
The file attached is an example of the property in use.
Example:
https://mdn.mozillademos.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/paint-order$samples/Examples?revision=1530134See the following resources:
https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/painting.html#PaintOrder
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/paint-order
https://caniuse.com/#feat=mdn-css_properties_paint-order12 votes -
Hello!
When right-click > Rotate, It would be very handly to have the angle field already selected to just insert the value, or to have it selected when you press Tab first time (now you need to press Tab 4 times in order to have the value field selected).
That would be great. Thank you!
1 vote -
Auto number layers
As a graphic designer I often work with Illustrator files that have thousands of layers, these layers are very well organized in folders.
I would like to suggest that Illustrator add a function allowing users like me to auto number every layer. The layer number would be visible on each layer. This would let me quickly identify a layer with a specific number and then return to that layer later if I want to read manipulate the artwork there.
It would also be great if I could, i.e. right click layer XXX and asked to move it above or below…6 votes -
'Load Paragraph styles' does not work as expected
In InDesign, if you 'Load Paragraph styles', any Paragraph styles with the same names get updated, and any text that has those paragraph styles applied change appearance.
In Illustrator, this doesn't happen. It ignores the imported styles as it already has styles of that name. There is no 'import options' to able to change this behaviour.
2 votes -
Editable path smoothing for pencil and brush paths
I'm proposing smoothing that may be applied or removed after a path has been created with the pencil or brush tool by the user. When a path is being created, the program would capture necessary coordinate information and the path would be represented on screen as drawn, or with a certain amount of smoothing (set prior to drawing in tool panel). If the user wanted more or less smoothing applied after creating the path, the amount could be adjusted by selecting the path and changing the amount applied. If the path would no longer need adjusting, it could be expanded…
2 votes -
Feature Tours and Tips pop up windows keep showing up even after selecting "Skip Tours"
Turn them off. So annoying and get in the way or work.
149 votes -
Make the eyedropper appear with the Brush / Blob Brush tool selected by holding the Alt / Option key
With the Brush or Blob Brush tool selected, make the Eyedropper appear by holding down the Opt / Alt key. This would allow colors within the document to be sampled just like in Photoshop, without having to keep selecting from the swatches.
9 votes -
file>export>export as... still lists Flash as an option
How long ago was Flash rebranded to Animate? Five years now?
The "Flash (SWF)" option in the Export As... dialogue should be "Animate (SWF)".
1 vote -
Measurements are not working correctly
If you want to make a new path with 100mm x 100 mm in dimensions and and do that via the transform palette then the path shows an incorrect size (100,013 mm x 100,009 mm) but only if the path has an outline. If there is just a colour filling then the measurement is correct.
That should be corrected quickly.OS X 10.15.6, Illustrator 24.2.3
1 voteThere's an option 'Used Preview Bounds' for that in Preferences, which toggles the behavior. When it’s on, Illustrator includes stroke weight into dimensions, and does not when it’s off.
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Hue bar in Recolor artwork needs to come back
The older feature of 'Hue Bar' in the Recolor artwork was a really helpful tool
this makes the color fixing and decision of color combinations so easier, please bring back this Hue bar.1 vote -
Improve page selection when opening PDFs in Illustrator
Referring to the attached screenshot for opening PDFs in Illustrator:
I find that I am constantly browsing through the preview pages using (B), and hitting 'Open' when I see the previewed page I want -- completely forgetting to actually enter the page number in the Range (C), and thereby opening Page 1, swearing, and starting again. Casual survey suggests this is a common issue for others in my studio as well.
It would be great if changing the previewed page using B also updated the page number selected in C; or, if an additional radio button sitting with C and…73 votesThe solution is pushed into Global Availability build 28.6.
The Previewed Page is now the default option for the dialog.
Here is an updated Help article:https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/importing-pdf-files.html
Congratulations, folks! Took us 5.5 years to get it!
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