Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Allow Color Coding for windows and tabs
I appreciate the many ways Adobe has updated the workspace in Illustrator to be as efficient as possible. However, one thing that I constantly find myself running into is the slight frustration of having to click, or read, or hotkey through the different tabs or windows in order to perform a new function or locate a file.
A project may require many windows in my workspace or I'm working with multiple files I'm having to bounce between.. I'm in a good creative workflow zipping through my project, and then, I find myself having to stop and do a little search…
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concentric texture tool
it would be very useful to have concentric textures and not just from a point to a point.
Another request for textures would be to be able to define in some situations the starting point of the plot, the point of arrival and maybe even the point of intersection.1 vote -
Stacked bar chart to support positive AND negative numbers in the same chart
Refer to https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2615233
This is the type of graph that I want to create, and be able to update it EASILY, and not manually moving bars from two different graphs.6 votes -
Flatten / expand clipping group, crop each object in it to the clipping path
It would be great to be able to convert a clipping mask into a crop.
54 votes -
.ait files
There is a problem with .ait files that cannot be opened unless you drag them into the illustrator
1 vote -
error postion
Hi. when I open lower version artwork with new illustrator 23.1 and 24.02, content in layout deviation, but I opened the older version there was no problem.
1 vote -
Lock angle of bezier handles (hotkey-selectable)
When drawing with the pen tool, it would be very helpful to be able to lock the angle of the control point handles when drawing the next segment.
The function works well for the existing fixed snap angles (90-deg, etc) but I would love to have a hotkey to temporarily lock the existing (arbitrary) angle of the point as I draw the next segment.
Currently, I find it too easy to destroy a perfectly placed curve while drawing the next segment--particularly when the in- and out- handles have dramatically different lengths.
14 votes -
Lasso select tool selection lines should be always be visible, even when selecting over black fills.
I often use the lasso select tool and often i am selecting over top of objects that are black filled, and the lasso line is invisible over these black objects.
Conversely, in photoshop, the lasso line is drawn so it always contrasts the colors behind it, so no matter what colors we are selecting over top of, the lasso line is still visible.
Illustrator desperately needs to replicate this functionality from photoshop
6 votes -
Selection dependent tool display (context sensitive)
In Adobe Illustrator, I find myself searching for tool panels a lot.
How great would it be when Ai only displays relevant tool panels,For instance:
-Selecting the Eyedropper brings up color related panels, and the Info panel
-Selecting Paths brings up Pathfinder, Stroke and Fill
-Selecting Text brings up Paragraph and CharacterE.g: currently, it can happen that Pathfinder hides a type related panel, while text is selected.
Pathfinder is not relevant at that moment.2 votes -
回転させる時にある程度拡大しないと出来ないのを改善欲しい。
バウンディングボックスの角にカーソルを持って良いって回転させる時にある程度拡大しないと出来ないのを直して欲しい。昔は出来たような気がします。
1 vote -
Freeform gradient doesn't work with Recolor Artwork
There is no way to recolor the gradient points in the Freeform Gradient in Color Guide → Recolor Artwork. This is very problematic when you try to apply a color group to the gradient. It works very well with regular gradients, but not with freeform gradients. I think this needs an update or else it will be very time consuming to edit all the colors of a freeform gradient.
35 votesRecolor now can be used for Freeform gradients correctly, allowing access to all colors used in it.
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Batch action to include Image Trace with ignore white plus expand
I would like to use Image Trace including advanced setting ignore white, plus expand to get paths, in a batch action. I can do these as separate actions, but not in combination on one image and not at all as a batch process. I confirmed this is a limitation of illustrator currently with your support reps in live chats. If you could add this in your next update that would be great! Thanks.
11 votes -
Copy and Paste text from Email or web to Illustrator
It's very annoying that we cannot copy text from email or from the web and paste into illustrator, Why? Whenever I need, which is a lot, I have to paste into Photoshop, so I can copy and paste into Illustrator. I always receive text from clients through mail. Does not make any sense. Please could you fix this?
3 votes -
Command Q doesn't work
Command Q doesn't work. When shortcut is used... nothing happens.
1 vote -
The ability to switch 2 colours around when both are selected
Working on a logo at the moment and was thinking that it could be helpful if there was an 'inverse' option in illustrator, or the ability to switch 2 colours around if you have both objects selected at the same time, e.g. black becomes white and white becomes black. Possibly only possible if you have global colour selected on both colours? Very handy when 'sketching' ideas and quickly need to switch colours.
1 vote -
Area and perimeter information on every selected object
Area and perimeter information on every selected object.
It was available on CS3 version for exemple and it was very helpful for us architects.
The window was called CAD tracker and the geometry part was super practical.
Please, include it in the new version !!4 votesThe team has started working on this request. As a first step they want to understand the requirements correctly and build the right feature set based on the feedback gathered.
If you are willing to discuss area calculation in a call session, block a time slot here: https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/c1b7ecea1cbd42a2a7068cfeb7861bdd@adobe.com/meetingtype/Fn8tXNebh0eyv4xTnvQ-3Q2?anonymous&ep=mlink
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TateChuYoko’s Adjustment value is limited to an integer in point
The "TateChuYoko" using for vertical writing text, under use in Japanese environment.
The adjustment value is set only to integers of points and it is very troubling.
In that state, I can only do a rough job too much.
I would like to improve so that more detailed values can be set.<Japanese>
縦中横設定の調整量がポイントの整数値ごとにしか設定できない。
これでは大雑把な仕事しかできない。
細かい値を設定できるよう改善して欲しい。54 votes -
Bring Back Hold Shift to Restrict Gradient Movement
In prior versions of Illustrator, when adjusting the composition of a gradient using the Gradient tool, you used to be able to hold Shift to constrict the gradients movement to the Y or X axis.
Please bring this back as it is a quick and seamless way to align the gradient composition exactly instead of eyeballing it.
14 votes -
Multiple Color Assignment - NIGHTMARE
At some point Illustrator added some kind of multiple color assignment where a shape could be assigned a color and then also the group it's in could be assigned a different color or something like this. I just want to say that this "feature" has cost me so much wasted time trying to change the color of an object. It makes the eyedropper not work correctly and making a simple color change become a nightmare because it has it has multiple assignments and it just won't change colors and you have hit "no fill" a bunch of times to clear…
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Make artboards searchable in finder
Make artboards searchable in finder. If I would like to search for a specific Page/artboard.
Example:
Search: Order3 = file: Order2019 will appear in finder as that artboard named Order_3 are located in that file.File Name: Order2019
Artboards:
Order1
Order2
Order3
Order4
Order5
Order_62 votes
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