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  1. Ligatures are broken

    OpenType ligatures are broken in Illustrator. When the ligatures feature is enabled most ligatures remain different letters. If ligatures are input directly from the glyphs palette they will decompose into different letters. Even if ligatures are disabled they still decompose into different letters when input from the glyphs palette.

    1 vote
    1 comment  ·  Type, Fonts, Text  ·  Admin →
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  2. Possibility for the USER to set the default units when creating a new document

    It saves time. In stead of having to adjust this for every new document, it would be a lot better to let users define their own standards, templates and what so ever…

    7 votes
    0 comments  ·  Documents and Artboards  ·  Admin →
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  3. Select same, with multiple selectable attributes and customisations

    When using the Select Same feature we need a lot more options, like all objects with the same transparency effect AND opacity AND tint AND line weight etc, that can be selected from a list of attributes. Same sort of list as the options list for the Eyedropper Tool (see screenshot).

    It should be split into sections that allow vectors graphics selections as above, but also things like selecting all linked items that are the same file AND the same size AND rotation AND opacity.

    Selecting all text in a certain colour, font, size, style so they can be updated…

    18 votes
    8 comments  ·  Selection  ·  Admin →
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  4. Need this feature also for illustrator CC. Distributor Horizontally and Vertically

    Hi, their is one new feature which is called Distributor Horizontally and Vertically, i think we need this in illustrator also.

    1 vote
    1 comment  ·  Other...  ·  Admin →
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  5. Constrain angle setting doesn't work untuitively, and is rather useless

    Right now, when the Constrain Angle setting is at its default value of 0°, you can hold down the Shift key to move an object along the 0°, 45°, 90°, 135°, (etc) axes. This is fine.

    But if you change the constrain angle to something else, say 30° (as someone making isometric illustrations would be likely to do), then the set of constrain angles changes to 30°, 75°, 120°, 165°, etc. This is not useful. It would make much more sense for the set of constrain angles for a setting of 30° to be 0°, 30°, 60°, 90°, 120°, 150°,…

    7 votes
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  6. Persistent rulers on startup

    Option to toggle on/off in prefs. Simple as that

    4 votes
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  7. Acceso directo a objetos/texto con rapida configuracion (ejercitos age of empires)

    hola! les escribo para dar una breve sugerencia la cual quizás ya fue propuesta por otra persona impaciente igual que yo... Si alguna vez jugaron al age of empires y fueron atacados podrán haberse dado cuenta que si configuraron sus ejércitos con anterioridad podrán defenderse mejor o incluso realizar un ataque mas efectivo. Esto se podría hacer seleccionando primero el objeto/texto y después apretando (control) mas un numero. De esta manera se podría hacer cambios de las distintas profundidades de diseño mas rápido, sin tener que mover todo para los costados si se quisiese cambiar algo el z-index 1.
    Espero…

    2 votes
    1 comment  ·  Performance, Enhancements  ·  Admin →
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    AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    Illustrator today offers Save Selection for this.

    We can access these the old way, via Select > Save Selection (and also Edit / Update Selection commands), or via a more modern way, with a small button at the bottom of the Layers panel.


    Alas, there is no way to assign a keyboard shortcuts to quickly select them back, similar to what games offer, we are now forced to click this menus... On Windows we can press something like Alt+S, Up arrow, to quickly focus the bottom of the Select menu, followed by choosing a saved selection we need, followed by Enter — but it needs high APM :)


    So I will treat this as 'Allow to ahve hotkeys for saving and loading Saved Selections'

  8. Never interrupt my work. Never show new features

    Never interrupt my work. never show new features.
    master switch for a "veteran" mode that will never interrupt you to show you stupid s**t that you already know.

    the dumbing down of the CC products is disgusting. you're literally driving me to work on different platforms. I've not opened premiere in a year and I'm down to only photoshop and illustrator.
    Add enough pain and I'll move off of those as well.

    Not only that I'll probably start a YT channel for others detailing how to leave he cult of Adobe as a industry pro.

    8 votes
    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
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  9. Apply transparency to color in "recolor artwork" tool box

    Apply transparency to color in "recolor artwork" tool box

    31 votes
    5 comments  ·  Colors, Swatches, Patterns  ·  Admin →
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  10. Move close button away from save in File menu

    Moving the Close button away from the Save button, maybe to just below Revert

    Sounds like a sad fix but having the Save button right below the Close has caused me to lose original works due to accidentally pressing Save instead of close when i don't to save the changes made.

    This has happened when my mouse has had a sudden glitch and not moved the .5mm needed to press the correct button. worse when you can't undo due to hitting the maximum number of undos

    Not a major issue but anyone that has done this would know the pain…

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  File Save, Import and Export  ·  Admin →
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  11. Illustrator CC 23.0.1 keeps reopening after closing a file

    After I close out a file in Illustrator a blank window pops up ready to make another file. Very irritating. If I wanted to start another file I would open it manually. Otherwise I have to close out the new window to do some other task on my computer. How do I make it stop opening back up??Attached is the window that keeps popping up.

    2 votes
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  12. Option for Artboards to be non-printing

    Would be very useful if there could be a setting in the Artboards palate that could make them 'non-printing' (Like in Layers) - I use a lot of pre-prepared template files and sometimes don't use all Artboards, so to 'turn them off' rather than having to delete (as I may need them later in a job) or keep changing print options would be great.

    6 votes
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  13. We have around 30 iMac in college suite and Illustrator is running slow on all. Its not out network its a problem with Illustrator please fi

    We have around 30 iMac in college suite and Illustrator is running slow on all. Its not out network its a problem with Illustrator please fix this issue urgently.

    Kings Lynn College of West Anglia Media Department

    1 vote
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  14. Grayscale as an Effect

    I would like to be able to apply a non-destructive "Convert to Grayscale" Effect to Objects, Groups or Layers.

    8 votes
    1 comment  ·  Effects, Appearance, Graphic Styles  ·  Admin →
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  15. Play saved Action in error

    Play saved Action in error, a warning message said "Can't save the illustration", the Action is export jpg to desktop.

    1 vote
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  16. Adjust the length of the extremitys to avoid outline vectorization

    Avoid contour crossing without vectorizing the paths and losing my paths (if I ever want to reshape my shape)

    1 vote
    2 comments  ·  Strokes  ·  Admin →
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  17. Please have customized brushes/swatches save automatically.

    It would be nice if custom created brushes were saved automatically so that users do not have to save them after they have created them.

    7 votes
    2 comments  ·  Other...  ·  Admin →
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  18. Customisable touch workspace.

    Adobe, could we please have a customisable touch workspace? The other workspaces can be altered, why not this one?
    It could be a cool idea to be able to add the delete, undo and redo buttons to the sidebar menu in the classic workspace.

    7 votes
    1 comment  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
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  19. アンカーポイント削除時の挙動

    例えば添付のような円の向かって左のアンカーポイントを削除すると、当然ながら添付Aのようになりますが、

    Bのように、アンカーポイントは削除したいけれど形状はなるべく最初の状態をキープしてほしい

    場面がたくさんあります。

    他のベクター系のアプリケーションでは可能だったりするので、技術的に難しいことでは

    ないと思うのですがこの挙動を採用することはできないんでしょうか。

    何かやり方があったりするんですかね？

    どちらか選べると大変ありがたいのですが。

    またアンカーポイントを、形状は極力キープしたままライン上を移動できるようになると作業効率は

    格段に上がると思うのですが。

    1 vote
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  20. Allow importing of PDF's not from Adobe Acrobat and preserve text

    I import PDF files into Illustrator every day from programs like AutoCAD & Revit, and every single time, it tells me that Illustrator can't read the text in the font Arial, and that it must substitute it. This turns it into squares that are all giberish. The only workaround is to outline text in Acrobat before importing. Please learn that people are using programs outside the Adobe environment (for which there is no substitute by Adobe) and we need these BASIC capabilities.

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  File Save, Import and Export  ·  Admin →
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