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  1. Accessibility Feature for Mouse users

    Combining the hand and zoom tools would be ****. Cannot use keyboard shortcuts, left. hand. is unusable. I'm on desktop, mac, mouse only. The toolbar is low contrast can it be a diff color than artboard. I'm also now low-viz user, Illostrator is NOT v welcome to some...

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  2. Line Cut Tool for Adobe Illustrator

    I would like to suggest a new tool for Adobe Illustrator called “Line Cut”.

    The concept is very simple: the user draws a straight line across any selected object, and Illustrator cuts the object along that line from one edge to the other.

    The tool should work with:

    • Vector shapes;
    • Compound paths;
    • Groups;
    • Text converted to outlines;
    • Multiple selected objects;
    • Placed or embedded raster images.

    For example, if I have a rectangle and draw a line through its middle, the tool would immediately divide the rectangle into two independent objects.

    The same concept should work with irregular vector shapes: the…

    2 votes

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  3. Illustrator & Adobe Stock Integration

    Illustrator & Adobe Stock Integration

    Observation | A User may download and insert a comp image from Adobe Stock into their project while awaiting client image approval, however, relinking the file is a long an unnecessarily tedious process.

    Behaviour | The User places the comp Adobe Stock image into their project. The client approves the images. The User clicks the ReLink button, copies the comp image ID number from the filename in the top left of the screen, navigates to stock.adobe.com, pastes in the filename ID number and searches for the image. The User then downloads the high resolution image,…

    2 votes

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  4. Let the user choose the colors of the Transparency Grid

    Sometimes the chessboard is too heavy in contrast, too dark, too light, too gray. Please add full flexibility.

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  5. The transparent areas of (point) text boxes should not be selectable.

    It is difficult / impossible to select any object below any portion of a (point type) text box, even when the area under the cursor is completely empty / transparent. In the attached screenshot examples, the pink line is not selectable because it is covered by a text box, even when there are no active pixels or vector data under the cursor within the text area. No other objects in Illustrator behave this way. Transparency is supposed to be non selectable. Illustrator treats the entire text box as an object with a fill, even though text boxes completely lack a…

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  6. Let me see how many paths are in my document once all the appearances are processed.

    I do a lot of crazy things with the Appearance palette. Sometimes it's really easy for me to start generating absolutely apocalyptic numbers of paths without realizing it, and make Illustrator start acting really weird in seemingly unrelated places.

    I would love it if the preview renderer (both cpu and gpu!) kept track of how many paths it is actually rendering once all the effects on all the paths in the documents are handled, and alerted me when I start getting into catastrophically huge numbers of paths. The threshold where this starts happening should be user-configurable, so it can be…

    2 votes

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  7. Add a option for leader or select leader button

    In this case of tabs, I wanna change the dot leader to be smaller and have more spacing, but I can not select multi tabs and change it at oncce.

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  8. Make Global Edit work in pattern mode

    If I need to replace all ducks in my pattern into chicken, I can surely use symbols... no, I can’t, these aren’t supported in patterns — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/51662026
    ...OK, I can use Global Edit... no, I can’t. It says nothing it can’t though, it just fails to find copies.
    Please make all things Ai has work with all other things Ai has.

    1 vote

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  9. Allow to use symbols in patterns

    Imagine I have a star used in several patterns.
    I want to replace it with a donut. I’d have to edit each pattern swatch that uses it and replace each star with a donut (I could have used Global Edit to make it faster, but surprise (no) — it doesn’t work in the pattern mode).

    And if we were allowed to use symbols in patterns, I could have select all the instances of the star in a pattern and quickly replace it with a donut symbol, or just change the core symbol instead, making a copy of it to have…

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  10. Change pattern colors, possibly with an Expand or Colorize effects

    If I have a design that uses a pattern, and I need to have the colors in this pattern to change, I’d have no choice but to create several copies of it and change colors in each one.

    It means that if I change a pattern later, I’d have to either change all the copies of the pattern, or repeat the changes in each copy of the original. And surely I can’t utilize global swatches for this, because duplicating one doesn’t work as expected. We don’t have proper variables to use also.
    Symbols won’t work in patterns (they get expanded…

    3 votes

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  11. Handle highlight like in Photoshop

    Why in Photoshop, a raster-based editor, we get Bezier handles getting highlighted when hovered over with Direct Selection tool, while in Illustrator, a vector-first editor, the wannabe-king of vector graphics, we get nothing?

    Just look at the GIFs.
    No, I won’t enable Smart Guides just to see 'handle' and a small 'x' that I barely see, along with all the other labeling and snapping.
    No, changing the style of handles to hollow doesn’t help.

    I’d trade all the Turntables in the world, along with all the GenAI moss you grow on the mighty carcass of Illustrator for this one and…

    1 vote

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  12. Make the color of Snap to Grid annotations different

    Some time ago Illustrator reworked snapping to grid to use the Smart Guides engine, to allow both to work at the same time (thanks to this request: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32421028), display annotations and more.

    But now we have two different snapping behaviors color-coded using the same color.
    Why Snap to Glyph allows to pick its own color, but Snap to Grid doesn’t?
    In a busy document and both snaps enabled, this would help to distinguish two systems easier.

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  13. Suppress messages with no choice in Actions

    I have a very simple action I created ages ago:
    — ungroup
    — release compound path
    — make compound path
    It’s a simple technical action, and I use it co convert single color outlined texts from a group into compound paths (because we never got an option to prefer compound paths for this when possible: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/33627964 and https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46559167)... why? Because these stay in one piece when exported to a PDF and imported in other apps, for example...

    But I digress. This simple was one of my earliest one, used so heavily I have it at F3.
    ...but when I…

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  14. Managing Plug-ins

    Isn't it about time Adobe offered a better solution to enabling and disabling plug-ins? A simple list with enable and disable option would suffice. It would really make debugging a lot quicker. Especially in Illustrator.

    3 votes

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  15. Add Blend effect for Appearance to blend adjacent attributes

    We need a blend fx in this Appearance to blend between 2 layers (may be fill or stroke), no need to create and blend separate objects with just different colors for this graphic effect

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  16. Allow smart guides to highlight the outline of an object or path snapped to

    Often when there are multiple objects in very close proximity to one another, determining which of those objects the active object is aligning to can be uncertain, especially when those close-proximity objects are small or their paths are very close.

    And when you are trying to align an object to another using smart guides as the reference, one might be aligning to the wrong object.
    That is why it is important to know exactly which object is being aligned to... Currently the pink line 'touches' at its endpoint, the object it's aligning to. This can be confusing when there are…

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  17. Adjust spacing between bullets and text

    Currently, the bullet-to-text gap is an automatic setting that cannot be controlled by the user, despite placing tab stops on the tabs ruler. There is no mechanism to control this either, in the paragraph tab. Whereas in apps like Word, the spacing can be adjusted between the bullet and text directly.

    2 votes

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  18. Show Artboard name on canvas in Outline mode too

    Thanks to this feature request () we got the ability to display numbers and names for artboards always, not only when the Artboard tool is picked... But it Outline mode these are absent — please fix it.
    Thanks to Dina Gundersen for the idea.

    5 votes

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  19. Let 'All Tools' close directly after a tool is activated by a double click.

    There is no need to keep it open when a tool is double clicked.

    2 votes

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  20. Arc from circle - Stroke or Fill

    I think it's time to implement the Circle to have sweep/ratio handles to ease with various infographics and artworks. Request is a Circle that can be "cut" to any place to create a stroke only semi circle or arc. Example below.

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