Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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- Why is this valuable to you?
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pathfinder: show preview on hover
An improvement in the pathfinder tools palet.
Show a preview of the result on hover and execute the pathfinder command on click.
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Take off the text on the Home Screen
Take off the text that says things like "Let's Design Great Graphics Today, [Your Name]"
It is very irritating to a designer to get a pep talk from his software. It comes across as patronizing.
It discourages use of the software because it is irritating. Please make this minor cosmetic adjustment and either take off the text completely, or simply say "Welcome to Illustrator."
Thank you
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Crop Image tool
With the Crop image tool, it would be nice if the initial crop bounds were to the exact size of the selected image. Right now when you select an image to crop, it creates a random selection, that requires more work than if the crop selected the outer bounds of the image instead of a small selection.
1 voteEric, this behaviour is regulated in Preferences > General > Enable Content Aware Defaults.
Notice that checking this off will also disable auto-placing of color stops in Freeform Gradients and of, pins in Puppet Warp.
If you want to be able to regulate these separately, perhaps you might want to vote for this request:
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Expand selection
when I have something selected, I can shift+option click the art board somewhere else to expand my selection box and select everything between.
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More desciptive warning
When switching to CMYK in the New Document panel, a yellop triangle with an exclamation mark appears.
Why? No further info is given.1 vote -
Please Warn when saving working file to PDF without AI edibility
I was working on a file for half the day - making layers, groups and text styles. I had it all the way I wanted it, ready to add some translated text tomorrow. I saved and closed, not realizing that the original file I opened was a PDF that had be saved without Illustrator editing.
The result was that everything was collected into one layer with nested clipping paths, and all my carefully formatted text was broken apart. (a few random lines were even converted to outlines)
Yes, it's my fault for not saving as AI at the start of…1 vote -
File Management
Hi, it would be a great feature in Illustrator if you could see at a glance where the illustrator file is linked eg Indesign or Framemaker.
This would help massively and save considerable time when updating files that use the same linked Illustrator file.
Thank you
Phil Crowcroft
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J'ai mon programme illustrator CS5 je veux avoir la mise à jour comment faire mon No de série est(1034-0003-1551-4264-8387-4735) j'attend de vos nouvelles ou votre aide SVP
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What has happened to the white selection tool?? I can no longer select or manipulate objects with it?
How do you use the white selection tool now? It is not working like it used to and I can not do anything with it?
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Make international monetary symbols work with fonts already!! Its almost 2020!
Many of the international monetary symbols will not work in adobe illustrator without work arounds, but ℳ this symbol wont work in illustrator no matter what I do. What gives?
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Artboard masks
For me the artboard should mask to the edge of the page or to the bleed, I don't want to see any content beyond the edge of the artboard on the pasteboard. The Trim preview is not really suitable for working as then I can't see the pasteboard.
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export past 2400 pixels
print on demand vendors take files up to and beyond 6500 pixels, for blankets and curtains and such. illustrator isn't just for web/mobile devices.
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hotkey to instantly export all artboards
something like, alt+ctrl+shift+e to instantly export all the selected artboards using the options in the artboard menu to PNGs (or, well, whatever you selected)
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Enable multiple paint bucket selections at once
I use the paint bucket feature quite a bit on architectural drawings. One area of every drawing I work on has thousands of very small areas ... and I currently have to zoom in to make sure I fill every tiny closed area. It would be great if I could select a whole area (that included hundreds of smaller closed areas that I wanted to paint all the same color) ... and then color them all at once. This would save me (my company) 100 hours a week or more. Hope you can add this feature!!
Mike
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Author's metadata with new Illustrator file
Simplified way to add author to the file. Maybe even link to the CC account.
Sometime we have question from sales department Who made this file i found in my inbox? But we do not remember:) The simplest way of course is auhors metadata. It could be handled in a way color profiles are handled, or similar.1 vote -
Option to define layer/ sublayer behavior
Every time I open an old file all the sub-layers are collapsed
Even though a lot of people wish for the option to auto collapse the sub-layers, I personally work a lot with them expanded.
Hence my wish to have the option to set the behavior of the layers with sub-layers either auto-opened or collapsed (or as saved like last edit)
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Notify me to update to the newest version when I'm not using the program
I often get the notification to update Illustrator when I'm in the middle of a project. I'd be more apt to update if I received the notification when I am not using the program.
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Add Fresco to the wishform
Add Fresco to the http://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html
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Perspective tool should work on ANYTHING.
You should be able to use the Perspective tool on ANYTHING. Many other packages allows you to put a perspective on editable text!! The same goes for Bitmap Images.... You should be able to but a box around ANYTHING and use the perspective tool on it. Why-O-Why do we have to convert text to curves to be able to put perspective on it??? Once it has perspective you Should be able to edit the text and keep the perspective on it!!!!
Illustrator is Still Way Behind Other Similar Packages...
Thanks
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Combine Illustrator and InDesign into a one stop tool.
Would it be that much of a stretch? I'm, seriously, curious.
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