Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Assets panel multiple selection with just mouse
I want to use mouse and "Ctrl" to select assets I want to export in Asset Export panel, with a frame / marquee. But I can't do that. Mouse works only as per 1 selection. Yes, I can hold "Ctrl" and click on different assets or use Shift to select some, but that not useful for me. Sometimes I want to select big groups of assets located at the beginning and end of the assets list, so I just want to hold "Ctrl" and play with mouse easily and fast by selecting any items.
It's like you just holding "Ctrl"…2 votes -
Show slices names
I'm looking for a simple but very useful option for slices:
"Show slice name"Currently in setting of Illustrator there are only option:
"Show slice numbers", - file attached.
But it's doesn't give me anything actually.
I've created names for each slice and I need to check these names visually, without need to select each slice and goto it slice settings..2 votes -
Illustrator Zeichenflächen
Es wäre wünschenswert, mehrere Zeichenflächen gleichzeitig markieren zu können. Außerdem mehrere ausgewählte zeichenflächen gleichzeitig verschieben zu können oder über das Ausrichten Werkzeug oder Koordinaten organisieren zu können.
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An option for the pen tool to behave like Photoshop
As a Photoshop user most of the time, I would find it would be much easier to have bezier curve anchors not delete themselves when closing a path or reselecting a path. It would also be great if nudging points with the arrow keys would not interrupt and unselect the current path.
Some preference to toggle these behaviors would be fantastic!
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Add a "starred" section in CC Libraries for the ability to save libraries at top of list (not just recent).
Currently, CC Libraries lists a selection of "recent" libraries used, and then lists libraries in alphabetical order.
Proposition: to create an option to "star" libraries in order to permanently save them in a section at the top (until "unstarred" and be removed from the starred list).
Why: Working at an agency, we are constantly cycling through a long list of libraries on a daily basis, and the libraries I have used most recently are not always the libraries I use most often. I am constantly scrolling through to find the library I need and it's almost never in the recent…
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'Click to copy value' button in Color doesn’t indicate the value gets copied clearly
I don’t like how the 'Click to copy value' button in Color panel is designed — when it gets pressed, it selects the value and that’s it. It makes us think we NEED to copy it, and the button just selects... other editors in similar or related conditions show a shy message or change the icon for the button, indicating the copying happened.
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registerKeyEventsInterest fundamentally broken in modern Illustrator (silent failure)
I am reporting a critical issue with the registerKeyEventsInterest API. In modern versions of Illustrator, this function is completely broken for global keystroke interception. Worse, it fails silently with no errors or feedback in the CEF console.
According to the CEP documentation, we should be able to pass a JSON string to this API to catch key events and stop the host app from swallowing them. But right now, calling csInterface.registerKeyEventsInterest() with a standard JSON payload does absolutely nothing.
If you set up a basic CEP panel, include CSInterface.js, and try to register interest in a global keystroke, the code…
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A way to measure the area used by the bounding box, not only shapes within
I noticed that there is a Measure by Area tool, but it measures the print area. We would like the area it forms that considers the selection rectangle.
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Allow to see what file has changes when opened/imported, and allow to bulk the choice
When I try to open several .ai documents at once (many at once), Ai warns me about the changes someone made to some of these.
...but it doesn’t show me clearly what document this warning refers to (no, look at the 'the current tab' is not clear enough) and won’t allow me to apply this choice to all the document I open, forcing me to click like dozens of times. This is murky and exhausting.1 vote -
Enable PSD in Export for Screens / Assets
Hi team! Can you add support for PSD in Export for Screens?
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Smart guides disappear when I switch to the eyedropper tool
I have had issues in the 2026 version of illustrator. The smart guides disappear when I choose the eyedropper tool.
After many hours of support with adobe, they found out it was a change that was introduced to the 2026 version, to improve overall application funtionality.
However my feedback to this, is shared with their engineering team, and they will further review this behavior.My hope is that they discard this new change, as the smart guides can be turned off totally, if you do not wish to use them, so I do not understand, why it should disappear on…
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Artboards panel scrolls too fast when using touchpad / trackpad
The fact that we have to test our timing when dragging the artboards to organize them in the Artboards panel is silly. I spent a whole minute trying to arrange the artboards for the storyboard with the trackpad. They should make the scrolling animation slower.
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Bug and unexpected shutdown without saving
It's been a couple times since unexpected errors happen when I'm working on Illustrator, it shutsdown, and the file doesn't save. This makes me quite mad because since I updated to the new 2026, bugs like this should not be happening but all the way around, happens quite often. On previous versions, when this happened, the files automatically saved but now, it does not.
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O tutorial da barra de ferramentas fica aparecendo a todo momento, atrapalhando a visualização e o fluxo do meu trabalho
O tutorial deveria apenas aparecer após a atualização conforme era antes. Agora aparece a todo momento, várias vezes durante o dia, isso atrapalha muito.
1 voteThere’s no automated condition Illustrator follows for this, we decide ourselves when to turn these off.
We can hide these hints by disabling the Show Rich Tool Tips option in the Preferences > General.
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Default Sort
Allow users to define what they want to see on the home page, and allow defaults to that definition to be saved. For example, in Version 29, when I open the program, it defaults to "Your Files" and they are sorted by "Name". Whenever I open the program, that's what shows. It's perfect for me. In Version 30, now that doesn't work. It opens to "Recent Files" and then I have to click "your Files" or "View All Files" for that to show. Then I have to click on the sort (because some genius changed the default to in the…
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Display fonts in a floating panel
Requesting a feature where fonts can be displayed as a floating panel.
And
1- Show the preview of the fonts on the right side inside "Font Selector" panel.
2- Ability to write the text inside "Font Selector" panel and display that text as a preview.
3- Following #2, Ability to drag the "custom text" + "desired font" from "Font Selector" panel to the Illustrator artboard
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OMC Optical Music Recognition
OMC Optical Music Recognition, where the software will automatically recognize scanned or digital photographs of music sheets and intelligently convert it to Adobe Illustrator Vector Graphics or postscript format so you can change the lyrics font to what ever font you want to use and even use an intelligent music tool to make adjustments and changes to the notes.
Just as I requested OCR technology in 1990 and it happened and how I told IBM that you should be able to make computers understand what you are saying by analyzing your sound waves of your speech so as to be…
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Cannot copy paste text from Illustrator generated PDF's
To reproduce the issue:
Create an Illustrator file
Create a new text frame, type anything and set font to Stratos (OTF) (as available from Adobe Fonts)
Export PDF through "Export for screens"
Trying to copy paste text failsThe issue occurs more precisely with characters that have glyphnames like uniXXXX.
Almost all characters in Stratos have uniXXXX names, even though they are present in the
AGL. So "A" has "uni0041" as glyphname.
We were under the assumption that uniXXXX glyph names were accepted.
The issue only seems to occur with .otf fonts.See the two attached PDF's for
251119-Stratos-ttf.pdf will…1 vote -
Neues Abo-Modell
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
ich würde Sie bitten ein Abo-Modell zu kreieren, welches auf einer täglichen Basis beruht. Hierbei sollen Anwender die Möglichkeit haben Einzelprogramme täglich zu abonnieren, um Ihre Kreativität entfalten zu können. Zielgruppe wären hierbei Kreativköpfe, welche nur sporadisch Zeit finden sich der Gestaltung zu widmen bzw. User denen das mtl. Abo zu teuer ist im Vergleich zum Preis-Nutzungs-Verhältnis und sich dadurch anderer Programme bedienen. Bei einem Modell das z.B. gegen eine Gebühr i.H.v. 1€/2€ pro Tag sich buchen lässt, hätten User welche eure Programme bislang nicht nutzen die Möglichkeit langfristig an euch gebunden zu werden. In…
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PLEASE add back in the ability to copy simple shapes that contain gradients from Illustrator to InDesign.
Copying simple shapes with simple gradients (not even complex gradient mesh) from Illustrator to InDesign has been a feature for as long as I've been using Adobe products and now, suddenly, in the 2026 versions, it's gone. Every time I try I get the error dialog attached. This is the most basic of functions and I don't understand why it's gone. I just got off the phone with Adobe Support who said "it's no longer supported". What? Why? Their solution was to save Illustrator objects as files and import/place them into InDesign, but that's not an ideal solution as those…
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