Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests
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Your UX Team Should Be Fired
Feature Request:
When I click an "X" that clearly indicates close. Close the thing! Your UX team should be fired.1 vote -
Scrollable tabs and more usable Layers panel
I would like if the Ai interface was less "cluttered" and "manual" to use.
Specifically, as in the case of having many tabs open than they fit in the viewport, I have to click on the double chevrons (>>) to only be able to open one file at a time. Rather, would you guys consider making it scrollable? Or have the Layers panel open like Adobe Xd (aids renaming and hiding/locking)?
As for a more "usable" Layers panel, I would appreciate if the panel could make it easier to name and select layers. For example, if I have an item…
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Repeats in Illustrator
Please share your thoughts on this feature here. What can be improved?
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MAKE. THE. HANDLER. BIGGER
make that tiny little ANCHOR and HANDLER bigger. I'm tired of failing to click that tiny rectangle every single second. PLEASE. I BEG YOU
1 voteThe size of handles can be changed in Preferences > Selection & Anchor Display, using the Size slider.
As for the selection tolerance for these — the problem with it is known and reported in a separate bug report: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/20358952-selection-tolerance-for-selecting-handles
Please vote if you want to get it fixed.
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file>export>export as... still lists Flash as an option
How long ago was Flash rebranded to Animate? Five years now?
The "Flash (SWF)" option in the Export As... dialogue should be "Animate (SWF)".
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Measurements are not working correctly
If you want to make a new path with 100mm x 100 mm in dimensions and and do that via the transform palette then the path shows an incorrect size (100,013 mm x 100,009 mm) but only if the path has an outline. If there is just a colour filling then the measurement is correct.
That should be corrected quickly.OS X 10.15.6, Illustrator 24.2.3
1 voteThere's an option 'Used Preview Bounds' for that in Preferences, which toggles the behavior. When it’s on, Illustrator includes stroke weight into dimensions, and does not when it’s off.
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レイヤの表示状態を保存するカスタム表示の機能向上
カスタム表示を一度設定したあとに、レイヤを追加したり分けたりすることが多々あります。その都度、一度「表示の編集」から削除して「新規表示」に追加しなければならず、手間がかかります。AutoCADにも同じようにレイヤの表示状態を保存する機能がありますが、あちらは一度設定したあとでも表示状態を変更して同名で保存すれば上書きができますし、名前をつけた設定ごとに表示状態の編集もできます。大変便利です。
ここまで出来なくとも良いので、せめて同名で保存した場合の上書き機能を付けてほしいです。1 vote -
Is it possible to get a preview screen of your document when you look at your recently opened documents
I always really like the previews when you open illustrator. Once you opened one document you can not look at the previews anymore, because you have to select a recently opened document via the file menu. This means you have to rely on your names, which can get confusing when you have multiple version of one document.
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you guys have so destroyed illustrator!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you guys have so destroyed illustrator!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Spell check artboard navigation
Please allow Illustrator to visually navigate across artboards to show the suspect word when spell checking.
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please add object selection tool like photoshop
The features I am looking for
*subject tracing like Photoshop and masking like Photoshop and bring it to illustrator.
*add more brush tools like Photoshop
add tools and layer finder like photoshop1 vote -
Unit Conversion
It would so sick if there was a shortcut command for unit conversion, ex mm to in, or pixel to inch
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Crop command embedding linked images
I would be thankful if linked images remain linked (instead of being embedded after using the crop command). I would like to believe that this can be made possible. This is the normal behaviour in other graphic design software.
1 voteIf you want to keep a cropped image as a live linked image, you should Clip it instead. Press the Mask button (in Control or Properties panel) and Ai will create and select a rectangular path with the same dimensions. Transform this path with any tool you like or with the bounding box, and the image inside will remain unembedded.
Crop command, on the other hand, is intended specifically for 'physical' cropping, and since Ai won’t edit the original placed image, it gets embedded and then cropped.
Just use the method you need.
Please comment back if it works for you.
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Update linked assets for large number of files
I have an asset in CC Libraries that I used in 50+ ai files. Those ai files are then used in a layout in InDesign. If i change the asset in CC Libraries I would like a way to force an update of that asset to all those AI files so that the update propagates through to my InDesign layout.
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Intuitive drawing: "Pencil tool" in mode adding "Blob brush tool"
Hi,
I would like to be able to draw, draw and model using the Pencil Tool in edit mode like the "Blob brush tool".
Eg.
1 • Pencil Tool. I draw any shape.
2 • I mark this shape and draw another one
3 • The effect is the automatic joining of these shapes into one summary.Such a simple, fast and intuitive way to draw ketor shapes for the cartoonist.
Attention.
• Drawing with the "Blob brush tool" is a different shape effect without sharp lines. Eg saw. E.g. lasts or coat or hair cartoons.
• drawing many objects…1 vote -
Option for drag select to ignore text paths
Whenever I am working on an artboard for brand identity, I have a lot of text paths on objects. Whenever I try to click and drag over an element, it ALSO grabs the path of the text, which I do not want. Is there a way to only click and drag over the elements you want to touch without having to lock the text paths?
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Make the GPU renderer realize when it is grinding to a halt and turn itself off automatically.
The GPU renderer is great. If you're on a machine with a hefty GPU. If you're not throwing a bunch of bitmaps and/or bitmap effects at it. If you're not working with a lot of overlaid transparency.
If one or more of these is false, it starts slowing down the preview rendering. And not by microseconds. I have files that render the preview a little sluggishly, but still usably, with the CPU renderer, and take minutes to update with the GPU renderer.
I myself have permanently turned off the GPU renderer, as I regularly fail all three of these ifs…
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Smart guides to work with artboard
I suggest enabling smart guides when you work with artboards as well, feels like it should help with workflow.
1 voteSmart Guides can be used to align artboards almost the same as other shapes. If you have a feature request or a bug report on the behavior you don’t like about — please upvote an existing one or make a new one.
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