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  1. DATA MERGE . File Names from CSV

    REPEATEDLY NOTICED NOT YET AVAILABLE FEATURE
    It would be tremendously helpful, if we could name exported files via the CSV-file used for data merge, so we can have actual full names, instead „Data Set 1“, … „Data Set 217“.

    ISSUE
    Data Merge exports are being exported without customized file names, which is a major time issue, when dealing with large scale data merge exports.

    SUGGESTED SOLUTION
    Giving users in the VARIABLES -> VARIABLE OPTIONS menu the option to assign „FILE NAME“ to a variable via TYPE, and make this accessible to the ACTIONS when exporting via BATCH.

    WHY
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  2. Industrial feedback

    My customers REQUIRE all our reruns of our labels to be the same. The color, the fonts, everything. Continuous reissuing of new versions of Illustrator makes this very time consuming and difficult. Most important, often our pressmen (with 50+ years of experience between the two) will not know something has changed until printed.

    An industrial press uses about 12 feet of material before the first label even prints, making this a HUGE material and time waster in a busy print house.

    Either fix your colors once and stop or tell us PRIOR to release of the changes so that…

    2 votes

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  3. Modifier key on apple pencil

    It would be nice if on the apple pencil you could assign the Modifier circle to the Double tap button on the Apple pencil.

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  4. Enhancing Symbols in Adobe Illustrator

    Dear Adobe Illustrator Team,

    I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to express my appreciation for the incredible work you've done with Adobe Illustrator and to request a feature enhancement that I believe would greatly benefit the user experience. Specifically, I would like to propose improvements to the Symbols feature, focusing on the ability to change the values of instances, such as text or color, and the inclusion of multiple predefined values, such as night and day themes. Additionally, I would like to suggest improvements to the 9-slice feature, making it more responsive and adaptable to different…

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  5. stroke width tool more defined errors with conflicting properties.

    There are several things that do not allow the use of the "stroke width tool", like brushes, or having the stroke non aligned to the center... but right now the tool gives no hint about what is the issue, and why is not working.
    What about giving you a more specific error, and showing the option to dissable this conflicting property. (if you cannot work around the stroke width in this circumstances.)

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  6. "Select Same Fill/Opacity/Appearance/etc" in Freeform Gradients

    I work in printing, we just got 15 files in using freeform gradients where the majority of the gradient is 80% opacity and the edges of the shapes are 10% opacity. After printing samples, the customer has decided to change the 80% to 100%. Normally, this is very quickly executed with solid colors and within gradient meshes by selecting one object or point and choosing "select same opacity" from the menu. But this feature is not available in the freeform gradients. I now have the task of individually changing the opacity on over 1500 points across all of the…

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  7. space through characters

    Like old Macromedia Freehand, It has a mouse drag and hot key to increase the space characters

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  8. Swatches panel easier cleanup/delete and Recolor Artwork tool

    • Have delete options for swatch library in drop down or drag/drop to trash.

    • Enable delete option in user defined menu to clean up old/saved swatches no longer needed and organize alphabetically or enable us to drag/drop folder within panels for easier regrouping.

    • Also allow swatches folders to drag/drop to other open windows/working open files.

    • Allow us to customize our main Swatch panel without having to delete the AI standard swatches every time (but not delete them either just customize or minimize/hide the preset colors).

    • Recolor tool: enable a way to select a recolor option (or tag multiple options…

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  9. I want the behavior to be the same

    For Japanese version of Illustrator, I want Indesign to have the same selection range when adjusting the line spacing.

    I sometimes get confused because each behaves differently in the same selection.

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  10. ability to escape when Illustrator "hangs"

    Please give one the ability to get out of a "hang" without force quitting the app. Escape key would be a great place!

    Please consider.

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  11. arrows not working (left, up, right, down)

    My navigation arrows aren't working for moving objects incrementally and using along with the shift key to make larger incremental movements of objects.

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  12. Save and load a set of layers like paragraph or character styles

    When working within a specific company's branding guidelines, EVERY document I create has the same set of layers: background, background key art, copy, brand, foreground key art, etc. It would be so great and really streamline doc creation and continuity to be able to load a "set" of layers in a new or open doc.

    I've tried using the template feature, but each doc could be a different set of specs and it would be most beneficial to be able to just bulk-create layers or load a "Company X Brand Guide" layer set.

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  13. Scale with constrained proportions

    Give me a key combo with the scale tool to constrain proportions.

    The diagonal motion doesn't cut it. I'm doing very detailed work and there is no indicator if the proportions are actually locked or not. Very frustrating.

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  14. symmetry

    This is more of a feature request for Project Gemini rather than Illustrator but I made the mistake of assuming that "Photoshop for the iPad" would obviously come equipped with the symmetry tool available in Project Gemini but I understand now the consequences of assuming. I tend to use Adobe Draw for most the majority of my work for those nice hard illustrator friendly vector lines. I often try and just draw half of a character and then duplicate flip and merge together but this never really works quite the way I'd like it to. So, basically what I'm trying…

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  15. Add a Delayed Render toggle and Render button to reduce re-renders

    Performance suggestion: as a panel, every adjustment causes the object to re-render, so fine-tuning the settings takes a long time. Maybe put a Render button on bottom with an on/off toggle switch labeled something like Delayed Render. Kind of like how Excel does it with Pivot Table updates.

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  16. Text does not change the size of it when increased the size of the text box anymore

    Since the updates, the text size does not increase proportionally (holding the SHIFT Key down), or non-proportionally when re-scaled the text box, I loved that feature and I'd request you to bring that feature back.

    Thanks and regards,

    Arieona Burse

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  17. "Alternate" Grid by keyboard shortcut

    In technical drawings (but not only), sometimes we temporarily need a finer grid (more subdivisions) just for a couple of work steps, after which we return to the original (larger) grid.
    It is painful that for this we always have to go and change Illustrator Preferences (back and forth).

    Feature suggestion:
    In Illustrator Preferences make it possible to define two different grid subdivision values: "default" and "alternate".
    The "alternate" grid is such that it becomes active immediately when holding a specific keyboard combination (e.g. ALT key) while drawing.
    As soon as the keyboard key combination is released, the grid returns…

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  18. I have ideas to improve the tools in Adobe Illustrator or to create an independent application to write arabic calligraphy

    I was looking to contact Adobe team, i am an artist and calligrapher and graphic designer for more than 30 years.

    I have ideas to improve the tools in Adobe Illustrator or to create an independent application to write arabic calligraphy to make a wonderfull peices of art using arabic calligraphic letters.

    Also i have a library for more than 100 vector of this type of art which done by Adobe Illustrator, i held an exhibition in Amman-Jordan.

    I hope to show this art (calligraphics) through Adobe, this type of art collabroation of hand drawn and brushes in Adobe…

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  19. Why was the copy and paste function forcibly changed?

    Why do you guys change my personal settings?

    Please don't change my settings under the pretext of updating. Do you know how disturbed we are when arbitrarily changing the settings of existing users to receive new users?

    Until yesterday, the option key + arrow direction was copy. But now I've changed the option key + arrow to change the line and space of the letter. What are you doing? I was annoyed because I kept updating like this before, but I can't stand it. Why do you change the existing user's setting so recklessly?

    Do you know how long this…

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    Alt/Option+arrow changes kerning when a selection has only text objects within and makes a copy when you have a textless selection.
    In much older versions pressing these for mixed selections (text + non-text) used to change kerning too, but do make a copy now instead, but no changes were made recently to revert it.

  20. Add a "Ctrl +E" to illustrator for quick export

    InDesign has a "Ctrl+ E" for quick export instead of going down the menu bar and selecting it. Can illustrator put in a "Ctrl + E" for export. this is a annoyance since I'm exporting to jpg and tif formats all of the time from Illustrator for photoshop image adjustment

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