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  1. Text Grammar Correction

    Text Content Correction
    spell mistake correction

    2 votes

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  2. Make Eyedropper to highlight text when painting formatting

    If you are holding Option/Alt with the Eyedropper you can 'paint' formatting onto text. At the moment you can't see exactly where this is applying though until you release the click. In Indesign, it highlights the text you are painting. It should be the same in Illustrator.

    This is important for formatting large piece of text, and with the lack of ability to use keyboard shortcuts when text is selected, this feature is even more important.

    5 votes

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  3. Add option to create vector graphics from text

    Add option to create vector graphics from text with firefly

    6 votes

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    The feature is added in the latest builds of Illustrator. The development of it is not complete yet, and the team has more plans on making it better for users to help them with their creative projects.

    If you have specific requests related to it, leave them in comments below or log separately.

  4. Editable text in dimensions

    Please let designer edit the text inside the dimensions. Sometimes for mockup purpose is not possible to set a proper scale and if you place a dimension obviously the size has to be changed. Now you need to expand the aspect to let the text be editable. It would be great if the text can be editable by default.
    There is no worries for people with right scales since the value will be correct, but it will be a smart edit for others who have to change it.

    3 votes

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  5. Allow Global Edit to work with Text, Clip groups, Images, etc.

    Would love to see advance global editing. I've noticed that grouped, clip masked and text doesn't work with global editing. This will really speed things up for all adobe illustrator user.

    17 votes

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  6. Paste / repeat symbols / objects into a text along a path

    In Indesign you can copy a path and paste it into a text field, including along a path. This is great because if you paste it repeatedly you can then adjust it like you would with type eg changing height and width, spacing etc.

    I would like to be able to do the same in illustrator.

    30 votes

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    Illustrator Beta now offers a dedicated Objects on Path construct to allow some basic distribution operations for selected objects and a chosen path. So far it allows uniform distribution only, global rotation and global pivot control, widget to control these on canvas, attaching and detaching (including isolation operations).

    This is not an extension of Type on Path, but a separate type of object. The text can be used with it, but will be treated as a separate object, not per-character.

    I assume some would be happy to have it and get it improved later. Pasting an object into a text, however, is still a needed thing, and is a different request — Inline Graphics / Anchor Object to text ability (like InDesign) — please upvote it if you find it useful.

    As for this new object type — kindly try in Illustrator Beta and provide your feedback, so the team…

  7. Improved text editing while within an envelope

    Currently if you want to edit text that's inside an envelope, depending on how warped it is, it can be difficult to edit the text directly. The workaround is to 'release' the envelope in the 'Envelope Distort' menu, edit the text, then reapply the text to the envelope using 'Make with top object'. Perhaps improve the text editing to match the shape and size of the envelope or have a popup window that displays the text in normal format and edit it that way.
    In my example, the black boxes is the original text but editing has proved difficult.

    3 votes

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  8. Make Isolate Selected Object work with text (point, area, on path)

    Ai does not allow to isolate a text object.
    We can workaround it by grouping it first, isolating, selecting all and ungrouping — but why execute these many useless operation instead of one?
    Please make it possible.

    17 votes

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  9. Firefly Text to Image and Text Effects inside illustrator

    Text to Vector is Awesome, will be nice to have Firefly Text to Image and Text Effects directly in illustrator, so we can preview our generations with other compositing assets in canvas.

    Maybe a Firefly Panel, where we can choose what we want to generate, vector, image, or text effect.

    1 vote

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  10. A tool for Text Selection

    I want a text selection tool similar to lasso select (see the screenshot). It can help to edit text portions in paragraph.

    2 votes

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  11. Resizing Area Type using Transform or Properties panel should not transform text inside

    When you try to set a size for an Area Type text in the Transform pane, it currently distorts the text along with changing the size of the area. This strikes me as inconsistent with resizing the area from the bounding box resize handles, and also undesirable (am I missing a use-case where you'd want the text to be distorted in this situation?)

    I recently became aware there are width/height inputs in Type > Area Type Options but these are cumbersome.

    I propose the Width / Height inputs in the Transform pane behave as in Area Type Options.

    13 votes

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  12. Cannot group Text objects with right-click

    Illustrator CC2018 (22.1)
    Windows 10 and Mac OSX High Sierra 10.13.3

    When I select two or more Text objects (point, area, etc.), I cannot group them using right-click (it works

    It works with other objects, or with Text and other objects, but not when all my selections are only Text objects.

    Once grouped (with CMD-G for example), it is possible to ungroup them with right-click, though.

    4 votes

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  13. Make an option to show text sections with 'No break' applied to them

    'No break' is a goo thing to have, but it's invisible even when Hidden Characters are on. Make something for those who have to work with text in AI to see these sections

    19 votes

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  14. Separate rasterization of text and non-text features in imported pdf

    Hello,
    would it be possible to implement a pdf import feature where text is maintained as vector text, but the other compartments are rasterized to make large files generated from Analysis software (e.g. heatmap) better to handle.
    Thank you
    Johannes

    2 votes

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  15. Check Spelling function should ignore placeholder 'Lorem ipsum' text

    The automatically generated placejolder text should not be picked up by the 'Check Spelling' function

    6 votes

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  16. Add a text highlight feature that stays with the text, i.e., like an underline.

    We do trial/legal visuals that often have highlighted text. We currently either draw a box that is yellow and transparent or widen a line with a multiply transparency and if text is added or deleted, the highlight has to be manually redone.

    3 votes

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  18. 29.7.1 bug with TEXT

    -Paragraph text- There is an issue with text in the latest version. Illustrator seems to be loosing text attributes, weight etc.

    1 vote

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  19. Auto synchronised text boxes for copy

    Have two or more separate text boxes synchronise to the same text when either one is edited.

    When creating numerous different sized online banner advertisements, each with multiple copy variations, it would be beneficial if I could synchronise the copy of one across all creative versions.

    3 votes

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  20. Text frame coordinates are different "before undo" and "after redo"

    Version: Illustrator 29.7.1 (but occurs in earlier versions as well)

    Problem:
    Text frame coordinates become inconsistent after undo and redo.

    Reproduction Steps:
    1. Create point text with two or more paragraphs
    2. Move arbitrarily (required)
    3. Resize (using the dialog of Scale tool)
    4. Undo
    5. Redo
    In the above steps, the result of step 5 is different from the result of step 3.

    Desired Result:
    Steps 3 and 5 must match

    〈にほんご〉
    「取り消しの前」と「やり直しの後」でテキストフレームの座標が異なる

    バージョン:Illustrator 29.7.1(しかし以前のバージョンでも発生する)

    問題:
    取り消し,やり直し の操作でテキストフレームの座標が狂う。

    再現手順:
    1 2つ以上の段落を有するポイントテキストを作成
    2 任意に移動(必須)
    3 拡大・縮小(ダイアログで行う)
    4 取り消し
    5 やり直し
    以上の手順で、手順5の結果は3の状態と異なる。

    望ましい結果:
    手順3と5が一致していること

    30 votes

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