Font Family List Search Function
Font search function update a while back has 2 big issues.
1: The font family list sends you back up to the top when you want to find a new font. It used to send you to where that font lived in the list. Instead, it sends you back up to the top to "recent fonts."
2: When you search by typing in the font name ie: "helv..", you are given ever font style & weight in that family. It used to just list them out with little carrots next to the names and indicated how many styles it had with a (##).
Please allow users to revert back to the old font family list.
Anonymous
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There is a separate larger entry about the first problem: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-feature-requests/suggestions/33466396-make-recent-fonts-section-in-character-palette-w
I suggest you vote there. So far you can just disable the Recent Fonts section altogether to avoid the focus jumping back, by setting Number of Recent Fonts to 0 in Preferences > Type.As for the second problem — I don’t exactly recall when the results list got modified the way you describe it. I recall in CS6 and earlier it just had not the dynamic dropdown with the filtered results, it was just putting the closest match into the filed wile you type, basically autosuggesting. I find a new method more useful... Can you share more details on this — when do you remember Ai had it? Can you provide some screenshots?
Also — please try to log one problem per report/request. Clumping these together makes prioritization harder, and UV does not really support splitting.
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James Woods
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I cannot agree more with #1
It's so unproductive to have to repeatedly start a search again, each time you select a font.
