Panels Keep Opening While Using Shortcuts
Panels on the top of the screen keep opening when I try using tool shortcuts. For example, I'll be on the type tool then want to switch to the move tool but when I hit its shortcut (V) it opens the view panel instead (I get that this one doesn't work if I have type selected but I mean when nothing's selected and I want to arrange my type it opens the view panel instead of changing tools). Not sure if this is a common problem but it never happened until the latest update.
Not sure why there are always app updates that only seem to implement a few new things but then leave each app riddled with bugs that could've easily been avoided. Another one that bothers me is it doesn't save my brushes/brush settings when I close the app - which somewhat makes sense when you want specific brushes on each project BUT if I made my own brush group that I use frequently I'm kind of going to want that rather than the stock brushes, only a few of which are actually useful for my work.
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Compatibility keys for accessing menus are a good thing, but this little bug sometimes happens. It feels like on Windows the Alt key is sometimes treated as still being pressed, and that’s forces Ai think that you try to hit Alt+V instead of V, and that’s what opens the View menu instead of picking the Selection tool.
This happens not only in Illustrator, but in some other apps, including Photoshop. I haven’t yet figured out why and when it happens.As for the brushes, it’s pretty simple once you grasp how these work in Ai.
All presets are local, and are saved within the file: brushes, symbols, swatches, styles, etc.
To have a certain set to appear in each new document you create (ore remove some you don’t use), you’d have to customize existing document profiles Illustrator bases new documents on, or create your own. Here is a simple guide: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/create-custom-new-document-profile.html
Just don’t forget to backup customized originals, since Ai resets them each major update. It should not change your custom profiles, but still back up them.Another way would be to make a persistent local library.
Put the brushes you want in a document, save it on disk, then go to Brushes panel, to its flyout menu, and call for Open Brush Library > Other Library. Choose your saved document with brushes, and then in the opened panel’s menu choose Persistent, to make it stay forever. Then each clicked preset will get loaded into Brushes and get stored into the current document. This approach helps to reduce the document’s size — remember, all local assets and presets are stored within the file, and this bloats the size.Hope this helps.
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