Keyboard Shortcuts "Export Text..." file missing tab delimiter under "Menu Commands"
Steps to repeat: go to Edit/ Keyboard Shortcuts/ "Export Text..."
Then import the text file as a tab delimited data file in a spreadsheet of your choice.
In Excel: go to Data/ Get Data/ From File/ From Text/CSV/, select the shortcuts txt file, set the delimiter to 'Tab' and click 'Load'.
Look down the rows and at the menu commands...
Expected behaviour:
Edit/ Keyboard Shortcuts/ "Export Text..." should give me a consistently tab delimited file. This means, in the spreadsheet you should see the shortcut in the next column to the command (same row).
Actual behaviour (on both Mac and PC) in Illustrator 26.0.2:
In the exported text file, entries under 'Tools' are tab delimited. However, entries under 'Menu Commands' have no delimiter. In the spreadsheet, the result is the shortcut is in the same cell as as the command name.
Impact: the file is useless... or I have to manually add tabs between each Shift, Alt, Ctrl, Cmd, Opt and F string. I can't easilly talk to our users accross Mac and PC about the shortcuts they should use for a given tool or command :(
Mark Nicoll
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Gerhard Zelenka commented
I can confirm that the TAB seperator is missing for all "Menu Commands" in Illustrator 2022 on both PC and Mac, and is making it difficult to use the exported documents without extensive editing every time the export is run.
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Mark Nicoll
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Another unhelpful characteristic of the shortcut text export is the waysome menu commands names have no context and are thus meaningless. So the 'release' command for compound path, blend and mask are all named the same thing: "Release". There are a number of other instances of this.
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Mark Nicoll
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On closer inspection, there are more errors. Shorcuts for the following tools are all correctly listed on Mac, but are incorrectly listed as blank when exported on Windows.
Blend
Dynamic Shapes Tool
Ellipse
Magic Wand
Slice
Smart Remove Brush Tool
Warp