Transparency / Opacity Mask - In layers pallet page item names look different with masks (underline) and opacity masks (dashed). It would be great if you could add this to properties of the page item like mask: none, opacity mask or mask. Identifying these objects is even harder then Envelopes which can only be identified by identifying as plugin object. Worst case putting info in the tag propery would be better then nothing when cresating it. I do not believe a opacity mask can be identified through any form of SDK/Script which makes identifying raster images in the file impossible. The other option would be to have the raster item still listed when it is part of opacity mask. Also on this site an option should be all so that not SDK/Script specific.

I've been reading through the new information about UXP and the announcement that it will be replacing CEP.

If this happens it will likely mean the end of our current CEP extension, since the support provided in UXP does not cover our use case. To be specific we have problems with the following areas:

1) Most critical UXP is "not a browser" and as such will only support a subset of HTML. Our extension relies on being able to run another web application within the browser control supplied by CEP, in an iframe window. While there is currently no list of supported HTML, it seems likely that iframe will not be a supported HTML element.

This will break our CEP extension.

2) No support for persistent panels. Currently there is only support for Modal Dialogs, which are expect to be invoked and then closed. Our CEP extension relies upon a persistent control, which the user logs into once.

3) In ability to access the user file system, in particular the Download directory. This will break a few features in our application which rely on being able to read information from this directory.

In the recent version of Illustrator, I have severe problems with the simple task of rotating and scaling objects. The distanse I need to hold my selector/cursor from the object, relative to the indication I need to know weather I'm about to rotate, scale, or even add radius to a corner is far to sensitive for me. And with a "mouse-hand"/ or pen hand (not sure if thats the right term in English) it get quite annoying. I always have to zoom in quite a lot to do this simple and frequent operation. Not sure if anyone else have this problem, or any hints or tips if I do anything wrong. Should be quite an easy thing to fix for the Adobe team no? I remember I did not have this problem before your updates contained the corner radius feature..... (perhaps also the wrong forum as I have o idea about programming, scripts... so sorry for this

Hello,

I'm working on an Illustrator plugin to help visualise bezier curve continuity. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/rxgqDJL.png

I wanted to ask if there's a way to update artwork annotations as the user drags a bezier path control point? Currently my plugin only updates the annotation drawing once you let go.

I assume this is possible because Illustrator seems to be able to do it for showing useful information such as alignment as you edit curves.

Some extra technical details in case it helps... :)

I started this project using the Annotator example project from the sdk as a starter.

In my plugin I have a method to listen for events and then draw annotations using the sAIAnnotatorDrawer api:

ASErr AnnotatorPlugin::Message(char caller, char selector, void* message)

I've registered a notifier for the kAIArtSelectionChangedNotifier event:

sAINotifier->AddNotifier(fPluginRef, "AnnotatorPlugin", kAIArtSelectionChangedNotifier, &fNotifySelectionChanged);

So, it seems using kAIArtSelectionChangedNotifier only notifies my plugin once the control points have finished moving?

Is it possible to be notified as the control points are still being moved i.e. as the mouse is dragged? Also, can I get the state of the in-progress curve being edited?

Any help is appreciated, thank you! 😊

I don't know what category this goes into because I'm not a developer. You could at least provide categories for users instead of for developers. Your program is extremely frustrating to use. It's not designed to be very user friendly. I wish Macromedia Freehand were still around, because I would be using it instead of Illustrator. I have an alignment error that happens when I select all and then use the "align to horizontal center" and "align to vertical center". I have complained about this before and no one replied to it. Since I am paying monthly for access to this "supposed high level" program, it would be nice if it actually worked the way it's supposed to. You charge people access fees when you still don't have the program perfected. We should be charging you for helping you fix it instead.

AI 21.0.0 2017 Release

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New Document (defaults: print, letter)

T for text tool, click in document, type "test text"

cmd-return to exit

in Color palette click anywhere in color bar to change text color

in Paragraph Styles palette, click the new style icon to create "Paragraph Style 1"

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run script "bugreport"

results:

fillColor: [CMYKColor]

strokeColor: [NoColor]

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select the "test text" text

press "X" to change the color palette from fill to stroke

click anywhere in the color bar to give the text a colored stroke

in Paragraph Styles palette, select "Redefine Paragraph Style" from the menu

run script "bugreport"

results:

fillColor: [CMYKColor]

strokeColor: [CMYKColor]

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double click on "Paragraph Style 1" in the Paragraph Styles palette to modify it

under Character Color, change the stroke to [None], and click OK

run script "bugreport"

results:

fillColor: [CMYKColor]

strokeColor: [CMYKColor]

The results are erroneous: the strokeColor should be [noColor] as it was in the first run.

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