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  1. Start a new line by clicking on the pen tool and/or support deselect with Apple Pencil 1

    Thank you for bringing Illustrator to the iPad! I've been drawing with Illustrator since AI 3, happy to see it mobile so I can draw on the go.

    I love the pen tool, but I want to draw more than one line with it. Normally I would deselect a line to start the next one, but my Apple Pencil 1 does not support a double tap (to deselect), and tapping twice in rapid succession doesn't seem to be the same as a double tap. It seems like it should, but I can't get it to work.

    Clicking on the pen…

    5 votes

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  2. Full Trackpad Support

    The ability to properly scroll the art board and custom cursor icons to identify what tool I’m using.

    9 votes

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  3. Hitting Tab to hide tools/palettes

    Working on the iPad’s small screen would be so much nicer if the tools and palettes could be hidden/shown by pressing tab, instead of having to constantly close the fly out palettes.

    1 vote

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  5. Swatches - Gradient, Pattern, and Etc

    Would be really nice to see swatches in a tab of its own, Currently it’s a little awkward to navigate through the small window and the swatches are very small making color combos difficult to distinguish. We’re also missing all the glory or gradient, pattern and misc swatches that are available on the desktop. Bring em to the iPad please :) !

    In addition a shortcut “i” for eyedropper tool would be great (or some version that is more aligned with the desktop possibilities and easy to grab color)

    17 votes

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  6. Knife / Slice & Scissor tools

    Available under the “erase” tool just as they are on the desktop. Or make a shortcut key to erase in straight lines, currently there isn’t an easy way to break paths.

    29 votes

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  7. Full screen preview shortcut / Artboard Panning / Rearrange Artboards

    Currently there isn’t a way to view artboards in a preview mode without the background clutter (would be the equivalent of “Shift +F” shortcut on desktop). There also isn’t a way to rearrange or pan through or your art boards, as you would do via the arrow keys on the desktop version.

    Aligning the viewing shortcuts with the desktop version would make viewing and navigating the IPad version so much easier!

    4 votes

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  8. Add option to Increase Canvas Bounds/Pasteboard Size

    Add option to Increase Canvas Bounds/Pasteboard Size like InDesign.

    For example, in InDesign you can navigate to Preferences > Guides & Pasteboard and set the size of the pasteboard. This is particularly handy in Illustrator when resizing or requiring more space for more artboards.

    3 votes

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  9. Export vector to cloud library

    The ability to select geometry and Export as Symbol, this would then be available to Capture/CC libraries.

    5 votes

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  10. add Width Tool, Rotate Canvas, Swatches, Align To, Overlap, Desktop options in Isolation Mode

    I look at Vectornator and Procreate and I saw how complex and user friendly Thayer were able to make their apps as a substitute for Adobe Illustrator now being iPad friendly. I used them to substitute what Adobe didn’t provide on iPad. Now we have it and it is NOT NEARLY close to what the other apps have accomplished and they are without half the staff and workmanship power Adobe provides. I don’t believe we can have excuses with this... too long a wait and I expect you would not need so much suggestions to make right what you already…

    6 votes

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  11. Create colour library to use on all documents in the app

    Apparently this is not yet available to do. For designers that can only use certain colours on print products this is very frustrating

    4 votes

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  12. Import SVG

    Illustrator for iPad doesn’t support importing SVGs. It should.

    9 votes

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  13. Additional desktop keyboard shortcuts

    Just a few more artboard navigation shortcuts such as:
    CMD 0: fit artboard on screen.
    SPACE and drag to move artboard on screen.

    For those of us with ipad pros who are migrating to using ipads more frequently than our laptops, this would make illustrator a much more authentic design tool.

    7 votes

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  14. Tool to cut objects

    it would be nice if have a knife or a cut tool to chop off parts of a object

    5 votes

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  15. Export just one artboard

    Can’t export just one artboard. Have to export all of them.

    27 votes

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  16. Move rotation anchor point

    I want to be able to snap a straight line segment to a point on the grid and then to be able to select that point to repeat / rotate.

    To illustrate - create a line 10 units long. Copy twice. Rotate one line 120°, the other -120°. Finally join them up as a perfect equilateral triangle.

    Trying the same with the rotation tool the line ends seem impossible to align.

    6 votes

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  17. Convert repeated patterns into paths

    I want to take a repeated pattern and use the shape builder on the result. There does not seem to be a way to finalise a pattern so that it can be converted to curves.

    8 votes

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    As per the comment (quoted):

    Select your pattern. In the task bar (on the right), tap object (square with dots in the corner and shapes inside of it) and choose Expand. This will create a grouped object inside a clipping path. The pattern can no longer be edited with the repeat task. If you want to delete the clipping path, double tap it and delete (you might want to change to Outline view to see the clipping path easier). Ungroup the objects or just double tap the object you want to edit.

  18. Ability to send artwork to illustrator without cloud

    The free app vectornator offers the option to simply open your work in progress artwork in illustrator.
    You can simply tap a button in the app and if you sit at your computer, have the app and your desktop version of illustrator linked to the same adobe account, it will open up illustrator and open your artwork.
    No exporting needed, no saving it to the cloud.
    One click and it opens it up.
    Something like this would be quite beneficial to work seamlessly between the two version.
    Ideally you could also do the same in reverse, just click a button…

    1 vote

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  19. Objekte an eine gezeichneten Linie ausrichten

    Eine Linie zeichnen und beliebige Objekte and dieser Linie mit einem gleichen abstand ausrichten, wie bei dem Raster nur an eine Linie.

    1 vote

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  20. Save to local storage/other options

    Ability to save files on the iPad´s local storage as well as other cloud services. Full integration with the Files app might be the way to go about this.

    In short, I don’t want Creative Cloud to be my only choice to save files.

    10 votes

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