Do you guys really have to write the full "Adobe Illustrator 2024" in the Mac menu bar?
It used to say "Illustrator" in the Mac OS menu bar for decades (briefly "Illustrator CC").
I have a new MacBook Pro with the camera cutout, and now, because it was changed to a totally unnecessary "Adobe Illustrator 2024," all my menu items are being pushed to the other side of the camera housing, which then covers up my menu bar items. Seriously?
What was wrong with how it was before? Is it not a priority for the user interface to be space-efficient? It has to tell us the year?
SL
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SL
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That’s interesting, Egor. I’ve noticed it happening with Photoshop and After Effects too (without the year), but not InDesign. You may have a point that macOS is doing this using the name of the application .app itself, or at least something in the apps that’s interacting with a change in macOS, because not all apps in the suite are doing it.
No, I’m on Sonoma 14.2. US English—interesting that an installation with the language set to German isn’t doing it. In any case, it would be very convenient if it weren’t doing it for us English users!
Don’t recall if this started after upgrading to Sonoma or at the tail end of Ventura. My guess is the former.
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Rene Andritsch
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It only says “Illustrator” on my end running Sonoma 14.2. German version of macOS and Illustrator.
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It feels like it’s something MacOS is doing, actually. Users with Ventura say they have it as a short name!
Needs investigating.
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L Coyle
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We know what program we're using, it says it in the top center of the window - please go back to having the word "Illustrator" alone on the left end of the menu bar. For Mac users with the camera cutout, there's limited space.
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SL
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Unfortunately, using that option then scales the entire display down to a scaled resolution and interpolates it on the display, and you lose real estate on the top as well as the sides.
Having pixel-perfect 1:1 display for the artwork is also important most of the time.
As you probably know, it was designed for older apps that aren't aware of the new menu bar situation, which the designers of the newest Illustrator surely are.
In my opinion, using that checkbox and having Illustrator scale down the display every time it's opened is not really an acceptable solution. Thanks.
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Jess Telmanik
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This might be helpful https://support.apple.com/en-us/102125
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SL
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Attached. Given the extra length of the program name menu, the menu items overflow to the right of the camera housing.
Since I have menu bar items, macOS will naturally, for usability, hide them to make space for the application's menu items.
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Interesting. Can you share a screenshot, please?
