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The latest Beta Build 29.3.0.100 offers Area Calculation using Measure Tool, now with extended support for compound paths and overlapping objects.
- Select the objects in your artwork you want to calculate the area for.
- Select the Measure Tool from the Toolbar.
- The calculated area will be displayed in the Info panel, shown automatically.
- Shift + Click on a segment in the existing selection to remove/add it to area calculation.
- Configure measurement options by accessing the flyout menu of the panel. You can customize units, precision, and scale to suit your requirements.
We would like to hear your feedback on the new capabilities — please try it out and let us know in the comments.
An error occurred while saving the comment No at the moment, but the team is aware of the need and is still exploring the way to allow it.
An error occurred while saving the comment Jean-Michel, it’s not the Dimension tool, but the Measure tool!
An error occurred while saving the comment Chris, same problem as before — the tool does not support area calculation for compound paths at the moment. Even if there is no hole / cutout. Hence the Beta.
An error occurred while saving the comment Chris, the team confirms the wrong values is a known conversion error and the fix will land in the next Beta. So far only points get calculated correctly.
An error occurred while saving the comment Oh, I see now clearly what is happening.
First, it seems that for now it doesn’t support compound paths AT ALL, making it near useless.
The only path in the EXIT sign is the head, and it’s separated from the base (that is a compound path).Same goes for the blue EXIT — each letter is a compound path (which is normal when you Create Outlines), and even though they have no paths included to have holes, it’s still restricted.
But even if these get released to become simple paths, the calculation is all wrong.
When I measure the I letter in EXIT, it’s 14.394 × 84.667 mm, the area of it should be something like 1218 mm², minus rounded corners...
But it sees 3488.81 mm²...The green head is roughly a 15.665 mm wide circle... so it’s 46.8² × pi, and it should give 192.73 mm²... the panel shows 546.45!
Something is wrong.An error occurred while saving the comment Area of a circle is pi multiplied by a diameter of a circle, no big deal to calculate it. If you want to automate the process — you can use custom plugins like Dynamic Measure by AstuteGraphics.
The other thing is if you want to control the size of the circle by entering the desired area. Like 'create a circle with area x' or 'transform a circle to have the area y'. Is that you want? Plugins can’t do that so far.
Still, there are methods to automate it, like actions to create circle presets, libraries, so on. It’d be easier to understand the request if you provide some examples you want to create.
Anyway, bezier ellipses are not real circles, but a good approximation. So no ACCURACY is possible anyway :)
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An error occurred while saving the comment There's the Document info palette, which gives this information partially, and I have a bunch of scripts that calculates complex area with holes, overlapping and other peculiarities, but native way, in document units, would be great.
An error occurred while saving the comment Bobby, here's a script I've assembled to quickly get areas and perimeters:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ujtj1smsvd304rw/6%20Get%20Shape%20Area%20and%20Length.jsx?dl=0
It's based on Bryan's Buchanan and Hiroyuki's Sato scripts, but works on compounds.
Feel free to modify it as you like.Feature is still required right form the box, in Document Info palette!
An error occurred while saving the comment This can be scripted though and this is what I use, I'd like to have it natively; in document chosen units (squared), correctly for compound paths also.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Edgard, not sure I get it fully. I have several things in mind when I read the description you made...
1. Layer Comps, similar to what Photoshop does, requested here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32923834 (and the comments there offer several plugin solutions)
2. Artboard-specific Layers ('Layers per Artboard'), requested here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31133392
Which one do you mean? Or do you mean something else entirely?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Somewhat related to this request:
Animated Zoom for Mouse wheel
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/47312054An error occurred while saving the comment I work at scale often, and I need to be able to zoom to 1000%.
But when I use hotkeys (Cmd/Ctrl + Plus), Ai jumps from 800% to 1200%, skipping the level I need.
And if I access the zoom dropdown in the bottom left corner, this level is not listed there.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment Somewhat related to this request:
Customizable zoom levels (including mouse wheel zoom and hotkeys)
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31829743But different enough (although can be made as a common solution)
An error occurred while saving the comment Ai has the smooth zoom, but not with the wheel.
In Preferences > Performance you can enable 'Animated Zoom' option (usually enable by default) and use Ctrl+Space to temporarily switch into the Zoom tool — and it’s smooth.
It gets disabled often in Outline mode though, if the screen is small (GPU support Outline view mode only for large screens for some reason), so this can become irritating rather quickly. Here is a general report on this: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/36129871Zooming using touchpad is also smooth, on both desktop platforms.
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An error occurred while saving the comment You mean zooming in using touchpad, right? Do you say an artboard gets focused when you do that? Not sure I get this, sorry.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Anshul, latest versions of Illustrator offer AI and EPS formats in the Export for Screens, so you totally can export some artboards from a document with multiple artboards as .ai
But if I understand this correctly, your main problem is that you want fonts used in these to be collected, similar to what File > Package command does? Export for Screens won’t do that.
There is no way to collect used fonts other than Package in Illustrator... I remember there was a script to collect names of the fonts used for the documents located in a chosen folder, https://github.com/dyslexic-charactersheets/scripts/blob/master/List%20used%20fonts%20to%20CSV.jsx — it can probably help.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Astute Graphics recently released a dedicated plugin tool just for this, Color Select Tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBVV_sOTbCQ
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An error occurred while saving the comment A way to workaround this is to Rasterize a copy of the stacked stuff and then pick color from it
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An error occurred while saving the comment Illustrator allows it in a way, if you have 'Control Click to Select Objects Behind' enabled in Preferences > Selection & Anchor Display... but it won’t work if you click into the anchor or even the edge, which will surely happen if objects are close... you have to click the fill only :(
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An error occurred while saving the comment We somewhat can, but only to two (soon three) default ones, and from the Edit Toolbar 'drawer' only.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I should add that adding '.png' is 'Save As' dialog specifically should do nothing like this, since 'PNG' is not a valid file type when saving, and belongs to 'Export As' dialog.
'Saving' implies a user can 'open' the file back and get the same level of editability. 'Exporting' is... well, 'transfiguration', like vector art into raster art. -
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An error occurred while saving the comment A related report:
Saving a file should not highlight the extension
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Hi ,
Thanks for reporting the issue . This issue is fixed with Mac OS 12.1 update .
Thanks & Regards,Ankit Goyal
Illustrator team
An error occurred while saving the comment A related report:
Filename is no longer selected in Save / Save As / Open dialogs in macOS Mojave
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/44505108An error occurred while saving the comment As for Windows — alas, it’s an OS-level behavior and Illustrator has to comply the rules.
An error occurred while saving the comment Well, it looks normal for me :) I’m on Windows, and it’s how it always does here, at least for me.
If I see it right, when you hit Enter in the end, it assumes it’s .ai file and works fine, so it’s more a cosmetic thing. Still, I know how these things could irritate.
I suggest you contact Adobe directly to let them search the system for what my cause this.An error occurred while saving the comment It always selects extensions for me, both for Save As and Export.
Are you on Windows or a Mac? I believe this is OS level thing.
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If you get a PDF exported that gets viewed as 'This is an Adobe Illustrator file that was saved without PDF content' stamped messages, please send these to sharewithai@adobe.com and tell exactly what method you used to create it (Save Aa, Export As, Asset Export), with what parameters specifically.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Is this still happening in newer versions?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Can’t reproduce it on Windows.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I can offer a generalized way to do it, but it’d requite a help from a free Select Menu plugin: https://rj-graffix.com/downloads/plugins/#selectmenu
Once installed (with guides unlocked), you can use the new Select > Object > Guides to have all the guides in a document selcted.
The us the native View > Guides > Release Guides command, and now style them the way you want before printing.
Sure, it’s not as elegant as a simple option to 'render guides on print', but it can be automated with actions partially.An error occurred while saving the comment Are you sure you mean Smart Guides? These are dynamic guides and their positions and look depend on where your cursor is. May be you mean normal guides?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Ai today has the Contextual Task Bar... it’d be nice to utilize it for having Apply and Cancel buttons, but it just becomes grayed out :(
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Illustrator today offers Save Selection for this.
We can access these the old way, via Select > Save Selection (and also Edit / Update Selection commands), or via a more modern way, with a small button at the bottom of the Layers panel.
Alas, there is no way to assign a keyboard shortcuts to quickly select them back, similar to what games offer, we are now forced to click this menus... On Windows we can press something like Alt+S, Up arrow, to quickly focus the bottom of the Select menu, followed by choosing a saved selection we need, followed by Enter — but it needs high APM :)
So I will treat this as 'Allow to ahve hotkeys for saving and loading Saved Selections'
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Do you get a crash report dialog displayed when it crashes? Do you send it to the team?
What do you do when it happens — is it the same operation or something new each time? How much time passes before it crashes? Does it crash when you do nothing in the app at all? When did it start happening — or is it your first time woriing with Illustrator?
Please tell more.