AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
My feedback
7558 results found
-
1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment -
1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment It seems like the tolerance of Pathfinder exceeds the one you get when expand stroke with variable widths. I suspect these lines go to zero at some point.
Hard to tell anything without having an actual file to test. Do you still have it? Can you reproduce it anew if you don’t have the original? -
1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment Mahmoud, do you have similar problems with this specific font in the latest versions of Ai?
What font is this, if it still occurs? -
1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment Very strange! Even with the file at hand, with the View rotated to 180°, I can’t get the same behavior as you have, on a Windows 10/11 machine...
What about other angles, like 90°? What about using Free Transform tool instead of the bounding box?
Can you reproduce the same problem in a new file, with the same view rotation?
I’m sorry I can’t be more helpful with it, I’m just trying to find the difference to help the team to catch it.An error occurred while saving the comment @AM.SLA, what I see in the video, is that this document’s view is rotated 180° — you can see it in the field in the lower bottom corner under the canvas.
When I try to replicate it though, using the bounding box to scale the live rectangle still won’t do the same thing as you showed...
So please try to:
1. Reset the view rotation for this file: either by typing 0 into that field or with View > Reset Rotate View (Cmd/Ctrl + Shit + 1) and see if it changes anything
2. Try to rotate the view in a new document and see if it leads to the same behavior.
3. If it doesn’t — please share the original file, as Mie asked.
Thank you! -
24 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Confirm.
However, when Flatten Transparency is used instead, 'circles' stay whole (they are not actually real circles anyway).AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
supported this idea
·
-
4 votes
Illustrator uses Apple screenshot API to pick colors outside the Illustrator window with Eyedropper tool. Apple has enhanced security in the recent OS updates to let user know which applications are recording the screen, whether you pick a color value of single pixel or recording the entire screen.
Illustrator is not recording users's screen, it is required for Eyedropper tool to pick color from single pixel.
An error occurred while saving the comment Just in case — do you refer to the Beta or the normal release?
-
57 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Clif, actually, some users on Mac hate this behavior, when a value gets scrolled unintentionally when they hove over the fields.
Here is the entry about it:
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32712589An error occurred while saving the comment As for the last Eyedropper question, there is a way to do it.
Press Enter when the tool is active (or double-click the tool button) to open the tool’s options. Then disable those attributes you do not want to pick and apply.
Do not forget to set them back once you are finished (easy to forget!)An error occurred while saving the comment Seb, one request per entry, please. UserVoice does not allow splitting :)
Both your request exist on forums, please vote for these instead:
'UI scrubbing values'
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/31977841-ui-scrubbing-values'Sampling colors outside of Illustrator (eyedropper)'
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/35215630-sampling-colors-outside-of-illustrator-eyedropperAdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
supported this idea
·
-
2 votesAdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
supported this idea
·
An error occurred while saving the comment Alex, alas, I think it’s something Ai has no control over. This is handled by OS. It irritates me as much, but I think we should nag Apple and Microsoft about it :(
-
1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment Peter, when you do rename an artboard, do you see the 'Rename Artboard' step in the History panel? Do you see a small * (asterisk) after the document’s name in its tab?
-
1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment Adelenne, seems like you accidentally had your bounding box disabled.
Press Cmd + Shift + B to toggle it back or do it via the menu, View > Show Bounding Box.
Please comment back if it helps (or not). -
9 votesAdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
shared this idea
·
-
7 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment There are several ways to align points to an angle...
I’d use this method (please watch the GIF attached).
1. Create a line to define an angle (it’s not really needed, I just added it to better explain the method)
2. Disable all snaps except for Smart Guides
3. Select the objects
4. Pick Rotate tool and click once into the first point of the line to define the center of rotation
5. Grab the last point and move your cursor into the first one and a bit to the right, if necessary, to let the selection rotate to have the line become horizontal; remove the line
6. Select only points you want to align
7. Either click Align to Key Object button in the Align panel to use the point closest to the start of the path in your selection, or — like I did — Shift-click a point to remove it from selection and Shift-clikc again to add it back — Ai automatically picks the last selected point as a key object
8. Align the selection horizontally
9. Select the whole path
10. Opt/Alt-click the path into the original point of rotation with the Rotate tool
11. Negate the previous value, comit.
Done.
Not as long as the description takes.Ideally, Align should have worked with the rotated view...
But it doesn’t, even with Constrain Angle set to counter-compensate it (and there is request about it: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/44001624), and we don’t have a way to quickly rotate view to an angle of a line (but we can copy the angle of the live line and paste it into the Rotate View field).An error occurred while saving the comment Can you provide an example how should it work?
-
2 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment A related request:
New document without symbols, brushes, graphic styles
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/39753427An error occurred while saving the comment Mark, I know how you feel exactly, and the topic is very common.
But Illustrator actually offers some legal ways to workaround these.Open the New Document dialog and scroll down the right column.
Press More Settings button (is actually open the 'legacy' File New dialog).
In this dialog open up the Profile dropdown. Press Browse at the very bottom.
This will open the Select File dialog. What interest us is the actual folder Illustrator uses to store these document profiles.
These are universal templates that contains all the garbage swatches, styles, symbols, etc, — and you can modify these to delete the fluff and add your own presets.
So — grab the file path. On windows it’s something like this:
C:\Users\[USER]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 27 Settings\[LOCALE]\x64\New Document ProfilesClose all the dialogs (I merely wanted to show you the long way to discover these).
Open the folder in the explorer.
Open Print.ai or Web.ai
Delete all the presets you don’t want to keep (Illustrator has a default action to delete all unused presets — )
Add those you need to use.
You probably won’t be able to save these files directly into this folder, so save them as copies (and backup! — Illustrator has a stupide habit of updating these every major update!) and then paste them over the original ones.
You can also add your own profiles, but it’s hard to pick then using the modern New Document dialog.
Done — all new files will now use presets you added into document profiles.So actually you request is already completed, it’s just it’s now exactly easy to discover.
Same instructions one the Help site: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/create-custom-new-document-profile.htmlPlease reply back if it works for you.
-
7 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment A related request:
Default Swatches and Styles as part of New Document Dialog
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46925746An error occurred while saving the comment Ai allows users to get rid of this fluff.
To do that you have to locate document profiles files (search for. Print.ai and Web.ai to locate these).
Open them and clean all the garbage you don’t need. Save.But! When Ai updates it replaces these with default ones, so keep your copies elsewhere...
...or record an action that Selects All Unused for every panel and run it when you want to clear fluff (the way I use for now).
But yeah, I don't like these presets too. They do teach new users about possibilities, but have no purpose for experienced users.
-
2 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment I’m still curious about the task. What were the parameters to sort these objects?
-
1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment Steven, in Save As dialog for SVG please click on the More Options button in the left bottom corner and check the number of Decimal Places you have there. If it’s something like '2', make it something like '7' instead. This value control s the precision Ai uses to write down coordinates of points.
SVG’s intent is Web, and of a fixed screen size in most cases, so controlling the size of the file and the precision required is necessary for web graphics.
Settings for Export As are slightly different and don’t get synchronized with Save As, so that’s why results can differ.
Please comment back if changing the value fixes it for you. -
1 vote
An error occurred while saving the comment Franco, I suppose it’s not really related to whether you have Ai launched, isn’t it?
I asked the team if anyone can help with this, but got no reply yet.
I’d try to break through a virtual assistant to a real person here — https://account.adobe.com/support -
4 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Exactly!
Currently I have to edit the value in Character and then redefine a style. Works, but is inconvenient at best.AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
supported this idea
·
-
74 votes
The fix is pushed to the stable release 29.0.1.192
An error occurred while saving the comment Rasmus, I am just a user, and I feel as enraged as anyone who comes here sometimes. Ai is a flawed tower of bugs, and you don’t have to remind me of it :)
What I see is that you have Construction Guides disabled. These apply when you draw a NEW object (according to the manual, https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/rulers-grids-guides-crop-marks.html)
What you see when you edit a path like you showed previously, are guides for Transform Tools — since you transform the path. If you uncheck the Transform Tools option, you won’t see 45° angles.Why can’t we customize angles for object guides? Well... there are related requests, but it seems not that much people upvote them:
1. More fields to Smart Guides angles — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/48960053
2. True customizable drawing 'angles' for all tools when using SHIFT key (pen, pencil, brush) — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/48073562
3. Smart Guides and the Rotate Tool: Incremental Rotation Angles — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/39621259An error occurred while saving the comment Rasmus, the fix works, because it restores the previous behavior.
The extension of curved segments never worked in the first place, so we can’t expect from a 'fix' to introduce it :)
And 45° and 90° smart guides are nothing 'new' and were there for much longer, before 'Line Extension' even happened...But if you wish for a 'Line Extension' to be a general 'Path Extension' (something it never was, and is a good thing to have), you can upvote a corresponding feature request here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/39843283
An error occurred while saving the comment The proposed fix is not good and does not match the behavior we had before.
The tolerance the guide uses to allow the sliding is MUCH smaller with this fix than it was before.
Take a look at these two GIFs attached: one is from Ai CC2018 (v22.0.0), when the guide is stable and the tolerance allows to move a point almost continuously, and the other one from PR v29.0.1.192, with the guide blinking, and precise sliding required.Not fully fixed.
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
supported this idea
·
-
True customizable drawing 'angles' for all tools when using SHIFT key (for Pen, Pencil, Brush, Move)
8 votesAdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
supported this idea
·
An error occurred while saving the comment Related requests:
1. More fields to Smart Guides angles — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/48960053
2. Smart Guides and the Rotate Tool: Incremental Rotation Angles — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/39621259An error occurred while saving the comment I’d say smart guides happened after the initial 0-45-90 Shift constraints got added, and devs decided not to mix these together, so that Shift always worked as expected even with custom SG angles... After all, holding Shift is not 'Smart', it’s 'Forced'... but I get your idea.
Presets is clear enough as well.
Not sure if I get about the 'tool' though... accessing a section in Preferences is not a tool, and adding not a tool to a toolbar would be extra-cinfusing and wrong.
A customizable panel with various buttons for different commands is another thing (and there was a request about it around).
But perhaps it’s not what you meant...An error occurred while saving the comment DirectPrefs panel by Astute Graphics actually does not introduce new controls, but just eases the way to customize the existing parameter, Constrain Angle, accessible in Preferences > General, the second field from above. Zero by default, it makes Shift to follow horizontal and vertical axes.
If you set it to something like 15 — well, if you use DirectPrefs, you know how it works, axes get rotated by 15°.Assuming you know that — what do you suggest exactly?
Currently these snapping angles would still be 45° away from each other, that is just increased or decreased by said 15° or other value...
Do you want these to be completely custom? Smart Guides section, as you noticed, provides a way to define up to six angles — but these are not bound to Shift — do you mean to combines these with Constrain Angle parameters and make AI to follow set angles when Shift is held?
Hassan, does this problem still exist for you with the recent builds of Illustrator?
If it does — can you share something to show how it looks? It’s hard to start investigation about broken images with no images presented...