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An error occurred while saving the comment I have a strong suspicion the text is written using a chatbot... feels watered-down, like wrapped in bubble wrap :)
Anyway, thank for the request. Please try to log one idea per entry form now on, to help the developers to prioritize things.
Illustrator allows some of these things mentioned.
Color and stroke can be changed if a symbol is a dynamic one (by default) opposed to static. If you mean to improve it, please share clear examples and explanations (just 'like Figma' is not a good one).
Text — indeed, dynamic symbols don’t allow type. There is a separate request about this here, please upvote it: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31234753
Variables to create themes are mentioned in several requests:
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/42556654
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46267969Also, a free script exists, written by Sergey Osokin, to support themes based on color groups, ColorGroupReplacer: https://github.com/creold/illustrator-scripts/blob/master/md/Color.md#colorgroupreplacer — it does not require symbols.
9-slice improvements bit needs further explanations from you.
Please share why you need this in Illustrator and what do you try to solve.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Can you please record a short video or a GIF to demonstrate the way it looks for you?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Has no news on this, sadly :(
Generally reports with lower vote count are not prioritized very high internally — and this one is sub 10 even.
Sorry, I can’t do anything to change it. Voting is the only way we can influence this.The only workaround is still to covert a live line to a path with Object > Shape > Expand Shape before cutting and converting it back after.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Richard, does it look like this to you?
This a definitely a bug then!
The middle dot the live line has in the middle stays in place when a line is cut, while it should be repositioned in the middle of the cut segment. I assume Illustrator steal treats the new live line as if it has the same bounds, and when you scale the segments it gets treated as if you scaled the whole original path ...but with the gap on the left.
How bizzarre!Thank you for you patience with this.
A workaround would be to expand the live shape first and scale the line as an ordinary path — Object > Shape > Expand Shape.An error occurred while saving the comment Thanks for the images.
That’s a completely different thing than I imagined.
Still, I can’t reproduce it.So I have a long line (which is not a 'line' being a 'live shape', judging byt the look of your bounding box, but just a path). It is as large as a normal document allows (5779,558 mm, I work in metric units). I give it a fat stroke, I cut it, I switch to Selection tool (black arrow), I try top scale it.
Except for the missing a side marker (which is a separate bug logged), everything works just fine.
Perhaps it’s the file? Can you put it here in the comments? I am eager to learn what gets broken.
An error occurred while saving the comment Richard, I can’t really reproduce it.
As I understand it, you mean Scissors tool selects one of the points created only, and not the cut piece as a whole, right? And when you try to resize the resulting path (with bounding box’s handles), Ai scales only the point?It does not happen for me. When I switch from the Scissors to Selection tool, the partial selection stays, but the transformation applies to the whole path. If I do this with something like Free Transform tool or Scale tool — yes, there is a differences, both behave in their own ways: Free Transform scales only this one point (both its handles and coordinates using an opposite corner as a pivot), Scale transforms only its handles basically. But you mean just using the bounding box frame’s markers, right?
So... a video or a GIF is needed. Use something like Sharex or GifCam or LICEcap to record one.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Strange. Needs to be reviewed directly, I think.
Please package the file via File > Package command and send the archive with the project to sharewithai@adobe.com for the team to look at it. Add the link to this report for tracking purposes (http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/48266030).My guess is that something has changed font-wise: perhaps the font you used got deleted or moved or something else happened to it, and it got substituted with a font that differs severely, and is way larger than the original one... can’t confirm it though.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Sean, thanks for this report.
Indeed, the team recently changed the way generation of SVGs works, following their long-term plan to unify SVG methods AI uses into one. From now on it should be based on Export As method. It solves a lot problems: generation speed, background generation, code readability, file size, redundant XML elements, compact CSS styling... the list is large, although I am not sure if Adobe ever published it publicly :(And it definitely breaks some workflows!
Can you please bundle the files necessary to demonstrate your case (including original files, examples of the output before the changes and the current one, settings used), and send it over to sharewithai@adobe.com — the team would like to see these.
Please also put the link to this report into the body of the email for tracking purposes: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/48266318Again — thanks for not being silent. This helps a lot to make things right.
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An error occurred while saving the comment That’s an interesting case.
Take a look at the GIF recording and the filу attached.This two objects seem almost identical (except for their size). Layers panel (not shown in the GIF) shows these as just text (Ai doesn’t list paths for text there,
sadly). If we select paths only, AI will recognize them as just 'Path' in the Control and Properties panels...Corners get changed the same way with the widget... feels the same.
But as long as I try to resize these, there is a clear difference — the one on the left gets the corners squished, the one on the left keeps them circular.The one on the right is secretly a live shape rectangle, and that’s why Ai keeps the corners tracked — but Ai doesn’t show it is! Transform panel doesn’t show Rectangle-specific controls, Object > Shape has both options disabled.
The one on the left is just a path — and Ai doesn’t try to keep corners undistorted for just paths.
This is not exactly the bug, but definitely a problem: Ai doesn’t allow to detect the difference via UI, doesn’t allow to convert a path to a shape when used as a type’s path or vise versa.
Thanks for the report!
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An error occurred while saving the comment As long as a rectangle stays a live shape, the corners won't distort — Ai tracks and keeps the corners consistent (even if Free Transform Tool used instead of Selection Tool’s bounding box to stretch it)
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An error occurred while saving the comment Amazing, you are right. The object have to be compound path though, just checked.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I checked all the major versions of Illustrator until 2020, starting from Ai CC2018, where Properties panel was introduced, and none of these has the Make Compound Path button you refer to (and I can’t remember seeing it there ever)...
The 'Release' button in the Quick Actions section indeed exists in all of them and does now, but not the 'Make' one.
Still, having one makes sense for me, so I added a vote for this one.
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An error occurred while saving the comment By 'tab' you mean New Document dialog?
If so, try to go Preferences: General, and enable 'Use legacy "file New" interface' option. Then try to create a new document again — will the older dialog work? -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Not exactly.
A CMYK document will always display only the colors that your current CMYK profile allows — true.There are two general methods to create artworks to be printed.
1. Work directly in a CMYK mode. The colors are actually get stored as CMYK values, and can’t be anything but CMYK (unless you use use Spot colors, which are basically additional inks).
2. Work in RGB mode, get a wider range of colors and check how they fit into CMYK using View > Proof Colors. The colors are stored as RGB.The latter way works if you want to have one artwork to be used both for screen and print media.
The former one makes sense if you need more precise controls over inks.An error occurred while saving the comment Here is how it works.
RGB color space is generally wider than CMYK. There are colors that can be displayed by an average monitor, but can’t be printed (the opposite can be true also, but it depends on specific outputs).The color you see in the RGB document is in fact an RGB color, with the value RGB 0-47-187.
And if you grab and copy the object it and paste in a CMYK document, Ai would have to squeeze it into CMYK values — and according to your chosen profile the CLOSEST color would be CMYK 95-85-0-0 — and this is what Ai shows you in Color picker.If you do the opposite operation, grab an object filled with 95-85-0-0 from the CMYK doc and paste it into RGB one — the color would look the same, because RGB has no problem with displaying this muted blue.
When you are in RGB doc, CMYK values are NOT primary, but a closest match.
Same goes for a CMYK doc — RGB values would be a conversion result.Here is how it looks at my machine (see the attached images). I use different profile, that explains different values, but you get the idea.
This is an RGB doc, which can display both vibrant and muted blues.
Color Picker displays the same CMYK values for both, but the RGB values are obviously different — because RGB is the leading values here, while CMYK is an approxiamtion.Now watch the animation.
As soon as I set the cursor in any fields for CMYK and change a value (I am just tapping an arrow), THESE fields become leading ones, and the displayed color changes to reflect the change.Does it make any sense?
An error occurred while saving the comment The images you show now don’t actually math the claim you made in the OP, at least for me... Sorry, I must have gotten it wrong.
When you said 'colours from CMYK palette' — I thought you meant Swatches panel, and you meant that colors of the swatches displayed in the panel don’t much the applied colors on canvas! But it’s not the case here.So I presume now you mean that the same CMYK values form the Color Picker give different looking colors on canvas, when used in documents with different color modes (since on is in RGB, and another one in CMYK). Do I get it right now?
An error occurred while saving the comment Strange.
Can you share some screenshots of it?
Let’s start with basic checks: do you have View > Proof Colors disabled?
What settings do you have in Edit > Color Settings?
What about Edit > Assign Profile, what does it show?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Please show what happens when you try. Record a small video and share it here.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Definitely a bug... for some reason all the arrowheads are displayed as the preset #29!
This is not how it normally behaves.
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View > Trim View command does this. By default, it does not have a hotkey assigned to it, but you can map it to the one you prefer in Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts.
An error occurred while saving the comment Josh, I agree. For some reason Trim View does not hides these, as well as hidden characters.
Reported here, please upvote: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/38959804An error occurred while saving the comment Illustrator does have this. View > Trim View.
By default, it does not have a hotkey assigned to it, but you can map it to the one you prefer in Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts (I use Ctrl + Alt + Shift + W, but don’t ask why :)
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An error occurred while saving the comment Actually making it a percentage of the font size IS a way to set and forget, since it makes a relation between these two.
But +2 or +4 is an absolute difference, and it means the larger the text becomes, the lesser is the leading compared to the size...
Perhaps this is what you want, but I don’t understand why. Basing leading on a width of the frame is a known approach, but basing on just a size...
Can you share some examples when a text needs this?Anyway, if you need bo1th 100% and 120% — is can be done, since Auto Leading is a paragrph-level option, just like the attached image shows.
The only downside is that we need to dive into the dialog, and this is 2-3 clicks and typing a value... but it can be solved with a couple of actions.An error occurred while saving the comment Oh, I get you, I never need it to be what Ai offers with its Auto.
So I changed it — this can be done today.
From the Paragraph panel’s flyout menu open Justification dialog.
For Auto Leading set 100% instead of 120%.
Commit. Now Auto will make it 'tight', as you expect.Now the problem is how to make it a default option, because this setting gets applied to the current Paragraph Style in the current document only.
One solution would be to modify the document profile (or several) Illustrator uses to create new documents. You can create your own modify existing ones (Print, Web, Mobile, Film & Video, Art & Illustration) — but default ones will revert back to the fabric defaults once Illustrator updates, so you better backup them. Won’t change custom ones.
You can refer to this help article to do that: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/create-custom-new-document-profile.htmlAnother solution I personally use is to create an action that changes the currently selected text object into a default one: it sets the font, the size, the options, including auto leading. This gives me freedom to make anything default in any document, not a newly created one only.
And surely you can use both methods at once.
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Rebecca, indeed, the team recently changed the way generation of SVGs works, following their long-term plan to unify SVG methods AI uses into one. From now on it should be based on Export As method. It solves a lot problems: generation speed, background generation, code readability, file size, redundant XML elements, compact CSS styling... the list is large, although I am not sure if Adobe ever published it publicly :(
And it definitely breaks some workflows!
Can you please bundle the files necessary to demonstrate your case (including original files, examples of the output before the changes and the current one, settings used), and send it over to sharewithai@adobe.com — the team would like to see these.
Please also put the link to this report into the body of the email for tracking purposes: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/939477/suggestions/48269006
Again — thanks for not being silent. This helps a lot to make things right.