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An error occurred while saving the comment Bartley, there are 2 main approaches to mirror an object in Illustrator:
1. Use Object > Repeat > Mirror command. This will give you control over the mirror axis you can modify directly on canvas.
2. Use Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform effect. It’s harder to control, within the dialog only, but it has more options. Check Reflect X and set the reference point to one of right position with the 9-point control to flip the object to the right. Try other options to get different results.
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Don't use the Target column to select all object in a layer, use the Selection column in Layers panel instead.
The longer discussion is in comments.
An error occurred while saving the comment You are welcome.
I think I can close this with your shorter answer as a TLDR recipe :)An error occurred while saving the comment Although it looks like it selects all objects in a layer, it does not do that. It targets the layer contents, that is the layer itself.
Try to target a layer by clicking this circle marker and then apply an effect to it, something simple, like Effect > Path > Offset Path (but please check it on a simple enough layer).
What you get is this effect applied to the layer itself. If you add a new object in it — it will get the offset too, although it was not selected before, right?
If you want to select all objects in a layer, you should do the other thing. Undo this experiment with Offset. Deselect all. Instead of clicking the circle marker for the layer, click the square marker next to it instead. This is what selects all the content of a layer in Illustrator. If you do that, you will be able to create an Intertwine just fine.
Also, try to hover over the circle and the square marker to read the descriptions they have. Circle one has 'Click to target, drag to move appearance'. Square one has 'Indicates Selected Art (click to select art)'.
If you refer to the manual (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/layers.html), it says:
'Target column indicates whether items are targeted for application of effects and edit attributes in the Appearance panel.'
So these markers target, to work with the appearance. The Appearance panel even has the icon with this marker. Intertwine is not an appearance in Ai, it’s a wrapper. So when you target a layer, you try to intertwine the layer itself, that is put the layer inside of the Intertwine object — which is impossible, since a layer can’t be put in object.An error occurred while saving the comment Patti, this is an expected behavior.
See, when when you target a layer by clicking the dot marker next to its name in Layers, you do not 'Select All' in a layer, you actually target a layer itself, as an entity, to be able to apply effects to the chosen layer, and not the objects in it.
Thus, when you target a layer, you try to intertwine the layer — and it should not an won’t work for a wholesome layer.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I agree. Although it is expected from us to use InDesign to design menus, we still use Illustrator for this. And there are some who struggle but try to use Photoshop for that, despite it not having even Tabs. Sure it’s up to us, and there are some who want Ai to have raster tools it it, to retouch photos... OK, this is where I go a bit sarcastic :) Nothing would matter if these three had a proper seamless integration.
But speaking about the case — yeah. In InDesign you could have created a style that tracks tabs and applies a nested style, which takes a text after the, say, second tab symbol and makes it red and bold. This is what is intended to solve it.
Or you can put this the text into a table, in cells, and remove borders, and then select columns there... but Ai does not have tables.
In Illustrator... well, if you have to works in columns instead of lines :) and match leading and indentation across all columns. A perversion, I know, and updating this is not pleasant either...Having a cursor that can select vertically seems like an easier solution than dragging all of the InDesign functions into Ai, or change habits. But the problem with this method is that it allows to have disjoined ranges... and this is impossible for now, since a LOT is based on the foundation of having an uninterrupted text selection range at any moment. All scripts will stop working, all tools would probably had to be rewritten. Possible, but dangerous.
But a demand is a demand :)
Let’s see if anyone upvotes it. I do.An error occurred while saving the comment This is something text and especially code editors are capable of — to select a column of text. But it makes sense for coding... there are not many cases where this can be that useful in design... Each line should have the same number of symbols, with equal lengths...
I’d like to see a screenshot of the text that requires it.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I believe the OP confuses the Control panel (which is still available, Window > Control, but hidden by default) with the Properties one (not new anymore).
Control always had these arrow buttons near values, and Properties never had them from its inception date.
It does not mean it should not have though!AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment There is a plugin, ToolShed, by RJ Graffix: https://rj-graffix.com/product/toolshed/
It has a dedicated command, Object > Transform > Scale To Proportion, which can somewhat help with the task. It’s not a full copy of this other dialog, but it saves some computational steps.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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I am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our latest release – 27.0.0 which is available worldwide now.
Going forward, our goal is to fix as many top User-Voice bugs as possible and as frequently as possible. Given the nature of the fixes, some of the bugs will take a longer time to fix, but we are on it.
You can update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html
Thank you for all the feedback. Keep it coming!
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An error occurred while saving the comment Tony! :D
If you open Keyboard Shortcuts, make sure you have Tools selected (don’t ask me why, I have no idea why not in the Menu Commands), scroll all the way down, you’ll see all 'Blend Mode - [name of the mode]' commands there — empty, ready to be assigned... but. Opt/Alt cant’ be used for these. Because these are in tooools. Which means these can be bound only to naked keys and Shift+keys. Which are all taken, long time ago!
So the problems are:
A) Move Blend Mode keyboard shortcuts from the Tools section into the Menu Commands section, so we can use all possible modifiers for these, and not only Shift:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/46691479-move-blend-mode-keyboard-shortcuts-from-the-toolsB) Allow all modifiers to be used for anything anywhere:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/34616848-support-for-more-keyboard-shortcut-modifiers
and also this one:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/43161018-remove-restrictions-to-useable-keyboard-shortcutsC) Allow to map anything to a hotkey, including all the panels’ menus:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/31609237-assignable-keyboard-shortcuts-for-everythingAdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment Photoshop has default hotkeys for looping through blend modes, Shift+Plus and Shift+Minus. Illustrator can have these assigned too (in Keyboard Shortcuts, in Tools section), but they behave differently — when the end of the list is reached you can't jump to the beginning.
That is pressing Shift+Plus does not take you to Normal from Luminosity. Strangely enough, Shift+Minus does choose Luminosity when you are on Normal!
To maintain consistence between apps, this should be changed.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Does it change if you disable the GPU Performance option in Preferences > Performance (and restart Ai)?
Can you check a newer release, or a Beta one, to see if it’s fixed?
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There are several solution on how to create a new document faster. Please refer to the comment inside.
An error occurred while saving the comment If you hate the new New Document dialog — you can always (hopefully) disable it with enabling Preferences > General > 'Use legacy "File New' interface' option. This is what I do.
Also, if you want to quickly create a document without a dialog at all, you can press Ctrl+Alt+N — this will use the latest settings you used to create a document, silently.
Finally, you can save a document as an .ait template, and create new docs based on it just by opening this file.There are many ways, and one chooses the method they prefer. It’s just a matter of learning these.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Modal dialogs are very dated, especially in cases like this.
I still hate when I try to join a closed path (just in case, to be sure it is closed), but Ai yells at me — 'you caaaaan't' — with a ding and a message and a text... just show the 'Path is already closed' soft message.
Actually, I am going to make this one a separate request :)
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An error occurred while saving the comment You can workaround this by adding the Add effect next.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Russ, strange... M1-s do have it too.
Are you sure you can’t select Beta apps in the left sidebar of the Apps panel in your Creative Cloud desktop app?An error occurred while saving the comment Yes, it is available on Macs. You can install one via Creative Cloud Desktop app.
Thank for the tests and the report, I will try to push this.An error occurred while saving the comment Russ, what happens if you try to scroll the same list, but not in the Character panel, but in Control or Properties? or in the Type > Font menu?
Can you confirm this bug does not happen in version 2022?
Can you also check if the latest Beta has the same problem?
Have you tried to temporarily remove/disable all the fonts you have except for the basic set and see if it is caused by a certain font? -
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Hard to tell, something went wrong... The fact Acrobat failed to read the PDF can mean a lot of things, and yeah, one of them can be an Illustrator’s fault. To investigate this, the team would require to have the original file .ai file, the .pdf copy you saved, and the exact options you used when you saved it.
Please send all of these over to sharewithai@adobe.com, or attach them here in the comments under the report at UserVoice, if you are allowed to.