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An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment Sudhir, there is not enough default free keyboard shortcuts to assign all of these commands.
But you can assign them to any keys you want via Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts: Menu commands, in Object > Align.An error occurred while saving the comment There is now a dedicated request to have hotkeys (and menu items) for Distribute Spacing commands: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/47529830
An error occurred while saving the comment Bobby, I think I remember a request to 'treat the first / last selected object as a key object', the same way Corel Draw does...
However, currently I can’t locate it. Would you mind to log it separately? If I find one later, I will merge them.
Please describe the way you think it should work, the way for Preferences and / or Align to handle it, if it should highlight a key (and why not if not), etc.As for the hotkeys in general — as you say, RLCTBE in Ai do something else and reassigning them hardly worth it...
But there are plenty of requests about hotkey customization in general, including more modifiers and more flexibility. Please upvote them, it helps.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment While this is necessary, you can still use Actions to record alignment/distribution (I do). These are limited to F-keys, but you can always redefine them in Autohotkey (Windows) and Hammerspoon (Mac).
As for the Tab — this button is taken (and I would be very mad if it would be taken from me).
'Next object above/below' is there, Alt+Ctrl+square brackets, is it what you want? (it kinda broken in Isolation mode though)An error occurred while saving the comment While it's not done, record some Actions for aligning and use F-keys to access them.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Mike, please tell more.
What OS do you have? What printer? What driver version? What Ai build? What print settings (both in Ai and the printer’s own ones)?
Can you share screenshots for all these, along with a test file, and the image of the printed result?
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An error occurred while saving the comment ¿Puedes mostrar una captura de pantalla del mensaje de error?
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Illustrator allows this today.
- Go to File > Place and choose the files to be placed.
- Click and drag on the canvas to define the grid area.
- While dragging, hold Opt/Alt to place all files in one gesture with an auto-calculated grid.
- For a custom grid layout, while dragging, press arrow keys to adjust rows and columns — Right/Left for columns, Up/Down for rows.
Known limitations.
- Unlike in InDesign, we can’t control the gaps with Cmd/Ctrl + Arrows.
- It won’t work for drag-n-drop on canvas. works only with File > Place.
- This option works only for placing images, and won’t affect tools like Rectangle — use Rectangular Grid Tool instead.
Please try how it works and comment back to help the team to polish the feature.
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Arrange selection in Grid
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An error occurred while saving the comment A very related request,
Place multiple files in a grid like InDesign (Gridify)
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32686120An error occurred while saving the comment Vichot, how do you think to control the process?
What UI do you think this feature should get?
How do you intend to control columns, rows, gaps, overall width and height?
Some object would have to be resized, while some other can stay unchanged, — how do you plan to mark these?While there is no fully automated solution for this now, there are several supplementary free scripts you can use today to boost this workflow drastically:
1. Resize to Size script by Sergey Osokin, www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN3dAf6rac8
2. Distribute Stacked Objects script by John Wundes, https://github.com/johnwun/js4ai/blob/master/distributeStackedObjects.jsx
3. Fit / Fill Image scripts by Seiji Miyazawa, https://onthehead.com/ais/group008/ (these are very similar to what InDesign allows)
These would save you a ton of time.An error occurred while saving the comment Oh yeah, scripts deserve so much more.
As for now Adobe Exchange offers a way to host extensions (in most cases are just glorified wrappers for scripts) — exchange.adobe.com/apps/browse/cc?page=1&product=ILST&q=extensions — but nothing for just scripts. And we have hundreds and hundreds of them, and they cover so much gaps in UX.UV has a separate request for a dedicated script panel, please upvote it as well: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/39903586
Plus there are several decent external solutions, Scripshon Trees being one of them: https://exchange.adobe.com/apps/cc/15873/scripshon-treesBut none for the Exchange for scripts.
Adam, would you mind me promoting your comment into an idea for it?An error occurred while saving the comment Adam, it’d be nice indeed to have a feature like this in Ai natively. Count me in.
Meanwhile I can offer to use a free script to achieve this result — alignObjects by sky-chaser-high :https://github.com/sky-chaser-high/adobe-illustrator-scripts?tab=readme-ov-file#alignObjectsjs
You’d have to specify the tolerance value to define common axes for rows and columns.
Please be warned also that scripts can’t handle opacity masks properly (you can upvote a request to fix this here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/908050/suggestions/46727548)
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yep, totally confirm.
Happens in Beta s well, on Windows 10.
Here’s a simple test files, for faster testing.An error occurred while saving the comment Scott, just for reference, can you please share one screenshot of the way it look at your side?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Confirm. It’s possible when we target objects within a continuous range in this filtered view, but not across ranges.
A related request to allows proper range selection, not with an incorrect 'target appearance' marker routine: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/51241837
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Hi Everyone, This feature has been available since August 2020 release (version 24.3). Please 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.
You can now select multiple layers in Layers panel. Click the bars (they get highlighted blue) if you want to operate layers and not their content (e.g. to drag to reorder) or click their markers to select their content — circle (target ones) or square (selection ones) next to them. There is no real difference which to pick, but if you want to select a range of layers, using Shift, use target markers.
An error occurred while saving the comment I have no idea why the team chose to use specialized Target Appearance round markers and NOT the intended square markers to allow select the range with Shift. This teaches a bad lesson, making users think these round markers/buttons are meant to select objects, while it’s just a side-effect of targeting these to receive new appearance. This makes users believe they Select All in a layer when they click its target marker — and this leads to common 'all my stuff in layer has the same fill'.
My only guess is that that the actual selection markers/buttons, square ones, are basically invisible unless clicked (or objects get selected on canvas).
Anyway — Ai HAS to support selecting ranges with the PROPER markers as well as it does with the improper ones.
Also, notice how filtering Layers breaks this feature, allowing to target-select within uninterrupted range, as reported here:
Shift-clicking in Layers doesn't select range if filter is used
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/51241408An error occurred while saving the comment Josh, almost done, next release. If you are in a hurry, try the Beta build.
An error occurred while saving the comment Jim, please wait for the next release, it is implemented there. You can try Beta if you are desperate :)
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An error occurred while saving the comment I try this on Windows 10 using 30.0 and Beta, doesn’t seem to happen (AICB is enabled, SVG is not, I try to paste into Inkscape).
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39 votesAn error occurred while saving the comment Just to be sure, Zsuzsanna, — are you sure you are not in the Large Canvas mode? To check this, try to create an artboard larger than 6000 mm — if Ai allows this, you have a document with an internal scaling coefficient (Ai warns about it with a ⚠️ when a document like this is created, but not alter).
Brushes are known to misbehave with the mode, as reported here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/41713246
Also, please attach a test document with both brushes used.An error occurred while saving the comment A similar problem, but with mesh envelope distortions:
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An error occurred while saving the comment However, I can’t confirm this problem to not exist in versions prior to 2023.
26.5.2 shows the same behaviour.Upon investigation, I see that the brush you are using is a giant path, 98.0938 inches long and 5.3154 inches tall, in the document’s units.
However, the scale option chosen for the art brush is 'Stretch to Fit Stroke Length'. So it means that Illustrator should maintain the 5.3154 height of it (that it a width or 'weight' of the stroke) across the line, which is not the case nor in 2022, neither in 2023 versions!
If we rebuild the same giant brush in an much older version, such as CS6, Illustrator maintains the original height of the artwork used — as intended.
So it’s not 2023 got broken, but 2022 before it!This needs further investigation.
Meanwhile — what was the latest version you say you were able to use this specific 'fat brush' succefully? Are you sure in that? It can’t be 2022.An error occurred while saving the comment DG, thanks for the file.
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We are no longer hearing about this issue. Let us know if you are still running into it with latest Illustrator versions.
An error occurred while saving the comment Steen, please say a bit more about your setup. How large are your displays? Do you use application frame? Which screen has Ai in it? All you say to help the team to try to reproduce it.
An error occurred while saving the comment Phillip, is it in the Beta or the GA build?
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An error occurred while saving the comment A larger more general request:
Allow formatting of bullets & numbers in lists
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An error occurred while saving the comment A related request:
Rename the 'Typing' history step for auto-bullet conversion to a clearer label (e.g., AutoFormat)
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/51238315An error occurred while saving the comment Again, the workaround with discretionary hyphens shared by TT Kiker is still viable.
Take a look at the attached file, make sure you have Hidden Characters shown.An error occurred while saving the comment Hey, thanks for sharing the workaround! Quite handy if one needs to use lists.
As far as I know, the team is aware of the demand... but no details other than that are known.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment A slightly related request:
Recolor Artwork Undo
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An error occurred while saving the comment Not sure it’s fixed... here, I expect the part 'hyphenated' in the 'pre-hyphenated' complex word to be broken according the set rules, after 'hyphen-', not 'hy-' — it’s just 2 characters, while I set it to 4. The preplaced hyphen is not preferred when the text area is made even smaller.
I check the original file supplied (here it is in the comment), and the bug is still there, no matter what I try to change.
Not fixed.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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Expected to be fixed in the latest Beta Build 30.5.0.64, now availibale in CCD.
Please try to update and see if this is really fixed.
An error occurred while saving the comment This now works as it should, but the history step is just called with general 'Typing', and it doesn’t add clarity. Compare it with something like Microsoft Word, where the step is called 'AutoFormat' — still a broad name, but much easier to spot!
Plus, Word offers to undo the auto-formatting right there in text when typing with a widget... and it offers a way to disable it completely right THERE.
Ai’s solution is rather blunt and cheap and lacks elegancy in this current form. Please make it better.An error occurred while saving the comment Perhaps you’d be also interested in these two related problems:
1. Enter while typing does not get recorded in history as an Undo step
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/470383212. Pressing Backspace in text gets recorded in History as a chain of separate Clear steps
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An error occurred while saving the comment Anun, I see.
Illustrator does not treat the auto bullets as a separate Undo step... The whole type operation you make is considered to be one step in the History.
It is different from how Word and Google Docs do it, so I agree it should match with others.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Ven, 'previous versions' — which one did you mean?
I tested it with CS4 and I see no border missing in an empty layer (check the screenshot please). The only difference I see is the '>' arrow symbol...
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An error occurred while saving the comment Ollie, when it happens to be missing — does it stay missing for a particular type-on-path object indefinitely? Reopening the doc, restarting Ai, no difference?
Can you share a simple test file that behaves like this for you (ideally with some standard font used)?
Does it happen in 30.3 only, or are you using an older build? Which build doesn’t have it? Have you tried Beta?
Herman (HI!), but this is what Ai does today: 2 objects selected would force Align To to Selection (and I hate when it does for two points I need to align to an artboard’s edge). That was a reason to ask for Align To hotkeys, to force our will over the SmartDetection™.
'Fill Artboard' — do you mean 'resize the selection non-proportionally to make it fit the selected artboard(s)' or 'create a rectangle with the size of the artboard(s)' or something else at all?