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An error occurred while saving the comment Oh yes. Everything this generates is rather sketchy. It can’t create straight lines, accurate circles, nice arcs, it poorly understands symmetry. As Von Glitschka stated, "The ‘Text to Vector’ generative ai feature should be titled ‘Text to Clip-Art."
And a rather poor clipart — "The irony of ‘Text to Vector’ generative AI is the imagery is being cobbled together based on artwork that took skill and craftsmanship to originally create. And the derivative result lacks those same traits."
Imitation, simulacrum.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment Actually, Illustrator allows to do that now, with the Free Transform tool (default hotkey is E).
See the GIF attached. You have to hold Ctrl (to allow distortion), plus Alt (to include the opposing corner), plus Shift (to allow symmetry).
Generally this tool is much better than having the bounding box enabled all the time (that’s why I disable the box and hit E when I need to scale or distort).Does this work for you?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Do you still have this problem?
If yes — can you please record a short video to demonstrate how exactly do you try to make it work?Double click with the Width Tool on a path should open Width Point Edit dialog, which allows you to control the marker numerically. To add markers interactively, you have to click, hold and drag away from the path... Please demo how it works for you.
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An error occurred while saving the comment And I can’t but notice that there is no key we can hold to quickly delete the width markers.
I assumed it should be Delete while the marker is held, but it does nothing. Booo.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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The bug is fixed in the latest public release 28.0.
Please check and reply back if it now works as expected.
An error occurred while saving the comment I see what you mean.
No, there is no way to allow sharp transitions with this tool (unlike Curvature tool can do for the paths).
Yes, this is a thing we definitely need.
The workaround exist, and it’s an ugly one: if you place two width markers very close to each other, Ai will have to make the transition almost sharp. If you zoom in or expand though, it looks very ugly and is a mess.
Another way I prefer using — art brushes. But editing them interactively is impossible (therefore I once made this request — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/44725501-edit-a-brush-like-a-symbol-on-canvas)Let me make a proper feature request out of it :) Please upvote — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/47343821-allow-to-make-sharp-transitions-using-width-tool
An error occurred while saving the comment @Katarina, nah, it’s OK, this inside loop is expected.
Look at how it was in CS6 (mind the roughness that is getting smoothed out now).
Illustrator has to make this loop inside to respect your chosen width, and connect it smoothly with other markers... everything’s fair.But do you notice the problem reported previously? The inability to place another marker, when one is placed on a closed path? a sharp step at the first point? Please look at the attached GIFs — do you see anything like this now?
An error occurred while saving the comment I confirm that.
It feels like it’s somehow related to smooth points. If I apply a variable width to an ellipse — I no longer can add width markers or edit existing ones. If I convert a live shape to a path — nothing changes, it is still immune and broken. Removing a point does not help, and the starting/ending point indeed has a sharp transition.
Changing a profile for a rectangle works fine... but if you convert all points to smooth ones — it breaks if you want to modify it! If you convert points to smooth one by one instead — it does not! This is a disaster!AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment Preran, let’s discuss it more.
Do you have specific images you have in mind?
What do you want the results to be type-wise: an effect, a pattern, an actual path splitting? How much control over which parameters do you need?
Do you know about the plugins that already exist in the market, that offer a similar functionality (specifically SymmetryWorks — https://artlandia.com/products/SymmetryWorks/)?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Very true. Same applies for any other preset list Ai has, really...
We need custom default documents sizes, custom default strokes, custom default scale in the upcoming Dimension tool’s options, custom default font/leading/baseline shift sizes...
Each of this should not only allow to add your own presets, but also remove those you don’t need.
And this also applies to hiding menu items (https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/31623847-customize-illustrator-menu) — something Photoshop already has.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment Not sure I understand this. Perhaps I am not that deep familiar with the workflow you describe... can you please explain this in details?
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An error occurred while saving the comment I see what you mean. Indeed, InDesign does snap tits panel to the area which has the cursor, while Illustrator does this only when a single text area is selected. Not very convenient to jump from these two modes (especially when there is no quick way to start editing a text with a hotkey: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/38242195 — although even with it it won’t be solved).
'Ideally' — agree :) but in a practical world we have to specify these difference directly, one by one.
An error occurred while saving the comment John, it seems like it works as we expect of it in the latest versions, and the Tabs now get positioned correctly over one column from many, when the Magnet button is clicked. Can you confirm this, plese?
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An error occurred while saving the comment True! To be fair, Ai never was able to do that. If the shift is large enough for the click to be below the descender line, Ai does not allow to move by the anchor anymore.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Sorry, it’s not chat clear from the screenshot what is wrong.
The selected shape is not a rectangle anymore, but a path, therefore Transform panel won’t display any shape properties. Shape properties get displayed in this section only when you deal with actual rectangles, ellipses, polygons.
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An error occurred while saving the comment At the moment it’s not possible to assign materials to different subsurfaces of the 3D objects, other than eyeballing decals without precise controls over the positioning and scale. When objects with modern 3D get expanded, the result now is either a raster image, or an uneditable triangular mesh grid, of a set of unfilled paths.
The current limited workaround to this is to use the Effect > 3D and Materials > 3D (Classic) instead. These effects produce vector shapes on expanding and allow to map symbols with fitting options.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment I can confirm it behaves the very same way you described in the file.
Thank you so much for the test and the report. Let’s see if the team can deduce anything from it.An error occurred while saving the comment Can’t confirm it.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I tried to replicate this.
When I open the Place dialog, the Link option is indeed disabled and inactive (unlike Replace, which can be toggle form the get go).
When I paste the name of the file and hit Place button, Ai then verifies the name makes sense and the Link option becomes active, and now can be enabled.
I agree it feels excessive and don’t really see a reason behind disabling some option with no valid name provided...However, while it’s definitely a problem, the real problem is relinking multiple images at once.
There is a general feature request about it:
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/34174264The solution you can use at the moment is this script:
https://github.com/dumbm1/ai_scripts/blob/master/jsx/fast_relink.jsx
Originally designed to quickly replace all selected images with one file, it can be also used on a single selected image.
Once the script is placed into a dedicated Scripts folder i Illustrator folder (and relaunched), you can create an action, record using this script from the File > Scripts, and then assign a hotkey to the script. Please try it and reply back, if it’s still a problem you face. -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yeah, this is what I am aware off, and that’s why I asked you to try it and review the results...
Export for Screens uses a completely different approach to rasterizing the artwork. It’s MUCH faster, but it doesn’t work as great as the legacy method.
If this gets fixed, what else makes you unhappy with the method?
See, there are several reports about bad rasterization Export for Screen has:
1. https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/38987995
2. http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/33851182
3. http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/34636129
and more.
Some of them are about the quality problems only for JPEGs, others are general requests about making the rasterization for the Export for Screens on par with the Save for Web.
What other things you find better in S4W method, other than quality issues?An error occurred while saving the comment Isabelle, have you tried Export for Screens? It allows to export chosen artboards at once, and to setup up a naming convention (somewhat).
If you did try it, please describe why you still prefer using Save for Web for exporting images still? -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Fair...
An easy workaround I use is switching to Outline mode, which shows me the text unwarped. Surely, in this mode I can’t see how it befriend the design in general, but I learned to toggle it back and forth to make sure they do. -
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The team confirms the bug exists, can replicate it, and is going to fix the problem. Thank you all for the heads up.
An error occurred while saving the comment Jordan, which version are you using?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Wil, do you refer to the Beta version?
Does this command work if you access it via the menu, File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy)?
Filip, thank you for reporting this (I mean it).
The team is aware and will try to fix this problem in the upcoming minor release.
Also at the moment it works properly with English only and I am not sure it’s announced anywhere clearly enough.
As for the second problem... not sure if it’s the same one. Can you please record a short video to demo how it fails exactly?