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An error occurred while saving the comment The report is old, but if this is something that still happens today — please share a test file the team can try to open in house.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Janna, does it still happen today?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Casey, please share a test file you are having problems with, a video of the steps you try that cause lagging (just for the reference), along with the full specs of your computer: Ai build, OS, hardware, GPU. You can share these here if you are OK with it, or send directly to the team via sharewithai@adobe.com (in this case please mention the link to this report, so they can track it back here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/51132571)
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An error occurred while saving the comment BTW, Jan, there is a set of two scripts developed by Herman van Boeijen: https://github.com/nimbling/Nimbling_Scripts#clip-scripts
These would preserve the appearance of the path that becomes clipping mask. I hooked these to hotkeys and quite happy with them.Plus, if you are interested, please upvote these related requests about the appearances:
- Allow clipping paths to have complex appearances: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/45088255
- Please allow us to apply proper strokes to clip groups: centered, inside, outside: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/36674830An error occurred while saving the comment A similar suggestion for text styling:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/45845701AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment We need a way to quickly transfer appearance from one object to another.
For now there are several ways to do it.
1. Grab the Eyedropper tool. Go to tool’s options. Set both Appearance check-marks. Select the art you want to apply appearance to and click the one you want to copy appearance from with the tool (or vice versa with a proper modifier held).
This one requires me to go to the options before to set these check-marks and go there after to turn them off, because I don’t need these by default.2. Save a graphic style from the object you need to copy it and apply it to the target one.
This requires to save a temporary style and delete it after. Still, is the fastest method for now.3. Open Layers panel, click Locate button (which still doesn’t have a hotkey but can be recorded in an action, at least), grab the appearance filled circle marker and try to drag it over with the Alt held the target one, but not the object on the canvas, but the item in the same panel... the one you can’t locate now, because you have to locate both items. This is quite simple when you have, say, two object on your canvas, but is tough when your art has hundreds of objects.
4. Copy an object you want to grab your style from and command Paste Appearance with the target object selected. The most easiest one.... wait... we don’t have it in Illustrator.
Because there is none.
And we can’t make it via scripting, because scripts can’t create or copy graphic styles, which we could have used to emulate method 2 automatically. There are 2 requests about it:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/908050-illustrator-desktop-sdk-scripting-issues/suggestions/39131704-access-all-variables-necessary-for-each-item-s-app
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/908050-illustrator-desktop-sdk-scripting-issues/suggestions/35703022-graphicstyle-aspectSo I’d like to see all of these implemented.
An error occurred while saving the comment Creating style is too complicated when you want just copy appearance once.
Setting eyedropper (tick all, use, untick) is tedious.
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The team was able to figure out the problem with the rich tooltips popping under mouse and intends make a fix for it.
An error occurred while saving the comment Here, take a look.
My intent was to open a plugin panel.
By chance I moved the mouse through the toolbar. I landed on the icon I needed, but then Ai suddenly decided to POP THE TOOLTIP right under my mouse, covering the button I needed — probably because it wanted to show me the tooltip for the last thing my cursor moved THROUGH.It took me less than half an hour to stumble over it. Given the fact I rely on hotkeys mostly, this means other users happen to encounter this much sooner.
An error occurred while saving the comment I don’t like these. The idea to have them is good, but there are several problems I see.
1. These should have the Close button in the top right corner. Clicking it could offer two choices: A) Hide this tooltip only, B) Hide all tooltips. Choosing B then could show a shy message 'You can always toggle rich tooltips in Preferences > General' (sure, not per tooltip basis, so option A makes it harder to manage, so perhaps B only... anyway, forcing new users to dive into Preferences to close these... how would they know?)
2. If I have toolbar with 2 columns, a tooltip for a tool in the left column covers the right column, obstructing me from picking the one I could have needed (you can’t be sure my aiming wasn’t off!)
3. The animation is sooo candy and slow-paced. Each time another starts, the cursor is pompously arcs from the edge of the frame, and the user has to wait to see the main action. This isn’t a solo! It’s a convenience store, a workshop rack! Most of time I see these there’s nothing shown but the background and a cursor, rolling out slowly, like a diva. Each of these were designed in a vacuum.
4. The timing is off. When I hover over another tool, the animation’s frame from the previous one is shown! When I move over another tool already, the animation from the previous one the mouse left is still playing! All of this mess blinks, stutters, misses tools the cursor hovers over currently, irritates and obstructs.
What the team should do is to grab GIFs from other apps that have these. Study them frame by frame, measure delays and see where the hit areas are.
Right now there’s zero reason to use them. Sure I know what these do. But I’d never use these for any other tool if I never knew how these tools work.An error occurred while saving the comment David, which ones? What do these say?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Esteban, can you share this simple test file and the full spec of your machine, please?
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An error occurred while saving the comment A related bug, recently fixed in Beta:
Text copied from web paste white but swatch says its black
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/51000130
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An error occurred while saving the comment A related bug, recently fixed in Beta:
Text copied from web paste white but swatch says its black
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/51000130
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An error occurred while saving the comment This is something that happens with me also...
There is behavior I noticed:
— If we release the mouse while making a marquee, Ai would activate the artboard under the cursor when the mouse is released.
— But if we drag an object over an artboard and release the mouse, Ai won’t activate the artboard under the mouse!I think this is the root cause for me. I can’t tell if fixing this would solve all the problems with the artboard-not-in-focus (please try to track it), and surely I can’t tell if it won’t break something for others... I’d offer to have both behaviors exposed in Preferences (even though more options means more options to track) — and perhaps include this option with smart detection there too.
Thanks for raising this up!
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An error occurred while saving the comment Even though this was marked as 'Completed' by the team, this is still not completed, since we were never given direct controls on whether the background color should be respected or not when exported (I personally have cases where it SI useful and where it’s NOT).
Instead, Ai tries to GUESS if I need to have the color baked in, and the main case I need these — for PNGs — does not respect it.An error occurred while saving the comment The team has decided to disable accessing swatches for now to set artboard background color, to improve it before the general release.
An error occurred while saving the comment SVG? SVG is a vector format. If there is nothing in the background, it will be transparent. You have to create a 'big box' underneath, that is how a format works.
To avoid it from being selected when you marquee your stuff —just move it to a separate layer and lock the layer, or just the background itself (but in this case you can accidentally unlock it Unlock All command when working on the design)An error occurred while saving the comment What format do you export your document to? What method do you use? Export As? Export for Screens? Save for Web?
Most of them allow to choose if you want transparent or opaque background.
If not (like TIFF and Export As, which is a miss), then you can can create your big rectangle and place it on a locked layer under your art — this will prevent it from getting selected. -
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An error occurred while saving the comment There’s a better workaround with Appearance panel (the one everyone needs to learn).
Assigning a new fill to live text (no outlining needed) and putting it above (for 'stroke inside') or below (for 'stroke outside') and then applying the Offset Path effect (negative for 'inside' and positive for 'outside') is a better option, with keeping text live, editable in any moment.But — and I suggest that’s the reason for getting these disabled for live text — the text gets hinted, to stay sharp in screen. Once outlined, the hinting dies. And the way inside/outside stroke is built doesn’t play with hinted text well — the stroke wouldn’t be hinted well. The workaround I propose would lead to the same result, especially when the text is small, where hinting is stronger noticeable: text is hinted, the offset path isn’t.
To workaround this workaround (welcome, Alice, to the rabbit hole), we can apply another effect right at the top of the appearance stack.
You can refer to the file attached.
An error occurred while saving the comment @INKs Graphic Design, this positioning of stroke is a default appearance in all documents created with a Web document profile.
There are several ways to deal with it.
1. If a document is already created, you can update the Default Graphic Style. Click the chip with this name in the Graphics Styles panel, create something like a rectangle, open the Stroke panel, toggle the Align Stroke to Center, drag-n-drop the rectangle with Opt/Alt held over the style’s chip to update it. This would force all new objects to have the alignment changed (unless they inherit the appearance
2. Alter the Web profile. The instruction how to do it is posted here: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/create-custom-new-document-profile.html — note these would reset when Ai gets updated. You can create your own profiles though, and these would stay. In a document profile file of your choice make the same thing described above.
Or do I get it wrong and you meant something else?An error occurred while saving the comment InDesign’s solution to Outside of Text is just a trickery. Judging by a PDF output, what it secretly does it making the stroke twice as thick and puts it behind the characters... A trick that is possible only due to the rudimentary appearance system InDesign has.
Illustrator’s approach is both more powerful, but doesn’t support complex appearance for live characters — this includes inside (especially) and outside strokesThere is s separate, more global request for that:
Allow to set the stroke below the fill in appearance panel for text characters — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/46545787...but it’s less popular, since users don’t really know Appearance (sadly) and the connection between the problems is hard to grasp.
Perhaps we should get these merged? What do you think?An error occurred while saving the comment Hmm. I do not recall it ever working for text...
I know the alignment of stroke for open paths got recently broken in Beta 28.5.0.78, but then it got fixed in 28.6.0.54.
The buttons though are still not disabled and are clickable — but again, I do not remember them ever working.As far as I know, the alignment of a stroke is considered to be complex appearance, while the characters in live text can only have a basic one. So it’s more an Appearance and Text problem, rather than Stroke one...
The corresponding request never had a status change: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31416682
Which version exactly was supporting it? Please remind me!AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment Also! I don't understand why aligning strokes don't work for open paths. I have to build custom width profile to simulate this — 0 at on side, full width on the other. Why? You think that people will be angry, when outside will look like inside, because of path direction? Make a button for changing it to Stroke palette already.
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An error occurred while saving the comment 2013 was the very first CC version, 17, right after CS6... there were some changes introduced then how Ai handles PDFs... will try to learn more. Thanks!
An error occurred while saving the comment Illustrator is not a general PDF editor and can’t handle everything a PDF can store.
Ai always 'imports' PDFs rather than 'opens' them (if one was saved in any other app, because otherwise Ai just reads back the hidden full copy in its native format).
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An error occurred while saving the comment Andrew, but does anything in the document have Gaussian Blur at all?
Use the AG’s Live Effect Explorer, if you are not sure.
Then, I’d start studying it, by making a copy of the document and removing the content piece by piece, to find the least amount of stuff to make it happen.
Then, I’d try to reproduce it in the new file.
Either way, the team would need to have the full project, with all the links needed to make it happen, with full steps described (and better recorded).
A safe way to share these would be to send the package along with full OS and hardware specs, over to sharewithai@adobe.com, with the link to this report mentioned — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/51113062 -
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An error occurred while saving the comment This is so CAD :)
It definitely can be scripted,, Illustrator allows these things.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Fernando, it seems like UV is dropping the attachment for some odd reason :/
Does your video match the one shared in another report you commented on (http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/49722308), or is there any noticeable difference? If there is one, please try to host the video elsewhere and share a link instead of trying to attach it here.
If you do still have the problem, please share a simple test file and a video that shows the exact steps and the behavior. Not sure I can replicate this today...