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As mentioned before, this got shipped into the main (GA) build, but the development is not completed. The team has been gathering all the user feedback and intends to address it.
Here are several relevant entries you can upvote.
Bug reports:
- Spots and Globals are converted into process colors when included into Swatch Info
- Swatches Info doesn’t work for the only swatch selected
- Swatch Info renders a saved tint as yet another copy of the main global color
- The default text color in Swatches Info is rich RGB black when used in a CMYK document
- Tabs in Swatch Info text are made with spaces instead of actual tabs
- Bottom margins for labels are too small for Swatch Info objects in the column view (with no card backgrounds)
Feature requests:
An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment This is almost good!
Several things to complete:
1. Lab values for spot colors — planned
2. Names for named colors — planned
3. 'Generate Color Info' says more about the legend, but not about having chips on canvas
4. 'Create Swatch Palette' is somewhat better, but since many still call panels as palettes (specifically Swatches) this can be confusing
5. Something in between would be better: Place Swatches Palette (not 'create', since it can refer to the panel)
6. I don’t like the fixed margin for text. I think it should be relative to the font’s size, or the leading. When it’s 12pt for text, it’s OK, but I don’t use points as units, and as in many other places, this default value in point would mean nothing for my layout (as with rearranging artboards, default effects’ settings, etc.). Please don’t ignore Metric world, it’s larger than Imperial.
7. Why not drag-n-drop also, with the last settings used?
8. Hotkey
9. Don’t see a way to create several columns or rows. I see it wraps at ten though — what if I need 5 or 7?
10. Don’t see a way to position captions to the right of the chips for the column view
11. In column view the bottom margin of the text is too little, and text seems to relate the chip below, not above. No, it' should not be solved by manual spacing, the minimal value should not allow this mistake.
12. No gradient and patterns is odd.
13. No hints for options
14. Don’t force the layer. Give a way to use the current one (Same goes for dimensions. Users should have a choice on their document structure. Don't undercut our decisions)
15. Where is Preview? Can we see these generated before we click OK?
Other than these — VERY close! Already usable! It remains just a tiny push for it to be complete! Pleased with it.An error occurred while saving the comment @gwintrup, I added you as a voter to the dedicated request about guides 'being more like in InDesign' — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/37211029
An error occurred while saving the comment Do you cook? :)
Imagine you want to make a meal.
You open a fridge, you grab the products you need, you put them on the table, grab a knife, cut products, cook them.
Sure, some don’t do that :) They run back to fridge every time (and they don’t upvote this probably).Swatches panel is a 'fridge'
Take a look at how Von organizes his Swatches: https://youtu.be/aDnoMHs32-o
These are swatches he puts in a template and use across some of his projects.
Sure the illustration doesn’t need ALL of these.
So he 'puts chosen swatches on canvas' — like products — and cook with them only.Take a look at the video above, from 28:40 specifically (https://youtu.be/aDnoMHs32-o?t=1720)
Swatches Panel can’t have these as large as he wants them to be.
We can’t make Swatches panel to hide some.
There is no way to quickly detach some colors into a floating panel.
Swatches are separated with thin lines and if prevents us from seeing how they react to each other.
We can’t make one swatch larger than other to set a ratio of colors (like Von does even later in the video — see image 1).This image 1 is what artists do at the image 2.
And Swatches — is image 3.
And what is requested here — is image 4.An error occurred while saving the comment Meanwhile, Sergey Osokin made a script, ColorToner, that automates making shades-tints-tones, with a great range of options: customizable steps and purity, text legend, size and gaps, preview, adding to swatches, etc.
Worth having if you are into this workflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-MK0bEbD78An error occurred while saving the comment There are several external methods of doing that.
https://github.com/johnwun/js4ai/blob/master/renderSwatchLegend.jsx
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https://productivista.com/make-a-list-of-colors-from-your-selection/
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https://o2creative.co.nz/shop/Powerscripts/Color_Sample_Prints_PowerScript_for_Adobe_IllustratorAn error occurred while saving the comment This is not a panel, but may be this script I made could help somebody from 368 users who voted for this?
It will place selected swatches (or all if none are selected) as a group of colored rectangles wit a set dimension.
https://twitter.com/tchegr/status/1330496523428372482An error occurred while saving the comment It looks almost like Swatch Libraries palettes you can open and enlarge swatches to a not that big a size. So it’s almost there already.
Gap options, larger size for squares, and easier way to create and save and manage these windows? -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Can you please share a test file and some screenshot to show how it looks?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Does the new option form the Align panel, 'Align to glyph bounds', solve it for you?
An error occurred while saving the comment I would disagree, but it's more complicated than that... Gotta think about it
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Latest versions of Illustrator can do that.
If you have the bounding box enabled, double-click the bottom filled square handle to toggle Auto Size.
You can also do that in Area Type Options dialog.
An error occurred while saving the comment There are two related requests:
1. Snap textframe size to content (like double-click in InDesign) — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31956682 — this one is quite different compared to what Ai does
2. Allow Area Type to auto size with center and bottom alignment — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/48502847An error occurred while saving the comment There's 'Auto Size' option in Type > Area Type Options that does this
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An error occurred while saving the comment Chris, yes, even with the 'Align to Glyph Bounds' option (located in Align panel’s flyout menu) it still is measured by em-box, which includes side-bearings — they make a space between glyphs.
What I have though is the script that can partially ease your pain:
https://twitter.com/tchegr/status/973947185292193792?s=20Please vote there in the correlating request if you want it to be fixed someday.:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-feature-requests/suggestions/33610747-add-an-option-for-trimming-side-bearingsAn error occurred while saving the comment Chris, there is a new Font Height Options in the latest release that almost fully address this, along with Align to Text option.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Another related request:
Align text based on actual width (not including spaces)
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/39649978An error occurred while saving the comment It cant be improved with the options to align to x-height and cap height:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/35039683An error occurred while saving the comment Simon, can you explain it further, with images?
An error occurred while saving the comment This should be also extended to the set of 'Convert to Shape' effects!
E.g. 'Convert to Rectangle' is a great way to add a live background plate under a live text, but it is applied to the em-box, naturally. If you introduce 'Tight Fit' option there (along with 'Cap-height' and 'x-height'), this would give much more control over the parametric appearance workflow in Ai.An error occurred while saving the comment Follow-up to the previous comment:
and if you make a stroke instead of a fill, enable Preview Bounds, you will have a strange gap between visual edge of the stroke and the bounding box. And the green rectangle will align to this enlarged bounding box! With bbox excluded it will align to the black fill again.An error occurred while saving the comment So, here's the problem.
I have a live text, and it has two fills. Bottom orange fill has Offset Path effect applied to it.
For whatever reason I want to align my green rectangle to the visual bottom of this text (I marked it with a guide).
1. I see that a bounding box is now around my Em Box, and lower edge is lower than the guide.
2. So I go to the options and enable 'Use Preview Bounds'. Ai extends the bounding box so all orange is now inside of it, but the bottom edge is still where it was — because Em Box is still higher than the orange fill.
3. So I go the options again and check 'Exclude bounding box: Point Text' — I believe that it would trim that part of the bounding box that extends below the orange fill.
4. I set the text as a key object and align box to the text.
5. Boom, it aligns to the black fill!
6. OK, I say, I go to options again and untick exclusion.
7. Now it aligns to the bounding box!
Having Preview Bounds off and Exclusion on will align to black fill.
So there is no way to align a box to a visual edge now :)An error occurred while saving the comment It took me a while to find the option.
Well, I found it at first try, but it's named differently now and has two options, so I wondered if there's a different place for a Tight Bounds now.It clashes now with 'Use Preview Bounds' options. Please check all combinations and see for yourself (especially text with a fat stroke, 'Use Preview Bounds' on, 'Exclude bounding box: Point Text' on — is should align art to the visible edge of the text's fat stroke, but it does not).
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An error occurred while saving the comment All of this can be done using Appearance panel and saved as a preset in the Graphic Styles panels for future use.
Add a new fill in Appearance, put it under Characters, apply Effect > Convert to Shape > Rectangle, choose options.
You can change the color, corners, transparency, apply other effects...
There is no reason to make a simplified more strict version of this, Appearance is already too simple :)Hope you discovered it after you requested this in 2021!
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An error occurred while saving the comment InDesign has it... Affinity apps have it...
In Illustrator, it gets enabled when the font has it. Take something like Roboto, and compare All Caps with actual capitals used — All Caps use more spacing.
The thing though it’s not listed as an option in OpenType panel.
The fact the font has to have it is fine, this should be something programmed in the font.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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As per the comment within, this can be resolved like this:
1. In Preferences > Type > enable Show East Asian Options
2. In Paragraph panel choose Avoid Head and Tail, Strict
Please comment back if it works or not for you.
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Wrong exported image size (extra pixel added) if artboard coordinates are non-integer, not pixel-perfect
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184 votesThis issue is probably happening because the artboard dimensions are not appropriate for raster export (i.e. are in decimals).
If you make x and y values as the whole numbers in the transform panel (not in decimal), then the extra pixels will not be added to the exported image.That is the workaround, and it’s reported that it’s not always the case.
At the same time — Ai knows the size of artboards to be exported and yet it does not deliver the set sizes, which is not fair. The team is going to rethink the algorithm.
An error occurred while saving the comment Yep, you tested it properly and came to the right conclusions.
To have the results pixel perfect, the artboards (in pixels) should have integer values, integer coordinates (from the corner, not the center), and the resolution should be a multiple of 72 ppi, which is 1:1 on PostScript, where pixel equals point.
When these are not honored exactly, rounding happens.The larger problem you commented on recently (http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/30992416) is specifically about trimming the extra 1 px row and column of the resulting images to match the desired size EVEN when the COORDINATES only are not integer, but SIZES are — as set by the user.
It seems pretty similar, so I think it can be merged, if you wish to.
An error occurred while saving the comment @Matthieu, this is another problem, and it’s simple math, and a bane of the metric world :)
The resolution values you used are not ALL possible ones, you forgot to set a custom one — and to get nice integer linear sizes in centimeters we HAVE to use a a fractional value.
300 ppi (point per inch) means each 25.4 mm (1 inch equals to it today) will have 300 pixels. The other way around means 1 cm will have 118,11 pixels. And pixels can’t be cut in fractions. So these get rounded. That makes your 28 cm with 300 ppi equal 28×118.11 = 3307,08 pixels. If rounded down, your 28×40 cm becomes 279,99×399,97 cm (3307×4724 px), if rounded up (like i happens in your case) — 28,01×40,01 cm...Photoshop offers PPCM as a unit of resolution, one can change in Preferences. Illustrator offers none. Here is the request you can upvote: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32403901
Until then, some of use have to use fractional values for PPI, to get clean linear sizes: 304.8 ppi to get 120 ppcm, 508 ppi to get 200 ppcm, etc.
An error occurred while saving the comment Glad it worked for you.
Coloration can be different because of the color management. Perhaps the scripting method doesn't write the current color profile into the image, and you viewer respects profiles. Sadly, I don’t have enough knowledge on how it’s handled... but I suggest visiting Adobe Community, Scripting section), and asks the question there: community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/ct-p/ct-illustrator&tabid=discussions&topics=label-scripting
Please also share there your actual color settings, along with the test file and test results, so people can try to figure it out. Forums are great.If it turns out to be a bug — come back here and log it.
As for this one — do you mind me merging it into the larger one?An error occurred while saving the comment Ben, this is a great observation and a well-writted and documented report.
Thank you for this.What are the coordinates of your artwork? As I see it, Illustrator documents are point grid based internally, and integer global coordinates for both artboards and objects are critical to have crisp results without fractions of a point/pixel creeping into the rasterization. Obviously Ai should use local grid... there is a larger general report on that topic, http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/30992416
If you have this problem, but the coordinates (both for artboard and global rulers) are integers — please share the test file, so the team can review it.
If fixing coordinates solves the problem — again, please comment back.An error occurred while saving the comment Ruud, instead of using the final sizes of the artboards specified, Illustrator calculates these based on their coordinates on the global document grid.
if you pick the Artboard tool and check the X/Y values in the Control or Properties panel, you'll see that the artboard is not placed exactly one the grid — like the attached coordianates_fractions.png shows.
If you change them to be integer, like the second image shows, this file gets exported as 120005 × 9005.This is a known problem, reported here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/30992416
Would you mind me merging your report with this one?An error occurred while saving the comment Strange... Would you mind sharing the copy of the file here, please? Remove everything, but keep the layout of artboards.
I am testing this and can’t reproduce, so perhaps it’s file-specific. Needs a close look.An error occurred while saving the comment Can you check the coordinates of the artboards, please? Are these integer numbers, without any fraction?
An error occurred while saving the comment Do not worry. I just wanted to make sure this is the same popular problem reported earlier — it is.
The main reason this happens — fractional coordinates the artboard has. Once you reset rulers, this should get exported fine (although some report it does not help).This explains it, but doesn’t excuse though... and it should be fixed eventually.
As I said before in the comments to this report, Ai knows the final size a user wants, and it should stick to it.An error occurred while saving the comment Either attach here if you are OK with making it public, or via email: sharewithai@adobe.com (in this case also put the link to this report: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/48293624)
An error occurred while saving the comment K-O, can you please share both the test file and the exact setting you used to export the image?
The team would need these to replicate the problem.An error occurred while saving the comment A separate report was made about a similar problem but for assets:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/48077885An error occurred while saving the comment This is rubbish. I've been fighting with extra pixels for years. It got better, but these still happen occasionally.
Izabela, can you please share the file which results this (especially 8px!)?
The content is not that important, I believe, just artboards.Put it here in the comments or send it over to sharewithai@adobe.com if you don’t want to do it publicly (then please state the link to this report for better tracking — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/45798424)
And please provide the exact steps you are performing: which export method, which settings, etc. Maybe record a video even, or a GIF — this would help developers to jump to this sooner.
Thanks!An error occurred while saving the comment Hans, your previous request about the same issue has been merged into a more general one. This one has to be merged as well. Why do you keep posting this as a separate request? To bring some attention to it and not to the main one, and dilute the applied focus? :)
An error occurred while saving the comment Related request:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/44429721
Probably won’t be necessary when main problem gets fixed.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment It might relate to a known problem when artboards’ coordinates have fractional values.
Try to position them exactly on grid, with integer coordinates and check if the problem stays.An error occurred while saving the comment Kaja, make sure that your artboard’s coordinates (X, Y) are integer.
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An error occurred while saving the comment A related request:
Bring back Duplicate button in the Contextual Task Bar
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An error occurred while saving the comment Makes sense. The bar should allow some customization.
There are several related requests that also worth looking at and upvoting:
1. Let us customize what shortcuts are in the right click popup panel — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/38276677
2. Allow us to customize/choose features/controls/order in Control panel — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/41107240
3. Right Click Menu Enhancements (Cut, Copy, Paste, Lock, Unlock, etc) — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32692501
4. Bring back Duplicate button in the Contextual Task Bar — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/49039064
5. Contextual Pie-menus, like Radiant menus by Wacom — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31492777
6. Select Inverse and Lock in Contextual Task Bar — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/48677966
7. Customizing any toolbar by right click on any empty space on it — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/41484337
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yep. It’s not only the Duplicate button though, it’s a general possibility to customize this bar...
Again, requested separately :)
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/49235456An error occurred while saving the comment Jodi, the Duplicate button was not the only way to put a copy on top of it. Paste in Front (if the copied object is still selected) does exactly the same...
But it requires using clipboard, and it can be very slow sometimes (and takes up clipboard slot in general) — that’s why this separate request to have Edit > Duplicate command exist: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/34134466
Another problem with this method occurs if you have more than one object to be duplicated. Paste in Front puts all copies in front of the topmost one, and not each one on top of their originals. Both behaviors can be useful, but only this one is allowed now. You can upvote it here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/43311579
I’d love to have both the command and the button.
I know there is a plugin to add the command out there, but it should be just from the box.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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Profile of the document changes when a screenshot with P3 display (AI 24.3) is drag & dropped on Mac
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An error occurred while saving the comment Ah, yes, I get it now very clearly, thank you. The profile of the document changes, not the color mode.
A known behavior :( There should be an existing report about it.
I am fixing the title and going to merge it when I locate a previous report.
Again — thank you!An error occurred while saving the comment Don’t get it, sorry.
Perhaps terms are confused? Document Color Mode can be either CMYK Color or RGB Color — what’s 'Display Color Mode'?
Or do you refer to Color Settings Profiles?Can you please record this on video?
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An error occurred while saving the comment A very much related request:
Make USEFUL hover hints for ALL the options, fields, menu commands
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An error occurred while saving the comment There is a separate larger report:
Rotated images export poorly with Export for Screens,
but that one is not new...
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/34636129An error occurred while saving the comment Do you use Export As of Export for Screens?
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The team is ware of the problem and intends to make a fix soon
An error occurred while saving the comment Tora, does this file have many linked images?
An error occurred while saving the comment This is related to the recent function added, when Illustrator embed the preview of used fonts within a document, to allow viewing it as originally intended when shared with someone without used fonts available... but in your case it’s clearly a false alarm — the fonts are there...
I had it once myself, so thank you for reporting it! I will pass this to the team ASAP.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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Indeed, it doesn’t! A saved tint is rendered as yet another copy of the main color.
And naturally the chips on canvas do NOT use the actual swatch...