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An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment Taco, can you please share a simple test file with a graph like this? A screenshot of the result would be nice to have too. Thanks!
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An error occurred while saving the comment Consistency for the sake of consistency is a dangerous notion.
Illustrator, as any other app not only within Adobe suite, has many entry points, and not all of new users come in it from Photoshop. Some come from Corel Draw, Xara, Canva and Figma (I mean it). Their expectation will always differ, and there is no true way to ease the learning curves for all of them.
In fact, making it more friendly for newbies often hurts seasoned veterans, and vice versa.Funding probably influence this too, but in a veeery distant manner. Some great product and plugins are made with a very limited funding. Besides, discussing that would always be a speculation without the actual data — and I doubt we ever get it.
Speaking of Standart — well, I agree.
Photoshop was released in 1987. InDesign — in 1999. Illustrator started in 1985, got shipped in 1987.
Peers at least, right?And I don’t agree with the notion it’s lacking 20 years, hardly. I can name you many things Ps was lacking for many years, while Ai had been having them for years. But it won’t get us anywhere. The opposite is also true, and these are just two very different apps, they work with different media (although the borders blur more and more), and they have their own legacies, traditions, habits, and angry users.
Take modifiers. In Ps, to duplicate a thing, you have to hold Opt/Alt before you click — but then you can release the key while still dragging.
In Ai, you have to hold the modifier until you release it, but you don’t have to hold it before the click.
BOTH methods are valid and have benefits. But only one can be a default one. Making it an option takes time and demand. And UV is a way to measure it (there is actually a request for that here, you can find it if this is something you need).Comparing user count is also hardly fair approach :) It fluctuates and it’s a two-way factor.
Anyway, Ai is a complex thing. But it can allows many things. And balancing it all is not a simple feat.
It does not mean it’s PERFECT, hell no! :DThat why UV is that important. So if you have some other things you spot and wish to be changed — don’t hesitate to upvote and request, report and argue. This helps a lot.
An error occurred while saving the comment Doble-click on a tool icon is a common way to open a tool’s option or dialog in Illustrator. Once you learn it, you just use it.
But yes, despite this approach is several decades old, it's rarely used today and new modern users won’t know about it.Illustrator recently added Dimension tool that has a ton of options. To inform new users about them, they added a 'gear' button into the dedicated floating panel with sub-tools. This can hardly be done for other tools without sub-modes (most of them), and even sub-tools are considered to be a questionable approach.
There is a dedicated request to list all the options for the active tool in a separate panel: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/44146278
and another more arrow but more popular request to add all Blend options into similar panel: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31988758 — or a dialog, which means different people prefer different ways.Dialogs and panels are two main ways Ai uses. Both have their pros and cons.
Some dialogs in Ai should be panels, some other better stay as dialogs...
A general request to eliminate modal dialogs can be found here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/44131527Speaking of symbol sets.
This Symbolism toolset (Symbol Sprayer tool group) is rather old, it was introduced in version 10 in 2001, and was never really improved since then.
It never had its own submenu in Object top menu, has zero dedicated commands it the contextual right-click menu.But some things you ask for are doable.
You can convert a Symbol Set into a group of symbols with Object > Expand command (but can’t covert them back into a set!)As for the task of scattering some objects along a path — the team is aware of the problem and is reviewing options to solve it.
There is a dedicated request to Paste / repeat symbols / objects along a path: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/41707711For now I can offer workarounds the community has developed over the years to do that:
1. A script by @peprintenpa: an article (https://sppy.stars.ne.jp/alongpath) and a shop page (https://tawami.booth.pm/items/4029590) — supports rotation, a paid one
2. Distribute On The Path (https://shspage.blogspot.com/2014/02/distributeonthepathjsx.html), a free script by Hiroyuki Sato (originally developed and discussed here — https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/need-a-developer-for-script-distribute-symbols-on-a-path-and-rotate/td-p/5879720) — does not support rotation
3. Rotate Toward Point (https://shspage.blogspot.com/2014/02/rotatetowardpointjsx.html), a second part of the solution above
4. Dup at Selected anchors (http://shspage.com/aijs/en/#dup_at), another free script by Hiroyuki Sato, does not distribute evenly, but uses points of the path as positions
5. FindReplace Art plugin by Astute Graphics (https://astutegraphics.com/plugins/findreplace)
6. Replace With Top Object command by Graffix (https://rj-graffix.com/toolshed-adds-bracket-tool-plus-replace-art-and-bust-up-paragraphs/)
Then, there is a request to have a scatter brush with more than one custom elements: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/37324495
And these solutions currently exist:
1. Live Symbol Path effect from CValley FILTERiT suite: https://www.cvalley.com/products/filterit5-2/ (sadly, the site is offline since recently)
2. Symbol Stipple effect for Astute Graphics (https://astutegraphics.com/plugins/stipplism)
3. Make symbols work in brushes (https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-feature-requests/suggestions/36364858-make-symbols-work-in-brushes)
Thanks for the request anyway! We need more questions like this to get this moving.
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It is possible now to set up a custom scale in Ai Beta 28.4.0.2.
In Dimension Tool Options dialog open the Scale dropdown and choose custom to get the Custom Scale dialog.
It works for decimal scales only, like 1:12 or 1:15, but not for Imperial scales like 1/16"
Please try it and comment back.
An error occurred while saving the comment Marek, yep, the dialog does not allow to type fractional values...
...but 1:1.5 is just 2:3, and 1:2.5 is 2:5. And it works.
And you can also set these as 10:15 and 10:25 if you wish — same result.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment Colin, does this happen if you change your mode form GPU to CPU (Cmd+E by default)?
Please provide the specs. You are on Mac OS 10.15.7, correct?
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An error occurred while saving the comment 'Reinstalled', or 'uninstalled the Spanish one, and installed the English one after'?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Another workaround would be checking the artwork with VectroFirstAid plugin panel. It detects these cuts and heals them, in bulk. Plus we can schedule it to make regular checks...
But we all understand this should not happen in the first place. Somebody just did s sloppy job with these paths.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment Yep, new lines are encoded differently on Mac and Windows, for various reasons, including historical ones... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline
When I try to see if it’s possible to do on Windows, Ai drops all the lines bit one, no matter if I use line breaks or paragraph returns
If I use Ai’s forced breaks (which are not true line breaks, but end-of-text markers, U+0003), the lines get welded into one, leaving square symbols in line.I’d say it’s not possible to accidentally insert several lines on Windows at all. But a problem for Macs for sure... voted.
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An error occurred while saving the comment What settings do you use when you save a PDF?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Nathan, I assume it happens in the latest build?
And when this happens, it goes away if you toggle View > View Using CPU (Ctrl + E)?
And it does not happen at all, when you use GPU, but enable View > Show Grid?
Please test these.
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Backquote(`) can be used to transform a pattern within an object. Documentation is also updated for the same https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html.
An error occurred while saving the comment It works in all versions of Illustrator after CS5 (just checked), but it seems this particular key just works bad when we use non-English keyboard layouts — but again, only for some users.
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An error occurred while saving the comment It seems like this problem happens only for Mac Sonoma users...
Downgrading to a previous version of MacOS seems to be a viable workaround at the moment.
This is not a proposed solution though.
If this happens for you at earlier versions — please comment.I see the report states it happens on 12.6.7 though...
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An error occurred while saving the comment Oh, yes.
There is a simple trick I personally use to select partially selected path fully.
Select > Inverse, twice. The first one will select all other objects than the current partial selection, and the second one will select the original stuff back, but now fully selected.The second part of your request (that basically mimics the clicking with Group Selection tool) can be somewhat faked with pressing Next Object Above and followed with Next Object Below... but this will select top-level objects, and won’t really work if you have a lot of nested objects. You can certainly try it.
I am sure it can be done with scripts...
And I’m dead sure we need a command like this. Voted. -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Weird!
Can you please try if Beta version behaves anything better?
Also — what if you use another dropdown, not the one in Control panel, but from dedicated Character panel or Properties (below that generative section). -
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An error occurred while saving the comment I somewhat get the idea, but I can’t but notice the terms are misused.
A digital image can’t have a resolution in 'DPI', only 'PPI' — 'point or pixels per inch'.
DPI stands for 'dots per inch' and applies only to the input/output devices: printers, scanners, displays.
One is digital only, a relative coefficient, a ratio, 'pixel density'.
The other one is a real-world measure.It’s common to mix these up... Illustrator have been confusing these for a long time, and it finally got fixed only sometimes between CS4 and CS6.
However, a request is correct, having a larger resolution (in PPI) is a thing Ai for iPad could have.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Does this problem with a font went missing still happen in the latest versions?
If yes — what’s the name of the font? How did you get it?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Makes sense!
It will help us to avoid error with accidental guides (because we can immediately see these appear), and save us some nerves (because it it’s intentional, we definitely wanted to see guides).Illustrator should also a 'shy message' about Guides being shown, on a gray background at the top of the viewport, the same way it does when a Live Shape gets expanded.
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Yep, I can see that. If I flatten the transparency to get this expanded, I see this non-zero sector flattened into a flat line, but with handles correctly positioned (but can’t say that about handles’ lengths...)
It feels like the sum of the parts fall below a certain precision threshold! If I change 1832 to something smaller, the magenta sector appears back. 876 — OK, 877 — not OK!
These make the sums to be 1004 and 1005 correspondingly... and this leads me nowhere.
360 / 1004 = 0,3585657370517928
360 / 1005 = 0,3582089552238806
Sure, 0.35 looks familiar, 1 pt = 0.35278 mm... but that’s hardly it.
Great find... not sure though if team handles anything chart-related these days... :(
Still thank you so much for reporting this. Perhaps if we discover enough of problems like this, they finally realize how toolset is flawed and make some work.