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An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment Sara, the video though gives a clear method how to do it, using Envelope Distort, both with presets and meshes, made from custom shapes... What is you request then, if this is something we can already do?
An error occurred while saving the comment Sara, can you please share some images to show what you mean exactly?
There are several things that can match your description and I want to be sure I’m getting the right one.An error occurred while saving the comment Ah, now I get it. This feature is called Envelope Distortion, and no, Charlie, at the moment there is no way to do the same on iPad version of Ai.
I am now trying to protect the iPad version, but as far as I know, the product was never advertised as a full replacement for the desktop app — because is surely is not, and many obvious tools are not there.
There is a general request to for this specific feature, a quite popular one:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/931888/suggestions/41619439
Do you mind me merging your request with it, to add your vote?AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment Charlie, can you provide some explanation on this?
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An error occurred while saving the comment My bad. These are not actual CHANGES, these are comments!
I guess you can Print with Content Summary these as a PDF, using Adobe PDF Printer, from the Options menu of the Comments panel in Acrobat.Comments is not considered as art, it’s just your client used them as a tool to convey the changes :)
Does it solve the problem for you?An error occurred while saving the comment Ah, this PDF was NOT produced by Illustrator in the first place, it’s made with InDesign, according to the code! Explains some things, but not others.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Rupert, this is strange, but for a different reason...
When a document 'saved' as a PDF from Illustrator, it gets two parts in it: a PDF part any app that understands PDFs can view (and edit, in the case of Acrobat and other editors), and the second part, in PGF format, the actual native format of Illustrator files. These look the same, but the PDF part is a basically exported, converted, expanded and flattened copy, as much as the chosen standard allows.
When Ai handles the 'saving', it just sync the PDF part to match the PGF layer... But Acrobat cares not, since it can edit only the PDF part.
But when changes are made by the external app into the PDF... Ai usually gives a message when a file like this is read back, "This file has been modified outside of Illustrator. Do you want to continue?" — but not for this file for some reason... Do you see one?Illustrator values the original native data over the external changes, and there is no easy way to make only some data to be swapped from the PDF into PGF — these changes can be anything, not only a text change... There is a way to force Ai to completely ignore the native PGF block, by removing it in Acrobat (Save as other, Optimized PDF, and uncheck all options but the 'Discard private data of other applications' in the Discard User Data section of the PDF Optimizer dialog).
But this, or writing a PDF without the 'Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities' option checked with your client will ruin the editability and the original structure of the .ai file read back, making it the same as importing a PDF, without backwards compatibility...I definitely understand the problem myself, but I don’t see a simple solution to this.
More to it, I don’t understand why the changes made by your client into the PDF are not rendered when I place it as a link into a new document! And I can’t bake these changes with the Optimize method above — the year is still visible in the imported document, with no rectangle on top of it.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Hmm. Pressing 'Export 3D object...' button at the bottom of the 3D & Materials panel (in the Object tab) should do the same thing automatically: it adds the currently selected object (and it should be selected) as an asset to the Asset Export panel and immediately open that panel.
Ian, what happens exactly when you try this approach? What does not happen?An error occurred while saving the comment Can’t confirm on Windows.
All formats works when Export Assets is used for me.
Ian, can you tell more about how exactly it’s broken? Does it even try to create a file? Or the files don’t appear even? Or messed up? -
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An error occurred while saving the comment I wonder if it works any faster than it used to for you...
When I check it today, it’s almost instant, like it should, with no noticeable pause.
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Please accept my sincere apology for the inconvenience. Please get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html . Since this is not a generic issue that we can reproduce at our end, we will need someone to look into your machine to figure out what is going on here.
An error occurred while saving the comment Not sure if it’s still an issue.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Hmm. Won’t happen for me on both the GA and Beta builds, on Windows... but these are not 28.7.3/4.
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An error occurred while saving the comment It’s probably Snap to Pixel got enabled.
This option is on when we create a document for screen intent, and you can see if it’s on or not in the View menu (search for Snap to Pixel command) or in the Control panel (sadly disabled by default) — it should have a small button on its right side.
Also check Snap to Grid option — it can have the same effect.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I work in print often also, and even worse so, I do it in metric scale, so 'mm' is what I prefer for all units, including type and stroke :)
Where is a way to do it in Illustrator.
You have to find the folder containing your document profiles. On Mac it’s somewhere here:
Macintosh HD ▸ Applications ▸ Adobe Illustrator 2022 ▸ Support Files ▸ New Document Profiles ▸ en_US (or the other language locale)
Open the Print.ai profile, make changes you want in Preferences for units (and also Paragraph styles, if you want to have your own custom default font), save it, and use it next time you create a new document.There are many nice articles about changing document profiles that can provide more details.
Start with this one: https://productivista.com/new-document-profiles-saves-your-default-settings/Also, don’t forget to backup the saved file, because Illustrator tends yo update these without a permission on update.
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An error occurred while saving the comment I remember upvoting this, and now I found it again, to answer the question at the Illustrator Beta forums: community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-beta-ideas/artboards-discussion-feedback-for-jan-prerelease-webinar/idc-p/15109626
To quote myself, Ai is build upon PostSctipt, and it postulates 1 pixel equals 1 point. The resolution It’s hardcoded and won’t bulge.
I bet this change would be insanely complicated to pull off, although I really want it, because I often have to move artwork between different media...AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment Rex, do you still experience anything like this?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Oliver, you can switch units using 2 custom JS scripts, wrapped in an action, one per unit.
Put this into a .jsx file for inches:
app.preferences.setIntegerPreference("strokeUnits", 0);
and this one for points:
app.preferences.setIntegerPreference("strokeUnits", 2);This is a workaround, sure, but an effective one.
Please try it and comment back.As for the mockup you propose — it is rather confusing. I understand the intention behind it, but it looks like Ai is going to handle unites separately, and not combined with a values, which is not cool at at all — no math, no live conversion, a step back. And as a solution it’s not much faster than the current method — 2 clicks compared to 5 clicks we have today (plus some aiming).
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An error occurred while saving the comment This is because Ai doesn’t provide an ability to assign different units PER artboard. But it allows to set one for the whole document, in File > Document Setup (Cmd/Ctrl + Opt/Alt + P).
So is your request about individual units per artboard, or just a shortcut to the document’s units form the Artboard Options dialog? -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Hmm. I can see these in the File Type dropdown in Export As in 29.2.1, on Windows... What version are you using? Can you share a screenshot, please?
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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 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...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-MK0bEbD78AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An 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?An error occurred while saving the comment I don't agree with this.
Drag-n-drop is also used as a way to apply color. You can easily miss and create square instead off applying.
If you want create color chart of your swatches — use RenderSwatchLegend script by brilliant John Wundes: http://www.wundes.com/JS4AI/ -
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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?
Please also share the settings you use when you save the file. -
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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
Ah, got it now. You filed this request in the Desktop branch, not the iPad one. I am merging this with the existing one on the topic. Thanks!