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  1. Allow to change color & width of border / edges for artboards (all and active)

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    Started (Available in Beta)  ·  AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    We finally got the control over the active artboard border color.

    In Beta 30.1.0.89, in Preferences > Selection & Anchor Display, in the new Artboard Display section, we now can choose the color and the border width in pixels — black, 1 px by default, as usual. We can set it 4 px maximum

    The border tries to get aligned by center, but stays pixel-perfect, so choosing 3 is safe. Color choices are the same as we get with layers’ colors, with a custom option as well.

    There’s no way to tweak inactive artboards’ borders. Please comment if this solution is working for you and if there’s anything you need to have it perfect.

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    Ali H commented  · 

    This should not have been a universal change - this should have been implemented as an option from the start. It's not only wildly annoying - it also just made it more challenging to design with precision around the edge of the format (the artboard).

    To add insult to annoyance, you've put the onus on designers - YOUR PAYING CLIENTS - to tell you how to correct your "improvement" - when it wasn't broken in the first place (for the majority of users). So you've just wasted my time, as well as the time of hundreds of other designers who care enough to provide feedback. And most are saying pretty much the same thing. One more reason to explore other design platforms...

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    Ali H commented  · 

    Your recent addition of a thick black border to artboards is not only annoying, it's distracting. And giving the user no way to disable it - well, it's the design equivalent of forcing everyone to watch a movie with captions permanently on. It's that grating. I get that you are trying to add an accessibility feature - but one person's accessibility tool, is another's clunky distraction.

    "Upgrades" like this are why people are flocking to other options like Figma.

    And speaking of accessibility - this webpage is displaying 12pt font! Holy **** Adobe... you need to move into this millennium.

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