Auggie Goftrik
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An error occurred while saving the comment This would be great to add to the Graphic Styles window! Right now, if you apply a pre-designated graphic style like a drop-shadow, it'll change the base fill of the object itself, which is like 2 steps back and one step forward. Building out more customizability for that window would be amazing!
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An error occurred while saving the comment Disclosure: This seems like it would be difficult to make happen, but it would be super useful for more complex perspectives & for more adaptability in the design process.
It would be great if we could select two or more points on some shapes and "link" them together, so that if one gets moved a few pixels to the right, the other one(s) also move a few pixels to the right. This should function as a toggle, so they stay linked even after going to select other objects or points. That way, you can keep certain things aligned for as long as necessary until removing the link. Ideally this would work not just on points of a single shape, but across shapes.
For me, I'd love to use this to make more dynamic/complex perspectives. (Yes, I'm aware there's a perspective grid tool, but it's honestly a bit too finnicky to use in my workflow). A feature like this would let users make their own perspective grids and link the end point of multiple lines together to act as one of the "vanishing points". If you linked more points together, you could also make those adjustments modify the shapes you've already built, in theory.
I could also see it being useful for logo design by ensuring that the width of letters or shapes remain a certain distance apart. That way, it'd be faster for designers to iterate with clients' feedback even while switching between multiple projects.
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Illustrator allows this today.
- Go to File > Place and choose the files to be placed.
- Click and drag on the canvas to define the grid area.
- While dragging, hold Opt/Alt to place all files in one gesture with an auto-calculated grid.
- For a custom grid layout, while dragging, press arrow keys to adjust rows and columns — Right/Left for columns, Up/Down for rows.
Known limitations.
- Unlike in InDesign, we can’t control the gaps with Cmd/Ctrl + Arrows.
- It won’t work for drag-n-drop on canvas. works only with File > Place.
- This option works only for placing images, and won’t affect tools like Rectangle — use Rectangular Grid Tool instead.
Please try how it works and comment back to help the team to polish the feature.
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I see what you mean! I think I was a bit unclear, so I'll try to clarify:
I think the problem with using Simplify to solve this problem is threefold.
First, Simplify will sometimes change the shape. It's a bit subtle in the example images I've provided, but even that change can cause problems, particularly for delicate Illustrations or logos with multiple layered shapes that need to align in certain ways. As you mentioned, there are ways of adjusting it using the Advanced Panel, but it still won't retain the same shape exactly.
The second (most important to me) reason is that you can't control which Anchor points are removed with the Simplify tool exactly. Again, yes, there's the Advanced Panel, but that doesn't mean you know which points are going to be removed. What if, for instance, I wanted to simplify one part of a shape, but not another? Such as if I just wanted to simplify the the top part of the shape in the screenshots, but wanted to leave the bottom part as-is. I'd likely have to split the shape into multiple parts, then simplify the part I want, and then merge them back together and hope it doesn't make even more anchor points because of any overlapping edges.
Third, sometime's removing anchor points isn't just about making the shape smoother or flatter. Sometimes, I just want to remove part of a shape, like let's say I wanted to remove the knobby bit at the bottom left of the screenshots. At no point did simplify remove that set of anchor points, because it thinks it's an intended part of the shape. Again, no big deal if it's just this one shape, you can go in and manually remove them with the Delete Anchor Points tool, or you could use a Pathfinder Minus Front to remove it with another shape.
The problem again is that it only works on one shape at a time. Let's say you were working with expanded text that had serifs and you had layered it on top of itself for a cool effect or used an expanded offset path, for instance. But, on one of the letters, you want to remove a serif on the side because it's just a bit too much or it's taking up too much space. You'd either have to go in and remove the serif on each layering of the text or on the expanded outline, or alternatively you'd have to go back and start over with the layering or the expanded offset path after manually removing the anchor points from one instance of the text. By that point, you'd have wasted a ton of time.
To me, it just makes more sense to have a click-and-drag + shortcut key to solve these problems.