Margaret Trauth
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An error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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Here's a horrible kludge that I currently do.
1. Save.
2. object>blend>make
3. object>blend>reverse front to back
4. object>blend>releaseSaving is not mandatory but strongly suggested, especially if you are reversing some paths with complex appearances - Blend might decide to make a ton more paths and bring Illustrator to its knees, and it's nice to be able to force quit Illustrator in that case and do it manually. This all fits into an action, and is definitely worth taking up of my precious f-key slots.
I sure would love to just do object>arrange>reverse stacking order though. This request just got my vote. :)
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An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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I would swear shift-clicking does this with the pen but it does not. Huh. I wonder when that stopped working, or if I am hallucinating that it ever did.
Workaround for pen: click elsewhere, hold down the button, use space to activate drag mode and position the point on top of the point you want to align with, but don't want to connect to.
Personally I find the pencil tool's auto-close to be aggressively useless. It would be much more useful to me if it looked at the *angle* of the beginning and end of the path, and only connected them if they matched. With the current implementation it auto-closes a ton of stuff that I have no need for it to close. I skipped the version where pencil auto-close was introduced without yet having a "don't autoclose" switch, it completely ruined my pencil-focused workflow.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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I still want a hotkey for this. And an entry in the list of things you can record an action for. And a button sure would be nice in both places, too.
Mostly I just want a hotkey because I do this ALL THE TIME.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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I still really want this. I'm still really tired of having to hit the tiny button to bring up the Appearance panel's menu, then navigate to the 'redefine graphic style' menu item.
If this is a one-engineer-and-a-couple-afternoons project, I will thank you for doing this in the form of art, should you want something drawn for you. Seriously I do this all the **** time in my workflow and I would love to assign a keystroke to it.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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Here is a one-click workaround:
1. Make a document containing nothing but a path with your desired brush assigned to it. Save it.
2. Open a new file.
3. Start recording an action.
4. file>open the document made in step 1, do *not* use file>open recent files as this will get recorded as a "place" action placing some unrelated file
5. select all, copy, close, paste
6. stop recording the action
7. make a new document and run the action again to make sure it's working
8. quit Illustrator to make it save your new action, unless you want to risk making it again after Illustrator crashes before the next time you manually quitYou might also want to record "new layer" before opening the brush document in step 4, otherwise the action might abort when it tries to paste into a document with no unlocked layers.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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I cannot upvote this enough, I have basically moved away from ever touching individual curve handles whenever possible because it is SO. *******. PAINFUL. now. I, too, have a workflow that is the antithesis of what works for smart guides.
Basically now whenever I try to move a curve handle I misclick, swear, try to select the object again, misclick, swear, and hit my hotkey for Astute's InkScribe tool, which ACTUALLY GRABS THE ******* CURVE HANDLES instead of requiring me to click on the absolute center point of the curve handle with my drawing stylus, regardless of what selection tolerance and anchor point size are set to.
(This is not a Windows-only bug either, I only use Macs and this has been driving me up the ******* wall for the past several years.)
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I think it *used* to actually save this. Maybe on a per-document basis. And you could fix this by editing your New Document Profiles to have your desired layer panel options.
Then this stopped. Layer panel settings are still on a per-file basis but if that's being saved, it's ignored when you load in a file; the options are always reset to the way they are in the attached screenshot.
This was long before the Uservoice site existed, bug reports and feature requests were just a form on Adobe's site, so there's no old bigs ******** about this change in here. It's been a low-level annoyance for years and I finally got reminded it exists and came here to grumble about it.
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I am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our latest release – 27.3.1 which is available worldwide now.
Going forward, our goal is to fix as many top User-Voice bugs as possible and as frequently as possible. Given the nature of the fixes, some of the bugs will take a longer time to fix, but we are on it.
You can update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html
Thank you for all the feedback. Keep it coming!
Ankit Goyal
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An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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I just started getting this on 26.4.1.
Blowing a half an hour digging on this traced it to something completely not involving any text at all. It is reliably showing up when I place a path drawn with a certain pattern brush into a *distortion mesh* and distort it. If I use a different pattern brush it doesn't appear. Very strange.
No replication file to offer, unfortunately - I can't get the path displaying this weird behavior isolated into a single file, and now it's stopped happening.
Man this is gonna be a **** of a bug to track down.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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I just ran into this and want to expand on this:
You can record an action of selecting the "Merge Swatches" item in the Swatches palette's menu, but running this action does absolutely nothing.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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Dang, I like this. This solves a pretty frequent help request that we currently have to teach beginners a *bunch* of stuff to do.
Maybe this should be part of a Depth Arrangement Tool instead of another thing crammed in the Object menu?
(Which begs the question of what else would such a tool do: access to basic send to front/back, as well as put all selected objects in front of the topmost/behind the rearmost selected objects (I do this a LOT via some scripts), and reverse the stacking order of selected objects is my suggestion for things that would all belong in a Depth Arragnement Tool.)
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An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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Hi. I still could really really need this. Please?
I'm doing a comic right now that has sets of styles for two characters, plus an outfit variant for each of them, and a second outfit for one, plus an assortment of styles for the backgrounds, and my Styles palette is just stupidly gigantic. They make it super easy to draw a character quickly but scrolling through them takes an absurd amount of time and thought, I wanna be able to say "okay I am drawing Chloe in the dance costume so I need to open up the base folder and the dance outfit folder" and close everything else so I'm not trying to remember where everything is in this roughly sixty-inch-tall palette.
Just imagine that every blank style in my screenshot with a name like " CHARACTER NAME" is a folder, that has a disclosure triangle next to it so I can open it and close it. Being able to nest style folders would be super nice, I could just say "Okay time to draw Chloe" and have all her alternate outfits lurking under her base styles, then finish drawing her and hide them all away with one click. But if that's too complicated, just having folders at all would be a MAJOR boost.
An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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I draw comics, and use Graphic Styles to keep my characters consistent across panels and pages.
A simple character might involve a half dozen styles. A complicated character can involve a lot more - see the attached screenshot.
Add in a good chunk of Graphic Styles for recurring background elements and I'm constantly dealing with triple-digit number of entries in the Graphic Styles palette. Finding the set of styles I want to use becomes an increasingly tedious process as pages get more complicated.
I would like to be able to create folders of Graphic Styles, which I can open and close in a similar fashion to opening and closing layers.
Being able to nest them would be nice; in the attached screenshot I have styles for two variants of a character's vehicle, with their own subsets of styles for drawing them at different sizes. Being able to nest all of these into "KIRT MECH" would be great for when I'm working on a page involving three giant robots fighting.
I would also really really love it if these folders were preserved when pulling styles out of a style library, or when copying art to another file.
Basically I have been using a LOT OF Graphic Styles to make some pretty complicated artwork, and I am finding myself direly in need of a way to fold away the parts of the complexity I'm not thinking about at the moment.
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It is 2022 and I have finally found a workaround for this wherein I don't use Illustrator's scatter brushes at all; instead I use Astute's Dynamic Sketch plugin to draw paths with variable widths, and their Symbol Stipple plugin to turn those paths into a bunch of randomly-placed shapes. It is kind of awkward to set up but it does work and it sure would be nice if there was a simple "scatter magnitude" slider in the native scatter brush settings.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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Still here in 26.3.1. I use this a lot for Op Art trickery and it's pretty annoying to have it broken.
An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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I updated, it's still there on 26.2.1.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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Hmm, 23.1.1 (2019) and 22.1.0 (2018) are doing the same thing. So if it's a reversion it's been around a while, I guess this is more of an enhancement request after all - feel free to move this to the appropriate place, o moderators.
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or maybe "reverse order" in the layers panel's menu should work on objects I've selected in the preview, instead of requiring me to open up the layer, find them in there, and select them again? ah, illustrator.