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I've been using a lot of gradient strokes lately and I am *so* tired of typing numbers in the Gradient panel to set their angle. So, so tired.
Wikipedia tells me the gradient tool predates gradient strokes by about four years, but it's been *thirteen* years since both of them existed and maybe it's time to finally make the gradient tool know something about gradient strokes?
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I still still still want this.
I've included a sample file to demonstrate why this makes me sad.
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I still really want this. I've probably wanted this for a decade now. At least. I just never got around to asking for it here until 2022. I might have even asked for it in the old bug/feature database.
I've *finally* found some workarounds involving putting the entire clipping group in another group and applying a complex appearance to the entire group, but I have to add a Pathfinder Divide effect with 'remove unpainted artwork' unchecked, followed by a Pathfinder Add effect, to *every stroke or path* I want to apply to the clipping mask, because Illustrator wants to remove the clipping path from consideration for these strokes and paths otherwise, and that's a hassle.
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29.3 still does not fix this.
I'm still on 27.8.1 at the moment because even though I know what causes this I still do not want to deal with being annoyed every time I try to use the pen tool to draw a path with an effect that triggers this. Turning "new art has basic appearance" back on before drawing a potentially offending path would *technically* work around this but, just, no, I've had "new art has basic appearance" off for something like twenty years at this point, please fix this bug.
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Oh hey a new version. Is this bug fixed in 29.2.1? No it is not. Back to 27.8.1 for me!
An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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Awrite, I just installed 2025 (29.1, an update from the 29.0.1 I originally reported this on) and noted the following:
* deleting this path on my original file did indeed fix this, both errors are gone
* drawing a new single-point path with this appearance instantly causes the [IABD] and appearance processing errors, whether I'm in outline or cpu preview
* this behavior exists in the gpu renderer tooaaaand
* your stripped-down file still generates both the [IABD] and appearance processing errors in 2025
That's one more drink I owe you if we ever end up in the same place at a convention, I guess :)
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Oh wow, thanks for doing the digging on isolating this one, Egor! I will try to make some time to reinstall 2025 and see if I'm still getting the [IABD] error. It definitely makes a *ton* of sense for it to be a weird edge case with effects this update touched.
(Here's a Reddit post from someone who's getting similar behavior except their first error is [!out] instead of [IABD], followed by the "error during processing appearance of an object": https://www.reddit.com/r/AdobeIllustrator/comments/1ha2ol9/anyone_ever_had_this_pop_up/)
....really I would kinda love it if there was a "show me the offending object" button on the "error processing appearance" requestor next to the "ok" button., I should make that feature request if it doesn't already exist.
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I'm so tired of pressing and holding on the tiny, tiny little target of the Appearance palette's menu, sliding over to 'redefine graphic style', and occasionally mis-clicking and rearranging my palettes instead. So, so tired.
There's other stuff that needs a keyboard shortcut and doesn't have one too but this is the one I feel the lack of on a constant basis, I'm *constantly* refining styles.
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It's four and a half years since I posted this. I still want this. Badly.
I think this one's at the point where I should do like I did for "rotate canvas" and put an event in my calendar to start wishing this feature request a happy birthday.
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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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I'm working on a commission for a client who has this type of color blindness and it would be really, really nice to be able to make sure it works for her.
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I just found this suggestion while looking for something else and yeah this sure would be nice, I was wishing for something like this just today.
I *will* note some implementation issues I see with this:
* multi-part pattern brushes are gonna be a big UI challenge
* it feels like I spend a lot more time editing a scatter brush's *settings* than the actual art, usually with some sample brushstrokes on the canvas to see what's happening
* do brushes expand effects once the initial art gets turned into a brush the same way pattern fills do?
* actually now I think I need to go make a feature request for 'figure out how to store the original pattern art along with the expanded pattern art, and edit the former rather than the latter when I double-click on the pattern swatch", brb :)
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Oh yeah I know and love Toolshed's stacking order commands, I was delighted to be able to get rid of my old action that would create a blend, do object>blend>reverse front to back, then release the blend, in favor of just hitting object>arrange>stacking order>reverse stack order. Super helpful.
Having it as a live effect makes it a lot more useful though. Generate a bunch of shapes with a blend or a scatter brush or a transform effect or a plugin, add in the Stacking Order effect, and it stays live when you tweak the underlying shapes.
Oh and maybe some controllable randomness in the restacking would be nice too? Astute has this in the controls for their Symbol Stipple effect, but not in their Stipple effect, and not in their Halftone effect either, and the fact that I feel like I would love to see it in all three also makes me feel like it would be great to have in a separate effect. Maybe I should just go to the Astute Slack and ask for this, it really doesn't feel like anyone at Adobe gives a **** about any new features that aren't "generate some messy AI slop" lately.
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Hi All,
Thanks for reporting this issue and sorry for the inconvenience caused. We are able to reproduce this issue at our end and it is currently under review.
Thanks
Anish Kumar
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I just spent a half an hour repeatedly failing to copy about 250 objects with a lot of complex appearances and a dense layer structure into a new file. Maddening.
I ended up getting it to work by opening a new file, dragging the objects into there, then dragging them from there into the original target file. You better believe I hit 'save' the *instant* I saw that it made it through. Can we get someone actually working on fundamental actions like this instead of yet another piece of image-generation garbage?
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Okay, I figured out a thing.
Draw Inside *does* work with compound paths made via object>compound path>create, or other methods like expanding type or whatever.
Draw Inside does NOT work with compound SHAPES made by alt-clicking on a top-row Pathfinder button.
You can make a clipping mask out of a compound shape, but not via Draw Inside, and if you do make one via object>clipping mask>make, you can't get into it via Draw Inside.
This continues to be a weird, annoying edge case that I'd love to see fixed sometime. :)
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Although honestly I would be fine with a separate effect to modify the depths of the objects passed to it:
* reverse stacking order
* stack left-to-right, right-to-left, up-to-down, down-to-up, or maybe just an angle dial for stacking order? that'd be super useful for "I drew three balls and blended them to make a necklace and I don't want to have to split it into two blends to make the right ball be the nearest one".actually heck with it, here's a new feature request for that: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/49224482-effect-distort-transform-stacking-order
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I ran across this one just yesterday and was annoyed by it :)
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This is ******* embarrassing, it took like four years for view rotation to go from the top-voted request to "actually a thing you can do" and it's still not finished, there's so many raw edges where things are aligned to the original rotation, arrow keys, dragging selection/zoom rectangles, holding shift, can we please get someone working on *fixing* all these annoying little things. No, let's add sloppy AI generation stuff instead. Why am I still using this program as my main art tool.
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This dialogue. "An error occurred while processing the appearance of the object."
Which object is the problem? I have no idea and I can have thousands of objects in a file. It takes me like a half an hour to do a binary search for this by deleting stuff. Extra frustrating given that when Illustrator generates this dialogue, it knows *exactly* what object is causing the problem.
Tell me which one it is. Give me a button that will highlight this object somehow. It doesn't have to be a special new kind of highlighting, just selecting it (unlocking it and/or its parents if needed) and doing Locate Object in the Layers palette is enough.
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Does After Effects have one of these? I don't think it does, I just see a plugin for it. Are they working on one? Go ask 'em. Maybe get a joint Illustrator/AE effort going so that they work the same, split it across both teams' budgets?