Margaret Trauth

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  1. Make Redefine Graphic Style option better accessible, and from the Graphic Styles panel too

    11 votes
    2 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » User Interface  ·  Admin →
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    I am looking back through the requests I've commented on and I still want to be able to assign a hotkey to this. I still can't. Maybe I can if I update, I'm still on 27.8.1 because the AI updates are less than worthless to me.

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    Margaret Trauth commented  · 

    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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  2. Effect > Path> Outline Stroke only works if applied to an entire object, not to a stroke

    1 vote
    2 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs » Effects, Appearance, Graphic Styles  ·  Admin →
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    Margaret Trauth commented  · 

    This one seems to have gotten fixed somewhere along the way. Or maybe I stopped doing it wrong. I dunno.

    Astute's "Path Visualizer" effect has made it really easy to be sure that this is working, thanks guys :)

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  3. Option to maintain aspect ratio when resizing objects by default, without holding Shift

    35 votes
    9 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » User Interface  ·  Admin →
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    Margaret Trauth commented  · 

    I have been holding down the Shift key to constrain proportions when resizing objects in Illustrator for a quarter of a century now. Possibly longer, I'm pretty sure I was doing it in Deluxe Paint back on my Amiga. Dan Silva probably swiped it from MacPaint.

    But recently I've been using Moho, which flips it. Resizes are aspect-constrained by default in there. If you want to unlock the aspect ratio then you hold down Shift. And it's great. Because it turns out that 99% of the time what I want to do is to retain the aspect ratio. I'm *aware* of how much I hold down Shift when using the Scale or Free Transform tools and it's kind of absurd that I have to constantly enable this behavior.

    Look, I know this is gonna be a controversial change. We've all been doing it the wrong way for half a lifetime. We're used to this backwards behavior. But ask yourself: just how often do I actually *want* to change a thing's aspect ratio when I size it?

    Hack up a build of Illustrator that works the other way. See what people think. See how much hassle it would be to install a "no thank you I actually want unlocked aspect ratios when I size stuff 99% of the time" switch.

    Also if you build this then please make sure it applies to the Scale tool, the Free Transform tool, AND the bounding box widgets, because only reversing the Shift key for ONE of these tools would be absolutely maddening :)

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  4. Revisit the interactions of gradients, brushes, and patterns.

    6 votes
    0 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » Gradients  ·  Admin →
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  5. Save As PDF and PDF Export

    184 votes
    64 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » File Save, Import and Export  ·  Admin →
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    Completed (Comments Open)  ·  AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    The solution is pushed into Global Availability build 28.6.

    PDF is now available as type in File > Export > Export As dialog.


    However, File > Adobe PDF Presets menu, similar to one InDesign has, to allow even quicker export, is absent still.

    If you want to have it, please upvote this new request here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/48670088

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    Margaret Trauth commented  · 

    There really needs to be a big "HEY! You saved as PDF with Illustrator compatibility off! Any further edits you make are going to get saved to the PDF" alert. Possibly with an "It looks like you never bothered saving this as an AI file, maybe you should do this too" addendum. I wonder how much work has been lost to this behavior over the years.

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  6. Turn off Smooth Tool slider

    18 votes
    11 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs » Tools  ·  Admin →
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    AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    While there is still no way to completely disable the Smooth panel when the Smooth tool is picked, the bar now remembers its position and better picks the initial location.

    Please comment on this behavior and upvote if you think there still should be an option to not show it.

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    Margaret Trauth commented  · 

    Shouldn't this be showing up in the Control or Properties window anyway? Both of those are supposed to be places that dynamically change to offer controls related to whatever you're doing.

    At this point in Illustrator's lifespan I figure there's a 50-50 chance than nobody working on the program knows those windows exist, never mind knows how to add new controls to them or where to go to find that out.

  7. Scissors tool should be aware of stroke width profiles and brush tool data.

    5 votes
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    I just searched for this sort of topic three years later and want to add: Really this should be *every* tool that cuts and abuses paths.

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  8. Find and Replace Text in Object Name in the Layers Panel

    4 votes
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  9. Add a "move/copy art with artboard" switch to the artboard options, or the main prefs.

    2 votes
    0 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » Documents and Artboards  ·  Admin →
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  10. Popups in the Appearance palette often lock up Illustrator.

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs » Effects, Appearance, Graphic Styles  ·  Admin →
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  11. Enable Width Tool for brush strokes

    4 votes
    2 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » Brushes  ·  Admin →
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    It is a continued embarassment that the width tool only works on *some* kinds of brushes.

    Art and pattern brushes can be edited with the width tool.
    Scatter, calligraphic and bristle brushes cannot be edited with the width tool.

    Why? Because whoever wrote the specs for the calligraphic and bristle brushes forgot the width too existed, or because whoever wrote the code for the brush didn't bother doing it, and now probably works in a more prestigious division of Adobe. There are so many little holes like this all throughout Illustrator that Adobe can't be bothered to fix for years and years. It's embarassing.

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  12. Allow gradients in brushes

    5 votes
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    Yes please. It’s such a pain. Computers are so much more powerful than when brushes were first added to Illustrator and should be able to handle the extra paths involved. Or the expanding flat gradients to gradient meshes internally. Whatever works.

    I’ve been working around it by rasterizing my brush art but that’s got so many problems.

  13. Zig Zag applied to an art brush is glitchy.

    3 votes
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  14. Blend Tool doesn't create/show a spine when blending between two open paths

    8 votes
    4 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs » Blends  ·  Admin →
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    Margaret Trauth commented  · 

    I got so annoyed by this behavior that I wrote a script to work around it. Now I can just hit command-shift-alt-b and get a blend with a spline, no matter what the paths are - if the first path's open, the script closes it, blends, and opens it again. I can finally blend paths without cursing.

    https://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2023/12/04/fixing-an-illustrator-bug-blend-open-paths-with-a-spline/

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    Margaret Trauth commented  · 

    I really hate this. Whose workflow of only wanting a spline when they blend between closed paths was this designed around? I work almost exclusively with open paths and it is just *super* annoying to have to either swear, add a blend spline after the fact, and move the start and end points, or swear, undo, close one of the paths, blend, and open the paths again. I want to be able to draw two paths, select them, make a blend, and immediately get to pushing the spline around without all that hassle.

    If someone has a good case for only wanting splines generated on closed-path blends, fine: make a switch somewhere to let me choose between "make splines for all blends/closed-path blends only/open-path blends only".

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  15. Align Stroke to one side of open path

    101 votes
    26 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » Strokes  ·  Admin →
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    Under Review  ·  AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    The team has encountered several issues with this feature. It requires them to change the basic algorithms and it is going to take them more time than anticipated.

    While it still works in Beta 28.8.0.7, the next Beta build will have Inside/Outside aligned strokes for open paths disabled. The Beta is scheduled to be live on 7th of August.

    Once this is ready to be enabled back, the team will update the status.

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    Margaret Trauth commented  · 

    Oh that's a long-standing annoyance it's nice to see the back of!

    Upvoted the related bug, thanks for the link Egor <3

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  16. Non Functional Gradient Stroke along/across options when stroke is outside/inside

    19 votes
    6 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs » Strokes  ·  Admin →
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  17. Character/paragraph style incompleteness

    6 votes
    3 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs » Type, Fonts, Text  ·  Admin →
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    Margaret Trauth commented  · 

    I just ran into 'deletion of character styles is undoable' and it is such an annoying little quirk. Please fix this.

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  18. Make it possible for a Graphic Style to mark some symbols as being part of it.

    2 votes
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    Margaret Trauth commented  · 

    Here's the attached file, uservoice wouldn't let me submit the post with it attached.

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  19. Puppet Warp tool should be able to affect meshes.

    3 votes
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  20. You cannot add a Freeform Gradient to the Swatches Panel

    50 votes
    19 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » Colors, Swatches, Patterns  ·  Admin →
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    Margaret Trauth commented  · 

    It's 2023 and we still can't save a freeform gradient as a swatch. I see the ability to save them as a Graphic Style did appear somewhere in the intervening years so maybe I'll actually start using the **** things now. Except you only appear to be able to apply these styles to *some* shapes, it's not working on text or stars or compound shapes.

    Yet another feature that someone got a promotion for and left half-unfinished. God at this point the main thing I get out of Adobe is "updating the host for Astute's plugins to work on the latest OS".

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