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I'm still really annoyed by this whenever I have to deal with it. Why on earth do *some* modes of the free transform tool think it's acceptable to completely trash my layer structure.
Who thought this was ever a good idea. How happy would you be if your text editor thought it was a great idea to cram the contents of ten source files into one when you did a certain action? You'd hate it.
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1. Make a couple of layers.
2. Draw some shapes in these layers.
3. Select all of these shapes.
4. Enable Perspective or Free Distort mode in the Free Transform tool, and drag a corner handle.
5. Wonder why the heck Illustrator just completely ruined your layer structure.I just found this out ten minutes ago and I hate it. I hate how Puppet Warp shoves everything into a single group too but I think I hate this even more because doing a simple scale/rotation with the Free Transform tool respects my layer structure.
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Honestly I'd just be happy if the @#$% thing saved its settings in each file like Save For Web does, it's so annoying to have to constantly change it from whatever it ended up being the last time I exported stuff.
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I sure never expected this to exist in Transform Each, what with it not existing in any of the other places there's switches for transforming individual aspects of an object, thanks!
So I guess this request should be revised to ask for:
* a Transform Object switch in the OTHER places these switches exist (first panel of prefs, transform palette, probably something in the control bar that I keep off, who knows where else)
* possibly making sure all these places also have switches for transforming patterns/strokes & effects/corners, while someone is looking at these parts of the UI
* and a key for the Scale/Free Transform tools and the Bounding Box to toggle scaling the object
* AND while I am discussing this corner of the UI can we also maybe have the ` shortcut to toggle interactive pattern transformation work on the Free Transform and Bounding Box, and show up in Keyboard Shortcuts so it's discoverable and reassignable?There's probably already a feature request for the last one, possibly even one I made, but since I'm basically saying "can we get feature parity across the thirteen different ways to transform stuff in this program" I may as well ask for that here too :)
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You can always drag the big square with the gradient at the top left of the gradient panel into the swatches palette.
This only works with linear or radial gradients and will not save their angle/size/location.
The 'new swatch' button in the swatches palette also works while you have a gradient selected, *if* you do not have one of the gradient stops currently selected. If you're in the gradient tool then adding a new stop and immediately deleting it seems to work; so does switching to another tool.
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ooh thanks for merging my duplicate request as a comment here, I didn't find this one when I made my post yesterday :)
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When building complex appearances you get to a point where you look at a Graphic Style you made a while back and go "what are all these different fills and strokes for" and the only way to figure this out is to make a shape with one and start turning stuff on and off to see what it does.
I propose letting us name stuff in there. Compare the first and second screenshots; it's immediately obvious what each fill or stroke contributes to the final rendering in the first one because there's names for everything. It's like the difference between a ton of variables and routines with names like "a417" or "fv89()" and names like "currentSelection" or "renderWithOutlines()".
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Still here. Feels like it's been here for much longer really. Every time I copy some Graphic Styles from one file to another I tend to get this and I have to click 'ok' again and again because the 'apply to all' checkbox is completely ignored, and I ask myself why the **** I keep paying for this program if y'all can't even fix annoying little bugs like this after multiple years.
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yes please, I'm doing a design right now with just enough type squeezed into weird-shaped spaces to create a bunch of single-word last lines and manually replacing a bunch of spaces with non-breaking spaces to fix this is so annoying.
"last line must be X letters or longer" would be so useful too, actually doing this replacement reveals that the visual balance is more about a minimum number of *characters* rather than words. Minimum percentage width of the text box for the last line might be useful too?
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Oh *that's* what else it controls. I've been wondering ever since I realized that I almost *always* start a Puppet Warp by turning off its suggested pins, and found the switch to make it stop wasting my time with that.
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Astute just added a control for this in their DirectPrefs panel and it makes Isolation Mode actually usable for me. Turns out I like the outside art dimmed to about 80% opacity so there's *some* indication.
Supposedly there might even be hooks inside of Illustrator for setting an arbitrary *color* to the isolation mode and that would be kinda fabulous, maybe the drawing I'm working on today really works best with a blue tint to isolation mode, maybe tomorrow yellow's best...
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Yeah this would be nice. It's one of the reasons I avoid Isolation as much as possible.
I'm here because of discussion of someone wondering if it would be possible to make isolation be *completely* opaque and I feel like this is something I might want to be able to alter casually. Just stick a little eye with an opacity slider popup in the upper left corner that goes from 0-100%. Something like this deliberately crude mockup I just drew:
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god yes
With a search bar at the top so I can just type part of the name I halfway remember for a script, "stack" should bring up "distribute stacked objects.jsx".
Currently I'm using an Alfred workflow to let me do this by double-tapping control and typing some stuff but it can be a little glitchy, sometimes it returns nothing.
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You've probably figured this out in the four years since posting this but command-space has been a quick toggle for zoom since I started using Illustrator back in 2000. Probably longer. Shift-space is rotate canvas.
That said yeah this would probably be useful for a bunch of tools!
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The team says it’s fixed in Prerelease build 29.6.191.
The fix is now scheduled to be pushed into the upcoming general release.
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aww yeah, I'll be hitting that update when it happens then! I'm still hitting this one on a regular basis. Thanks for the heads up!
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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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Yeah this would be nice.
I mostly work with lots of named graphic styles so a thing I do a lot is alt-click on a style, which adds all the appearance attributes to the bottom of the current stack, then spend a few minutes figuring out *which* attributes I actually want from the fifteen strokes/fills I just added, and deleting the rest. Being able to pick just one or two would be super great.
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I suspect this may be one of the preferences that's only saved on a clean exit - if you are the kind of person like me who always has Illu open unless it's just crashed or you're manually quitting it to update it or some plugins, then try setting this, then immediately quitting.
I just checked and mine was still saving data recovery into a much older folder too; I changed it to the latest version, then manually quit, and it's still claiming to save to the newest directory. Guess I better add another thing to the list of "stuff to do in a major version update" that I keep next to the program.
I'm still really annoyed by this whenever I have to deal with it. Why on earth does this tool think it's acceptable to completely trash my layer structure.
Who thought this was ever a good idea. How happy would you be if your text editor thought it was a great idea to cram the contents of ten source files into one when you did a certain action? You'd hate it.