Margaret Trauth
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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 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
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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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An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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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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A reboot helped to fix the problem.
If you encounter a similar problem — please upvote this and comment.
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Oh, a reboot fixed it. Good. No need to reset my prefs.
I'm leaving this one up in case anyone else gets this one. :)
An error occurred while saving the comment Margaret Trauth
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Some asking around suggests that this may just be a My Installation Problem and not an Illustrator 2025 problem. Oh boy I get to try resetting my prefs I guess.
But first I wrote an Applescript that looks at the current menu and figures out if it's "Show Edges" or "Hide Edges" and hits it. Except it takes a half a second when I trigger it via Alfred. Feh.
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This issue is fixed in AI 29.0.1 Hot Fix Update.
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The issue with Pencil (and Brush) is addressed with a 29.0.1 Hot Fix Update
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I ended up fooling with 2025 this week and I want to note that while I didn't have any problems with the Pencil's accuracy suddenly dropping off a cliff, I *did* have a lot of problems with using it to edit paths. It's constantly generating a new path next to the one I'm trying to edit, or failing to detect me going back in to close paths (I work with the "close paths when ends are within X pixels" switch off so I generate a lot of open paths) and making a horrible mess.
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I have been seeing reports of this bug and it is making me super happy I always wait for a .1 release before upgrading. The Pencil's my main tool. I wanna see a postmortem on this one once it's fixed, how the heck do you accidentally change something like this and not have the internal testers notice?
(Also I would suggest checking to make sure this isn't affecting the Brush, I haven't seen anyone reporting this but I assume that's using the same path smoothing code as the Pencil and Image Trace...)
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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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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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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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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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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.