Margaret Trauth
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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 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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Here's the attached file, uservoice wouldn't let me submit the post with it attached.
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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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I originally posted this to the old bug report form, back around 2016. I thought this was funny and posted it to my blog, as well.
Today I was reminded that this low-key annoyance is still happening, and that other people find it kind of annoying too. So I posted it here. Maybe this low-key annoyance can finally gather enough "yeah, me too"s to make it worth someone bothering to add a switch for this, seven years after this unwanted toad started hanging out in the bottom of our collective toolboxes.
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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.