Margaret Trauth
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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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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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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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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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or maybe "reverse order" in the layers panel's menu should work on objects I've selected in the preview, instead of requiring me to open up the layer, find them in there, and select them again? ah, illustrator.
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Here's a horrible kludge that I currently do.
1. Save.
2. object>blend>make
3. object>blend>reverse front to back
4. object>blend>releaseSaving is not mandatory but strongly suggested, especially if you are reversing some paths with complex appearances - Blend might decide to make a ton more paths and bring Illustrator to its knees, and it's nice to be able to force quit Illustrator in that case and do it manually. This all fits into an action, and is definitely worth taking up of my precious f-key slots.
I sure would love to just do object>arrange>reverse stacking order though. This request just got my vote. :)
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I would swear shift-clicking does this with the pen but it does not. Huh. I wonder when that stopped working, or if I am hallucinating that it ever did.
Workaround for pen: click elsewhere, hold down the button, use space to activate drag mode and position the point on top of the point you want to align with, but don't want to connect to.
Personally I find the pencil tool's auto-close to be aggressively useless. It would be much more useful to me if it looked at the *angle* of the beginning and end of the path, and only connected them if they matched. With the current implementation it auto-closes a ton of stuff that I have no need for it to close. I skipped the version where pencil auto-close was introduced without yet having a "don't autoclose" switch, it completely ruined my pencil-focused workflow.
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Here is a one-click workaround:
1. Make a document containing nothing but a path with your desired brush assigned to it. Save it.
2. Open a new file.
3. Start recording an action.
4. file>open the document made in step 1, do *not* use file>open recent files as this will get recorded as a "place" action placing some unrelated file
5. select all, copy, close, paste
6. stop recording the action
7. make a new document and run the action again to make sure it's working
8. quit Illustrator to make it save your new action, unless you want to risk making it again after Illustrator crashes before the next time you manually quitYou might also want to record "new layer" before opening the brush document in step 4, otherwise the action might abort when it tries to paste into a document with no unlocked layers.
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.