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25.4.1 is available in Creative Cloud but the What's New section of the user guide only covers 25.3.
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I still want this idea. I can somewhat get this effect by applying effect>rasterize to entire layers but I have to remember to go back in and remove that for the final exports.
Also I should note that I seem to recall that Expression did some extra magic with its layer freezing to make sure that transparency worked correctly with regards to anything below a frozen layer; applying the rasterize effect breaks that.
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Oh, and since I am thinking about this again: the cached bitmap for a 'frozen' layer is NOT used when rendering a bitmap via anything under file>export. It is ONLY for speeding up the preview.
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oh and until Adobe decides to implement this somewhere in the next decade, here's another workaround that's *slightly* less hassle than the mesh trick:
1. draw a box with a horizontal gradient
2. effect>rasterize it, probably a high dpi, no need for anti-aliasing or adding a border OR object>expand into a bunch of shapes
3. make this into an art brush
4. draw a circle with this brush
(ideally the rectangle is the same height as the width/height of the circle)
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hahahaha I am here upvoting this one after explaining the mesh trick to someone on a forum :)
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I have lost count of how many times I have seen someone show up on the Illustrator subreddit asking how to get rid of these "weird green lines".
These need entries in the View menu.
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**** i just saw the gif of how Xara does this that you posted in the prerelease forums, I want this so bad now, it'd make using blends for quick distribution of things along perspective *so* much easier
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AdminAvinash Singh Kotwal
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Hi friends! I have some great news for your today. Rotate View (Canvas) feature is available in Illustrator 25.3 (Desktop) now. Thank you all for your feedback which helped us shape up this feature.
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YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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Nov 21, 2017: Yogesh Sharma responded "Rotate canvas story has been added to backlog. We will be picking it up shortly."
Happy birthday, Rotate Canvas Story! You're three years old now!
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Oh hey it's coming up on another year since this "story" was "added to backlog"! I'd better get ready for its birthday party soon.
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Hey are y’all ever going to add this one simple transformation to the matrix you’re already applying every time you draw the preview window? It’s three and a half years since you were gonna “pick it up shortly”.
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As a subsidiary request: I know that international users can have problems with this because they don't *have* this key on their keyboard. And they can't change it, because it doesn't show up in the Keyboard prefs. Having that changeable, whether in the Keyboard prefs, or SOMEwhere, would be icing on the cake.
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2021 beta, 25.0.1.68.
1. I can only apply Repeat to artwork, not to a layer. I love being able to just freely draw stuff on a layer and have whatever effects I've applied to it Just Happen. Going into an isolation group is a ton of hassle compared to just selecting a layer.
2. Repeat does not show up in the Appearance palette. IMHO it should, it is basically plopping a new UI on top of a bunch of stuff done with the Transform tool.
3. Since Repeat's not an Appearance item, it can't be a graphic style. Styles are VERY USEFUL and as I move into bigger, longer projects they have become core to how I approach Illustrator. Y'all keep ignoring this, the Freeform Gradients do not *exist* in my practice because they can't get saved as Styles.
4. no window>repeat? Just a couple of controls in the Properties palette (which is always off for me)
5. It'd be pretty nice to have an option to visually clip the repeated art to hide anything outside of a segment of the canvas based on the repetition settings, have a look at Astute's MirrorMe for an example. (Mirror repeats do this, I see.)
6. Selecting a repeat group and trying to change the repeat type in object>repeat>options does nothing.
7. Having on-canvas controls for these things is nice, though I can't get them to show up reliably when re-selecting an object. They only seem to come up if I am in the Selection tool (not the Direct Selection tool) and specifically select the repeat object?
8. oh man if I make a tile repeat and then accidentally rotate the whole thing with the Free Transform tool while trying to get the on-canvas controls to show up, it expands the whole thing into a giant messOn a higher level: Maybe the repeat controls should be in the Free Transform tool? It was designed to unify all the transformation tools that existed at the time and there's something about these that feel like they belong with it.
I dunno, as is I can't see it replacing Transform effects (whether applied manually or via Astute's Stylism) or Astute's MirrorMe for me.
I feel like I could also make a case for this being something that should be folded into Window>Pattern Options? Upgrade that to do reflections, rotations, maybe even glides and whatever other cool stuff is hidden behind paying $500 for SymmetryWorks...
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fyi Mark, object>path>reverse path direction exists now and can be assigned a shortcut, but this by no means obliviates my desire for tons more shortcuttable items in general!
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God yes.
I currently have almost EVERY SINGLE ALLOWABLE SHORTCUT mapped to something. There's about thirty keystrokes in the combination of `1234567890-=qwertyuiop[]asdfghjkl;'zxcvbnm,./ plus command, command-opt, command-shift, or command-opt-shift that are unassigned.
If I could assign stuff to command-control-something, command-opt-control-something, command-shift-control-something, and command-opt-shift-control something, I would have SO MUCH MORE FREEDOM when adding keystrokes for new features from Adobe or plugins.
I guess this might cause problems when sharing shortcuts to Windows, as they only have ctrl/alt/shift available for shortcuts, with the Windows key reserved for OS shortcuts? I dunno. I never use Windows. Display a warning that this shortcut is not portable to Windows when I assign something that uses the control key, change the color of half the Keyboard Shortcut dialogue to red or yellow to make this warning super obvious, I'm fine with that.
(This comment brought to you by me going through the Keyboard Shortcuts dialogue and trying to apply *every allowable shortcut* to a plugin's menu item and writing down which ones were used or not.)
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To expand on this:
Illustrator's brush engine stores no less than FIVE sets of data from the stylus on brushed paths - pressure, stylus wheel, tilt, bearing, and rotation. But there is no way to edit this. You have to get all of these variables perfect in one brush stroke, or redraw it from scratch.
The Width tool, meanwhile, applies a completely DIFFERENT set of data, and does not work on some brushed paths - scatter, calligraphic, and bristle brushes.
I should be able to brush a path, then go back in with the Width tool and edit ALL of those sets of data. Pressure, stylus wheel, tilt, bearing, and rotation.
Coming up with a UI for all of these is admittedly a challenge - how do we indicate these five different profiles? Do we show them all at once? Do we have a key to change which one is being shown? My initial thought is that showing one at a time eliminates the problem of figuring out a way to easily add a point in any of those profiles.
But at the very least, yeah: if you use the Width Tool on a calligraphic/scatter/bristle brush, it should be affecting the existing pressure profile. Really that's what it should have been doing all along with *every* stroke instead of adding width profiles on top of pressure/etc profiles, IMHO...