Jason Burnett
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An error occurred while saving the comment I would also like to point out the fact that a number of the modal dialog boxes are nothing more than punitive.
Because of the strange way that Illustrator handles manually input values, occasionally, a field gets left blank that should have a value. If it's blank, replace the previous value--which you do automatically. There is no need to popup a window telling me that I left a field blank when you automatically fix the mistake anyways.
The only thing the message could possibly do is to stop your workflow and remind you of the quirky way that Illlustrator handles input fields as though it were your fault.
Please, have someone do a simple audit of every modal dialog box that you have and for every single occurrence where you are just informing the user that they screwed up--get rid of the dialog box. Quit punishing your users.
If Adobe took a new approach to all of their in-app messaging that presumed that the user was always right (even if they weren't) it would make the entire experience better. If you correct the mistakes anyways, just correct them. Maybe even beep or leave a notice in a collapsible notifications box, but don't interrupt the workflow. And don't ever tell me that I am wrong or made a mistake. Compensate for it like you do automatically. And if you want to inform me about it with a message in the notifications panel, it should sound like this: "The default value was entered for the required field [fieldname]" it is such a better message than "You forgot to enter a value in a required field."
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The latest Beta Build 29.6.25 has this bug fixed. Please update and see if it truly works as expected
An error occurred while saving the comment NOt sure if I should add this as a new bug or not, but often with the latest beta, I am unable to select elements directly. I can't get anything to select by clicking on it with the solid arrow tool.
If I drag a marquee to an item, it will select, But just clicking on it refuses to select it.Also, when attempting to constrain-drag-copy an element (ctr-shift-drag), if I also have the alt key pressed, the preview appearance looks like it's going to drop a copy where I want it, but when I release the mouse button, nothing happens, and the preview disappears.
Perhaps for 30 years I have been doing it wrong by holding all three buttons down to constrain drag-copy, but it has always worked. Now, I have to do everything twice because the first time I included ALT out of muscle memory. Is this related or should I enter a new bug?
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As per the comment, this value is available in the Window > Document Info panel, when Objects option is picked in the panel’s flyout menu
An error occurred while saving the comment Although some of this information is contained in the Document Info window, that's a really stupid place to put it. Selection is not the domain of the document. THe Document Info panel should contain the document information. LIke the total number of paths, not the selected paths. If anything, selection properties should be listed under info or properties. Those panels make more sense for transient data like selection.
And if Illustrator or Adobe in general ever updates the UI in general for Illustrator, a slide0out parameter panel with tool-specific settings and details would be perfect for this every time you selected one of the pointer tools.But as previously pointed out, none of this matters if the information for the current selection is included in the workspace footer.
An error occurred while saving the comment This is neither functional nor effective. The point of the request is to have a permanen (though potentially optional in settings) display of the number of points/paths/pobjects/symbols/artboards currently selected. This would help with so many functions. Especially layered points or objects. Knowing how many you had selected would save a lot of time. And putting it at the bottom of the workspace window would be ideal.
But most importantly, it needs to be a function of the workspace window (that holds the artboards). Having it as a separate panel like the Info Panel or the Properties Panel would not be as useful. Even a "selections" panel would be better than what we have now, but it would not be as good as integrating this into the workspace window.
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Illustrator can rotate the view. Perhaps you accidentally did that with adding Shift while panning with Space held?
It can be reset with the field in the bottom left corner, next to Zoom level, or with the View > Reset Rotate View command.
You can read more about rotating the view here: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/rotate-view.html
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An error occurred while saving the comment Currently, if you clear a notification or close a notification, it is gone. No way to refer back to it. This is problematic.
Centralized Notifications are GREAT and a great improvement, but they should include archives or read notifications. Often, I will skip a notification that present a potential rabbit hole that I am very interested in, but don't have the time to go down at the moment. Being able to have a list of "READ" or "UNREAD" notifications like email would be great.
Being able to read past notifications would be really helpful.
Thanks for your time and consideration.
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The problem is not fixed. As reported, the latest Beta build 28.5.26 resets preferences again. Please comment if you confirm this.
An error occurred while saving the comment How difficult can this be to save the workspace settings in APPDATA or anywhere really? Perhaps you can make the settings exportable and importable. Then, when you update, at least we can re-import the workspace layout we depend on and have worked for hours to configure.
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Hi,
Thanks for reporting this issue, Illustrator team really appreciate this.
Unfortunately we are unable to reproduce this issue in house.
Can you help the Illustrator team to isolate this issue further so that we can nail this down?
1)Kindly provide small video describing the issue , Test file(Via File→Package) & Font with which you are able to reproduce this issue and share with us at ShareWithAI@adobe.com in a Zip file.Please mention the title of this issue as the subject of the mail.
Thanks and Regards
Ankit Goyal
Illustrator TeamAn error occurred while saving the comment Here's what I have found: When I am looking for just the right apostrophe or comma or ligature or something, I often scroll through the GLyuph panel and look for resources in various fonts that I can use to get the look that I am going for.
When Illustrator reaches a font that doesn't have the core letters defined (symbol fonts, icon fonts, font-alternates), rather than skipping the font it can't render or rendering the character set that it CAN render, Illustrator just stops. This is really annoying.
Some examples would be Fork Awesome, a port of an old Font Awesome icon font. When I scroll through and get to Fork Awesome, it stops scrolling until I manually select a different font that it can display.
Oddly enough, clicking on the font will display the font with no problems, it's just when scrolling using the down arrow that the next font won't display and the scrolling stops.
Hope this clarifies the problem.
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48 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment Is it at all possible that the reason for the delay on some of these issues is that an entirely new interface is b being developed that is more like the web or iPad version? That would explain the lack of response on some of these issues.
Keeping my fingers crossed.
An error occurred while saving the comment Why isn't this fixed?
This post is 2 years old and it still doesn't work. There are 34 upvotes, what does it take to get this resolved? Could we at least get some acknowledgment that this is a priority?
I am losing all faith in Illustrator. You are so busy adding new "features" or previewing new technologies that you leave us with a faulty application. There is no excuse for this. It should have been fixed two years ago. It's a legitimate bug.
Please do something about it.
Anyone reading this, join me in starting a campaign to get people to come to this site and upvote this. Lots of people have this problem and it's a legitimate bug. If we push the votes to the top, maybe they will actually address this issue. It's been two years and this is ridiculous. Contact everyone you know. I'll post on Discord and Reddit and hopefully we can get some traction. Thanks.
An error occurred while saving the comment Shees, every time I said cursor, I meant pointer. That's rough.
Regardless, reading through the comments made be realize something. It has to do with Windows Magnification. I am using a 4k Ultra Wide monitor at 200% magnification. This is making the area that activates the rotate feature bigger than it should be. Somehow, they didn't compensate for the magnification in Windows.
When I drag Illustrator to a different monitor, the problem goes away.
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After reading some of the comments, I want to suggest a path to accomplish this. Rather than the deep dive into each tool, you can take every tool settings dialog and simply move those settings to a collapsible panel that hides behind the toolbar.
The settings could look exactly like they do in the modal dialog box, just in a panel instead. This allows real-time changes to settings without any extra steps.
Once this is done, THEN we can optimize the settings for consistency and to offer new settings.
Literally, this should take any developer approximately a day to create a simple panel for tool settings that would update whenever you select any tool. Change the trigger of double-clicking a tool icon to slide the panel out . Make it auto-collapsible. This is all stuff you have built in for other panels.
There is no reason this shouldn't be done--it could be done as a pet project overnight. I have done most of them if you want to see how they could look. But just imagine every tool settings dialog box inside a panel that doesn't require OK and doesn't obscure the canvas. Such a huge improvement.