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An error occurred while saving the comment This is totally solved by a new Alignment Paradigm that decouples the destination from the source and allows for reference points relative to each for alignment.
Instead of Center align source element to destination element, you would have:
Align Source Element by Center to Destination Element by Center.Decoupling these things allows you to then solve this problem: select a text element's baseline as the Align By point and any point on the Destination Element as the Align To point and voila, you have perfect alignment every time.
This would easily include the existing alignment strategies, but would open up a world of much better alignment and accuracy. And it would work in every context easily. Including text.
Align By and Align To separate per object aligned — a new tool and mode (with preview):
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An error occurred while saving the comment Sorry to beat a dead horse, but this is the same problem solved by decoupling the source from the destination.
In this example, you would establish the center of the pattern as a Reference Point for Align By. Select the container's center reference point as the Align To point and voila, the pattern is aligned and centered on it's container.
This is yet another example of how alignment can be done better and easier with much more control and better results if we just decouple the movable elements from the destination elements and allow each to have it's own alignment reference point.
Align By and Align To separate per object aligned — a new tool and mode (with preview):
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An error occurred while saving the comment This is totally solved by decoupling the destination element from the source element and applying reference points relative to each.
for example. align element A by it's bottom center to element B's top center. Done.
This begs for the new alignment paradigm.
Align By and Align To separate per object aligned — a new tool and mode (with preview):
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An error occurred while saving the comment Imagine a tool that sits in the Tool Panel used for complex alignment. When you click the tool, Illustrator would enter an Align Mode that changed the way some things operate the way Isolation Mode changes things when activated.
In Align Mode, a panel would be displayed with options (below) Your cursor would allow you to select not only the elements you want to align, but also the point of reference for alignment. You would see the standard boundary box appear when selecting an element, but you could click one of the 9 reference points on the bounding box to indicate that you want to align that element by that point. Once you have all of your elements selected, you can ALT-click an element to act as the Destination. It will display the bounds box for the Destination element and let you pick the reference point from the 9 reference points in the bounding box.
In a side panel, you would have options that controlled how this would happen. For example. you could have the Ghost Result option selected to show what your alignment would look like by aligning the selected elements to the destination as ghosted previews (transparent). But you could also Ghost Source so you would see solid previews of your aligned items while the original positions would be ghosted. When it looks the way you want, click the apply button to apply the alignment.
This is one small piece of a much bigger and much more robust tool that would allow you to do all sorts of advanced alignment. Like Transform Alignments that matched size and/or rotations. It would allow you to do non-lineart distributions for distributing things like position, size, rotation. It would also allow you to see a distribution path between elements that you could micro adjust before applying. You could even change the distribution model so it did non-linear easing. All of this in one tool with the Align Mode. When you activate a different tool, you would exit Align Mode just like exiting Isolation Mode.
I have looked at all of the align/distribute user voice requests and every single one would benefit from this system. Please contact me for more information. I'm working on a demo to show how easy this would be.
An error occurred while saving the comment Simple.
You create a series of symbols that have different sizes. You know you want the instances of the symbols aligned in this manner:
All instances of symbol A belong on the left side of the artboard, but aligned to the right and distributed vertically.
All instance of symbol B belon on the right side of the artboard, but aligned to the left and also distributed vertically.So you have a bunch of instances of Symbol a in various sizes and treatments and the same for Symbol B. Setting up this alignment strategy once makes it foolproof in the future. Resize the content of a Symbol A and your entire layout is ruined. Start from scratch grabbing all the Symbol As and align/distribute. Or press Play on that alignment strategy and watch all symbols As get selected and aligned then all Symbol B's do the same. Voila. Tons of work saved.
Also, think of alignment strategies like graphic styles. You setup your forms so that your labels are aligned right and the square for the input is aligned left.
You do hundreds of these fields when you hear that what they would prefer is to have your field labels aligned left, on top of the square for the input.
Normally, you would have to go through hundreds of changes. With an alignment strategy, you change the details of the alignment so that [labels] alignby Bottom Left to [fields] by top left with a 5px gap. Press apply and your entire form is modified instantly. Save that as a new strategy and flip back using the old strategy in a mouse click.
Part of the proposal I am working on also allows for property sorting in alignment strategies. So imagine you have an infographic with lots of different sized elements. Those elements are sized according to their popularity. An alignment strategy could align all of the elements distributing the space between them vertically, but sorting them by size automatically. All the tiny ones up top, big ones below.
You get a bunch of new images you have to add and rather than manually inserting the images and fudging the alignment, you simply select all of the images and apply the alignment strategy--boom they are sorted, distributed and aligned. Hours of work saved.
There are lots of other details to this idea that I am hoping someone at Illustrator will listen to one day. I've been working on it for a long time and It's pretty close to being presentable. Just need to get some figma stuff fixed for demo.
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You can align to an object you choose to be the key one.. Click the object you want to use as a key the second time and Ai will use a bolder edge to highlight it.
More details here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miVLI8rwO1o https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/moving-aligning-distributing-objects.html
An error occurred while saving the comment The key object metaphor requires you to select an unrelated destination element for your alignment, then click it again to establish it as the key element. It feels awkward and wrong to select the element that is unlike all your other elements when aligning.
Even so, this is made better by decoupling the source elements from their destination and using reference points relative to each.
Even when keeping the key object, you could allow a reference point on the key object for aligning things to.
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The latest Beta 30.4.0.80 build adds an additional button in the Align panel.
This is a first iteration (I hope), so please try and comment to steer it in the proper direction.
An error occurred while saving the comment Please consider using an Align By matrix for dual axis alignment. You don't need a new button for Center/Middle alignment any more than you need a button for Top/Left alignment or Bottom/Right alignment.
We are already familiar with the Transform Point. Use that same paradigm for dual axis alignment. If you want to align by the Center Middle, pick that point to align by.
This immediately makes it clear that you can do dual axis alignment with one button by any of the 9 well known reference points.
Not only that, but it will open the door to the extremely useful new paradigm in Illustrator alignment where you have your alignBy reference point and your alignTo reference Point.
Then, all alignment looks like this: Align [selection] by [alignBy] to [destination] by [alignTo]
With this one simple change in alignment metaphors, you suddenly open up the opportunity to align an element by it's middle right position to another elements' middle left position super easily.
Align By and Align To separate per object aligned — a new tool and mode (with preview):
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An error occurred while saving the comment 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.
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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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This is totally solved by a new Alignment Paradigm that decouples the destination from the source and allows for reference points relative to each for alignment.
Instead of Center align source element to destination element, you would have:
Align Source Element by Center to Destination Element by Center.
Decoupling these things allows you to then solve this problem: select any point on the source element as the Align By point and any point on the Destination Element as the Align To point and voila, you have perfect alignment every time.
This would easily include the existing alignment strategies, but would open up a world of much better alignment and accuracy.
Align By and Align To separate per object aligned — a new tool and mode (with preview):
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/49849410