Paul Mackinnon

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  1. Add a Save Preset button into the legacy File New dialog

    1 vote
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  2. Add a button to save document presets like Photoshop has

    28 votes
    13 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » Documents and Artboards  ·  Admin →
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    Paul Mackinnon commented  · 

    Also why did it take 6 years to get this into beta ? unbelievable rate of progress !

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    Please add it into the legacy dialog too.

  3. Add a modifier key to Pen and Anchor Point tools to constrain an existing anchor handle’s angle while dragging a new handle out

    5 votes
    3 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » Tools  ·  Admin →
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    With the anchor point tool you can convert corner to curve and vice versa. Then you can also grab one handle and move it independently breaking the link between the two handles. Also you can click on one handle to retract it altogether so the is now only one handle.
    However, if you have a point with one handle you have no way to get a second handle other than to drag out a new pair of (linked) handles from the anchor which therefore loses the position of that first handle and you have to reshape both handles instead of just the second one as required.
    It makes no sense that you have a feature to click on a handle and retract it without an opposite feature to unretract it and manipulate it independently.
    In other words to get two handles you have to be prepared to reposition the existing handle. You should be able to preserve that handle and get another handle from the anchor point

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  4. Snap to point still works even when it's OFF

    13 votes
    3 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs » Snapping  ·  Admin →
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    Me too finding it frustrating.

    In selection and anchor display preferences I have maxed the tolerance to 8 due to Illustrator's annoying intolerance when deleting anchor points.

    However, the closest to solving the snap to point problem is to minimise that tolerance to 1 - that makes it much harder to hit another anchor point

    So my suggestion to adobe would be to offer a universal snap override hot key. So no matter what the user will have complete freedom in placing an anchor point with the override

    This snapping to point is probably a 'feature' in that when closing a path you need it. But it bugs me that it snaps even to another compound path anchor point. Not something that I require in general.

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  5. Auto Spell Check (red squiggly line like InDesign, Microsoft and other products)

    449 votes
    98 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » Type, Fonts, Text  ·  Admin →
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    Paul Mackinnon commented  · 

    However, please have the red squiggly 'dynamic' spell check off by default. Its bad for aesthetics.

  6. pen tool game

    2 votes
    5 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs » Other...  ·  Admin →
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