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When using a high resolution (eg. 4K) screen, it's really annoying that Ai always defaults to using really small ("Medium") icons for the Layers palette.
EVERY TIME I open someone else's document (which happens very often), I have to embiggen the "Row Size" in the Layers Panel Options. I know I can set up a template for a new document, with the panel options set how I like them (which answers this request: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/36980077-remember-panel-options-like-row-size-when-restar), but this is of no relevance when opening someone else's document on my system.
So could Ai please ALWAYS remember the size I've set the rows in the layers palette to, please?
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It is not as straightforward as it may sound :) We have been working to take advantage of threads and other hardware such as GPU/Video RAM in places where it can make a higher impact. We are prioritizing areas that are slow instead of making a generic change and destabilizing the product. Product stability is the top priority for us and we have been consistently trying to improve it. We want to move with caution and make changes without compromising on the quality. Hope this helps.
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And it’s done finally, in the latest Beta 28.1.0.100 build.
All NEW documents will now have Hyphenate disabled by default.
To use this feature please delete all files in a specific folder and relaunch Illustrator. This effort is required only for first time, for Illustrator to fetch updated copies of default document profiles.
- Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator 28.1.0 BETA Settings/<language>/New Document Profiles
- Win: C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 28.1.0 BETA Settings\<language>\x64\New Document Profiles
However, Illustrator won’t make changes to custom presets you have in EXISTING documents though.
To make this option to get turned off for them as well, you’d have to update a [Normal Paragraph Style] in Paragraph Styles panel on your own. To do that:
1. create a new text object, keep it selected,
2. press [Normal Paragraph Style] in Paragraph Styles panel,
3. open Paragraph panel, disable Hyphenate,
4. open Paragraph Styles panel again, and execute Redefine Paragraph Style command…
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Finally!
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OH. MY. GOD. I never thought I'd see the day! It actually WORKS! 😁😁😁😁🥳🎉🥳🎉
Are you (Adobe) going to announce this as a press release? Or maybe devote an entire festival to this update? You have just made GAZILLIONS of user very happy, after DECADES of misery!An error occurred while saving the comment Paul Roper
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"We’re exploring turning ‘Hyphenation’ OFF in [Normal Paragraph Style] of all Document Profiles."
No, @Neeraj, you're clearly not. That was just a lie.An error occurred while saving the comment Paul Roper
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Just to do a simple comparison of the various departments in Adobe:
4 months ago (21 Dec 2021), I put in a feature request to the Media Encoder team:
"When changing the encoding settings for multiple outputs, AME always asks for me to confirm that I want to do this. The pop up really needs a "never ask me again" option, so I'm never asked again. I nearly always adjust he output settings of multiple items, and do not want to be asked for confirmation."
On 20 April 2022, they implemented exactly that (in the Beta release):"Hi Paul,
We have made the change you suggested. You can try it out in the beta version of v23.4 (there's no problem with having both the beta and shipping versions of our products installed at the same time) or you can wait until next month when it will be included in the next release.
Thanks very much for the suggestion!"Wonderful! Four months - not record-breakingly quick, but it wasn't a particularly important request. So why is it taking the Illustrator team YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS to even look at doing this ridiculously minor tweak?? Is it because they're all busy adding stupid, pointless features that NOBODY will ever use instead while leaving the core of the app to wither and die? Please, Illustrator Team, enlighten us why you have such a deep hatred of your customers?! I know that working on Illustrator must be very much "drawing the short straw" at Adobe, but surely SOMEONE there gives a toss about this awful app, and could please make it marginally less hideous to use?!
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I'm not sure if those "How important is this to you" options are relatively new, but have we all clicked on the "Critical" button under this suggestion?
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Should we start another "How can we improve Illustrator (desktop)?" suggestion:
"Sack the Adobe Illustrator team and get the After Effects team to maintain/update/improve Illustrator during their lunch break because they'd get 100x more stuff done."
I'd vote for it.Or we just sit here patiently, waiting for hyphenation to be turned off, like we have done for the past 35 years...
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It's really annoying not being able to do simple things like re-order items in a layer if that layer's visibility is set to OFF. I assume it's "as-designed", but feels like a bug to me. I don't necessarily need a layer's visibility to be ON to adjust things on it. It's as if turning off a layer puts it into a locked state. Which is just silly. In After Effects, if a layer is set to invisible, I can still adjust all of its parameters. Let's make AI more like AE.
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Here we go, the first Beta version with the Dimension tool. Still very basic, but more features are to come. Please try the Beta 27.7 (available in the Beta section in your Creative Cloud Desktop application), test the tool and give the team your feedback here in comments. and refer to roadmap to see what will be added later.
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141 votesResolved (Comments Open) · 54 comments · Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » User Interface · Admin →
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@Eric - you're funny! Of course you won't see any updates on this yet - it hasn't even been a decade since I first added the suggestion - nothing ever happens for at least a couple of years in Adobe's Illustrator department! 🤣
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EVERY time I load Illustrator, the stupid, pointless, broken "Catch up with what's new in illustrator" popup appears. I have the options of:
'Remind Later' which means this thing will appear the next time I load the app
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'OK' which opens the 'Learn' panel, which contains...nothing.
So both options are equally ****. Which is exactly what we'd expect from this dreadful application that people only use because it's the "industry standard" since Adobe illegally killed off FreeHand many years ago. When will Affinity Designer become the industry standard? Very soon, I hope.Paul Roper
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98 votes43 comments · Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » Effects, Appearance, Graphic Styles · Admin →
Hi Everyone,
All the effect checkboxes have now been set to ON by default, and are sticky (meaning that if you disable preview, on next launch of Illustrator preview will remain disabled). This functionality now is available in our latest release build – 24.1.1 for Win and 24.1 for Mac which is available worldwide now.
What’s new in 24.1: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/whats-new.html
You can update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html
Thank you for all the feedback.
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Interesting indeed @Tom Auger.
I'm currently sitting at my Mac which I don't normally use for work, so don't have Illustrator on it. I just installed the latest release (not pre-release/beta) version, loaded it up, drew a shape, selected it, did a Filter > Gaussian Blur, and the Preview checkbox was ON (that was the first time I'd loaded Illustrator), so it looks like it does default to on...at least on my system!Interestingly, I noticed this behaviour:
Select a shape
Apply a gaussian blur filter
Adjust the amount of blur
Preview is ON, so you can see the blur
Turn Preview OFF
Shape remains blurred
Adjust the amount
Shape remains blurred at the previous amount
...the logical behaviour would be that if the checkbox is clicked OFF, the shape should pop back to completely un-blurred.P.S. I am also old, and have been using Illustrator off and on since about 1991ish!
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@Tom Auger: You said:
"7. Observe the checkbox: checked. This has been the behaviour since time immemorial." NOPE! This is exactly what was fixed. Until the latest update, you'd need to click the Preview checkbox EVERY SINGLE TIME you applied some kind of effect/transform. EVERY TIME. The fact that it is now 'sticky' is exactly why everyone wants to be out on the streets having a massive party - except Coronavirus keeps us locked indoors.If you have an old version of Illustrator, load it up, go through those steps and notice how the checkbox ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS defaults to off, no matter what you did previously. Always. It was never sticky. It's taken ~31 years for them to fix this bug.
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As you can no doubt see from the comments, it really is stuff like this that makes us users happy. Not the new "features" that we'll probably never use (I'm looking at you, perspective grid), but the mundane, day-to-day stuff that we use hundreds of times a day. Thank you for (eventually) listening to and acting upon our feedback!
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THANK YOU! The biggest, best update to Illustrator in its ENTIRE history! At last!
Right - maybe you can move on to fixing the 32 year old Free Transform disaster now...?
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As Boris said, it's been 6 years...we all know Illustrator is a sad old dinosaur in the Adobe world, so maybe 6 years is about the appropriate time for whoever has the unfortunate job of working on this god-awful ****-in-the-toilet of Adobe software to get out of their La-Z-Boy and click a few buttons with their arthritic fingers and have "previews ON". We unfortunate Illustrator users all know the only reason we use Illustrator is because our clients use it. Given the choice, we'd have jumped ship years ago. So yes, we sympathise with whoever has drawn the short straw at Adobe and is lumbered with propping up Illustrator - we feel your pain, we really do - like you, we all secretly wish it would die, but please make its final few years as pain-free as possible and make those preview default to ON. Please.
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I requested this a while ago - I find it really annoying having to turn Preview on EVERY time I use any effect. Their answer was along the lines of "a very tiny proportion of Illustrator users create very complex artwork on pathetically underpowered computers, and Previewing an effect can really slow it down, so that's why we always have it turned off by default". Which, as you know, is a ridiculous reply, because:
1. Why is Illustrator so slow? Oh, because it's running the same clunky, 31-year old code from version 1, and they're too lazy to fix it.
2. Anyone creating a complex illustration on an underpowered machine would expect previews to be slow, and they are a tiny fraction of users.
3. And just....FFS Adobe, get your act together!Paul Roper
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Hi Everyone,
We have improved the working experience of Free Distort tool. Now the bounding box will not reset! This functionality now is available in our latest release build – 24.1.1 for Win and 24.1 for Mac which is available worldwide now.
What’s new in 24.1: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/whats-new.html
You can update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html
Thank you for all the feedback
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Anonymous commented: "3 years..."
If you're referring to how long it took to fix this, you've missed a 2 off. It's been over 32 years...Illustrator turns 33 tomorrow (19th March).An error occurred while saving the comment Paul Roper
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THANK YOU! 😊
If I was Adobe, I'd make this feature the headline of every event you hold for the next year.An error occurred while saving the comment Paul Roper
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I have posted a discussion in the Illustrator pre-release forum: https://forums.adobeprerelease.com/illustratorpr/discussion/1991/free-transform-discussion-on-how-to-improve-it#latest
...suggesting it works exactly like the Transform tool in Photoshop when you ctrl-drag a corner point.An error occurred while saving the comment Paul Roper
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Ha ha ha....I've been harassing Adobe for this basic fix to a fundamental bug for many, many years, and their complete silence on the issue is weird. Sadly, I think we can all assume that it will never, ever happen.
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@JamesProvost Yes I totally agree. If the AI team are incapable of programming such a simple thing as a free distort, and they are not liked enough in the offices of Adobe to ask the AE or PS team to do it for them, they should totally license Stylism. Not that they will ever do that...they'll just add even more pointless bloaty junk to the app and ignore the thousands of users crying out for bug fixes.
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It totally IS a bug. Just because it hasn't been fixed for probably well over a decade doesn't make it OK.
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I assume this is because Illustrator was originally written for the one-button-mouse Macintosh, and I'd imagine the core code has not been updated since then. It certainly feels like a 31-year-old app.
It is infuriating to have to do everything in the layers palette via the stupid top-right menu, and ridiculous that right-clicking a layer does absolutely nothing. Same with other palettes such as Links and Styles.
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We have the fix available in the latest release. Please update Illustrator using Adobe Creative Cloud application to the latest build for version Illustrator CC 23.0.
Please refer to our knowledge base FAQ – https://illustrator.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/1844590 if you face difficulty in update.
Or get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – https://helpx.adobe.com/support.htmlWarm Regards,
Ashutosh Chaturvedi | Sr. Quality Engineering Manager – Illustrator
Adobe. Make It an Experience.Paul Roper
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Yes, Egor; maybe if we merge them it has the possibility of getting more upvotes?