Darrin Hunter
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AdminSanjit Samanta
(Senior Product Manager, Adobe Illustrator)
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Dear Users,
We have launched this feature in the latest release of Illustrator, 24.2. I request you to try out this feature and give us your feedback.
Thanks,
SanjitAn error occurred while saving the comment An error occurred while saving the comment Darrin Hunter
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Why can Illustrator not simply be a 1:1 drawing application?
When you create a file in, say, AutoCAD, you always draw everything at full scale.When you need to generate an exported file at a specific size (like an 11" x 17" PDF), you create views of that drawing that are at a specific scale.
For most people, they would never need to create scaled views to export!
Most people start a drawing that will be used at the same size at which it's created to fit on standard paper sizes.But for those who do need it, that ability is critical.
I only design EGD (experiential / environmental graphics) at the scale of architecture.
Illustrator's dimension limits are a constant pain for this entire sector of the design industry.I want to be able to design a report cover in an AI file that's US Letter size 1:1, and at the same time, create an urban plan layout diagram for the City of Chicago that's 1:1 at 10 miles wide by 10 miles high.
Why is my design software forcing me to create the urban plan at a scale without giving me the built-in tools to do so easily without buying expensive and complicated / buggy 3rd-party plug-ins to do it?
It seems now that Illustrator's multiple artboard functions are creating the problem of truly becoming a 1:1 drawing tool.
The artboards themselves are acting like "viewports" or "pages" that must all fit within a limited physical space.
That's creating a new "feature" to fix one set of problems and at the same time creating an entirely new set of problems for a different subset of users.
Multiple artboards are essentially blurring the lines between Illustrator and InDesign.
Make up your mind, Adobe.
Is Illustrator a multi-page layout program, or is InDesign a multi-page layout program?
If people are using hundreds of "artboards" just to use Illustrator's automated exporting capabilities, then why also have a palette that's called Asset Export?!
For all those people tediously laying out hundreds of drawings on separate artboards, simply creating an Asset that's ready for export at multiple scales / resolutions eliminates most situations' need for multiple artboards in the first place.
Adobe needs to decide which problems to address with which tools, streamline each tool in the CC toolset to do what it does best and not overlap partially with other tools in the set. Cleansing and purifying each tool of its feature-bloat would make them more powerful, not less.
Otherwise, you have tons of users who only license / use one tool for multiple uses for which it is not the most ideal / powerful application (long-reading text in Photoshop, book layouts on 40 artboards in Illustrator, etc.).