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We have done further updates to Dimension tool with recently released version - 28.3
You can create and use your custom scale for dimension, hide or show units on dimensions and dimensions are now sticky to the object - they transform as well when you transform the object.
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Right now we are using PowerScript Dimension from o2creative for this. It fits our needs very well, so an Adobe-Tool should at least have the functionality of this tool to make us think of using a native Illustrator-Tool instead of it.
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even Inkscape has it built in...
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until Adobe comes up with something, I use this one:
https://o2creative.co.nz/Dimensions_PowerScript_Plugin_Extension_for_Adobe_Illustrator.php
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Dear users,
You can now see a new 'save selection' button on the layers panel which enables to select multiple objects and save it for later use. Please try it out in BETA and let us know your feedback.
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Saved Selections is not the same... For example: in Freehand I could group objects from different layers, duplicate, rearange, resize, align, etc. them and after that I could ungroup them and everything was in place (on the original layers) again. With saved selections I can not (for example) allign duplicates of those selections to each other as illustrator will handle them as single objects.
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Freehand had this feature an it was very usefull. You could group objects from different layers and when you ungrouped them, they went back to their original layers.
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iMac, 27", 2019
3,7 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5
Radeon Pro 580X 8 GB
24 GB 2667 MHz DDR4
macOS 13.4.1 (c) (22F770820d)An error occurred while saving the comment Oliver Malms
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switching to CPU and then back to GPU fixes it (temporary)... GPU-View has a bunch of bugs, since it has been introduced, but CPU-View is painfully slow - can’t really work with it...
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I will try, when the bug appears next time...
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It’s dangerous to call things Smart... When they behave dumb, the name sound like an insult. Sadly, this is the case.
Please provide more specific cases, with video proofs, ask you colleagues to share and vote, to move this further. This is the way to force changes to things that are broken — be vocal and persistent. Thank you all and let’s hope we get heard.
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Here is one more video. Just trying to clone some rectangles and let them snap to each other... When you zoom in, you can see there is a gap between them. Such an easy task and it just does not work properly. Most of the time, doing stuff like this, I have to zoom in, to get the snapping result that I want and to double check, if everything is in place...
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The video shows the general problem very well, thanks for sharing it! Just want to add, that the problem is not limited to artboards neither to pixels as a measurement unit.
...and also snapping to (ruler)guides shows similar inaccuracies.An error occurred while saving the comment Oliver Malms
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What you wrote sums it up well. What I can add to it: I often have to zoom in, to get something alligned properly. For example, when alligning an object to a guide it often does not show, that it snaps. After zooming in and trying again, it works. And as you already wrote: Illustrator often snaps to some random object and not to the nearest or logical one... I just can continue to advice Adobe developers, to get a copy of Freehand from the attic and have a look at it’s snapping beahaviour. It had great visual and acoustic feedback and you always could rely 100% that your object is in place. In Illustrator I double check (Zoom in) every time...
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You are so right, nicky... I miss the precision of snapping in Macromedia Freehand everyday that I use Illustrator. Snapping in Illustrator behaves weird, inaccurate, illogical and having to use third party tools for a function that should be essential is just embarrising. I also miss the accoustic feedback from Freehand. I could always be absolutely sure, that everything is exactly in place. In Illustrator I often have to zoom in, to double check and have do pick up an object twice to get it snap where I want it to... And that are just 2 examples. Over the years , after acquiring Freehand, Adobe implemented quiet a few useful features from it (even if it took years...) So now, Adobe, please make snapping in Illustrator just as accurate and easy like it was in Freehand decades ago. Snapping in Illustrator sucked from the very first day and it still does...
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It still does not work well. In Freehand, I always could be sure, that everything snapped as it should. I even had acoustic feedback. In Illustrator I always have to zoom in and check, if everything is in place - and most of the time it is not! You just can’t trust in snapping with Illustrator and that is really a shame after all the years...
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Single Monitor (iMac) calibrated with Spyder and DisplayCal here.
But the workaround on the top is suggested for working color profiles (using a german version, so I hope it is called that way) in Illustrator and not monitor calibration settings in System Preferences... If using a standard monitor profile helps (have not tried it yet) it is something completely different than the workaround Adobe provided.
And Adobe: even if this "monitor settings trick" should help - It can’t be the solution not using custom monitor profiles in a professional workflow, just to get features working again that alredy worked a while ago. Maybe you should just compare the sourcecode from the versions that DID work with the versions, where it STOPPED working in order to find the problem...
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Well, with a company like Adobe, who claim supreme demands in terms of themselves as a market leader, in 2021 and in a software with such a long history like Illustrator, I should be able to use any desired color profile without any glitches. Apart from this, I don’t use this specific color profile "Generic-CMYK", so this can’t be the reason here. And I also don’t want to use "North America General Purpose 2". I am using color profiles from ECI as RGB and CMYK working color spaces and these are synchronized all over the Adobe CC on my Mac and I think it is not asking too much, using my desired color profiles AND having proper GPU-acceleration.
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Bug still not fixed with v 26... Just opened a file that was created with v 25 and Illustrator switches to CPU-Preview. After that, "View using GPU" is greyed out and I need to restart Illustrator to be able to switch it back. I can reproduce this bug with several Files made with v 25. By the way, v 25.0 was the last Version for me, that did not have this bug. Every v25.x had this bug here and v 26 isn’t any better. I installed v 26 from scratch, not taking over the preferences from older versions, just in case... But this did not help either.
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for me, it has never been gone...
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First Upload did not work...
Here a video of the Problem. Only way to fix it is switching back to 25.0...
But using an outdated Version while paying for the newest can’t be the solution.An error occurred while saving the comment Oliver Malms
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Here a video of the Problem. Only way to fix it is switching back to 25.0...
But using an outdated Version while paying for the newest can’t be the solution.An error occurred while saving the comment Oliver Malms
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While some of the glitches we had seem to be fixed (at least on my iMac here), there is still some strange behaviour that seems to occur on every version newer than 25.0:
Everytime I open a document, the workspace turns black for a moment. That is not a big problem, but strange, as it never happened in 25.0 or older.
Second, there a quite often problems in refreshing the display, when moving around in the illustration or copying/dragging objects around. The display gets crippled (blank spaces, where they should not be) and I have to force a refresh to see the propper illustration again.
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Hey Adobe, what about one year of not implementing any "new great features" and just fixing all those bugs? Just dreaming...
By the way... the "magic link" for commenting here, also does not work reliable... needs several tries most of the time to get the mail...
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This GPU-Bug is really crazy as it comes in so many incarnations. It seems, that nearly everybody has a slightly different scenario with this bug. I switched back to 25.0 as it seems (at least for me) to be the last working version regarding this bug. But using an old version while paying for the newest features can’t be the solution... ADOBE: FIX THIS! (and all the other bugs, before even thinking of implementing any new "fantastic" features)
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Also tried 25.2.1 (Mac, Catalina) and discovered a new bug: Objects temporarily dissapear (kind of flicker) when dragging with GPU-View. Going back to 24.3. Again.
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This might be one way to force the bug to happen. But I had this also without raster files beeing involved, so there seem to be some more ways to trigger it...
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That’s the problem with subscriptions: You pay for the newest version, but you have to use the old version, until all bugs are fixed... It’s March 2021 and we are forced to use Illustrator 2020, because the actual version is not reliable.... Maybe, when Illustrator 2022 is released, we got a bug free version of Illustrator 2021...
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Since we have updated to Illustrator 2021, on one of our machines (Mac mini 2018) "View unsing GPU" (CMD+E) is greyed out and can’t be activated. GPU IS activated in the Illustrator Preferences! Using Illustrator 2020, this function works as usual.
An other glitch, that we noticed on both of our machines (the 2018 mini and a 2019 iMac): When opening a document in Illustrator 2021, the window turns black for a moment until the document is shown. This does not really cause any problems, it is just strange and does not occure with Illustrator 2020.
Having tested everything for some days It is getting even stranger. On the iMac, where the GPU preview seemed to work, I was editing a document with GPU preview active and when I place a tiff image in my artwork, Illustrator instantly switches to CPU preview and GPU preview gets greyed out.
Adobe, before adding any new features, that nobody needs, PLEASE fix the basic functionality!!!
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While some of the GPU-related glitches seem to be fixed wich the actual Version 25.4 (at least on my iMac here), there is still some strange behaviour that seems to occur on every version newer than 25.0:
Everytime I open a document, the workspace turns black for a moment. That is not a big problem, but strange, as it never happened in 25.0 or older.
Second, there are quite often problems in refreshing the display, when moving around in the illustration or copying/dragging objects around. The display gets crippled (blank spaces, where they should not be) and I have to force a refresh to see the propper illustration again.
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@Yngve: ARTVIEW does NOT work with Big Sur and actually it does not seem, that this will be fixed. The website has not been updated for ages and I have been asking the Support, if/when Big Sur will be supported: Months ago they answered, that they are investigating, now they don’t even answer anymore. So ARTVIEW does not seem to be a solution anymore and waiting for a fix from Adobe is.... well... we all know.
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Well if it worked before they broke it, "average hardware" seems a bad argument to me. For example my iMac 2019 should be powerful enough to handle this (but I have this bug, too - also on other computers). It is just one of many bugs in Illustrator and if it does not appear on your machine, you are lucky. But don’t tell people to buy new hardware, because Adobe broke their software....
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Unchecking Real-Time Drawing is just a poor workaround and not a fix! Adobe introduced even more GPU related Bugs with Illustrator 2021! Come on Adobe, don’t think of adding useless new features - FIX the existing ones, that we need to use every day!
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Same here... seems as if with every bug they fix, 3 new bugs will appear... Workaround (kind of): switch to wireframe mode for dragging guides. This bug ist really embarrassing.
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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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Just ask the guys at Serif, how to make a fast, responsive, modern design-app... Come on Adobe - it’s 2021!
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It is getting even stranger. On the iMac, where the GPU preview seemed to work, I was editing a document with GPU preview active and when I place a tiff image in my artwork, Illustrator instantly switches to CPU preview and GPU preview gets greyed out.
Adobe, before adding any new features, that nobody needs, PLEASE fix the basic functionality!!!
And yes, I am using v 25.2...
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same here!
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Other programms (like Freehand) have been more reliable in snapping 20 years ago... But I don’t expect any improvements in the next 20 years, as the few implemented improvements that I have been waiting for took at least one decade...
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I have to specify: on Retina in Textframes the cursor is HARDLY VISIBLE, in palette fields (like colour names) it is NEARLY INVISIBLE... (you need very good eyes to see that there is even something, in fact, you can only guess a slight change of colour, where the cursor is blinking!)
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Cursor is extremely thin on Macs with Retina Displays. When working with text, sometimes it is hardly visible. Settings for changing the scaling of the UI will not change this
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Hi Everyone,
We have fixed this bug in our latest release – v 24.2.1 which is available worldwide now. Thanks for your patience on this.
Please note that after upgrading you might still see that Align To sets itself to Align to Key Object. If you see this, please manually set the Align To to the required setting, and this reported bug will not happen again. You’ll need to this one time only.
The reason Align To might get set to Key Object after update is because Ai remembers your last Align To on subsequent launches as well. So, if your last Align To was Key Object before quitting/upgrading, after first multi-selection, it will set itself to Key Object. After you manually change it one-time, it will work fine.
You can update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html
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Since updating to 24.2 (Mac, Mojave) there is always a key object (the one that I would normally select to align other objects to) automatically activated, when selecting more than one object. This does not affect workflow in any way but is visually annoying, if you don’t need the key object.
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long, long time ago, Freehand had a great function (indeed it hat a lot of great functions that I am still missing in Illustrator): When you grouped Objects from different Layers, it remembered the original layers of these objects. So you could group them, do with them whatever you wanted and after ungrouping all objects went back to their original layers what was a very useful function. I whish, Illustrator wound offer something like this, too...
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using dimension tools from 02creative for years now. very happy with it. a powerful little tool for those, who are missing some features in Adobe’s approach.