Beta Build 30.6.75 Release Notes

Hello, 

The latest Beta Build 30.6.75 is now available in CCD. We have below fixes in this build:
 

• Global Typography/Unified Text Engine Changes

In this beta, we bring a significant improvement to how Illustrator composes text. This should be a big friction removal for workflows that involve non-Latin text. While Illustrator was already composing text in non-Latin scripts, there were some frictional experiences and limitations. To make it easy for anyone to compose text in any language/script, we’ve largely worked on three aspects:

1. Illustrator has two text composers – one works in Latin and East Asian scripts and the other which works for all scripts. Former is the default for most users, globally. In past, if your input comprised of Hindi or Urdu or Arabic Text, you may have noticed broken text shaping (joining of characters) as the application attempted shaping in the default composer. That’s changing. In this beta, when you input any text, either through physical keyboard, or soft keyboard, or paste - Illustrator will analyze the input and accordingly assign the appropriate text composer such that any text input is not broken, ever.
2. Related to the above, we are also enabling access to these composers in the flyout menu of paragraph panel. This is to inform the users, which composer is associated to the selected text or the next new text, and further give users a way to change, if they need to do so.
3. Typography features related to Japanese, and Right-to-Left scripts were not available for all users. In this beta, any Illustrator user will be able to access typography features related to Japanese, and Right-to-Left scripts. While these features will continue to be available by default in regions as earlier, any user will be able to enable these from Preferences > Type or from Type menu > Language Options.

We are in the process of making some more improvements in the subsequent beta builds, like auto-assigning text direction as Right-To-Left upon detected input of scripts. But we’d love to hear your feedback on how global text is shaping for you in this build.
 

• Relink and replace images faster than ever.

When you replace a linked image in Illustrator, you can now choose to apply that change everywhere the image appears in your file, even across multiple artboards and repeated layouts.
How to use this:
1. Select one or more links in the Links panel and click Relink
2. In the file picker, note the 'Replace:' dropdown below the options
3. Choose 'All Links (N)' to replace every instance of that file in the document
4. Choose 'Selected Links (N)' to replace only the instances you selected
5. Pick the replacement file and click Place
 

• Auto Place multiple files in a grid layout

Illustrator now supports auto placement of multiple files in a grid layout.

Choose the files to be placed. With a single drag gesture, the grid size is auto calculated. Use arrow keys to increase/decrease the rows/columns, to create a custom grid layout.

1. Go to File > Place and choose the files to be placed.
 2. Click and drag on the canvas to define the grid area.
 3. While dragging, hold Option (Mac) / Alt (Win) to place all files in one gesture with an auto-calculated grid.
 4. For a custom grid layout, while dragging, press arrow keys to adjust rows and columns -- Right/Left for columns, Up/Down for rows.

• UV Bugs:

[Vote Count : 1] : Color blindness proof preview kills GPU, requring restart
[Vote Count : 2] : stacked dimensions lagging illustrator
[Vote Count : 10] : [ExtendScript] Document.artboards wrongly returns artboards of active document