Better implementation of Actions

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April 1, 2022
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Do a better implementation of Actions. More like Photoshop.

Some of the menu itens are not recorded in Actions, and others even with the Insert Menu item, still won't record the custom settings of it, and everytime you play that action, it will bring default values to it and open context menu to you to reenter parameters.

This must be implemented correctly, direclty with the record and not that patch "Insert Menu Item" option that exist today.

You should only hit record, do the menu options (even the Effects ones), and it must record it with all custom config you do, giving the option to edit the options on the action panel, but when you press play for that action, it should perform altomaticaly every step without interruptions (except when you choose it to).

Please, make a proper full Action implementation in Illustrator.

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Kurt Gold

Community Expert

A couple of years ago, there was an announcement by an Illustrator engineer that there were plans to completely modernize Illustrator's action mechanisms. In case I do not remember it in the wrong way, there was even some kind of survey in order to find out what action maker would like to be implemented.

But then, it wasn't to be. Nothing has changed since that announcement and the entire action capabilities were neglected more and more. So, up to this day action maker have often to create bizarre workarounds to do something that will work.

- Straightforwardly creating new artboards with specific dimensions? No.

- Change a process colour swatch to a spot swatch. No.

- Selecting specific layers? No.

- Make specific artboards active? No.

The list may have some hundreds of other "No, does not work straightforwardly" answers.

In my eyes it is not a matter of some technical limitations or impossibilities. Probably it's just a matter of pure negligence. For whatever reason.

I know that workarounds can do it, but, oh well ...

Disposition_Dev

Legend

we all agree.. but this is a user forum. we have no power/authority/ability/access to make the changes you want. As doug mentioned, the best option forward is to make a post on uservoice... unfortunately that doesn't mean it's a good option.. This has been an issue for decades.. so I'm not exactly holding my breath that it's going to be solved any time soon.