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Mordy Golding
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May 9, 2001
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Got an idea for Illustrator???

  • May 9, 2001
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This forum was set up specifically for users to request features they'd like to see in future versions of Adobe Illustrator.

The truth is, everyone can come up with cool ideas for Illustrator -- whether your an expert, a novice, or anywhere in between. It's an open discussion so feel free to chime in with your ideas!

🙂 Mordy
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    ein_armer_Indesignuser
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    July 13, 2009

    1. Please let behave graphic styles like paragraph styles. If an path has a style applied and you change the color or stroke with, the path looses his "connection" to the syles palette instead of showing the style with an plus behind as paragraph styles do.

    2. Currently if I select a style from the styles palette a new path is drawn with the attributes with the selected style. But to "Connect" this path with a style from the palette I have to reselect the style in the palette. If I have to draw 50 pathes all with the same style I've to select everytime after drwaing one path the style :-( This doubles the mouseclicking and isn't realy fun. Paragraph styles can do it the right way, why graphicstyles can't behave the same???

    regards

    Michael

      Mario Arizmendi
      Mario Arizmendi
      Legend
      July 6, 2009

      Yes, I have one, an smarter Ink mixer to mix process and spot colors easy as Indesign has...! see this post. Prepress users really need it..!

      http://forums.adobe.com/thread/457364?tstart=0

      Dina Bellini
      Dina Bellini
      Participant
      July 30, 2009

      To be able to add, delete and convert anchor points by right clicking or double clicking. This is a feature Corel Draw offers with the pen tool. I find it easier and faster to work this way rather than using the keyboard shortcuts or selecting icons to access the additional tools. Thanks!

      Scott Falkner
      Community Expert
      Scott FalknerCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 24, 2009

      WTF? C'mon, Mordy, you know better than this. You know what I'm talking about.

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      hsteiner17
      Participant
      June 24, 2009

      I would like for there to be a way to switch between the two types of text boxes while selected on an already existing text box (not having to re-type everything would be wonderful).  Have an option to switch between paragraph text and artistic text.  That would be the best!

      I would really like to be able to select angled guides while zoomed far in (as well as zoomed in all the way).  Once they have been turned on an angle, you are not able to grab the guides without having to zoom out from the artwork.  That makes it really hard to get the guides precisly where they need to be and also makes it difficult to duplicate them quickly.

      -Thanks.

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      reviwear
      Participant
      June 10, 2009

      Make the mask feature more like "paste inside" from Freehand. Instead of having to bring a mask shape to the front and have it's attributes vaporize when a mask is made, create the ability to cut artwork and then paste it into any shape, leaving that shape unaltered. Or, when artwork is masked, how about simply cropping it to the mask itself? It is very confusing to look at masked artwork in keyline view, because the art extends past the mask.

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      toryanse
      Known Participant
      June 4, 2009

      Add the funtionality for making stipple fills and stipple fill gradients -- a feature that had been in Illustrator ver8.

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      Anonymous
      June 4, 2009

      Paste inside function please (as in Freehand),

      clipping masks can be a hassle (eg. needing to duplicate objects).

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      _Mark_Hiers_
      Participant
      July 18, 2001
      Please add new requests to a new topic.
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      _Matt_Lorenzi_
      Participant
      July 18, 2001
      How about a simple extrusion tool?
      Canvas, a much less expensive program can do this.
      I don't mean a complete version of Dimensions, but at least extrude/rotate/lighsource.
      I think that would rock!
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      _Richard_B_
      Participating Frequently
      July 13, 2001
      I am working in illustrator right now and have a file that has thousands of control points. My explanation is difficult without a picture but here goes...I am trying to visually line up a particular group of elements within the design --- but this element must move in sequence with other elements.

      Problem is that all I see are the blue control points. I cannot see the art.

      Could you provide an option to reduce the size of control points or even turn them off in some instances? Right now all I see are globs blue control points.
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