Got an idea for Illustrator???

1. A gradient stroke.

2. Font previews.

Envelopes. See Filterit4!

1) We need transparency within gradients, much like the Photoshop 6 gradient tool.

2) We need skew, perspective, and distort tools, as in the photoshop transform tools.

3) We need an eyedropper than can select color from pixels in a rasterized image.

4) How about a filter that will convert a whole set of vector objects from full-color (CMYK or RGB) to the color's grayscale equivalent, and then from that grayscale to various shades of a swatch color, etc??

and my list continues...

8-change the fact that when a path is selected you cannot edit one single anchor point without deselcting th path and reselect the desired point : what Freehand proposes is far more intuitive.

9-it is really annoying that when you make a mask you lose the colors attributes of the mask object. This should be an option. Once again freehand is not boring for that.

10-When we'll have a real time display when moving path and not only ghost line view ?

11-to follow...

thank you

The ability of replacing non-existing fonts when opening a file the same way that Quark Xpress or Freehand do. A simple dialog box would be enough but if you add the possibility of replacing a font for another once inside the file (without having to search for it) it would be nice as well.

Thank you very much.

#1: First and foremost, make Illustrator faster than the previous versions. You'll make everyone happy even before you add functionality.

#2: Add the ability to modify the placement of a stroke on the actual edge of an object: centered, inside or outside.

#3: Beware how much functionality you add to the program. The sheer number of features is very likely confusing most of your first time buyers. Consider making the program more modular.

1. Speed up this slow monster.

2. Easier Font Scrolling (Check out flashes new interface) Its 20 time seasier to see what fonts i need and not through a little window that can't even span the full font name.

3. Ability to drag images from photoshop with transparency without having to export them to save time...

Illustrator is quickly becoming stale and old. Its slow and the interface needs to be rahashed. Illustrator 5.5 was the best i have ever worked with. Fast and interface was not complicated (Example picking colors)

Just my 2 cents...

PLEASE FIX THIS IN AI 9.x

1-The field value for border is so little that you can't see all the value you enter : you have to move the blinking cursor with the keyboard arrows to see what is hidden ! Considering this is a manoeuvre you have to do often,... :(
I'm waiting since 7.0 version that adobe fix the problem !

2-New transparency features are great but why sometimes ai9 is able to DISPLAY them but not to convert in bitmap nor to print !
We come back to years where postscript files needed us to pray before flashing. the first job i made with ai9.0 I had to CAPTURE SCREEN image (in 12 zoomed pieces for suffisant resolution) ! Very funny !

3-it is mandatory to know what is the scale factor and the rotation degree of a placed image (tif,...) even AFTER those operations are done. Iwould appreciate it could be the case of vector path too. Why not ? :)

4-please add fonction to convert more easily and more completely (shortcut, automatic first level layer, dialog box to rename, etc.) grouped objects into layer for preparation to export to image ready (for use of rollover fonctions) OR add in ai 9.x slice and animation palette ?!

5-even a little enhacement of the poor perspective effect if you don't want to concur Dimension.

6-when you select two objects with exactly the same effects attributes you can't edit the effect for both in the same time (access denied)

7-about anchor points : PLEASE let user choose for greater dimension of those (freehand's one are far more easy to select) and by the way, add icons of the type of anchor points (sinusoïd or broken etc.) in an inspector window. And, like Freehand (sorry!:)), let users complete a path by simply SELECTING an anchor point and not having to "recreate" it with the pen tool. This is absurd. and frustrating.

8-etc...

Off the top of my head:
1. How about the ability to map channels in TIFF's to any colour we please.
2. It would be nice to specify colours in CMYK as well as spot percentages, rather than have to do it with a style or overprinting spot elements.
3. Expand the separations dialog - don't automatically turn CMYK on - give access to dot shapes - ability to merge colours on output.

More to follow. :-)

While my mind is working on this...

1. The overprint preview feature is great. Finally I can get an idea of what my 20% pantone blue will look like overprinted on pantone yellow. However, I can not print out a proof to show my customer and have it look like it does on screen. Maybe an option to print a screen representation?

2. Transparency is a great feature, but having my spot colors converted to process makes it virtually unusable. Any way to have, say, a 50% transparent spot color over a 10% spot color over another 100% spot color sep out retaining all the spot color information? For example a 50% spot color would sep out as a 50% tint of the specified color. Right now, I have to move my individual shapes to Photoshop and have them each on their own layer in order to simulate the printing effect I 'm going for.

If you can't tell, I spend lots of time doing screenprint seps.