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Illustrator History Panel...

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January 12, 2011
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I've been reading that there is no History Panel in Illustrator even though it seems to be a commonly requested feature. So let me get this straight... Adobe doesn't think that a history panel is necessary in Illustrator? I get that I can ctrl-z to my hearts content... but what if I've done a string of changes that don't actually effect what I'm seeing on screen so I have no visual clue that I'm at the point I want to stop hitting ctrl-z. Adobe would rather I try to figure out if I need to ctrl-z 6 times, 7 times, or 8 times or 9 times or 10 times? Don't you think it would be a lot easier to have a history panel that we can look at and say "oh... that is the change I want to go back to"... Click... Done. They'd rather we ctrl-z, check where we are, ctrl-z, check where we are, ctrl-z, check where we are, ctrl-z, check where we are and on and on and on?

Yeah... Makes sense.

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Correct answer Srishti Bali

Hi all,

We have bought this feature in our latest release. Please update Illustrator to the latest version (26.4.1) and share your experience with us.

For more details, please refer to this help article.

Regards,

Srishti

zenginejulia

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WOHOOO SOLVED!

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Bewitched_Dolphin0D4C

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I found a solution for my problem with saving to PDF: I first save as .aic in the cloud, and then I can save as PDF

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Bewitched_Dolphin0D4C

Known Participant

I have the latest Version. This is my problem! It stays like that for hours and nothing happens, only can close this by taskmanager. I am in the middle of my work, It's terrible for me.

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

That's unrelated to the history panel. See this thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/progress-bar-quot-processing-quot-keeps-popping-up/td-p/13122973

Srishti Bali

Correct answer

Community Manager

Hi all,

We have bought this feature in our latest release. Please update Illustrator to the latest version (26.4.1) and share your experience with us.

For more details, please refer to this help article.

Regards,

Srishti

Black Platypus

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😂🤣 F'in hell!

August 2022.

Only took 35 years to implement the history panel. 11 years after this thread was started!

I mean, thank you for this, that finally makes it feel like Ai is catching up to the present where basic things like this are expected, but Jesus Christ 😶

Now I think I should try really hard and imagine which features I might end up needing in 11 years so I can request them today 😅

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bdub11059173

Participating Frequently

I too have been exacerbated by this but here's where my frustration & deadlines took me.

They have this functionally in the adobe cloud. check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5hbIon7GQE

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

As many people have mentioned already, that's a version history, not an undo history

stanp18697945

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The snapshot from the history tool would be good enough. I registered just to say how useful it could be cause the ammount of iterations and version I have to make for my job is crazy and realised how useful that would be in my day to day work.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

Just to clarify, history and versioning are two different things.

History is just a list of undos. It's odd there isn't a third-party plugin to fill this gap (unless I missed it in my search). Photoshop has had one for ages and one can get plugins for InDesign.

Versioning is going back to previous copies of a file. A couple of options are to save the file to the Creative Cloud or, if you can't save to the cloud, use a plugin such as GoVersion or Astute Graphics AutoSave.

<https://exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.details.20501.goversion.html>

<https://astutegraphics.com/plugins/autosaviour>

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

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Farachi

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IT IS VERY UNCOVIENIET TO NOT HAVE A UNDO HISTORY PANEL TO VIEW OUR OPTIONS TO UNDO. I WISH ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CAN COME UP WITH THIS I MEAN IT IS 2021!

Marnida

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Summary of posts in this thread from the last ten years and three months:

Aye: I want a History panel. Photoshop has one, surely Illustrator should too.

Nay: PS is pixels, AI is vector. Computer says no... to PS-like non-linear History editing.

Aye: Oh ok, you win I guess. Wait, what about just a linear list of undo steps like most other apps including vector ones?

Nay: Pointless waste of resources! Ctrl-z should be enough for anyone. Stop wanting that.

Aye: I think I'd find it useful in AI. I find it useful in other apps. And there are situations in AI where spamming ctrl-z is ambiguous and time consuming.
Consider:

wanting flexibility to go back to a specific point up to 200 operations previously (file versioning best practice accepted)
- rolling back changes to aesthetic and semantic structure
- recovering from user error
- recovering from software and hardware errors (eg. bugs in AI, plugins, or even just sticky keyboards)
large, slow files where each individual undo operation has additional lag due to re-rendering effects each time
operations with no visual change to the artboard where the outcome of an undo operation is ambiguous

Nay: Grumble, I've not needed that in all my centuries using Illustrator, and neither should you. Sort your workflow out and you'll see it's pointless too </subtext>

Aye: For reals though, loads of us want this, it would be so useful, afterall it's great in PS...

Nay: COMPUTER SAYS NO.

(repeat) 🙂

Monika Gause

Community Expert

This is a public forum. Users discussing with other users. Unless people are tagged as staff, they are not staff. Everyone is free to state their opinion just as you are.

If you want to have a history panel and you want to talk directly to the developers, post to Uservoice.

Also: in the latest versions of Illustrator there is a history panel. Window > Version history. The feature is available for Cloud documents.

Marnida

Known Participant

"This is a public forum"

Noted! Pardon, did I cross a boundary somewhere in that summary?

I've used the uservoice forums regularly for years. It's a mite less satisfying than an actual forum though. For bugs, I've found it a lot more effective to directly report steps to reproduce bugs to support agents on chat. Feature requests... 😉

RE: the Version History panel - that's possibly great... for file versioning-type scenarios. Which are invaluable - no argument there. For work, I'm locked into Sharepoint and thus Onedrive. Version history is there too, burried in Sharepoint. For the reasons hinted at in the above post, file versioning isn't much of a substitute for what's been discussed in this thread over the last ten years, is it?

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Anonymous

The history panel is a necessity! To see what you have done instead of guessing when to stop at the right place.

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BobbyBen

Participant

I have entered this 'AI History panel' discussion needing to locate a previously saved file which I wanted to REVERT back to but have failed. I usually succeed in reverting back to a previously saved file. (I use ad parameters over and over by opening an old file and revising evrything, copying the new changes in clipboard, then reverting it back.)

Sooooo, after watching Forensic Files on TV so often that I hear over and over that the FBI can locate all work or searches that someone has done, that I hoped there was some similar way to locate my vector AI work on 'AdelesCreperie' before I saved the new ad. Fortunately I have PS versions of it. Any FBI agents reading this??

Monika Gause

Community Expert

If you save in the Cretive Cloud folder: it has versioning.

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