Illustrator History Panel...

[joedansk]

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.

[bdub]

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]

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

[Srishti Bali · Accepted solution]

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]

😂🤣 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 😅

[Bewitched_Dolphin0D4C]

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]

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

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/progress-bar-quot-processing-quot-keeps-poppi...

[Bewitched_Dolphin0D4C]

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

[zenginejulia]

WOHOOO SOLVED!