Illustrator v28.3 | Elevate Creativity: Effortless Dimensioning, Enhanced Retype Workflow, and more!

[Anubhav M]

Hello everyone, 

We're excited to announce that Adobe Illustrator's latest update (version 28.3) is now available for download via Creative Cloud Desktop. In this update, you can seamlessly measure and plot dimensions, experience an improved retype workflow, benefit from text-to-vector graphic enhancements, conveniently pin the contextual taskbar, enjoy upgrades influenced by user feedback such as live customizable stars, experience overall performance improvements, and find bug fixes.

You may also visit the links to access comprehensive lists of all the features and bug fixes available.

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Measure and plot dimensions effortlessly Effortlessly measure and show dimensions in your design using the Dimension tool. This tool simplifies measurement, whether it's distances, angles, or radii. When resizing an object, all linked dimensions adapt automatically. You may also personalize the dimension's appearance, units, and scale. Delve deeper into the capabilities of the Dimension tool.

Experience an enhanced Retype workflow Retype now features distinct Match Font and Edit Text features. Match Font effortlessly recognizes text in images and outlined text, offering matching fonts. If the text isn't recognized, you can move the marquee to encompass the text and find its matching fonts. With Edit Text, you can modify text in images and outlined text using a matching font. Explore more about the Retype tool's enhanced capabilities.

Explore enhancements to Text to Vector Graphic Refine the output you generate using Text to Vector Graphic > Pattern by specifying up to 12 colors. Explore additional details about Text to Vector Graphic.

Pin the Contextual Task Bar for a persistent context You can now pin the Contextual Task Bar to your preferred position, ensuring it's consistently placed regardless of your object selection or document changes. This feature enables swift access to relevant tools and actions, streamlining your creative workflows. Delve into further details about the Contextual Task Bar.

Explore enhancements inspired by your feedback

We are dedicated to ongoing improvements to cater to your evolving needs, and we've incorporated enhancements to Illustrator in response to your feedback for the Illustrator 28.3 release. Some of them include:

Enhance designs with live customizable stars Stars drawn with the Star tool are now live shapes, allowing you to customize their properties to suit your specific design needs. Easily adjust the number of points (sides), inner and outer radii, and inner and outer corner radii using intuitive on-shape widgets or the Properties or Transform panel. Explore further details on modifying stars.

Gain more control over object selection when using a marquee Use marquee selection in enclosed mode to choose objects fully contained within the marquee window. Simply press E while dragging the marquee to switch to this enclosed mode. Explore additional details on the enclosed mode.

Format fonts with ease using keyboard shortcuts Instantly enhance the font style by applying bold, italic, or underline formatting through convenient keyboard shortcuts. Explore additional details on formatting fonts.

Add text without default hyphenation Text hyphenation is not activated by default when you create a new document in Illustrator.

Fixed Issues Our team has tried to fix some issues with Illustrator 28.3, including: Unable to open the most recent AIC file in Illustrator. (UserVoice) Unable to break links to multiple symbols at once using the context menu. (UserVoice) The color of the central preview swatch of the Live Paint Bucket tool doesn't match the color of the swatch selected in the Swatches panel. (UserVoice)

Dim Images to option of a template layer remains selected even after you deselect it. (UserVoice) Illustrator crashes when applying Fill or Stroke from the Properties panel.

We would love to hear your feedback on the improvements in the Illustrator UserVoice.

See What's New for more information on the latest features. To help us have focused discussions, create separate posts for feedback on features related to this update.

Thanks,
Anubhav

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[Tina_Irvine]

Really great features! Thank you!!

[Michael Ambroise]

Many thanks!

[S_Gans]

Been waiting for an excellent measurement tool for years! Thanks!

[michelew83603738]

Some really exciting updates!

[rollan.banez]

thank you for this article.

[JessCampbell]

Excited for the star control!!!

[Daniel Kramer]

Nice new features

[Michael Ruettger]

I wait for a long time of this features! Great!

[Craig Daalmeijer-Power]

Some great updates to explore!! 

[Stef Goedhart]

Please make the most easy switch we all have been waiting for for so long:

Make "Export Artboard" / "Use artboard" the default!

The most useless move I've been making for so many years.

[Ton Frederiks]

There is no File > Export Artboard.

There is File > Export > Export for Screens... and > Export As...

Export As has the Use Artboards option

Export for Screens has already the default you want

[Dj_Creative_Enthusiast]

Great features! Thanks. 

[derekwatson]

Default with no hyphenation is great! 😄

[bożenas94531632]

Hej Adobe! 

Możecie spróbować polepszyć wydajność tworzenia wzoru, Dobrze by było gdyby wzór który tworzysz można było lepszy sposób edytować i blokować i odblokowywać. Ponieważ gdy tworzysz wzór  i chcerz go zablować żeby się nie przesuwał musisz go całkowice rasteryzować, przez co nie możesz już go edytować. Proszę popracujcie nad tym.

[Monika Gause]

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@bożenas94531632  schrieb:

Hej Adobe! 

Możecie spróbować polepszyć wydajność tworzenia wzoru, Dobrze by było gdyby wzór który tworzysz można było lepszy sposób edytować i blokować i odblokowywać. Ponieważ gdy tworzysz wzór  i chcerz go zablować żeby się nie przesuwał musisz go całkowice rasteryzować, przez co nie możesz już go edytować. Proszę popracujcie nad tym.

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Please elaborate.

I do not understand what you want to do.

[bożenas94531632]

Create a better pattern editor, one that will allow you to always return to the pattern, even if it is locked you will be able to edit it later. Because now when you need to lock a pattern in a given object, you can no longer edit it later.

[Monika Gause]

Just double click the pattern in the swatches panel to edit it. Does that not work for you?

[bożenas94531632]

In my opinion, giving a pattern to samples is too difficult, it would be good if there was a better way of writing the pattern. Or a more readable panel. 

[Monika Gause]

What is the workflow you are having problems with?

The AI generated patterns? They can be edited, but it needs some working around. 

Please elaborate.

[Mario361415854pe7]

excelente

[Davidclarks]

illustrator is very good for every user like me 

[Manuel364227912spx]

Hello. Update Version 28.3 was recently installed in my Mac Air. It negatively affected my screen refresh when scrolling or zooming in and out of my Illustrator documents (blurry text, missing sections or artifacts). I had to zoom in and out everytime to refresh to crisp text and graphics. I uninstalled and reverted to v.28.2. That solved the problem.