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Sible99
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August 19, 2010
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Keyboard shortcut - hotkey - to change stroke weight

  • August 19, 2010
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to change stroke weight? Increase and decrease.

If there isn't , then maybe someone could help me to write a script or something else, to make this hotkey.

I found this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/1274603#1274603 but the link to script is dead.

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    McMillions
    Participant
    August 31, 2017

    No there STILL isn't as far as I know, and I wish Adobe would just add a stroke-weight changing key command that works like how you can change type point size.

    rcraighead
    rcraighead
    Legend
    October 19, 2012

    Is this feature STILL not built into AI CS6? Photoshop has had a simple keyboard shortcut for changing brush/stroke width for YEARS. Don't these software teams talk to each other? I'd also like to see the "scrub" feature Photoshop has, for changing numeric settings. Dragging across the "name" of the option, adjusts up or down. Why this is not in AI, I have no idea.

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    emil emil
    Inspiring
    October 19, 2012

    Photoshop doesn't have a stroke feature that you can change with a hotkey.

    But anyway, unfortunately Illustrator doesn't have such hotkey either.  As already suggested try the workaround with the up/down arrows on your keyboard when the focus is in the stroke field

    Kurt Gold
    Community Expert
    Kurt GoldCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 19, 2012
    Photoshop doesn't have a stroke feature that you can change with a hotkey.

    Assuming we're talking about brush widths in Photoshop, of course, that has been available in Photoshop for many years.

    Also, you can assign your own shortcuts to change brush widths in PS.

    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 19, 2010

    Harron is almost right:

    It says: this theme does not exist yet (with the option/suggestion ofestablishing it).

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    Harron_K_Appleman
    Inspiring
    August 19, 2010

    Huh?

    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 20, 2010

    Harron,

    Huh?

    Your post:

    I don't read German, but I think the original content is gone.

    My post:

    It says: this theme does not exist yet (with the option/suggestion of establishing it).

    I was, maybe sillily, assuming that no time space discontinuity had caused a reversal, or something stranger.

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      Wade_Zimmerman1
      Inspiring
      August 19, 2010

      You could copy and past the path to the sie in a URLfield

      bu here it is again

      http://illustrator.hilfdirselbst.ch/dokuwiki/en/skripte/javascript/str%20oke_plu

      BTW select the stroke click in the stroke weight field in the control panel or the stroke panel, control panel is easiest, and
      hit the arrow key up or down to increase and decrease he weight in small amounts and hit the those keys while holding down the option shift (Mac) or alt shift keys (PC) for greater increments.

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      Harron_K_Appleman
      Inspiring
      August 19, 2010

      Have you tried the URL or your link, Wade?

      I don't read German, but I think the original content is gone.

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      Sible99Author
      Participating Frequently
      May 21, 2011

      If I understand your request correctly, you are looking to change the brush size as you are drawing with the brush tool. There is a built-in hotkey for that: "[" and "]", the same as the Photoshop hotkeys. I probably just misinterpreted your question because i'm sure the others would have posted this answer long ago, but in case that was it, I thought I'd speak up.


      The scanario is like this: there are plenty of e.g. circles on the artboard. I want to make all these circles to have one of 3 strokes: 1px green, 3px green and 5px green, semi randomly. If there was a shortcut assigned to those strokes, I could very quickly paint the circles. Click the circle with right hand and press the shortcut with left hand and it makes the circle stroke 1px green, and so on. Much faster than click the circle and then choose the stroke weight. The same could be used for painting fill. Symbolism would be a good alternative if it could place the symbols exactly in specific places, but as I know this tool, it just sprays randomly and then shifting to specific places is not exactly possible (e.g. put all symbols precisely in a row).

      [Edit] Ah, it was so long ago that I forgot the original purpose. But now I recall, that the purpose was to draw hair. So I wanted to assign not only stroke weight but also color.

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