English:Some shortcuts use the opening and closing square bracket keys [ and ], particularly those relating to the size of the tool.My question is twofold:on my AZERTY keyboard, I don't actually have [ ] keys. You have to type ( or ) parenthesis keys, combined with the Alt Gr key. But in Illustrator it doesn't work; I tried with all sorts of combinations of Alt, Shift, Alt Gr.... The size of the tool remains the same. In the default configuration, how is this supposed to work?how can I define custom keys for "tool size up" and "tool size down" ? French:Certains racourcis utilisent les touches crochets ouvrants et fermants [ ] , particulièrement ceux relatifs à la taille de l'outil.Ma question est double:sur mon clavier AZERTY, je n'ai pas à proprement parler de touches [ ]. Il faut faire les touches ( et ) avec la touche Alt Gr. Mais dans Illustrator ça ne marche pas. Avec les touches par défaut, c'est censé marcher comment?comment puis-je redéfinir des touches custom pour la fonctionalité essentielle "taille de l'outil"

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square bracket keys on AZERTY / touche crochet avec clavier AZERTY

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May 20, 2020
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English:

Some shortcuts use the opening and closing square bracket keys [ and ], particularly those relating to the size of the tool.

My question is twofold:

on my AZERTY keyboard, I don't actually have [ ] keys. You have to type ( or ) parenthesis keys, combined with the Alt Gr key. But in Illustrator it doesn't work; I tried with all sorts of combinations of Alt, Shift, Alt Gr.... The size of the tool remains the same. In the default configuration, how is this supposed to work?
how can I define custom keys for "tool size up" and "tool size down" ?

French:

Certains racourcis utilisent les touches crochets ouvrants et fermants [ ] , particulièrement ceux relatifs à la taille de l'outil.

Ma question est double:

sur mon clavier AZERTY, je n'ai pas à proprement parler de touches [ ]. Il faut faire les touches ( et ) avec la touche Alt Gr. Mais dans Illustrator ça ne marche pas. Avec les touches par défaut, c'est censé marcher comment?
comment puis-je redéfinir des touches custom pour la fonctionalité essentielle "taille de l'outil"

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KarinVanParis

Participant

Hi ! It's Alt + Maj + ( or ) on an azerty keyboard > [ ]

Egor Chistyakov

Inspiring

Hm, these can be changed in Keyboard Shortcuts, in Tools sections, in Increase/Decrease Diameter... Can you assign something else there?

Eric Dumas

Community Expert

Hi,

Can you confirm the version of your software and operating system?

You can create your own shortcuts from the Edit menu > Edit Keyboard shortcuts

- Select to create a shortcut for a Tool or a Command

- Locate the tool size option

- and remap to what you would like to use

You should get a warning if the shortcut is already used for something else already.

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francisv12957225Author

Known Participant

Hi Erc,

Thanks for answering.

My OS is Windows 10, it updates regularly.
I am using Illustrator 24.0.2

I could not find tool size in the keyboard shortcuts.

mario hernandez

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So the capability is there, it's just that in 30+ years Adobe hasn't found the time to transfer them to the UI ?

If anyone from Adobe is listening, this is about the fact you can't change the shortcut for the tool size in Illustrator, ( [ and ] by default), which means you just can't access the tool size from the keyboard if you have an AZERTY (French) keyboard, because those default keys don't work.
If anyone from Adobe who doesn't know about graphics is listening (you never know) : this is important for graphic work as the tool size is something you need to change often. As in graphics you need to use the mouse a lot, moving the mouse to the menu to change the tool size with the UI means you lose the place in the graphics where you were editing.

I confirm... I'm totally with that said above

That is a great great miss from adobe.

Be able to change the brush tool size via a simple shortcut like Photoshop on french keyboard is very important.

I still don't understand why this so simple command is not featured in illustrator.

Please do something. We need it !

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