The "I hate Adobe Illustrator" Club
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- Nairn2
I just clicked to a .dxf file and it opened in Illy'22, so I've clearly been using 2021 version without giving a care.
Anyway, this might come in handy for anyone like me who is immediately irritated by the loud blue 'share' icon in the top bar that I am literally never (ever) going to use.
- Nairn2
Not Illustrator per se - but have you ever tried using Illustrator with a mouse that has an old worn left mouse microswitch that suffers double click problems?
IT IS ONE OF THE MOST FRUSTRATING THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE.
Why didn't I bring in a mouse from home today? I've been checking the mail at work every 15 minutes for the new replacement. I'm going crazy here.
- you can swap around L/R mouse buttons in your pref settings.shapesalad
- shapesalad1
https://illustrator.uservoice.co…
'Selection tolerance does not apply for selecting handles and is broken for points'
Anyone else have that problem? Any ideas of fixes?
It's driving me insane...
- Nairn1
Huh. I think I'm having ^this problem, but I've not upgraded from 2021 and it's started happening over the past few weeks.
I've just had a massive swear at being unable to move an anchor handle when the mouse is clearly on top of it, and there's none of the usual suspects turned on (eg. snap to grid)
- Yep. It's a bug. I can't upgrade to 2022 one as I am not updating my mac osx. But... tempted if the bug is fixed. It's been a bug for me since 2014 ish.shapesalad
- shapesalad0
Anyone try it? Looks good. Mac only.
- shapesalad1
Text boxes in illy... when you have the text input cursor right at the edge of the text box... that cursor is a blinking tiny 1pixel thin line, that disappears visually next to the border line of the text input box... so you are guessing where you are about to type.
Love it.
- shapesalad0
When you use the 'Recolor Artwork' feature... there's no ability to 'eyedropper' and grab a colour from your artboard etc.
I wish they would make the Recolor Artwork a standard UI panel and give you better global colour-adjusting functions.
Every update... nothing changes...
- Nairn1
um.. when did Illustrator restrict measuring angles to whole degrees?! What the fuck? How am I supposed to straighten something out that's within a degree?! fucking hell.
- Nairn0
Actually a 'not hate Illy' post:
Have I missed something, or has Illy recently started adding low resolution previews of un-embedded graphic assets in files?
I've just received a load of files, again, that have unembedded assets I need, but I'm sure normally I'd be greeted by a blank box with a cross through it, or something, rather than a low res preview?
If this is new, it's handy.
- It's a hack, but you can extract compressed images from the preview PDF that is embedded in an AI file; That may be what you're seeing...evilpeacock
- Once you save over an AI file missing external assets the PDF preview is updated and becomes useless. Not sure if that has any bearing on new changes though.evilpeacock