that glitch from before I was born continues to force all kinds of work arounds. Want to add an anchor point to a path right where it intersects with another path? should be easy, but nope– the pen tool is going to pretend like it's not possible to add an anchor point exactly where it needs to be. I just want to select this ONE shape in there! Yet if I alt click it, it will only select ONE anchor point. if I hover over this shape, the individual shape highlights, but if I click it, It selects EVERYthing on the artboard. once again somehow there's an arsenal of ways to select complex 3D objects, vertices and lines and faces in any 3D application, yet in illustrator you can have a matrix of paths and it's a complete nightmare trying to move nested shapes around without wanting to kill thyself. It should be that simple but of course it isn't. default click selects groups, alt click selects individual objects. Making selections is an absolute shit show. These are problems that have plagued this software for literally decades at this point without remedy. Basic, basic functionality thrown out the window. If photoshop is open at the same time, the cursor icon will flicker wildly as it moves across the screen, making it practically impossible to use effectively– as if having those two applications open at the same time isn't something most designers would have reasons to do more often than not. "Illustrator isn't meant for layouts, you should be using in design for that!" again, clients provide all kinds of templates and things you have to use that aren't ideal. I shouldn't have a 5 second lag when trying to nudge a rectangle in illustrator just because I have 20 artboards or I *forgot I had the rulers turned on, whoops!*. I manipulate mega scan 3d assets on my m1 Mac (and PC with a thread ripper and 3090, for that matter. "well how many artboards are you using? how many anchor points? live paint groups? gradient mesh?" None of this should matter in 2023. You can extend a diagonal line and it will indicate if you are dragging it along the same angle, yet if I alter the line slightly by a few pixels mistake the indication still shows it's aligned to the original angle making mistakes extremely easy to overlook. Text constantly has extra little spaces before or after characters which makes aligning it extremely frustrating because the bounding box doesn't actually line up with the optical boundaries of the text. Most of the time even when an auto guide appears to show me two things are aligned as I'm dragging, upon closer inspection it's clearly not even actually aligned. It should work this well and better, not using it's disfunction as an excuse to claim it as evidence of a user's supposed inexperience. Illustrator is MORE professional software. They just work they way you expect them to. The guides don't flicker like crazy and jump all over the place. Keynote for example is so good at this, it almost always seems to understand what I'm trying to snap to what. text will arbitrarily snap to x-height, or baseline, or all kinds of random alignments but somehow typically not the most obvious thing I'm trying to do such as align neatly to a neighboring shape's center point. Sure you can try and mess with the settings and sensitivity in the settings, wasting more time. Yes, I understand the grouping and layer hierarchy effect how alignment works, but even when I double check everything things inexplicably still don't work the way they should (or do in every other adobe program with the same tools and functionality).Īuto guides pop up all over the place without rhyme or reason when dragging objects around. or it will look it it worked but you realize it's actually still off by a few pixels somehow. I struggle constantly to get illustrator to do things as simple as:Īlign virtually anything in a moderately complex project. Adobe should study that program because everything illustrator should do correctly, keynote pretty much gets right. It's gotten to where if I can justify it at all I will use apple keynote to make layouts because it's so much less frustrating. It is not an exaggeration at this point to say that the program is broken. I've been using illustrator since like 2003 on Macs and PC's, almost always up to date and with maxed out specs, and yet still– it is astounding how truly awful an experience it is to use it regardless of the machine I'm using. Illustrator IS the worst fucking program ever made, and that's saying a lot considering how shitty most other adobe programs are. About to lose my fucking mind working on logo iterations and presentations for a few days in a row now so here's a rant.
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