SarahMills

I just ditched Illustrator and straight away I have a bit of regret. Image Trace and Simplify/Smooth path are sorely missed. Inkscape is ok(ish) for these , but I'd prefer to keep my workflow in one app.

I've been waiting for this feature since the Publisher beta. I would love to ditch Indesign, but I manage a huge amount of long, complex documents that are all using span columns and threaded text... it's a showstopper for me. That might sound a bit overly dramatic, but I'm amazed this still isn't possible. So a +1 from me. Please !

Would love to see this working better. Expand is probably my most used feature in Illustrator as I do a lot of freehand inking.

First - thanks for the new beta, first impressions are pretty good from just a little messing about. Inking with a vector brush is now a good enough experience for me to start using it properly. Slow linework is still very wobbly but this can be fixed with stroke stabilising which has a good range of options to make it workable. Loving all that. One thing I am having issues with on my Cintiq is trying to adjust the bezier nodes. If I can grab a handle or node (bit hit and miss) it just seems to shoot off all over the place. Will investigate more and see if it's a tablet vs mouse thing. I just want to hop and say .. nice job. It's looking great.

Agree. This is something sorely lacking still in Designer, and now in Publisher. Bleed guides are essential to me.