Ability to manipulate illustrator sublayers in Object Layer Options dialogue
It would be great to be able to manipulate (turn on and off) illustrator sublayers in the Object Layer Options dialogue.
I use the adobe suite for urban design mapping and analysis where we work with many layers to describe the complex nature of the city/area we are working in. We are often working with 40+ layers, many of which could be 'grouped' or collected into a single layer, however when placing the same .ai file multiple times in a report, we need to retain the ability to turn layers on or off to suit different data sets. This create large unwieldy layer lists in illustrator and makes it harder (slower) to work with.
Matt
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Brian Sipsy commented
This should have been a feature a long time ago. There should be an option in preferences to set the number of levels within a layer to display (ie LAYER>SUB-LAYER or LAYER>SUB-LAYER>SUB-SUB-LAYER) .
We design basketball courts, and many teams want to see multiple design variations for each element in their court design, like a 16ft tall center logo and a 20ft tall center logo. Sometimes they want to see a brown stain and grey stain in the 3pt area, or 3ft lettering and 4ft lettering. Having all these in one illustrator layer for organization while being able to turn them on and off individually would make a world of difference in the organization of our design files and workflow. -
willy Croezen (Pengwyn, lord of blah) commented
yes! PLEASE make this happen ASAP! would be TREMENDOUSLY helpful!
I am a professional comic artist/ illustrator and create my comic strips in illustrator with different language layers in sublayers under groupname "Languages"
when making a layout in indesign using my comics now, i first have to save the placed illustrator-file with the wanted language layer selected, to have it show up in indesign correctly.
I would much rather have all languages in a single illustrator-file and be able to select the language i want directly from within Indesign! -
Iakovos Papaioannou
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I would need that too !
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Angus Atwood
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It is honestly frustrating that this isn't already a feature.
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Judy Caley
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I would really really like to see this too. Would be excellent for publishing when placing complex illustrator files that need to adhere to a strict top-level layer structure but with multiple sublayers.
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Oleg Voytenko commented
This would increase the productivity of my workflow tremendously
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Hannah
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Agree!
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Sayem Khan
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This is very important.