Not to sound ungrateful but...

To start, the new updates in Illustrator are great (especially the missing font support), but Adobe continues to neglect a big market with every new release...the sign and engraving industry. We little people working in those industries end up using Corel or some industry-specific software (such as Engravelab/Signlab or FlexiSign) because Illustrator is missing just a few key elements that could close up that market as well.
The first and most important missing feature in my opinion is creating letters that are actually the size of the font you specified. If I choose a 2 inch letter height and type the letter X, the transform box says that it is 2.174 inches. If I draw a rectangle to the size of the actual X I created it is only 1.354 inches. Come on! how hard is it to add the option for Illustrator to use the Height of X to determine the letter height? I know that I can Outline Object in the Appearance Panel and turn on "Use Preview Bounds," but that is a huge pain when you do 3,000-4,000 jobs per year.
Another biggie is how about adding a module that would allow for the creation on multiple badges based on variable data WITHOUT having to be an XML expert? Even Corel doesn't make using variable data as technical as Illustrator and I hate Corel.
Another thing missing from Illustrator that would be great is the ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to the alignment functions.
I live in a city of roughly 300,000 people and there are over 10 sign shops and 3 engravers in my city alone. Sign shops are not going anywhere and I think it's crazy to overlook us. The Creative Cloud subscription based model is a God send for small business that can't afford to buy full versions once a year. But it's a tough sell when you try to explain why the 2-inch letter x the boss just typed on the screen is only 1.354 inches tall.

can i ask which hub you used, i'll get exactly the same one to make sure i have the best chance of it working!
Did you also have the weird keyboard issues heh? it is just weird  

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