Feature request: Select objects inside Fence

HI,
It would be very nice to be able to select only what's inside a rectangular selection fence with the selection tool.
Maybe having a modifier to disable it or a left/right fence protocol (left to right=select inside, right to left select touching) would be nice,
It would make selection a lot faster in many circumstances.
Thanks

I think that would be a very elegant solution. Please reply to this thread if you agree! Maybe we can make Apple implement this for Keynote'10!
Hi Markus,
Elegant or not, if you want Apple's development team to know about your wish list, this user-to-user forum isn't the place to tell them.
In Keynote, go to the Keynote menu, choose Provide Keynote Feedback, and make your request. Feedback there goes directly to Apple.
While you're waiting (If the feature is implemented, it won't be until at least the next version of Keynote), here's the less-elegant way to do this:
First, try to locate a place you can click to select the desired object directly—somewhere that it is not covered by an object in front of it. Click on the background, then press command-A to Select All (objects on the slide). Examine the outline and handles on the desired object. If you find a place to click and select it, click the background again to deselect all objects, then click on the desired object.
Second, if that doesn't work (ie. if the desired object is entirely covered by another object), click and select the object preventing your desired selection, then go Arrange > Send Backward* (or press shift-option-command-B). Now click the desired object. If it still can't be selected, repeat until it can (and do keep track of how many steps it took so that you can restore the stack to the original order).
As always, when making changes of this sort, it's good to Save just before starting the changes to provide a route back if things go awry.
Regards,
Barry
*You could also choose Send to Back (shift-command-B), but not knowing how many steps back it's been sent could cause you problems in restoring the stack to a useable order.

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Select objects inside a shape

Hello!
Im looking for a way to export a pattern made in Illustrator to auto cad.
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Jakob,
You may use careful manual cutting (using Smart Guides) along the circle and grumble over the lack of easy ways to do it properly on open paths.
Or you may do the destructive deed, with the Clipping Mask selected:
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FEATURE REQUEST: 'Select Printer' option when printing envelopes or labels

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Thanks in advance,
Wayne
Wayne S. CompTIA A+ CompTIA Network+ Microsoft MCP

I would like to second Wayne's suggestion but I am concerned with printing envelopes, not labels. I have been a PC user (and even an instructor) since the days of VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, and the first Microsoft products. It has never ceased to amaze me
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letterhead followed or preceded by several pages that need to print on plain paper. I think I should be able to tell Word that page X is letterhead, and the others default to the plain paper tray or printer. I also should be able to tell the print envelopes
feature that envelopes are on printer X or tray X. Then every time I need to print such a document, I just click print for the doc and envelope print for the envelope (I keep an icon for this in my toolbar). We use a legal software package in our office that
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and never-ending printer issues!! Please, please, take this to the top! Please send your developers to actual real-world users and find out our needs!!!

Selecting objects inside selection window only?

is there a way, that objects only inside the selection window or lassoed region get selected rather than objects getting selected which are partially inside the selection window?

You may find the following thread/scripts to be helpful.
How to select only objects within a selection marquee?
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/856221?start=0&tstart=0
See Posts: 11, 41, 54

Feature Request: Selective Backup and Restore

I know this is a board that apple doesn't answer questions to and blah blah blah but let's not kid ourselves that they don't monitor everything that goes on here; now thats out of the way.
Something that would be really useful would be selective backup/restore. Cuz i'm sure there are times when you what to restore only a specfic app and nothing else, or your messages.
Also if you're cleaning up your device and you accidently delete the wrong app; you will lose all that data with that app but inorder to restore that app and data you have to restore to a pervious backup and go through the process of re-deleting those apps.
Or if you want to restore your apps/data but have your settings start from scratch.
I don't know, I think this type of backup/restore feature could be very useful to alot of people...does any1 else agree?

You face 2 problems: The first is that polls are forbidden by the terms of use of the forum. The second is this:
Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy
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Feature request: Select emails by count-from-sender

Please allow me to select emails by count? e.g. indexing all the senders and counting the emails received from each.
Here's how that would help:
When it comes to free up a few Gigs of space in disk and improve Mail's performance, selecting thousands of emails from a few big senders is more effective than attempting the crazy task of bothering ourselves with finding just undreds of emails from hundreds of small senders!
Most of the emails we'd like to be able to handle without deleting them nor letting them to fall into the spam filter's claws, are the ones we ACTUALLY suscribed to, but never had the time to recover the password, login to them, update the email preferences (most times tricky or falsely advertised as "editable", or just impossible)… a total mission certainly harder than just leting them come, and some day delete them all. After all, It's easy: selecting ALL the emails from facebook, hit delete. Done.
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I want to select the emails by COUNT BY SENDER, and be able to slide up or down the threshold to select them.
Slide to the left, and all emails from senders with at least 2 emails sent will be selected.
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That way, I don't need to go through the hundreds of small senders and wear out my brain thinking one by one whether to delete it or not, for what? to delete just a few hundred emails an hour!.
This way I can go through a few giants, and delete thousands at once.
Or is ther a way to do it (script? add-on? rule?) and I didn't find it?

You are not talking to Apple here, we are just other users like you. You can copy all you wrote above and give feedback to Apple here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Feature request: selective per-file Smart Previews in LR5

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Feature request: remember selected attribute in wizard

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Greetings,
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Filed bug#2564815 to track request number 1.
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Feature Requests for BlackBerry10 OS

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Feature Requests beyond BlackBerry OS10.3.1
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Let's use this thread to list BlackBerry10 OS feature requests. There's nothing official to this thread, but one never knows who might view it and get an idea or two to move foward.
Please let's keep it to feature requests with simple short statements and comments, in this manner:
1. Ability to lock the volume keys (since they are so easliy pressed when retrieving from holster)
2. Personal distribution groups Address Book
4. Add BBM Group icon to home screen
**This thread is not for bug reports (i.e., the calendar glitches when I set the date) or for debate or discussion of the worthiness of a feature request.
So, what would YOU add to BB10?
What do YOU need to make the OS platform work better for you?
Here are the collected feature requests as of 04 April 2013. Thanks for Ride_The_Sky for helping collect these from this thread.
There are listed in no order, just as collected.
Ability to lock the volume keys (since they are so easily pressed when retrieving from holster)
Personal distribution groups Address Book
Add BBM Group icon to home screen
Way to add line carriage to BBM messages
Why doesn't the most used name come up first? <- In latest OS, there is another line with most common contacts, but when typing it won't provide most commonly emailed contacts.
Bring back the option "Send As" or include this option in "Share"
Enable word wrap when zooming in to emails and messages.
Import Distribution lists from Outlook on your desktop to your Z10?
*The option* to always show the hub main screen when opening the hub, so when peeking it always shows the hub even if you leave it in another screen.
Offer Balance without BES to have two workspaces in device.
Delete on Server/Device/Both
Delete on Server but Keep on Device (This is going to be tough since EAS does not work like POP, using POP you can do this by deleting on server after sync)
Auto power on/off or Auto Do Not Disturb / Scheduled Airplane Mode / Scheduled Silence Mode / Scheduled Custom Profile
Default Currency Option
More options to lower data usage in e-mail (Headers Only / Roaming Profiles)
Snooze a notification/reminder for more than 5 minutes.
Customized Notifications
Disable certain accounts to stop receiving email or notifications from them temporarily to avoid data usage.
Way to delete recent pictures, videos.
Office Hub customization, sorting, editing, etc., on the fly.
Select which contact groups to sync, and ability delete all contacts.
Larger text select tabs
Add more options to dropbar.
Improve browser functionality and display, add customization and management of Bookmarks.
Calendar in Landscape mode
Option to Disable shutter sounds in camera.
Auto BCC option
Multiple appointments in lock screen, not only next one.
Increase email check frequency, custom minutes (possibly battery concern, most accounts use push nowadays)
Ability to hide "texting" numbers such as Work, home, etc that aren't able to receive texts
Ability to have multiple mobile numbers, such as mobile1, mobile2, for people with more than one cellphone
Ability to have multiple work numbers, home numbers, etc
Ability to have option for actually creating "custom" names for phone numbers, emails, VOIP,
Ability to have multiple WORK emails fields for same contact ...
Ability for a custom note field for each contact, for misc information such as store hours, reference numbers, business account numbers,
Ability for filter or unselect specific Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook contacts so they all don't appear
Ability to "share" contact info with someone else ... like a vcard or the like
Ability to have custom Individual text and ringtones for each contact set within contacts app
Vibrate option for Alarm
Mail Filters for Priority mails.
Option to block ringtones from music app (i don't see ringtones in my music app, I guess poster refers to custom mp3 files)
Swipe down to close, up to minimize (but some apps have menus associated with swipe up gesture)
Swipe half way up the screen to minimize an application to an active tile.
Swipe it all the way up the screen to close the application.
Playbook app switching gestures (swipe sideways, I guess this won't work since there are other gestures associated with side-swiping)
Lock screen with gesture (or maybe they should just add a button on home screen, somewhere on top or bottom)
Airplane mode on status bar options.
Option to customize status bar with select Settings/Options.
Colors for Hub!
Face recognition for camera, being able to associate contacts with faces or pull info from Facebook, etc.
Weather info on Lock Screen (if I may add, and constant info on top status bar, simple temp info should be enough)
We need groups back in contacts please.
Import text messages in various formats from various systems.
Sorting and Ordering of the way contacts are displayed depending on account.
While editing an entry in calendar, notification about a recent call may cause loss of data in that entry.
Location for Calendar entries and be able to see it on the map with a tap.
Being able to see multiple pictures from an email by swiping left and right to see next/previous without having to reopen (I must say the same thing is needed for App World, why can't we just scroll through screenshots??)
Multiple flags or ability to set a flag date, associate with a reminder.
Move people from TO to CC or BCC easily (If I may add, also ability to backspace to delete a contact without having to tap the X in blue box).
Option to add favorites to Hub for easy to reach contact management (I think it is same as going to contacts and choosing Favs)
Being able to answer and make calls when the phone is locked.
Add more colors to LED notification (I think they are there now, orange, green, red so far, did not see blue, I don't think blue is needed in my opinion)
Change the way to add date and time for appointment, rollbar is too slow and too sensitive.
Dismiss and Snooze buttons for Alarm to be different colors, larger, easier to notice.
Make it easier to order world clocks, instead of the order they are added.
Alarms based on days/schedule.
Easier way to get to the bottom of e-mails (I think it scrolls pretty fast, I think poster wants "B" shortcut)
Easer way to get to the bottom of web pages (same as above, space or B shortcut?)
Add option to ask if you really want to dial, instead of just dialing right away every time a phone number is clicked/tapped on.
Ability to resize image before attaching to an e-mail.
More than 30 days email sync on device, please!
Make BB boot up slower, so we can actually get to do something else while waiting for it to start!
SSH client would be nice.
Another keyboard like Swipe (honestly, I have never typed faster in my life on any other on screen keyboard, Z10 keyboard is awesome!)
Volume lock/unlock button on demand.
Auto Run app on device boot up.
Lock or Pin apps.
Ability to run background apps (Google Talk is running in the background, or it is tricking me, I don't know but I am getting messages from it when it is shut down on BB10, I hope they do Skype the same way)
Ability to have multiple documents of same type open at the same time (tabbed docs2go)
Calendar sharing of BB10 users in the area/company/group.
PIN Messaging to return.
Preview e-mails, calendar and other information on lock screen (privacy?)
Way to clear anything in any "Recent" menu, videos, pictures, etc..
Ability to hide apps, docs, pics, videos, folders, etc..
BBM Group Picture notification.
Support WhatsApp more.
Another tap for important numbers (Favorites work for this, and on top of speed dial)
From Call Menu when going into contacts, it should be ready to search with keyboard out.
Option to customize volume key to act as page up/down, etc depending on app running.
Red star in app world (means you need to run Updates, just refresh and check by swiping down from top)
Better headphones with the phone (hey, we didn't even get any!)
Better night shots in camera (hardware or software improvement?)
Ability to choose which address book to sync with bluetooth car.
When app is opened from a folder three or four pages into apps list, we hope the screen can go back to that spot when the app is closed (sadly it uses active frames at the moment)
Change acceptance of auto corrected key, instead of space key, make it something else (actually, you can just backspace to un-autocorrect it back to what you typed).
Ability to load certificates (X 509 S/MIME and/or PGP/MIME) from a computer
Ability to sign and or encrypt emails (POP3) before sending (As in MS Office Outlook)
Ability to receive and recognize signed and or encrypted emails (POP3) (As in MS Office Outlook)
Add a password/certificate manager that doesn't require manual copy/paste
Ability to encrypt the memories Device and Media of the Q10 like it is done for the BB9900
Ability to encrypt selected folders (preferably by Private Key)
Ability to create Self-Decrypting Archive like in PGP
Ability to delete email-messages by group as an alternate option to one by one
Opening Video-chat to non-BBM users (Skype for instance)
For above encryption request, SecuSmart was suggested...
Renaming the file without extension can break the file or hide it from pictures list.
Wallpaper scrolling sideways.
Standalone e-mail app (not sure how different it is than choosing emails-only for hub)
Different colors or small tabs in different colors for different accounts in Hub.
Share webpages with smart tag (I think you can just create it by pasting the URL into create QR)
Application management (being able to see which app takes up how much space, etc..) CPU/Memory/Battery Usage/Data Usage/Storage Usage in more details
Custom vibration options.
Move Send button in BBM to avoid accidental submission of message
Forward As… SMS, MMS, EMAIL from one to another.
Send SMS to new numbers (I think you can still do this from call log)
Single key press to change profiles.
Insert a picture into an e-mail. (I think he means into the body of email)
Turning off links of contacts (I think poster did not have multiple accounts, actually BB10 goes ahead and adds all new contacts into all address books in all accounts without user permission.. Create a contact in Hotmail? Gets copied to Gmail.. and then linked, terrible implementation in my opinion)
Presets for browser bookmarks, faster access to bookmarks. (My suggestion was to create a home screen, select 12 icons 3x4 or 16 icons 4x4 as home screen/start page)
Being able to allow flash based on website/url/server.
Ability to adjust different sounds/volumes for different BBM users/groups
Better Voice Dial and Voice Commands (shorter and easier operation)
Ability close one or all web pages/tabs, add "Close All" button.
Call Recording
Faster way to delete e-mails, such as file icons next to e-mails, or Swipe to Delete! Swipe to File!?
Customize email signatures with formatting.
Phone to stay on screen (dial pad always available in panes)
More Options for Clock.
In Playbook we can have a single character password, why not on BB10? "too short" well it is my decision, isn't it?
There is no way to go next/previous while reading an e-mail. Please add these functions.
Add to the e-mail client, Next Unread / Previous Unread.
E-mail or Hub should have more buttons at the bottom in landscape mode. Why keep only three (or four in e-mail view) buttons when you have the real estate. It would be extremely handy if you allowed users to edit which buttons should go at the bottom. Next Previous is really needed while reading an e-mail. For example I would love to add "File" button at the bottom as a shortcut instead of forward, I rarely forward, but I file all the time. Maybe allow users to have two row of keys, add next/previous/unread. Or it could be done with a gesture. How about swiping the account name (top blue bar while reading e-mail) left and right?
When you create a new contact in BlackBerry, it gets synced to all accounts on the Hub. There is no way to limit the new contact to a specific account.
Sometimes when you file an e-mail to a folder, it stops and waits few seconds with no message. Even when it files immediately, there is a confirmation message that takes time to appear and disappear, and the folder list does not disappear automatically.
Messages filed automatically by server using server side filter rules are still showing up on Blackberry hub/inbox. In older BB versions the filtered messages did not show up in the list, filed messages still did.
When you filter your e-mails using Filter / Unread function, new unread e-mails do not show up until you close the filter and re-open. It won't just keep refreshing your screen with unread e-mails. Can BB add a button to the hub "Unread Hub" so when hub shows 8 or 2, you can actually see unread items easily without having to through so many taps.
Native BB QR scanner (Smart Tags) does not work with barcodes (it only scans with no way to use the information). There is Open In function but it doesn't work properly.
We need to add more customs search providers, and be able to add custom search strings/wildcards. For example currently there is Google, Bing, Yahoo, Foursquare, etc..
I hope BB introduces the ability include more standard & custom searches, IMDB, PriceGrabber, Ebay, Youtube, XYZ Forums, ABC Newspaper, 123 Database, Etc.. Most sites nowadays provide search string in their URL Search=?* etc...
None of the Battery apps can access system settings to add a battery icon to the top. I wish battery percentage was there.
There is no way to check carrier/mobile signal strength.
Blackberry, please add the date and carrier / SSID info to the top. Sometimes we just want to glance at the top to see the date without having to swipe.
Please bring back keyboard shortcuts. Since we can easily swipe up to bring the keyboard, just add keyboard shortcuts in e-mail, phone (true speed dialing, dialing by word?), and browser, etc.. if possible. I could always call 1800SOMETHING# now I have to look up the number or use dial pad.. Please bring it back.
Camera zoom function needs to be fixed, also please include option of fixed focus by tapping on the screen to focus. The auto focus in video is focusing in and out to various objects all the time. Stabilization feature also causes tearing/ripples, I guess it is good if you are stationary. Or use Volume Keys to Zoom.
Please allow more than 12 icons in an icon group/folder, I hated Apple for limiting apps per folder, please fix it.
Auto ON/OFF feature is not there anymore. BB should consider Auto DND (DoNotDisturb) or Auto Silent/Airplane modes instead.
Please find a way to stop the music app from automatically starting up every time it connects to bluetooth like car audio. This is very annoying.
No Panaroma mode in Camera app, why not? It is very easy to incorporate. This could be a nice addition to next release, and easy.
The text selection grips needs to be a little bigger, sometimes I cannot see where I am moving them, they work better in Playbook, nice big tabs.
Call Functions, before answering a phone add sideways gesture functions, like swiping right will forward the call, swiping left will answer with a test message, etc..
Or there should be a way to reject the call without sending it to voice mail, phones had this function a decade ago, I don't know what happened to it.
We used to be able to see the "History" without having to save the contact. Now I don't see any way to "View History" of a certain phone number, it just keeps adding
them as individual entries to the log. Now I can't see when was the last time they called me, how many times we spoke which day, etc... I loved this feature in BB5.
Where is BB Traffic? Where is BB Weather, without having to run an active frame? It will eventually disappear if you run too many apps. I liked a little Icon that shows me what the temp is, instead of running a whole app.
There is no Skype. This day and age with all other platforms having it, please either get skype (Microsoft) to cooperate, or open up BBM to other platforms. If necessary, pay Skype to develop the app, then charge BB users for the app. Most will gladly pay.
Can we tap and hold on an active frame to pin it, or can we pin two favorite apps between Call and Search & Search and Camera buttons in the bottom bar? How about Close All running Active Frames app to quickly free up ram?
I hope next generation devices have two speakers or speaker that is facing forward. When playing games or watching videos in landscape mode, I find my palm muting the speaker. I have to hold it gently with fingers to have a gap in between, something I don't want to do when I am on the subway or bus.
Blackberry Maps should have a Zoom In/Zoom Out buttons, sometimes using it with one hand, it is impossible to zoom in and out. (Zoom in is OK but we can't zoom back out)
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- ability to choose deletion of an email on handset only
- desktop software working with all older BB's allowing drag and drop type of transferring data, contacts etc. (BB link doesn't recognize my old Storm)
- auto power on/off
- contacts syncing with yahoo & Outlook (almost two weeks trying to work around it and no luck)

FEATURE REQUEST: Enhanced Texture Options in FW

Recently, a forum user was asking how to change the color of a texture in Fireworks to red or blue. In particular, he/she was struggling with attempting to apply a texture to a white object, and it wasn't showing up.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1006694?tstart=0
The question got me thinking about textures, how they're created and how they're applied. Textures are a unique and distinctive feature of Fireworks. On the one hand, the interface for textures is very simple to use and almost magical; on the other hand, it's surprisingly limited. The concept is great, but the implementation seems only half-baked.
With this in mind, I'd like to suggest a few simple ways that textures could be made more fluid and versatile in Fireworks.
First, a little background...
WHAT IS A TEXTURE?
In the world of Fireworks, a texture is basically a type of pattern that's applied to an object. However, unlike a pattern fill, textures include transparency and integrate with the existing fill content (color, gradient or pattern). They're suggestive of textures in the real world, which are often tactile and defined visually by light and shadow.
Texture graphics are most commonly grayscale ("black and white") in GIF or PNG format. Applied within the application, the graphics are converted "on the fly" to white-on-transparency. If the Transparent option is checked, the graphic is converted into a sort of mask, making the "textured" areas invisible instead of white.
And that's about it.
So what if you'd like to apply a dark texture to a white object? Sorry, it can't be done. What if you'd like to apply a texture in color? It can't be done. What if you'd like to reverse or invert the pattern of the texture? Can't be done.
Well, in fact, these things can be done, but not directly. They require workarounds such as cloning the object and placing the clone above or beneath the original, applying textures as pattern fills (instead of as textures) and adding effects like Color Fill, Invert, and Convert to Alpha, or editing the texture file directly, saving out a new copy, etc. In short, there are unintuitive ways to accomplish these goals that lead to bloated effects lists and layers or that require extra time and care.
HOW CAN TEXTURES BE IMPROVED?
First of all, does it make any sense that textures are applied exclusively in white? Not really. In the real world, a texture can be defined not just by light but by shadow. And even shadows can have color. This means that, at minimum, it would make sense to allow for the application of a texture in black, and, at maximum, in any chosen color.
Secondly, textures are relative. They represent change to an existing surface. Sometimes, it might make sense to highlight the texture itself; other times, the surface around the texture. This means that being able to quickly reverse the figure-ground relationship of a texture would be a very handy feature.
With the above concerns in mind, I've devised three 'user interface' scenarios, presented here in order of most conservative to most extreme. The first scenario is the least powerful but still doubles the number of possible outcomes (compared to the existing interface). The second scenario may be the most logical of the bunch and represents a modest evolution of the existing interface, while increasing the number of potential outcomes even further. The third scenario allows for the application of any color to a texture but also represents the biggest change to the existing interface; that said, it's also quite compact.
Scenario 1: Invert option
The idea here is simply to add an Invert checkbox to the existing options. Checking this option would convert white to black, allowing for the application of dark textures to white or light-colored objects. In "Transparent" mode, this option would invert or reverse the figure-ground relationship of the existing texture.
Scenario 2: Dropdown menu plus Reverse option
Here, the Transparent checkbox is replaced by a dropdown menu that includes 3 mutually exclusive options: White, Black, or Transparent. Checking the "Reverse" option would invert the figure-ground relationship of the texture. This scenario allows for 6 possible outcomes in place of the existing 2, and is actually more logical than the first scenario, which conflates two options.
Scenario 3: Color picker plus Reverse option
Here, the Transparent checkbox is removed, and in its place, a color chip/palette is added to allow for the selection of any color to be applied to a texture. (Choosing Fill: None would create Transparency.) Again, a "Reverse" option would invert the figure-ground relationship of the texture. This scenario differs most from the existing interface but is quite compact and allows for the greatest number of outcomes.
SO WHAT CAN YOU DO?
I've submitted a feature request to Adobe's official site:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
When it comes to bugs and/or feature requests, every vote counts. If you care about this issue, I encourage you to submit your own feature request to the above URL, referencing this post if desired. Feel free to copy and paste the feature request below or write your own. (Be aware that there is a 2,000 character limit to the "issue description" of a bug report or feature request, and the following report is very close to that maximum.)
FEATURE REQUEST
Product name: Fireworks
Product Version: 12.0.0.236
Product language: English
*******Enhancement / FMR*********
Brief title for your desired feature: Enhanced texture controls, including the ability to apply textures in black and/or color (instead of white), and the ability to reverse or invert texture.
How would you like the feature to work? Three possible implementations have been outlined in this forum posting:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1042206?tstart=0
The basic scenarios are as follows:
SCENARIO 1: An additional "Invert" option. Checking this option would convert white to black, allowing for the application of dark textures to white or light-colored objects. In "Transparent" mode, this option would invert or reverse the figure-ground relationship of the existing texture. This scenario would allow for 4 options in place of the existing 2.
SCENARIO 2: Replace Transparent checkbox with a dropdown menu (White-Black-Transparent) and a "Reverse" checkbox. The dropdown menu offers 3 mutually exclusive options, while "Reverse" inverts the figure-ground relationship of the texture in each case. This scenario would allow for 6 options in place of the existing 2.
SCENARIO 3: Replace Transparent checkbox with a color chip/palette and a "Reverse" checkbox. The color palette would allow for the application of a texture in any color, while choosing Fill: None would create Transparency. This scenario would allow for the greatest number of options.
Why is this feature important to you? Textures are unique to Fireworks and potentially very useful, but their implementation is incomplete. The use of 'white only' means that textures cannot be applied to a white object. Inverting a texture or applying a texture in color requires advanced workarounds and can lead to bloat. The suggested options would make the feature exponentially more powerful and intuitive.

Thanks, Jim! It is a very blog-like post. (I still haven't gotten around to starting a blog but keep thinking I should.)
I figured the clearer and more thought-out the presentation, the greater the likelihood it might get implemented. Also, I was originally stuck on Scenario 1 as a solution, and writing this helped me see other options.

How can I select areas inside incomplete shapes?

Hi,
I'm often required to open PDF drawings outputted from AutoCAD and add colour to them. I do this by opening the PDF in Illustrator and drawing colour shapes in a layer underneath the CAD drawing. Illustrator is good at handling all of the lines from the PDF, but shapes are never interpreted as connected shapes, they are always broken shapes made up of lines. I find it's faster to re-draw them in a layer underneath than to try to join the broken shapes.
Ideally it would really speed up my workflow dramatically if Illustrator had an area select feature like Photoshop, for example if I could just click inside the broken shape with the magic wand tool and it would select the area.
Is it possible that this feature exists in Illustrator and I just haven't found it? Any recommendations would be appreciated.
G.

Do this:
1. Use the shape tools to draw a few ordinary closed paths, overlapping each other partially. .25 pt. stroke, no fill.
2. Select all the paths. Object>Path>Add Anchor points. Repeat 8 times or so.
3. Select>Object>DirectionHandles.
4. Edit>Cut.
5. Delete.
6. Edit>PasteInFront.
Now you have a what looks like enclosed areas, but is really just a bunch of tiny open paths. You've simulated the kind of thing you frequently get from CAD exports.
7. Select all.
Now record an Action that performs these steps:
1. Apply 1 pt black stroke with round endcaps and joins.
2. Object>Path>OutlineStroke.
3. Apply the Merge Pathfinder.
4. Object>CompoundPath>Release.
Stop recording.
Everything will look like it just acquired a black fill. But now you have a Group of ordinary closed paths with black fills and no strokes. The outermost closed path completely surrounds the others and is offset from them by 1 pt. (thus, serving as the line work). You can now click the fills of the other paths and apply whatever fill colors you want.
The Action can now be applied with one click.
I frequently use a slight elaboration of such an Action when importing DXFs of exploded assembly drawings. I Lasso or marquee-select around the disjointed paths that make up the drawing of an object, and then run the Action with one click. The result is white-filled closed paths, simplified to remove excess anchorPoints, with a heavier weight outline around the outer perimeter. (Helps clarify individual parts in an exploded drawing--not proper thick/thin treatment, but servicable. Also serves for color-coding by the thick outlines if you.)
The exact best steps to include in the Action depends partially on the nature of the kinds of drawings you typically import; but the principle is generally like that outlined above.
All of this (including workarounds with LivePaint) is, of course, ridiculous workaround for Illustrator's ridiculous lacking any kind of intelligent join command.
JET

Hide bounding box of a selected object

I tried using the feature request page but got an error after typing all this and thankfully I copied all of the text I entered just before hitting submit just in case the website decided to act stupid like it did (would have to retype all of the following and many sites fail at keeping that info or even bringing back the page you were on.. Very bad for users)
*******Enhancement / FMR*********
Hide Bounding Box of selected objects
An option to turn this on/off under the view menu > Extras
Standardizing features like this across your Adobe apps (photoshop, illustrator) would make it more consistent since I was really looking hard to find a way to do this similar to the other apps I mentioned but InDesign failed to do this. It's very distracting trying to apply effects such as a drop shadow and not being able to see the result properly because of the bounding box. I hope this gets implemented ASAP.

After trying this again, it seemed to go through this time. Hopefully they get this implemented soon.

Thank you for my feature request. Now-

Thanks adobe for making true my feature request in CS4. You added two buttons for "more especific" and "less especific" in the "add new css rule" dialog…
Although, it doesn't go through ALL the posible combinations so I often don't find the class or ID I need and I end up typing it myself.
So a graphic interface for selecting the objects I WANT to match would be cool. Even better if I can select the elements I DON'T WANT to match as well.
A multiple element selection system should be enabled, and a new "select elements to match" button would enable the manual selection.
The more-especific and less-especific buttons are mostly used to find a tag/class combination that matches one or several
I wanted a more refined one, though, in which there are different drop down selects for each option, listing:
e.g. for the following code, and having selected elements #page-2 and #page-8, A NEW DROP DOWN select would display a list of the combinations that would match BOTH elements, ordered not by specificy but by number of matches.
<div id="maindiv">
     <ul id="list_one" class="left_column">
          <li class="linkone"><a id="page-1" >Link One</a></li>
          <li class="linktwo"><a id="page-2" >Link Two</a></li>
          <li class="linkthree"><a id="page-3" >Link Three</a></li>
     </ul>
     <ul id="list_two" class="right_column">
          <li class="linkone"><a id="page-4" >Link One</a></li>
          <li class="linktwo"><a id="page-5" >Link Two</a></li>
          <li class="linkthree"><a id="page-6" >Link Three</a></li>
     </ul>
     <ul id="list_three" class="left_column">
          <li class="linkone"><a id="page-7" >Link One</a></li>
          <li class="linktwo"><a id="page-8" >Link Two</a></li>
          <li class="linkthree"><a id="page-9" >Link Three</a></li>
     </ul>
     <ul id="list_four" class="right_column">
          <li class="linkone"><a id="page-10" >Link One</a></li>
          <li class="linktwo"><a id="page-11" >Link Two</a></li>
          <li class="linkthree"><a id="page-12" >Link Three</a></li>
     </ul>
</div>
So, the drop down option would list all the possible rules to OVERRIDE existing rules that match the chosen elements, sorted by amount of nodes matched.
For this example, the first compound rule you will see in the dropdown will be the one that matches ".left_column .linktwo". (Matches 2 elements)
I know it sounds obvious, something you could do yourself. BUT when you have A LOT of code, someone else created, with no obvious class names, or not even intended to be grown up that much… you really need something that finds what the elements you selected have in common.
After your selection, another selection could allow you to DISCARD elements from the choosing chriteria.
Thanks Adobe!

They spammed the post...lol i mean we were spamming what a joke

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