Several Subtle Improvements to Text Handling and Other Miscellany

Don't get me wrong: Illustrator CS4 is great. I love it. And ignore, for the moment, the recent announcement that CS5 is already being rolled out in a few days. Maybe some of these things will be included in CS5. But if not, I'd make the following feature requests. I'd also love to hear if anyone has been thinking the same things.
Check this link to see a graphical overview of all the items, too:
http://www.meesez.com/illyimprove.pdf
Improvements to Text Handling
Unify text antialiasing program-wide. Right now, the pixel preview seems to rasterize text according to the "Type Optimized" algorithm, but Save for Web & Devices uses the "Art Optimized" algorithm. This creates a discrepancy between on-screen preview and web output, especially with very thin fonts. Ideally, there would be per-object antialiasing control, as in Photoshop, which would globally apply to on-screen display, pixel preview display, Save for Web & Devices, Export, and Rasterize.
a. Make an option to view and manipulate the size and position of point type areas in terms of the actual size of the glyphs present, ignoring any blank space within or between the glyphs' bounding boxes — that is, the size that would be reported if the type was converted to outlines. This is opposed to the current system, which calculates the size and position of point type areas based on the entire bounding box size of each character, even when glyphs don't extend to the all edges of the bbox (which most don't). This would make it easier to fit headlines to exact sizes without having to outline the text.
b. Allow smart guides and snapping to detect anchors and paths on live glyphs.
Allow users to specify that type should not be scaled when resizing area type boxes. With this option turned off, text boxes could be resized with the transform panel or the scale tool without their contents being stretched or squashed. (This is what currently already happens when a text area is resized using the mouse.)
Create an option to apply leading to entire paragraphs. I love being able to enter a new paragraph leading value in InDesign without having to have any characters selected.
Add vertical alignment options to area text.
Add support for balancing ragged lines within a paragraph, as in InDesign.
Add an option to automatically outline all text when saving a file as PDF. This option would be mutually exclusive with the "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities" checkbox.
Bug fix: font selection by font name keyboard entry. Typing a font name into the font selector in both the control bar and the character palette doesn't always succeed in changing the font of the selected type (tested in Windows XP). This happens sporadically; sometimes the selector will display the new font name but the selected type will remain in the old font. Clicking on the font selector in this situation brings the user to top of the menu, making it necessary to select the desired font by scrolling through the entire list (which does work).
Other Improvements
Add a preview mode (similar to InDesign's "W" key) which hides everything outside of the current artboard. This would be useful for previewing trims, especially now that bleeds are supported.
Create an option to toggle the display of all document raster effects (while leaving them intact). This would be quite convenient when working with large files having high-resolution raster effects on several layers. In such a situation, small changes to artwork can take a long time to render.
Add support for angle (conical) gradients. I'm guessing that this feature has not yet been implemented either because angle gradients don't interact well with other types of gradients, or perhaps because they can't be transformed into gradient mesh objects due to the "singularity" at the vertex. But couldn't this problem be resolved by being discreet about what's allowed in terms of file saving and conversions to gradient mesh? I would think the folks at Adobe could figure this one out, if it is indeed a mathematical problem.
Bug fix: antialiasing on shapes that run exactly along pixel boundaries. See diagram for more details.

Dirty_Deeds, I want to make sure your phone is functioning correctly. I would like to clarify some information you have provided. When you are attempting to reply to anything, are you able to use the keypad to type your reply? Is it just pressing send that presents a problem?
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All those functions are present in Illustrator. I personally think their interface stinks in some ways, but they are there.
> "Shift + C" with anchor point selected: this will make the bezier handles of the point move independently of each other.
Convert AnchorPoint Tool. Press Alt to invoke it when the Pen tool is active. Otherwise, switch to it with Shift C. Use it to drag a smoothPoint's handle, and it will convert the point to a cornerPoint, letting you move the handle you click independently.
> "Shift + S" with anchor point selected: this will "connect" the bezier handles so that moving one side moves the other side relatively (and opposite to each other so that the bezier handles form a straight line).
Again, the Convert tool. Mousedown on an anchorPoint and drag. The point will become a smoothPoint and both handles will extend symmetrically.
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> (note: in Inkscape there is no way to make the bezier handles relative and not form a straight line, which is something I know would be useful)
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> "Shift + Y" with anchor point selected: this will make the bezier handles collinear (like shift + S) plus make the lengths of both handles the same. (note: another possible feature would be to make the handle lengths relative, but not the same)
See second item, above.
> With these functions (preferably including the suggestions I've noted), path editing in Illustrator would be much easier.
They are there; thier interface is just different.
> On the topic of Inkscape's path editing abilities, there is also a way within the program to delete anchor points in two ways:
> The default way is to press "Del," which deletes the anchor points and makes the anchor points around the deleted points attempt to fill the area as close as possible to how it was with points.
Not present in AI. (Not associated with a direct point manipulation tool, anyway. Commands like Simplify try to remove points while retaining the shape.)
> The second way is to press "Ctrl + Del," which deletes the points and does nothing to the surrounding points.
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> Inkscape's default deletion method is a huge time saver...I hope that...you can see their potential usefulness within Illustrator
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