The newly “redesigned” panels in Illustrator CS6 are an absolute nightmare of wasted space. I’ve been forced to rearrange my entire workspace because the panels no longer fit in the arrangement I’ve been using for many years now. The Color panel is a particularly egregious example: even with the color well collapsed as small as it’ll go, the panel is now 67 pixels taller than it was before, with ZERO new functionality gained for all that wasted space. The Align panel is quite bad too. It has the exact same set of controls as before, but the new panel is 39 pixels taller, for absolutely no reason.

Given the now longstanding trend of Illustrator’s UI getting progressively worse with every major new version, I would really, really appreciate the ability to fix the problem myself. So yeah…please add Illustrator support in Configurator for CS7. For now I’ll just have to put up with the needless disruption to my workflow.

Your moaning for the last decade is hurting my ears and my blood pressure.

Architecture? What architecture? have you built the whole carbon to cocoa switch on top of old code?

Sounds like a restauration of an old painting by Michelangelo. The problem is: you guys are not Michelangelo.

Jonathan Ferman | Product Manager, Adobe

Until recently the Illustrator architecture made it practically impossible to support the components we needed access to in Configurator. We are working closely with the Illustrator team to see if we they can provide us what we need but I am afraid this work is too late for Configurator 3 or CS6 but we are investigating and it’s great to know that you want Illustrator support as it makes the work all the more viable and valuable.

Jonathan Ferman | Product Manager, Adobe

Illustrator users want to be productive too, you know!