So I'm sitting here with an utterly useless CS5.5 DVD, which I am dreading to install. So Master Collection CS5 owners are penalized for this a niggling $25 over and above what the same "upgrade" costs those who bought the CS5.5 non-version-but have to jump through the ridiculous, unnecessary hoop of first "upgrading" to the already defunct CS5.5, and then wait for permission from Adobe to "upgrade" from that to CS6.-AND you have to do all this before a couple-week's deadline. Like doubtless thousands of others, I did not upgrade to the much-ado-about-nothing half-baked CS5.5 middle version, because it offered next to nothing (and absolutely nothing in regards to Illustrator). First mistake was buying into the Master Collection collection when it was first offered (something I've increasingly regretted since). I haven't even been able to order CS6 yet, because Adobe's "upgrade" policy is as convoluted as Illustrator itself. I get so sick of half-baked "glorious new features" in this program that-as you two state-either never get fleshed out, or require hundreds of dollars spent to get something that feels finished years later-and then start the whole cycle all over again on something else. Illustrator will happily respond to the new gradient direction, but the gradient of the stroke will not change, and the fill stays transparent.Īdobe tends to introduce half a feature, then abandon it and never develop it further.Ĭouldn't have said it better myself. Now that Illustrator can apply gradients to strokes, it is understandable that, if a shape has a transparent stroke, Illustrator will prevent you from using the Gradient Tool on the shape if the stroke is in the foreground.īut the opposite should also be true: if you have a shape with a gradient stroke and a transparent fill, Illustrator should prevent you from using the Gradient Tool if the fill is in the foreground. In earlier versions of Illustrator, you were allowed to use the Gradient Tool to adjust the direction of a shape's gradient even when the shape's stroke was in the foreground. In addition to this, here is another bug I discovered: What's up with that? I can see why this wouldn't work with shapeburst mode, but linear and even angular gradients (to set the center point) should be no problem. Okay, so one of the new flagship features of Illustrator CS6 is gradients on strokes, but you can't use the Gradient Tool with them? I just get a crosshairs pointer with a "no" sign next to it.
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