Change default fill and stroke settings (color, etc.) used when drawing new shapes
It's quite frustrating that every time I use the shape tools, I have to remove the stroke and change the fill.
Like in ID and AI, it would be useful if the object fill and stroke remembers the previous settings, or a default could be somehow set.
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Matza
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Some big features are missing, but this is one of these small things which could be picked up from AI and ID. I'm loosing time writing feature request to this small things which should be a given. Please do not force your clients/community to request this things … that's frustrating … This should be fixed in 2016, And now it's 2019 ………
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Jeroen Bruijn
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Seriously Adobe? Undo color stroke and fill color for Every. Single. Object ???????? Getting frustrated after being patient for a long time with the software
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Anonymous
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InDesign is becoming a garbage program, FIX THIS
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Armando
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Yeah, it is a bit annoying when I have to uncheck the stroke every time I use the shape tool. It will definitely be great if you guys change it so that we could just add the stroke when we need it, same as in illustrator. It will also be awesome if we could color pick the style of the stroke, like object styles. Keep up the good work guys. XD is definitely shaping up to be one of the best application out there.
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Zack
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Yeah, this seems pretty basic. I waste a lot of time unchecking stroke. Also, I wish there was an easier way to eye drop colors for the stroke color.
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Cindy Kee
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I can't believe this feature request has been around for 3 years and it's still "Feature-Under-Review"! This definitely needs to be implemented - where is the typical Preferences menu item that is available in most other Adobe products for things like setting defaults?
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Anonymous
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I can't believe this is still a thing. At a bare minimum, please remove the stroke as a default style option on every shape and change the fill to a shade of gray.
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Jarek commented
+1, infuriating
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Anonymous
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Please let us apply the default graphic style to new shapes.
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Brice Tuttle
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This is especially curious given the text tool in XD already does have a "memory", and will continue making text boxes with the last used style. PLEASE apply this behavior to the shape tools!!
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Anonymous
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Yes give us a shortcut (keyboard) to let us change the default fill and stroke easily and definitely let us use RICH BLACK instead of 100K Black.
I have set my Preferences to Display All Blacks as Rich Black and Output all Blacks as Rich Black, I'm working already in RGB and still the default is white and 100K Black.
It's a waste of time. Can't wait for Adobe to show us they're cutting edge.
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cjw
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Remember and use the last settings for shape and fill. How is this not completely obvious? When would it ever make sense to default to some hard coded values? As it is, I have to change Fill Color, Border Color, and Border Size every single time I draw a shape. I spend way more time doing that than I do with my actual design. I love this tool and have been waiting several years for it, but like others have said, this is a major SHOW STOPPER.
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Tara Price
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How is this not a thing? For an app to build user experience the UX on this program is an atrocity.
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Jeroen Bruijn
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Common adobe this takes way too long for such a simple setting, i am a full pro designer, and for EVERY goddamn object i draw, i need to set outline to 0 manually. This is such a time consumer every single day. Expected more from you guys. #adobeux
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Richard
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Solution can be found here: https://creativepro.com/setting-defaults-indesign/
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joseph schuster
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I am disappointed that Adobe would release an application that lacks such basic features as being able to make and preserve basic settings for line weight, color, text, font type etc. This is the kind of Beta version I would expect from a startup but not from an industry leader.
Another feature that would be appreciated is when copying and pasting that the object not appear directly overlapping the source. Isn't is more useful have it offset or to paste in under the current pointer position? Grabbing a dragging under the current build is tedious
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Steve Rekhler commented
+10000; I'm trying to make a Radio Dish Icon, specifically the waves portion... and I'm using a circle tool, to build one on top of the other, and because they are set to fill by default, I can't quickly create them relative to the center origin. Pls have a default setting for shape tools.
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I Design Websites
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I beg you, XD Team – please make this happen. This is one of these small but super annoying things that are making our life miserable. – sadly there is many more, way too many of these in XD. At the first glance, it may look like a low-priority, not-so-important feature but in the long run, it's really unbearable. The current solution is forcing us to perform stroke and fill edits over and over again, hundreds, thousands of times while working on a project. It's time-consuming, and what's even worse it feels like a sophisticated, sadistic torture – quite like the punishment the mythological Sisyphus was sentenced to. BAD UX! Please have mercy and fix it.
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Benjamin Watkins
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+1 Changing this each time I draw a rectangle takes up a huge percentage of my work time. You could let us change its default in preferences, but beyond that please just have it remember what I last set it to because chances are I need that again right away.
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Brandon
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Agreeing with roblack here. Constantly having to uncheck the stroke for new rectangles gets pretty annoying.