I assumed I was just crazy because I couldn't fathom how Adobe could have a product out like Illustrator for so long and not have as simple a feature as column breaks...
Nope. You're not crazy. You're just sufferning the same shell-shock incredulity those accustomed to competing programs experience every day when they launch this archaic program. I could build you a long list of similarly taken-for-granted features which Illustator has never provided.
That's a large part the fuzzy logic of the so-called "creative cloud" which Adobe is going to be ramming down all our throats at breakneck speed. The most frequently trotted-out "advantage" to its naive customers is ostensibly 'no waiting for new features'.
Excuse me? That's supposed to be convincing to customers who have for over a quarter-century taken for granted in competing products such standard functionality as:
Proper geometric primitives
User-defined drawing scales
Dimension tools
Connector lines
Custom arrowheads (not implemented as an absurd workaround kludge)
I can easily lengthen this list—and have. But just one such item suffices to make my point: Throughout AI's history, the timespan between version releases has never been the issue; it's an insignificant percentage of the literal decades it takes for no-brainer features to ever appear in this lethargic, over-rated program!
The excuse has always been 'limited resources.' Yeah? If you buy that, what do you think those poor overworked limited resources have been working hardest on of late; adding long-needed "new" (only new to Adobe) features, or revamping everything for this new subscription-based "cloud" buzzword marketing model?
JET
