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Can I close all layers? or even better, stop illustrator from opening all layers when I open a file?

May 7, 2012 10:01 AM

Tags: #illustrator #adobe #layers #automatically_open #close_all #sublayers

I just installed cs6, and when I open files in Illustrator, it opens all of the layers which contain sublayers.  It does this even if all the top-level layers were closed during the previous save.  The files I work with have a large layer-structure, so re-closing the top-level layers every time I open a file wastes a lot of my time.  Can I close all layers at once, or better yet, can I stop Illustrator from opening all of the layers automatically when I load a file?

 

If not, then WHY on earth not?  I can't be the only one who opens and closes large files with lots of layers and sub-layers...

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Edit: I also am noticing this problem is even worse in cs6, because openning and closing individual layers plays a little animation of rotating the triangular arrow before the layer which, cute as it may be, just makes the task of individually closing up all my layers that much more tedious.  Can I turn off that little animation of the triangular arrow when opening and closing layers?

 
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    May 7, 2012 10:05 AM   in reply to salbertysalberty

    I do not think you can stop this behavior if you have sublayers beacuse it is he layers panel it is simply showng all the layers including sublayers

     

    Perhaps there will be a way of designating not to show sublayers in the future.

     
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    May 7, 2012 10:21 AM   in reply to salbertysalberty

    You can save it as a pdf and when you open that in AI the layers will not be opened even if they have sublayers.

     

    No it only did this the first time I saved as a pdf and opned it, eaxh subsequent time I opned it it had the layers opened?

     

    So I guess there is no way unless it has changed in CS6

     
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    May 22, 2012 12:33 AM   in reply to salbertysalberty

    Its a know error since cs5!

     

    And it have really bothered me also since!

     

    And no one cares!

     

    Illustrator 25 years old now!! What have we learned?

     
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    May 23, 2012 12:12 AM   in reply to Wade_Zimmerman

    You can save it as a pdf and when you open that in AI the layers will not be opened even if they have sublayers.

    Not true. Does the same nonsense an .AI file does. Saved as a .PDF, closed Layers/subgroups get opened.

    And no one cares!

    I do. Every other Adobe program with a layering sceme seems to be able to remember that you saved a file with all layers and subs closed. But not this one.

    Maybe someone from the AI development team should ask someone from the Photoshop team how they've managed it.....for decades.

     
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    Jan 8, 2013 9:18 AM   in reply to salbertysalberty

    I just posted a work arround here:
    http://forums.adobe.com/message/4302319

     
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