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.

Inkscape gradient follow path