Unlike InDesign, the placeholder text here is proper lorem ipsum. When creating text frames using the Type tool, Illustrator now automatically fills the frame with placeholder text. While heading to the airport, I nearly shouted at my Uber driver as I read over the new features on my phone, “Illustrator has placeholder text!” He wouldn’t have cared one whit, but I am more excited about this new feature than all that showed up in the last update to InDesign combined. My five top new improvements to Illustrator, in almost no particular order, appear below. Now, you might think the new features aren’t worthy of a mention because of this, but I think the very fact that Illustrator and InDesign are sharing functionality will make working in both on the daily that much easier. While most just duplicate functionality that can be found in InDesign, I see that as a Very Good Thing™. Among them are a few type-related improvements. Illustrator added several new features to its stable recently with the shiny new CC2017 update.

Illustrator 2017