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What is the shortcut to hide Layers in Illustrator?
To hide all objects above an object in a layer, select the object and choose Object > Hide > All Artwork Above. To hide all unselected layers, choose Hide Others from the Layers panel menu, or Alt‑click (Windows) or Option‑click (Mac OS) the eye icon for the layer you want to show.
How do you toggle Layers in Illustrator?
Change the display of the Layers panel Choose panel Options from the Layers panel menu. Select Show Layers Only to hide paths, groups, and collective elements in the Layers panel.
What can I do with the layer visibility toggle?
What I am aiming for with the specifically-named layer visibility toggle is to turn the template layer visible/hidden. It would be great to be able to toggle without selecting the layer, but I’d take that option if that were all there was.
How to turn the template layer visible or hidden?
I am looking for a way, preferably one that can be triggered via keyboard shortcut, to both toggle the current layer to visible/hidden and to be able to toggle a specifically-named layer visible/hidden. What I am aiming for with the specifically-named layer visibility toggle is to turn the template layer visible/hidden.
Why does illustrator forget the default actions palette?
NOTE: Adobe has no quality control for their scripting environment so the actions pallete will forget the script each time you start Illustrator so to get this working reload the default actions again and it works. Simply put actions palette is just initialized too early. Thanks for contributing an answer to Graphic Design Stack Exchange!
Is there way to reload default actions in illustrator?
No problemo. Put this in a action and bind action to shortcut. NOTE: Adobe has no quality control for their scripting environment so the actions pallete will forget the script each time you start Illustrator so to get this working reload the default actions again and it works. Simply put actions palette is just initialized too early.