Illustrator :: Maintaining Guides And Grids Settings
Jun 7, 2013How do I get "guides and grids" to stay as I input them in Illustrator 6? Didn't used to return to default setting in previous versions
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CorelDRAW X6 :: Alignment Guides Doesn't Match With Guidelines And With Dynamic Guides?
May 27, 2013What I mean:
Draw an ellipse. Skew it with mouse.
Draw a rectangle to allign with ellipse's outer dimension by Alignment Guides (not by Align and Distribute command).
Now the aligned side of the Rectangle must be tangent to the ellipse BUT it's not! To verify, try to search an intersection point. Draw a Guideline and snap it to the rectangle's aligned side. It must be intersection point between Guideline and Ellipse but there isn't...
CorelDRAW X6
Photoshop :: Accurate Placement Of Guides [View>New Guides]
Feb 13, 2008I have a number of vertical and horizontal guides to be placed, at different points. Is there a better way of placement rather than zooming up on the ruler area, watching the Nav coordinates and dragging and dropping? I'm really looking for a method which will I can key in the actual placement coordinates in some way, and the guide will jump to this point?
View 6 Replies View RelatedIllustrator :: Scale 9 Grids Bleed Pixels?
Dec 10, 2012I have scale 9 grids on a symbol. The symbol has been correctly created with all anchor points on whole number coordinates. Setting a width and coordinates to align with whole number values (pixels) causes Illustrator either bleed the left or right pixels for apparently no reason. For example, setting the width 224 causes it to bleed on the right. Setting it to 225 causes the pixels to bleed on the left which makes **** all sense since the paths on the left shouldn't have changed. I think this is a bug in the impelementation in regards to how the origin works in Illustrator in that it is the center of the object.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIllustrator :: Overprint Preview Shows Grids?
Feb 9, 2014Whenever I enable Overprint Preview Illustrator seems to add grids on/over my document.
When I disable it, it dissapears. I find this strange because to me the opposite sounds more logical.
Will these grids be printed if I choose to print?
Illustrator :: Maintaining Extrude And Bevel Effect?
Mar 24, 2013I am currently designing a logo with the extrude and bevel effect. It is fine at full size, but when I copy and paste it and scale it down for another file--a.e. a business card--the effect is lost.
Why is this happening? Do you have to apply the effect seperately when the object is rescaled?
Illustrator :: Arching Text While Maintaining Top Alignment
Sep 11, 2013I've seen this done often in logo designs, but how do you arc text while keeping the vertical alignment as well as a straight line along the top, so essentially just the bottoms of the letters form an arc? I want the end result to look like the text below (I took the image from a tutorial for another program, but it seemed very complicated, messing with each letter node) is there a simpler way in Illustrator CC to achieve this? I know you can type on a path along an ellipse, but that doesn't keep the letters aligned vertically. I'd like for the top to remain straight across, and just the bottom of the letters form that shape of an arc.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIllustrator :: CS5 - Snap To Guides?
Feb 4, 2013How do you get Illustrator (CS5) to snap to guides? I don't want to use smart guides -- just regular old-fashioned guides. I drew a rectangle. I divided the path into a grid. I turned the grid into guides (make guides). But I cannot get anything to snap to the guides. Also, can I control the snap distance (like you can with smart guides)?
View 5 Replies View RelatedIllustrator :: Can't Select Guides
May 27, 2013When creating stuff I always have a separate layer for guides. I keep trying to select specific guides and they blink and that is it...can't select them? The layer isn't locked, so I don't understand...
View 6 Replies View RelatedIllustrator :: Swap Brushes While Maintaining Stroke Profile
Aug 30, 2012I routinely use stroke profiles to modify stokes that also have a brush appearance. When I change the brush, the profile is lost. The only way I found, to keep the stroke profile, is to save the profile before changing the brush appearance, then reasign the profile. I wonder if it is a programming oversight that deletes the profile from the stroke in this case.
I also would like to see a better method of saving/updating/editing stroke profiles. There is currently no way to overwrite a profile. Again, an oversite, in my opinion.
Stroke profiles should be available in a panel, similar to brushes. They are powerful effects, but poorly implemented.
I'm still working primarily, in CS5, but I think these features have remained the same in CS6.
Illustrator :: AI File Not Maintaining Quality When Opening In InDesign?
Aug 15, 2013My Ai file will not place in InDesign with out losing its smoothness. I have tried placing it from AI, I have also tried as a .tiff. I am not sure why it is losing quality.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIllustrator :: Creating Artboards From Guides
Jul 5, 2012I am working on a large wall sticker and I need to "slice" the image into pieces for vinyl printing. Is there anyways to place guides (or slices) and have them be converted to separate art boards for printing? In the past I would make individual art boards the exact size of each object and save them one at a time to send to the printer. Then once the art came in I could piece the wall art back together as I applied it to the wall or glass, But this is time consuming.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIllustrator :: Can't Get Construction Guides To Work
Sep 23, 2013I like to use the construction guides in Illustrator, however I can't get them to work. I have it checked off in Preferences.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIllustrator :: Guides Keep Bouncing Away From Object
Apr 13, 2013Everytime I try to place a guide on an object/ piece of type, the guide bounces away from the object by a number of pixels. how to find where to switch it off/ make it more accurate,
View 1 Replies View RelatedIllustrator :: Artboard Rotation With Guides
Jun 20, 2013I've just rotated an artboard to portraight from landscape, then selected all the guides and transform rotated them 90 deg. With this method all the guides need to be readjusted for corrrect positioning
Is there a way to reorientate the artboard with guides in place?
Illustrator :: Remove Guides In Between The Artboards?
Jan 15, 2014For instance I have a series of guides set across 10 horizontal artboards. I need two more in a vertical format, but all of the guides from the horizontal are carried through.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIllustrator :: Smart Guides Suddenly Disappeared
Sep 1, 2013I was working on a project and using Smart Guides, but suddenly, they disappeared. I don't know what I did, the Smart Guide box is still checked in the View panel, and if I open a new document, they work just fine again. what other settings I should check?
View 3 Replies View RelatedIllustrator :: In CS6 - Smart Guides Don't Appear To Be Working Correctly
Nov 30, 2013I'm having some trouble with smart guides in Ai CS6. They are on. However, when my cursor intersects a guide path, words like 'intersect' and 'guide' do not appear, as I have seen them do for others. Also, the 'heads-up' information display that shows the width and height, e.g. when using the grid tool, does not appear either.
The guides are working to some extent, it seems, since I do get green lines here and there.
Illustrator :: How To Resize Shape(s) That Has Been Drawn Using 3D Guides
Nov 24, 2013I've created a very basic shape using the 3D grid as my guide - picture if you will 4 boxes, one on top of each other (as per illustration below):
Each "box" is made up of 3 shapes to give the 3D effect.
I need to resize one of the boxes, the yellow one, which needs to be resized in keeping with the 3D framework (making it smaller in height), and then placing the yellow box above the purple box. How this can be done without having to redraw the shapes in the required positions.
I might add it is the grouped shapes that makes up the box which I am trying to resize in one hit, as opposed to the individual shapes.
Illustrator Scripting :: Convert All Guides To Paths?
Apr 12, 2012I need access to AI guides in AfterEffects shift+alt+ctrl double click doesn't always work.
Is there a script to convert all guides to paths?
Illustrator :: Can't Select Guides That Have Been Rotated When Zoomed In More Than 300%
Aug 31, 2013The problem: when I rotate a guide in Illustrator CC and then want to move that guide while zoomed way in (+300%) I am unable to select the guide. Annoying? Most definitely.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIllustrator :: Remove Redundant Points While Maintaining Exact Shape Of Path
May 30, 2012Is there a way to remove redundant points whilst maintaining the exact shape of the path?
After using Pathfinder or Expand there are often many redundant points which can't be removed using Simplify or Unite.
The VectorScribe plugin has a Smart Remove Points feature which is exactly what I want. I'm presuming the only way I can get that feature is to buy the plugin.
A simple example is shown below: The path is part of an exact circle and I need to remove one of the anchors.
Illustrator :: Maintaining Fill Colors In Character Styles Across Multiple AI Documents
Feb 17, 2013I'm having a lot of trouble understanding how Adobe Illustrator (CS6) manages character styles imported from different ai documents. If I create all character styles in a single .ai document and only use them in in that document, everything works as expected--colors, fonts, and typography settings are maintained in the character style, and newly added text can be quickly styled with the character style.
My trouble starts when i want to re-use those character styles in a new .ai document. From the character style menu I use the option to import the character styles from another document, and they import correctly--all of the styles work and style text as expected. But then i save & close the document and re-open it to find that the character style entries are there, but the fills and strokes are all messed up--fonts, sizes, typography settings are maintained, but styles with a blue fill are suddenly filed with black, or some other color.
This happens even if the swatches associated with the character styles are imported to the new document as well. I've read that all character styles are based off of the 'normal' character style.
Illustrator :: Snap Proportional Drag Scaling To Guides?
Aug 31, 2013Draw a box. Draw a Guideline. Have all snaps on. Including "smart Guides".
Drag proportionally (by holding down SHIFT) the size of the box... and it won't snap to the Guides.
How can proportional scaling be down by dragging, and have Guides and other nodes, vertices, anchors, "smart Guides" etc actually functional as Snap positions?
Or Adobe figure there's no need for accuracy when proportionaly scaling?
Illustrator :: Align To Pixel Grid - Unable To Put Guides
Oct 10, 2012I currently have grid setup, and I am unable to put guides specificly where I want, they will either be a few pixels to the left/right of where I actually want. It seems like my guides or rectangles that I make only snap to the grid, and I do not want this to happen since some of my shapes do not fit a grid specifically. Lets say I want my rectangle to be 4.5 Grid blocks (each block being 25 px), so 112.5, it only allows me to do 4 blocks or 5 blocks. Is there a preference that can be changed so I can make free shapes without having them direct on the grid?
Attached an example. I'm trying to make the red box the same width and in the same position as the black and it does not let me.
I guess I found my solution, under the transform fly out menu when "align to pixel grid" is unchecked it fixes this.. Is there a better way to do this though?
Illustrator :: Can't Move / Select Diagonal Guides When Zoomed In 600%
Jul 1, 2013I'm working on a few objects I have to divide using diagonal guides. However, when I try to select one of them above 600% zoom, I'm not able to activate them using the selection tool or the direct selection tool. I can select them using the layers panel but as soon as I zoom in above 600% and try to move them with the selection tools they get deselected.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIllustrator :: Toggling Guides On Or Off Breaks Drawing Process
Mar 4, 2013Hitting Command and U cancels the drawing process. Is there a way to not have this happen? - It's useful to be able to engage the guides to start the line aligned to another object via smart guides, but I'm unable to continue the line without 'starting it again'.
View 8 Replies View RelatedIllustrator Scripting :: How To Get Location Of Horizontal And Vertical Guides
May 17, 2013How do I get the location of horizontal and vertical guides?
I'm halfway through by using some calculations on geometric bounds and subtracting it from the document height but can't I just do something like
nextGuide =mydoc.guides[x].location;
Also, why does it seem that Indesign scripting has more access to properties and methods?
Illustrator :: Objects Won't Line Up With Anchor Points And Guides?
Jun 25, 2013Here's a screen shot to show what I mean. I tried to create this smaller box off of the anchor point of the larger box.
Currently usuing AI CS6 on a mac running osx 10.6.8
Illustrator :: Why Does Snap To Pixels ON Kill Smart Guides And Guide Snapping
Aug 27, 2013Seems like both should still work when snap to pixels is on... but they don't. Any reason for this?
View 13 Replies View RelatedIllustrator :: Can't Align Objects Or Paths To Guide Intersections With Smart Guides
Jan 4, 2014In AI, smart guides indicated "intersection" when I am drawing a path or moving an object to align to the intersection of two guides, when I release the mouse, the object I am moving/drawings jumps slightly off the intended alignment intersection. If I continue to try to move it to align, it jumps to the other side or back to where it was but will mot match the intersection.
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