19 7 / 2011

I’m a self confessed Illustrator n00b and I found it hard to work out what the correct search term would be to find a solution to my problem. I eventually found it after wasting 10 minutes so here I am, writing it down for future me. I couldn’t stop a shape snapping incorrectly, and the element I was trying to align it to was being snapped too, but never to the exact same place. In the interests of perfect symmetry I couldn’t let this go on, even at a zoom level that wouldn’t be visible once printed. I found out that all that I have to do to stop that is turn off “Align to Pixel Grid”. It’s in the Transform panel (Shift+F8). Simple!

I’m a self confessed Illustrator n00b and I found it hard to work out what the correct search term would be to find a solution to my problem. I eventually found it after wasting 10 minutes so here I am, writing it down for future me.


I couldn’t stop a shape snapping incorrectly, and the element I was trying to align it to was being snapped too, but never to the exact same place. In the interests of perfect symmetry I couldn’t let this go on, even at a zoom level that wouldn’t be visible once printed. I found out that all that I have to do to stop that is turn off “Align to Pixel Grid”. It’s in the Transform panel (Shift+F8). Simple!

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