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  • can anyone hep with the align tool in Illustrator please?

    Posted by Russell Pavey on August 3, 2006 at 3:56 pm

    Hi

    Someone could save me a lot of time by telling me how you align one object to an other without both objects moving to the middle position of the two. ie one object stays where it is and you align the other object to it. In Corel its the first object you select that stays "still" so to speak and the second object you select moves to the first.

    Does that make sense??

    Cheers

    Russ

    Marekdlux replied 17 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 9 Replies
  • 9 Replies
  • Marekdlux

    Member
    August 3, 2006 at 4:35 pm

    Hi Russ,
    It makes sense. I am curious as well. Not sure if there is a way.
    -Marek

  • Bart Van Wassenhove

    Member
    August 3, 2006 at 4:49 pm

    hey russell and marek,

    lets give an award to the person who find the solution for this 😀
    but i think it’s gonna be a long quest… 😕

    cheers,
    bart

  • Nick Minall

    Member
    August 3, 2006 at 5:21 pm

    found this … Nothing has changed in CS2 about the align tool. Select the objects you want to align with the selection tool, and then click once on the object that you want the others to align to. This single click anchors the object. Now hit an alignment choice, and the other items will do the movin’.

    hope that helps.

  • Bart Van Wassenhove

    Member
    August 3, 2006 at 5:28 pm

    hey nick,

    if u select all the objects u want to align and u then click once on one of the objects it just deselects that object 😕
    am i forgetting something 😮

    cheers,
    bart

  • Nick Minall

    Member
    August 3, 2006 at 5:31 pm

    found it here … http://www.photoshopcafe.com/cafe/viewt … ?tid=33634

  • Bart Van Wassenhove

    Member
    August 3, 2006 at 5:38 pm

    eureka nick,

    u just won our daily award! It worked perfect. I just made a little mistake: i did the "cick once" in combination with the shift-key :lol1:

    thanks a lot,
    bart

  • Nick Minall

    Member
    August 3, 2006 at 5:40 pm

    Glad to help mate.

  • Russell Pavey

    Member
    August 3, 2006 at 6:27 pm

    Good skills Nick. You legend – that has been bugging me for ages. You will, in the long run, save me (Marek and Bart) days!!

    Cheers and hope I can return the favour one day.

    Russ

  • Marekdlux

    Member
    August 4, 2006 at 5:34 pm

    Thanks Nick!
    I couldn’t get it to work either, until I remembered I was holding down the shift key. 😳
    -Marek

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