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Design Illustrator Foundations Creating an Icon Understanding Shapes

Grady Kelly
Grady Kelly
505 Points
Posted by Grady Kelly
Grady Kelly
505 Points

Is there a way to turn off all the half and thousandths of a pixel positioning?

I am coming from using Fireworks for over 10 years. Everything is by the whole pixel. Nothing is at x: 411.5 / y 200.234 it would be 411/200. The same with widths and heights. Any way to make Illustrator do this?

1 Answer

John Leskas
John Leskas
24,093 Points
John Leskas
John Leskas
24,093 Points

Select the object and then tick the Align to Pixel Grid option on the Transform Panel. This will force objects to snap to the nearest pixel. So, beware, paths will move and changes to match the pixel grid. And strokes are limited to nothing less than 1pt/px.

When creating a new document, you can also choose the option to Align New Objects to Pixel Grid in the New Document dialog window. You can also choose the Align New Objects to Pixel Grid item in the Transform Panel menu to make all newly created objects have the option set by default.

Grady Kelly
Grady Kelly
505 Points
Grady Kelly
Grady Kelly
505 Points

Thanks Jon for the answer! The only other problem that I am having is the x/y coordinates are in 1/2 pixels as well. When I adjust them the pixels get antialiased. Am I missing something?

John Leskas
John Leskas
24,093 Points

No you are not missing anything. Try to transform your object and adjust it in 410 pixels instead of 411. I think that this is the problem. You are welcome.