Aligning Trouble

[descren]

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I'm having trouble aligning objects in Illustrator 10 and hoping someone will be able to help me?</o:p>
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I have an object that will alignfine. But I'm trying to add another shape(a piece ofart that is grouped)to the object, when I do this-group thenew shape with the original object, and try to align the updated object the only thing aligning is the new shape or vise versa the original object aligns and the new shape just sits there/doesn't align even though everything is grouped. I've had this happen in the past with brush strokes, but there aren't any brushstrokes involved to my knowledge.</o:p>
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Please someone help me with this if you can as i've already wasted so much time trying to figure this out and it's really frustrating.</o:p>
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below is a pic of what it looks like-</o:p>

[uncle carbunkle]

welcome to the forum, descren.

first off, i moved your post to the appropriate section.

secondly, i'm having troubles understanding your precise problem. try to explain a little more concisely for the best results.

from what i can glean, it may be the fact that the objects are grouped. yes, the objects should be selected, but i wouldn't group them.

barring that, another thing you might try is pasting the desired objects on a new layer or in a new document. i know it sounds silly, but sometimes it works when you've tried everything else. call me simple.

good luck.

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[1984]

A group of objects will align to an object or another group of objects, but once a group of objects has been grouped together, whatever is within that group is staying put until it is ungrouped

you say potato...I say F@#& you!

[Broacher]

I'm a little confudled by what's being asked here, but as a relative newcomer to AI, I thought I'd pass on something about alignment that's not necessarily too well known--and hope that it might be of some help here.

Have you ever tried to align, say, something to the left of another object that is, in fact, to the right of the object you want to move?

If you just select both and align left, then you get the opposite of what you want. So, what you have to do is this:
-after selecting both objects, click one more time on the object that you want to 'anchor' (don't hold the shift key down when you do this), and it will be the object that 'stays'. There won't be anything to indicate this-- but it works. Works for all the alignmnent choices.

[Craig B]

awesome tip Broacher, I never knew that, I'd get frustrated using the align palette in Illustrator before, but that tip should help.

[descren]

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thanks for the welcom, help and comments. I finally figured it out...well kind of.....i found a brush stroke in one of the objects andthatis what was throwing it off...


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Thanks for helpingout



Post Edited (descren) : 3/3/2005 5:00:51 AM GMT