Carla,   Here is an elaboration on my first answer, still the only one viable for both simple (point) Type and Area Type; as mentioned I (mis)interpreted your screenshot to show the former.   Generally, alignment of type is a matter of obtaining the appearance of alignment rather than alignment of specific parts of characters, but this is a design choice.   To obtain the alignment in question, you can use the following opposite and rather simple way, and you can always realign the Paragraph/Type instance with the rest of the artwork:   Instead of trying to move the first line with the N to the left, you can move the following lines individually to the right in a sneaky way, still using live Type and only normal operations in the Character palette. If there are other instances of Type, this set can be adjusted as a whole relative to the rest.   You can click the screenshots to zoom in, and you can see the left alignment of all the stem parts in the final screenshot here by the faint rim of the black line showing just to the left of the stems (no two stem parts were left aligned to start with, neither in the initial screenshot here nor in your screenshot).   Two other fonts have been used, the fairest font and the most famous grotesk/grotesque font, the former in 72pt Bold and the latter in 36pt Medium.   The original non alignment is shown here, the leftmost vertical line left aligned with the left stem of the M, the rightmost vertical line almost left aligned with the left stem of the N with just a faint rim of the black line showing just to the left of the stem to enhance the actual alignments:     As the first step, a simple space is inserted before the first letter in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, line:     As the second and final step, each space is selected, and the Horizontal Scale is reduced to the value that gives the exact alignment in each line (56% in the 2nd, 52% in the 3rd, and 60% in the 4th, line):   Click to get closer, Click again to get closer still   ... View more

Indeed, Greg.   ... View more

For my part you are welcome, Seb.   ... View more

Seb,   You find it here, Effect > Document Raster Effects Settings.   And you can read more here (also about other things, see the list to the left):   https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/effects.html   With the raster effect settings, you set the resolution of raster effects in PPI.   When you scale down some artwork with a raster effect and zoom in deep, you can really see the individual pixels, so either abstain from zooming in, or increase the PPI.   The suitable raster effects resolution in PPI depends on the viewing distance, exactly like the image resolution in PPI.       ... View more

Greg, further to what Dave said, the Angels Flight Railway funicular is more than twice as long as each of the two currently operating funiculars in Bournemouth, the Fisherman's Walk Cliff Lift/Railway and the West Cliff Lift/Railway, so longer than both of them combined; and it is also longer than the third funicular in Bournemouth, the East Cliff Lift/Railway, (hopefully temporarily) closed owing to a landslip.   ... View more

Ah, of course, Dave, right you are.   I thought Alf had just decided to go a bit further than to Whitby for a day off by the sea.   But obviously he would never do either in his uniform.   ... View more

Dave, actually it is Blondin, redoing one of his (late) unknown performances, like in Teesdale, only this here was among his most seriously impossible ones, carriages moving together and then apart.   It would be great to know how the vertical one looked, and what Marks and Anderson might think now.   ... View more

For my part you are welcome, Claire.   ... View more

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                                 A GHOST FROM THE EARLY DAYS,                              DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE AS ALWAYS       Click to get closer, Click again to get closer still ... View more

Alan, your question took me 88 SFTWs back, and that took me 100 SFTWs further back.   https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/something-for-the-weekend-part-159-going-up-in-the-world/td-p/12851687   ... View more

satoshi さん、   あなたはこの質問に対して正しい答えを持っていますが、   日本語フォーラムで質問することもできます。 https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0/bd-p/illustrator-jp?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filter=all 日本人の友人にメッセージを送りました。     編集: Hi Ton さん。   ... View more

Carla,   Edit: I have elaborated on this first answer with a full instruction here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/aligning-serif-letter-on-the-stem-part/m-p/15484242#M452061   Generally, alignment of type is a matter of obtaining the appearance of alignment rather than alignment of specific parts of characters.   To obtain the alignment in question, how about this opposite way?   Instead of trying to move the first line with the N to the left, you can move the following lines individually to the right in a sneaky way, still using live Type and only normal operations in the Character palette. If there are other instances of Type, this set can be adjusted as a whole.   This way is viable for both simple (point) Type and Area Type; I (mis)interpreted your screenshot to show the former.   You can click the screenshots to zoom in, and you can see the left alignment of all the stem parts in the final screenshot here by the faint rim of the black line showing just to the left of the stems (no two stem parts were left aligned to start with, neither in the initial screenshot here nor in your screenshot):     Click to get closer, Click again to get closer still   ... View more

szymon,   With regard to the lack of changing to a Japanese font, I would suggest your sending a bug report/feature request here, for the Ai team to see: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests https://illustrator.uservoice.com/ With regard to your user settings "(such as my font previews when typing became turned off after the update)", I believe it may be a matter of saving/reusing your preferences.   Have you kept the previous version when updating?   ... View more

smart Skyline,   Presuming you wish to enlarge the map, you can do it like the third way described above without calculations as follows, Smart Guides being your friends telling you when you are within snapping distance.   It is recommended to keep backups of each step to fall back on.   1) Zoom in so that the scale from 0 to 1440 km fills much of the screen, then with the Line Segment Tool ShiftClickDrag at the bottom of the scale from 0 to 1440 (this is how much 1440 km corresponds to in your chosen unit); 2) Choose how many units you wish the 1440 km to correspond to (presuming this is a larger number); 3) Select the line from 1), then Ctrl/Cmd+C+B (hold Ctrl/Cmd and press C then press B) to create a copy behind it, then click the leftmost Reference Point in the Transform palette, then click the value in the W box and change it to the number of units you chose in 2), then change the colour to red; now you can see the rightmost part of the red line exending past the original one from 1); 4) Click to select the line from 1) and switch to the Scale Tool, then Click at the left end Anchor Point to set it as the key point, then ClickDrag the right end Anchor Point along the extended red line (Smart Guides will say path) until you are within snapping distance of the end of the red line (Smart Guides will say anchor); now you have set the scale you need for the next step; 5) Select the map, then open the Object dropdown: Object>Transform>Scale, then click the Non-Uniform Horizontal scale value (in %) and Ctrl/Cmd+C to copy it, then ClickDrag over the Uniform Scale (in %) and Ctrl/Cmd+V to replace it by the new scale and click OK; this will scale the map up to the desired size. You can ClickDrag the 0 - 1440 km scale to check.   I have included sketches below to give an impression, following the steps.   If something goes wrong, please show screenshots of the steps as described below, and explain.     Unknown to most, it is quite easy to directly show images in posts, hence the following general suggestion: Please show images by using the Insert Photos button (looks like moon over mountains) for each at the top of the reply box which makes everything appear right there in your post together with your text, rather than he more conspicuous Drag&drop attachment which requires helpers to open a new tab for each image and wait for its showing, then go back and forth; and if they just click it and wait for its showing and press the X to get back to the text, the image is gone so they have to open it again and wait to see it again.       Click to get closer, Click again to get closer still ... View more

Thank you for sparing us the gory part, Euan.   ... View more

Trevor, I really hope you can lure Dag back.     ... View more

Trevor, that stainless steel pizza cutter attachment would also have been great in this other VICTORINOX (folded size 2 1/4" x 3/4", or 59 x 19 mm), which I chose in the Adobe Gift Shop in May 2013 after securing the indispensable,     Click to get closer, Click again to get closer still ... View more

Lee, I believe our Australian friends might say that the numerals have gone walkabout. Maybe they are (also) hungry, or just eager to cut to the chase (or cheese).   ... View more

I can, Dean, even four more than one.   ... View more

Nrb,   As far as I can see, with the structure you have chosen, rather than the printing, the crucial part is to place the cut lines so that the cards are cut to exactly the same size, whereas small differences in the positioning of the individual card artwork inside the cut lines is less critical.   I presume the black cut lines are non printing and only used to guide the cutting.   If this is the case, I would suggest your iteratively adjusting the vertical poisitons of the cut lines until they give identical vertical widths.   After that you can adjust the positioning of the individual card artwork if desired or needed.     Apart from everything else, have you tried handling the cut cards and made sure that the sharp corners will keep their neat shape when shuffled and handled including inevitably hitting the table?   I have yet to see playing (or laying) cards without rounded corners.       ... View more

                  The must have tool set to keep the workshop going     Click to get closer     After cleaning it was just hung up again.   ... View more

Robert,   A question in addition to what Ton asked/suggested: which key (combination) were you trying to press?   ... View more

For my part you are welcome, Gaétan, this was to get through under the current circumstances.   Obviously, the lasting solution is to get back to the same simpler workflow that you arte used to.   I believe the lasting solution is the one that Ton gave, unless you wish to, and can, go back to the former Illustrator and Photoshop versions,   ... View more

Fond memories indeed, Jane.   ... View more

Gaétan,   Whichever size the JPEGs appear at, you can just scale proportionally to the right size and work with that.     This can be done in different ways.     One is to use the Transform palette based on a known desired real size in H (height) or W (width). You can select a letter, then simply change the number in the H or W box, then insert the desired real number and hold Ctrl/Cmd while you press Enter, to immediately see that it has the right size and unchanged proportions.     Another one is to scale with Object>Transform>Scale which uses percentage where 100% is keeping the size. You can insert the following in the Uniform box:   Desired real size multiplied by 100 (just add 00 after a whole number, remove the punctuation mark and add 0, or move the punctuation mark two places to the righ), then / (for division), then the current real size.   When the current size is about twice the desired real size, the result will be about 50(%).         ... View more

Lesley, I am more worried about the wall than the paper, or is it a wallpaper paperwall?   ... View more

No more awaydays, Trevor?   ... View more

You are welcome, Falco.   To ease the pain next time, I have added a few Image Trace options in the opriginal answer.   ... View more