Brush stroke offset error

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
November 26, 2020
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I have a rather large artboard (420x6000mm). Whenever I try to use a brush to stroke an object, the stroke brush is offset in regard to the path. See screengrab.

What is wrong?

Draw and design

Correct answer Doug A Roberts

Hello,

I created a bug report for this at uservoice. Please vote if you are affected (or even if you're not).

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/42062074-art-brushes-offset-in-large-canvas-documents

Doug A Roberts

Correct answer

Community Expert

Hello,

I created a bug report for this at uservoice. Please vote if you are affected (or even if you're not).

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/42062074-art-brushes-offset-in-large-canvas-documents

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Krys30226298udf2

Participant

I just added an offset path FX to it and changed it to round, seemed to cure it.

Anna Lander

Inspiring

Do you need here to use exactly Brush stroke? If you don't plan to use any comples shapes for the strokes, maybe you could get the same "arrow-shaped" line using a Stroke Profile?

the artboard is 420x6000

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Baard Vidar5E80Author

Participating Frequently

Good idea!

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Baard,

It seems to be some kind of corruption, which can be either in the document itself, or a general one, maybe affecting only large Artboards.

The way things look corresponds to an effect (Effect>Distort & Transform>Transform with a horizontal Move setting) but such an effect would have shown in the Appearance palette which Doug asked for.

You can try to create a new document with the same size and copy the artwork over and see; failing that you can try with new artwork in the new document.

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Baard Vidar5E80Author

Participating Frequently

Thanks Jacob! I've tried all of those things. Seems this is always the case with an artboard of my size. I guess I'll have to make it in a smaller artboard, outline strokes, import it and scale it afterwords.

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Baard Vidar5E80Author

Participating Frequently

I think it has something to do with my document. This is an object with the same stroke created in a standard A4 document: