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December 18, 2019
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How to turn off snap to pixel, by default?

  • December 18, 2019
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Hi,

 

Can somebody please tell me how to turn off snap to pixel by default, so I don't have to turn it off everytime I start a new project.

 

Current solution is to just use View>snap to pixel, but this only lasts for that one project, if I start a new project, even in the same session, the new document will have snap to pixel turned on - which is very irritating. I didn't have this issue with previous versions. I am using 2020. 

 

Cheers!

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Correct answer carlosgarro

Here's another solution if you want a "permanent" solution you can edit the Web.ai document inside the New Document Profiles.

  • Open the file, turn off the  "Align art to pixel grid...", save the file.
  • Close Illustrator.
  • Then each document based on that profile will have the Align to Pixel off.

New Document Profiles Locations are (for Illustrator 2020)
Mac: Macintosh HD/Users/“USERNAME"/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator 24/en_US/New Document Profiles
Windows: C:\Users\"USERNAME"\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 24 Settings\en_US\x64\New Document Profiles

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carlosgarro
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carlosgarroCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
December 19, 2019

Here's another solution if you want a "permanent" solution you can edit the Web.ai document inside the New Document Profiles.

  • Open the file, turn off the  "Align art to pixel grid...", save the file.
  • Close Illustrator.
  • Then each document based on that profile will have the Align to Pixel off.

New Document Profiles Locations are (for Illustrator 2020)
Mac: Macintosh HD/Users/“USERNAME"/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator 24/en_US/New Document Profiles
Windows: C:\Users\"USERNAME"\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 24 Settings\en_US\x64\New Document Profiles

Ton Frederiks
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Community Expert
December 18, 2019

Don't base your documents on a Web profile.

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 18, 2019

Either use a different New document profile or edit the New document profile you use.

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/files-templates.html