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Move/Nudge 0.5px in Illustrator CS6?

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Hello: Level: Newbie'ish OS: Win7 Illy:Cs6

I would like to be able to move an object over just a tad which I believe would be a half of a pixel.

Does anyone know how I could go about doing so or is it not possible?

Thank you for your time

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Here's what fixed this issue for me recently:

1. Preferences (Cmd/Ctrl + K) > General > Set Keyboard Increment to 0.25px (or whatever size you need)
2. View > Uncheck all of the 'Snap to' options

If that doesn't work, you may also need to adjust some of the 'Selection & Anchor Display' and 'Type' settings in Preferences.

becimossCorrect answer

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Here's what fixed this issue for me recently:

1. Preferences (Cmd/Ctrl + K) > General > Set Keyboard Increment to 0.25px (or whatever size you need)
2. View > Uncheck all of the 'Snap to' options

If that doesn't work, you may also need to adjust some of the 'Selection & Anchor Display' and 'Type' settings in Preferences.

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Ozce25283530k5w0

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It used to be. Why does adobe always have to make its products less logical and more convoluted? In the past, you could press the cmd/ctrl button and it would decrease even the minimal set input. Now I can't even change to below 1 pt. Nothing anyone responded here helps and I have been looking for more than half an hour to no avail. Why? Because Adobe decides to change something that was perfectly fine to something that sucks more than even the most basic vector program.

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Monika Gause

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In the past, you could press the cmd/ctrl button and it would decrease even the minimal set input.

By @Ozce25283530k5w0

That is in InDesign.

You could not do that in Illustrator (I have just tried in version CS5)

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obsessivetype

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Would be great if we had a modifier key for this instead of having to edit a global setting. Just like the shift key does 10x increments, maybe cmd+shift could do 1/10 increments.

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Ton Frederiks

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You can do something like that with the fields in the Control Panel.

Highlight a field, hold down the Cmd key (or Ctrl on Windows) use the Up or Down Arrow keys and you go with 1/10th increments

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obsessivetype

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Thanks for the tip, Ton.

This is an OK workaround, but this approach is far from ideal. For one, I have to click twice before I can start nudging (click object, click control-panel field); second, I'm forced to think "am I trying to nudge along the X or Y axis?"; and third, adjusting the X axis using up and down keys isn't natural: I want to use left and right keys rather than up and down.

Still, I didn't know this function existed, so thanks again.

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Larry G. Schneider

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Just set the keyboard increment in the Preferences (Cmd(Ctrl)-K) to what ever you want. The default is one point (1/72 of an inch).

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Kar209Author

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Thank you so much!! That worked perfectly

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