Re: Mysterious Offset Issue Between Shape and Fill

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Hi, need your help. To begin, my Illustrator app is up to date.

Long story short, I am encountering an issue where the fill is slightly offset from my shape (which is causing printing issues of a patterned tile background I created). Attached is a screen shot I took of a super zoomed in corner of a shape; it displays the corner of a selected shape along with a fill that visually appears to be a fraction of a pixel off. I have checked my preference options without success. Please help me resolve this issue, I need the shape and the fill to align perfectly.

Thanks in advance, Jack

JackFancyTO · Accepted Answer

Hi Jack, what is the size of your pattern tile in pixels?

If you double click your pattern in the Swatches panel, it will bring up the Pattern maker.

Do the Width and Height values contain fractional values?

Thank you so much Ton, I ended up expanding the pattern and manually united the pattern's blue background as a quick fix in order to disguise the issue and go to print.

You're suggestion to double click the pattern in order to bring up the Pattern Options in pixels was brilliant, it states a perfect square in inches (unit I was working in) but 330.6363 x 330.6362 in pixels indicating a 0.0001 pixel discrepancy creating the faint line; I'll have to find and correct the tiny issue.

As for the offset issue, I'm currently in CPU mode, it appears precise and has corrected itself at the moment.

Thank you for your help, I appreciate your time and attentiveness 🙏

Jacob Bugge · Answer

Jack,

At a first glance it looks like a GPU issue, which could be cured by Ctrl/Cmd+E (toggling between GPU and CPU, but it ought to have no effect when printing.

Edit: Hi Ton, you were 20 seconds earlier than I.

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