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Text pastes off-center?

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Just noticed that text will not paste centered on the artboard... it pastes slightly to the left. (After cmd-0 to view full and centered artboard on Mac).

Even stranger, this still happens even after the text has been converted to outlines....

Other objects seem to be working fine.

Hmmm.... any ideas how to fix?

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jonl20228881

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For anyone who still randomly struggles with this, the problem is stray points on the canvas.

Go to "select", then "object", then "stray points". Mine were points from deleted guides. Once you get rid of those, it pastes directly in the centre.

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Anonymous

I have the same issue. Can someone help me out?

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Tom Grz

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Suddenly I am now having this exact problem since moving to a new user account. Mac AI 26.0.1.

Is there a solution?

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Monika Gause

Community Expert

Please tell us step by step what you are doing and show screenshots.

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Kenneth Kawamoto

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My AI doesn't paste anything in the centre either.

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/20558788-off-center-fit-to-screen-when-copy…

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jane-e

Community Expert

I just tested in 2018 and 2019. It's a bug! You can see the square for the center point.

It needs to be reported to Adobe Illustrator Feedback

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Kenneth Kawamoto

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It's been reported while ago - see the link in my post

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jane-e

Community Expert

You are in 2019, right?

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Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

15 days to go, Jane.

Sorry, it was stronger than I.

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jane-e

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https://forums.adobe.com/people/Jacob+Bugge wrote
15 days to go, Jane. Sorry, it was stronger than I.

Fifteen days until Adobe MAX? No, that's November.
Fifteen days until Dave's Tech Wednesday? No, that's two days.
Fifteen days until snow? If it had been a few degrees colder here on Saturday, we would have have a blizzard that would have taken a week or more to dig out of.

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Jacob Bugge

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Turner,

What happens in 3) (followed by undoing the silly preparatory operations) if you (just using live (editable Type)

1) Tick Use Preview Bounds in the General Preferences,

2) Apply Effect>Path>Outline Object,

3) Try to place again (Ctrl/Cmd+X+V),

4) Reduce to Basic Appearance (Appearance palette),

5) Untick Use Preview Bounds in the General Preferences?

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turner111Author

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Hi Jacob,

Same result:

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John Mensinger

Community Expert

Reproduced here as well, v 23.0.1, running in Windows 7.

I don't rely on it, but I know many do.

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lambiloon

Community Expert

Hi you are using ctrl + c to copy and for paste ctrl + v for pasting at same position use ctrl + f then all will be good....Thanks

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Ali Sajjad / Graphic Design Trainer / Freelancer / Adobe Certified Professional

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turner111Author

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Hi - as noted, I'm on a Mac & using cmd-V (which I believe is the same as ctrl-v on PC) to past into the exact center of the artboard.

I am not trying to paste into the same position from which I've copied/cut.

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jane-e

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Can you show a screen shot?

Illustrator should paste to the center of the screen, and when the artboard is in the center of the screen with cmd+0, that should work (but you know that).

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turner111Author

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Hi jane-e... sure thing! Here you go. Vertical guide was aligned to page center:

Top is original with text dragged to center on guide (by setting text to align center and using center point.)

Middle is text cut, then pasted.

Bottom is text converted to outlines, cut, and pasted.

All were done after cmd-0.

Not sure what's going on here...

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