Set precise shape size and placement

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December 16, 2021
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How do I control the exact size of a shape and its location? Making guides is tedious and imprecise, at best, and having to make all the frames in Illustrator is also pretty silly.

TIA

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FlyingFourFun

Inspiring

Neils answer I believe is the best to address your main question, but I wanted to share that you can be precise with guides also (if you place a guide, you can right click and edit it to type in a numerical value for that precision if you were not aware of this. (And then snap your shapes to the guidelines).

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displaced7Author

Inspiring

Thank you!

R Neil Haugen

Legend

It's not clear to me exactly what you are doing. So ... a bit more explanation, please?

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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displaced7Author

Inspiring

I am trying to enter in the width/height of a rectangle, then place it precisely in the frame.

For example, 650px x 850px, x: 120 y: 250

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Ahh ... in the EGP, with the shape selected, note the controls here, with the red under them ...

That's the shape width (W) and height (H). Quickly settable, and the corner radius rounding setting is just to the right of the H option.

The position shown in the numbers up above are the anchor point position. So it can take a slight math calclation if say the anchor is in the middle of the box ... 650/2= 325, so the left edge is 325 pixels left of the listed points for the anchor. Same for the top of the box.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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