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Align to Key Object not working in Illustrator 2020 (24.2)

savagequest
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Jun 16, 2020 Jun 16, 2020

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Why change what has always worked so well?

Trying to vertically/horizontally align objects to separate them equally no longer works the way it has for the last 20 years, so, now what?  When I try to align object it is requiring a "key object", this is not helpful at all and please tell me there's a way to re-set this back to a legacy setting? 

 

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VarunSharma Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee , Jun 30, 2020 Jun 30, 2020

Hi Everyone,

 

We have fixed this bug in our latest release – v 24.2.1 which is available worldwide now. Thanks for your patience on this.

 

Please note that after upgrading you might still see that Align To sets itself to Align to Key Object. If you see this, please manually set the Align To to the required setting, and this reported bug will not happen again. You'll need to this one time only.

 

The reason Align To might get set to Key Object after update is because Ai remembers your last Alig

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Srishti Bali Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee , Jun 30, 2020 Jun 30, 2020

Hi all,

 

Sorry about the trouble this issue has caused. We've fixed this in the latest release. Please update Illustrator to v24.2.1 to get this fixed.

Here's a link with more details: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/40681714-align-to-key-object-automatic-selection-in-align-p

 

Regards,

Srishti

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Srishti Bali Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee , Jun 30, 2020 Jun 30, 2020

Hi there,

 

Sorry about the trouble this issue has caused. We've fixed the bug with Align tool in the latest release. Please update Illustrator to v24.2.1 to get this fixed.

Here's a link with more details: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/40681714-align-to-key-o...

 

Regards,

Srishti

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Srishti Bali Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee , Jun 30, 2020 Jun 30, 2020

Hi all,

 

Sorry about the trouble this issue has caused. We've fixed this in the latest release. Please update Illustrator to v24.2.1 to get this fixed.

Here's a link with more details: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/40681714-align-to-key-o...

 

Regards,

Srishti

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Srishti Bali Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee , Jun 30, 2020 Jun 30, 2020

Hi there,

 

Sorry about the trouble this issue has caused. We've fixed the bug with Align tool in the latest release. Please update Illustrator to v24.2.1 to get this fixed.

Here's a link with more details: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/40681714-align-to-key-o...

 

Regards,

Srishti

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Srishti Bali Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee , Jun 30, 2020 Jun 30, 2020

Hi there,

 

Sorry about this trouble. We've fixed the bug with Align tool in the latest release. Please update Illustrator to v24.2.1 to get this fixed.

Here's a link with more details: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/40681714-align-to-key-o...

 

Regards,

Srishti

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krsfryr
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Nov 04, 2020 Nov 04, 2020

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Still having this issue in v25. Any ideas?

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HenryStockCC
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Nov 05, 2020 Nov 05, 2020

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In Response To krsfryr

I believe it may be necessary to trash your prefs file and start over to get it to work.

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kristoferv
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Also distribute spacing is not in millimeter, STILL AFTER SEVERAL PEOPLE HAS HIGHLIGHTED THIS FOR 2,3,4 YEARS

Im stuck with 2017 release, it works there.

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