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christopherl36437830
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March 17, 2022
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Can I change the precision to eliminate pixel percentages?

  • March 17, 2022
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Since Illustrator doesn't export correctly when artboards or artwork are not full pixels or placed on a full pixel (ie: 27.345px). Is there a setting to force illustrator to only use full pixels? Even when I have everything aligned on full pixels Illustrator will add a pixel to some exports. Having to open all my exports to check the properties of each one and then fix them in PS is a terrible workflow. 

Any help would be appreciated. 

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Ton Frederiks
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Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
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March 17, 2022

I am afraid that working with artboards that have the upper left corner X/Y coordinates at a full pixel and have a W/H that don't contain fractions is the first step.

Exporting artboards at 72 ppi or multiples (144, 288) will not add pixels.

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    christopherl36437830Author
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    March 17, 2022

    I often work on a single artboard with multiple assets. The artboard X/Y is at full pixels.  To export the Assets I need I've learned to select them and hit use 'Make Pixel Perfect' which gets them to the closest full pixel W/H. but the position X/Y of the graphic is still at a random pixel percentage. I fix that as well and then drag the asset to the Asset Export panel so I can collect all the assets on the artboard I need and export them at the same time. This results in the exports being 1px off. Unless there is a cool trick it would be daunting to create artboards for each asset, to then export them all individually. 

    It would be nice to be able to set the precision level you need to work in so users don't have to be tedious trying to create or move items with the accuracy of 4 decimal points of a pixel. Granted not sure that would resolve this issue either, but certainly would make the workaround a bit easier. 

    Ton Frederiks
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    Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
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    March 17, 2022

    I do not have the experience that Make Pixel perfect leaves the objects at fractional pixels.

    I can imagine that additional pixels get generated when a stroke is applied to the center or outside.

    In that case "Use Preview Bounds" would give the right size before exporting.

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