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can't align a stroke to inside

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
April 11, 2012
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Hi,

I 've created a shape (Rectangle) , Applied a rounded corners, expand appearance, and a linear gradient.

After that i added a stroke in the appearance panel (2pt wide), filled it with white and when I wanted to align this stroke to inside

I can't. The options "Align Stroke to inside" "Align Stroke to Outside" are greyed out .

What's wrong ?

Thank you

Correct answer Mike_Gondek10189183

Following your steps, I suspect you added a stroke at the group level. At the group level your option will be greyed out. Yo need to ungroup after your expand appearance.

Try using the appearance panel often, there are many very important features there.

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Vicente Tonat327953116kbb

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Just select the object, go to "object" the click "expand", accept, and you are good to go.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

@Vicente Tonat327953116kbb schrieb:

Just select the object, go to "object" the click "expand", accept, and you are good to go.

Have you read the initial question? And there even is an answer.

CyberGolem

Participating Frequently

Thank you but sadly not working. I ungrouped and even checked for open paths but nada. The options still don't appear.

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rickwtexas

Known Participant

This glitch has just caused me to lose 5 hours of work after drawing a complicated floorplan and then finding out the client wants EXACT dimensions based on inside stroke measurement - and this after cutting up the all the open paths for door openings. No way to re-align the stroke. Darn.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

This glitch has just caused me to lose 5 hours of work after drawing a complicated floorplan and then finding out the client wants EXACT dimensions based on inside stroke measurement - and this after cutting up the all the open paths for door openings. No way to re-align the stroke. Darn.

By @rickwtexas

It's not "a glitch". It's how this works. Open paths don't have an inside or outside.

But still you can align the stroke to one side. By using variable width profiles. They can be aligned to just one side of the path and they don't need to be "variable".

Sophie_issa

Participant

expand the shape then expand appearance, then try.
Worked for me.

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Cindy1643

Known Participant

The "correct answer" doesn't work for me. I am working with a single, ungrouped object. Expanding appearance does nothing; aligning stroke to either inside or outside is greyed out. Period.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Cindy1643 schrieb:

The "correct answer" doesn't work for me. I am working with a single, ungrouped object. Expanding appearance does nothing; aligning stroke to either inside or outside is greyed out. Period.

Then please create your own thread, because your problem is different.

Post a screenshot.

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fernandolins86

Participant

If you have imported the vector from another document or SVG or PDF file, Control+J / Command+J will join the loose ends and help you out on most cases

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markdaniel_

Participant

This worked for me. Thanks fernandolins!

Mike_Gondek10189183

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Following your steps, I suspect you added a stroke at the group level. At the group level your option will be greyed out. Yo need to ungroup after your expand appearance.

Try using the appearance panel often, there are many very important features there.

kililioAuthor

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Thanks a bunch guys !!!

@Mike Gondek , I use the Appearance Panel all dayyyy every day it's my bread and butter , i really like the color panel too , just on top of it ( I got "like photoshop" workspace set up )

thank you a bizillion very much !

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Gustavo Del Vechio

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Hi Kililio

If your shape is using brushes you cannot select align inside or outside (just to center). Also if you have a custom width profile you cannot select that align options too. But using width profiles (or the Width Tool) you could achieve the result you want..as Monika mentioned.

Best Regards

Gustavo.

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lalip74730876

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Another user friendly feature from Adobe...

Monika Gause

Community Expert

You can easily achieve it with a custom width profile in version CS5

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

It may be an open path although it looks like a closed path. Aligning strokes inside or outside does only work on closed paths.

sinrise

Known Participant

This is one of the dumber things that still somehow exist in Illustrator. Why? What if you only want a stroke on one segment of a path? I'd use that ALL the time. If I could put the stroke on one side or another of the actual path, closed or not, it would allow the same result. I love Illustrator but there is bafflingly stupid stuff that Adobe just seems to ignore. You can save the "you're using it wrong" comments. I get it.

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AOSC - Brian Foster

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I sympathize with SINRISE...Adobe tools should be more consistent in use across all products - INDD, AI, PSD, etc. The things you can do in one program, you can't do in another. [Grrrr...]

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