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May 12, 2022
Question

Copying/pasting or scaling objects skews vector points

  • May 12, 2022
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Copying & pasting objects within the same document or a new document results in points on the shape's path changing position slightly to the difference of  .0001 pt. Not all the points in the object move and not consistently, but all points now have to be checked for alignment after copying and pasting. The same issue occurs when scaling up an object manually or with the scale tool. The greater the percentage of the scale, the greater the discrepancy of the points. All points that were in alignment then need to be checked for consistency after scaling.They may or may not need to be fixed.

For context, this is happening in a work environment with 5 users on 16" MacBook Pros running Catalina 10.15.7 and Big Sur 11.6.1 with Illustrator versions 2020, 2021 & 2022.  Is this a bug in Illustrator? Is there any obvious fix for this? Thanks!

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Met1
Brainiac
May 12, 2022

Sure this is annoying for purists, but is it really an issue?

Are you regularly enlarging your docs more than 10,000 fold? (= 1pt error (one pixel - who's going to know? Aside from you...))

marliton
Community Expert
May 12, 2022

Hi. Which command are you using for paste? Try using "Paste in front" or Cmd + F.

 

Marlon Ceballos
Doug A Roberts
Community Expert
May 12, 2022

Is View > Snap to Pixel on?

If not, could you provide a sample file that demonstrates this, or instructions to replicate?

New Participant
May 17, 2022

Yes, I had snap to point on. See attached file where I have copied and pasted the outlined type & also scaled it larger. Now the baseline points are no longer all the same Y coordinate value. For example in the word, "Health", the first "H" has baseline points of 189.7925 pt. The last "h" has baseline points of 189.7926 pt. The lowercase "l" in Health has points in perfect alignment on the left side, but on the right side changes from 569.2623 pt to 569.2624 pt between top and bottom of the letter shape. This is happening for everyone in the same department when creating versions of files. Wondering why the points don't stay in perfect alignment? 

Doug A Roberts
Community Expert
May 17, 2022

You can't attach AI files in the forum. Use drive or dropbox or similar.