Participating Frequently

Question

How to Copy-Paste pixel perfect elements in a pixel-perfect manner in Illustrator on same artboard?

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
September 8, 2021
3 replies
1730 views

Currently creating 1px Stroke Icons. So for example original icon is placed on X: 302,5px and Y: 302,5px.

If I copy/paste it, it paste based on viewport and not aligned on pixel grid how it was in older versions, i.e. new coordinates are like X: 340,2465px and Y: 340,8647px.

How can I disable this feature and paste on exactly 340,5 and 340,5?

{Renamed by MOD}

How to

This topic has been closed for replies.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Can you share a sample .ai icon that still has the correct size?

CC filesharing, Dropbox, Google, WeTransfer...

S

San5oAuthor

Participating Frequently

Ok, this is how the Icons are dispalyed now in new Version (coordinates and size). Previously it was on X: 28,5 Y: 17,5 and size 31x21px

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c2ia9mexjms4tsz/example.ai?dl=0

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Thanks for sharing.

Opening the file in CC 2019 gives X: 28,5 Y: 17,5 and W: 21 H: 31px

But in 2020/2021 it shows X: 28,5001 px Y: 17,5003 px and W: 20,9999 H: 31 px

Although there are differences, Export as PNG gives the same result in all versions.

What do you need the icons for? Are you going to use them as vector or as images?

Anshul_Saini

Community Manager

Hi there,

Sorry about the trouble. It is expected behavior by default. I would like to know if the help article and community post shared by @Jacob Bugge worked for you? Also, you can use Shift + Ctrl + V (paste in the exact place of the object); this way, you can duplicate pixel-perfect art and move it later to the desired location on the Artboard. Additionally, you can use alt/opt + drag to duplicate your object or group of pixel-perfect objects.

Let us know if you need any further assistance. We'd be happy to help.

Thanks & Regards,

Anshul Saini

S

San5oAuthor

Participating Frequently

its not that deadly, but a bit annoying :)) I just have to enter coordinates manually. I still was working in v19, because every time I tried new version it was buggy, also the GPU view and pixel view are really different in new versions. It does not render thin lines properly. But now I have to work in new version, becuase you added 4th number in coordinate system and all Icons I did in v.19 are now with bad coordinates, like X: 125,9999px

This feature alone adds me about 3 weeks of work :((

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Maybe a script can shorten that time:

https://github.com/creold/adobe-scripts#roundcoordinates

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

San5o,

How about this,

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/pixel-perfect.html

or something else here?

https://helpx.adobe.com/search-results.html?q=pixel+perfect+illustrator&scope=%5B%22helpx%22%5D&subscope=%5B%5D&limit=10&start_index=0&sort_orderby=relevancy&sort_order=desc&post_facet_filters=%7B%22applicable_products%22%3A%5B%5D%7D

S

San5oAuthor

Participating Frequently

no, it has nothing to do with moving etc. Its just copy/paste. I have everything on, but it doesnt help. Like I said, in previous versions it worked well, but now if I paste it depends on view port and not pixel grid anymore. I guess its a bug

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded