illustrator graphs: align values on tick marks

[sieberb9459372]

Hi,

For a redesign of a magazine containing a lot of graphs I'm making new illustrator templates. The templates look fine, but I'm still struggling with one thing. In the old templates the values were bottom-aligned with the (full width) tick marks. In my new templates the values are center-aligned, which seems to be the default in illustrator. The people of the magazine prefered the bottom aligned ones and want it back. I've made a new copy of an old one and the values seem fine now (see screenshot 1), but when I change the data and choose 'Override Calculated Values' new values jump back to the default center alignment (see top values in screenshot 2). Where can I change this and make sure that future values change the same way?

Thanks in advance

[Mike_Gondek]

I honestly do not believe you can fix this automatically.

With the hollow arrow tool drag and drop a selection frame over the type values that are off. Then use your cursor keys to nudge the type into place. Best to set your cursor key distance to 1 pt or maybe .25 pt, then write down the number of how you nudged, so you can fix for others and stay consistent.

You also could copy the data values, create a new graph, paste the data values. Then nudge the values once. Future updates should  be good.

[S Hopkins]

Hi,

The best that I can come up for you is the following using paragraph styles. 

1. Create a style for each of the ways legends are displayed: same font, leading, size, but different justification (flush left, flush right, centered)

2. For the style you want to drop/raise the baseline, under the Advanced tab set its Baseline Shift to whatever you need (use Preview to see the shift as you work with the setting).

3. Marquee-select legends with the direct selection tool to assign the appropriate paragraph style (one for each way legnds are styled).

4. Save your document. When you update the data or import new data, the paragraph styles should override and retain the styling. 

Note: I tried this with some bar graphs and it seems to work ok. 

[sieberb9459372]

Thanks,

This seems to work. I can do the same in the appearance panel (transform - move vertical). It's only weird that in the old template files none of these solutions was used.

When you take a look at Adobe's guide to graphs;

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/graphs.html

you can see that in the first graphs the labels are default centered (see screenshot default)

but in the section 'add pictures and symbols to graphs' the labels are bottom aligned (see screenshot bottom) (they're floating a little bit above bottom actually). There must be a setting somewhere, but it's very well hidden.

[S Hopkins]

Hi,

I decided to see if anything for graphs was exposed for the purpose of writing scripts. Apparently the graphing segment of Illustrator goes back many versions (maybe to v1?) and has very little exposed. Sorry. 

[Sofia M]

I'm getting this just now, very annoying that it doesn't aut-align when you chnage font size