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M
Minnepolitan
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January 23, 2020
Question

Illustrator won't align objects to coordinates in artboard.

  • January 23, 2020
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Having an issue with coordiates. I opened a new doc, and pasted artwork in (no guides are includes)

When I try to align the art at .25x .25y- it places it off the artboard. I remeber you used to be able to pull XY guides from the ruler to the corner of the artboard. I can't pull anything. 

Any ideas on how to fix the 0x0y to align corectly? You can see in the screen shot, my Y coord is reading negative. 

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2 replies

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 23, 2020

Don't drag the Ruler intersection, but double click it.

M
MinnepolitanAuthor
Known Participant
January 23, 2020

Thank you, Ton. 

Gave that a shot with no change. Restarted Illustrator and tried again wtih no change. 

Thanks 🙂

 

M
MinnepolitanAuthor
Known Participant
January 23, 2020

I reset my preferences and when I open the doc, the alignment is correct. 🙂

 

Eugenio.NYC
Eugenio.NYC
Participating Frequently
January 23, 2020

I think this is what you are talking about: double click on the ruler, or drag the ruler intersection to the point that you want

I can do it, maybe reset preferences

M
MinnepolitanAuthor
Known Participant
January 23, 2020

Thank you, I reset the prefs and can see the cross hairs, but dragging them to the corner of my art board is not resetting the corner to 0,0. 🙂

Eugenio.NYC
Eugenio.NYC
Participating Frequently
January 23, 2020

Hi, now go to the transform panel and double check the reference point of your object is the top right one

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