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include stroke weight in measurements

Engaged ,
Feb 17, 2021 Feb 17, 2021

I used to be able to toggle on and off whether Illustrator adds the stroke wight to the displayed size of an object, and whether it takes into account an object's troke weight when aligning. If I remember correctly it was a check box labelled "Add stroke weight" in the transform palette.

 

I can't find this now - it has been missing for a while but I have worked around it.

 

I'm now doing a job where I really need to be able to toggle it on and of as I'm wokring. Has it been renamed, moved to another palette?

 

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Community Expert , Feb 17, 2021 Feb 17, 2021

It's in the Align palette, 'Use Preview Bounds'. It's always been there as far as I know.

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Community Expert ,
Feb 17, 2021 Feb 17, 2021

It's in the Align palette, 'Use Preview Bounds'. It's always been there as far as I know.

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Engaged ,
Feb 17, 2021 Feb 17, 2021

That's it! Thanks.

I would have sworn it was a little check box in earlier versions.

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Community Expert ,
Feb 17, 2021 Feb 17, 2021

I can only remember as far back as CS5.

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Explorer ,
Mar 02, 2023 Mar 02, 2023

I remember the Check Box also - 

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Advisor ,
Mar 05, 2025 Mar 05, 2025
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I totally forgot where it was. I keep forgetting actually. Perhaps it was at a different spot before. 

Still think its location is weird. It should be under transform, i think. Because when you use "Use Bounding Box", the width and height change. 

Its perhaps debatable

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Community Expert ,
Feb 17, 2021 Feb 17, 2021

"Use Preview Bounds" in Preferences?

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Engaged ,
Feb 17, 2021 Feb 17, 2021

Doug A Roberts pointed out that it's on the Align palette menu - easier than going in and out of global prefs a hundred times, that would have been horrendous 🙂

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