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Inspiring
August 12, 2018
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Origin (0, 0) moved but vertical gridlines not aligning to origin (horizontal are ok).

  • August 12, 2018
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I was provided a two layer photoshop file, one with a satellite image of a land has and a second layer on top with gridlines super imposted as pixel lines to indicate 0.25 interval gridlines (NS and EW).

I've open in Illustrator so I can scale artwork to some easy multiple of the image gridlines so objects marking city locations can be entered as AI co-ordinates to locate exactly. It would mean transforming the latitude longitude coordinates with a translation say +(16.0, -122.0) and then multiply result by 10 to convert to mm or pixel dimension set up in AI File. (yes GIS or a CAD plugin with scaling tools would be easier but I'm working with what I have).

Anyhow the point of this forum post is that even if I just use the layer of pixel art gridlines (green lines in image) to align my grid to match (just eyeballing a match) I need to be able to shift the grid origin and have my AI gridlines follow it (normal behaviour in my experience).

Having moved the origin the horizontal grid lines moved to the correct position but the vertical ones refuse to move. Not sure why*. See image, the origin has clearly moved (orange highlight rectangles around zero lines) but the vertical grid lines are not in the correct position (blue arrows).

Any ideas?

Station NameLatitudeLongitude
Location A-16.444417123.041374
Location B

-16.716157

128.40308
Location C-16.9939122.658509

* except for that Adobe products seem more buggy to me now than ever before — in 30 years of using since AI 3.0 and PS 1.

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Correct answer wideEyedPupil

(Actually the horizontal lines are only aligned by accident. If I move the origin the horizontal grid lines stay in same place too).

It turns out we need the Page Tool to be selected. Then and only then does moving the origin works as advertised ( or as it previously used to in single page versions of AI).

I also have it nicely scaled so that 400 pt is equivalent to 1 northing/easting so I can use the adjustable AI Grid tool and the object co-odnates to locate cities and other objects.

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Inspiring
December 15, 2022

wow, came back to ask this same question years on. my answer is still good. still a mystery why Adobe forces us to use the page tool to move the grid with the origin, seems like it should be the default behavior to me.

wideEyedPupilAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
August 12, 2018

(Actually the horizontal lines are only aligned by accident. If I move the origin the horizontal grid lines stay in same place too).

It turns out we need the Page Tool to be selected. Then and only then does moving the origin works as advertised ( or as it previously used to in single page versions of AI).

I also have it nicely scaled so that 400 pt is equivalent to 1 northing/easting so I can use the adjustable AI Grid tool and the object co-odnates to locate cities and other objects.