snapping not working on text objects

[SpaceDustConstruct]

my guides are turned on and work fine with shapes but when I try to space text objects the same distance apart the guides do not appear.

[michelew83603738]

Have you tried restarting Ai or your machine?

[SpaceDustConstruct]

havn't tried restarting the machine yet. Tried restarting AI and the ctrl alt shift clear prefs thing I'll update when i get home because I will have restarted the machine then.

[michelew83603738]

See if that works. If not post what OS, version of AI, etc. working on.

[SpaceDustConstruct]

Illustrator 22.0.1 - Win7 Ultimate 64

I feel like this just started happening. I've been ignoring an Illustrator update for a week or 2 but I somehow I doubt it will fix this.

[SpaceDustConstruct]

Oh yeah, I did restart my computer the and smart guides still arent snapping text objects

[michelew83603738]

I can't duplicate the problem. You might try resetting preferences.

[MuSan]

so am i, the snap to point is didn't work for me after this update 22.1

[Mike_Gondek]

The latest update destroyed snapping.

You can get snapping to work by turning a vector shapes into guides. Items will then snap. Another snapping secret is to for example grab the object by what you want to snap, the x on baseline type, or a corner of a rectangle.

Take your entire dieline (or objects you need to snap to)  copy, paste in front, and make guides. Unfortunately if the guides are on a locked layer, that will no longer work as in the past. Those working on real world print projects understand the importance of locking a die and making that the top layer.

[MuSan]

thanks, but it is to complicated, when on the previous version we just drag it then the guide is showing it self. no need to put it on top layer.

i like the previous version specially for snapping object

[Doug A Roberts · Accepted solution]

i find the spacing guides appear with area type but not point type objects. which are you using?

i just checked in CC2017 and the behaviour seems the same.

just to make sure we're talking about the same thing -- these guides:

[SpaceDustConstruct]

Thank YOU!