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A friend is unable to find the equivalent of the tilde key (~) on his UK keyboard to transform patterns but not objects when using a transform tool by holding down the tilde key (~) while dragging. Does this capabilities is available for UK?
This is the button which I use for tildas (it has these symbols \ /😞
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Maybe it depends exactly what keyboard he is using.
On my Mac keyboard (UK English) the tilde ~ is on the key to the left of the letter 'Z'.
But you need to use 'Shift' with it to get the character to appear.
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Ok, but how can you use it to transform the pattern only on a selected object? Or which key are you holding down to accomplish that?
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Works for me by using the tilde key on the pattern itself.
Or
Is your friend using the "Transform" menu at the top of the screen?
Object > Transform > Scale > ....has he then ticked "Patterns" and not "Objects"
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Got the same prob did you find out how to do this on a uk keyboard???
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Red,
It should be over by the Enter key, with the #.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_keyboard#United_Kingdom
Ultimately, the general way of finding out how to get it to work on whichever keyboard you have is to try all keys with/without shift (and AltGr), and remember or write it down.
With so many languages/countries and Win/Mac there are so many (im)possibilities, and no one has ever made any list of just a few.
I remember that the German keyboards use the < like the Icelandic, as Monika should be able to confirm.
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Hi Jacob
You are right it is the # next to the enter but the problem is that you have to use the shift key with it and illustrator use the shift key to do other things and i cant find anywhere in the setting to change the ~ to a diffent key in illustrator.
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Red,
But does it work (or how about the key to the left of Z)?
Someone else will have to help you with the reassignment of keys.
Someone?
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My Icelandic Mac keyboard doesn’t have a tilde-key.
But I use the <-key (to the left of Z) to manually manipulate patterns.
Use it in conjunction with Scale and Rotate tools as well as just on its own for dragging patterns.
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In CS6, it's the apostrophe key, below the @ symbol ( ' )
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Use @
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I was able to get the tilde (squiggly or twiddle) character on a UK QWERTY keyboard by using a combination of SHIFT + Back Slash (above Enter) keys.
See attached screenshot below:
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If you read the OP, you'll see that the question was not how to type a tilde; rather it's what key to press to transform a pattern without transforming its enclosing path.
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This is the button which I use for tildas (it has these symbols \ /😞