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Anonymous
June 16, 2012
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Why can't Illustrator's line segment tool make a stroke of .5 pt?

  • June 16, 2012
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Why can't Illustrator's line segment tool make a stroke of .5 pt? When I create a line at either 90° or 180° I cannot make the stroke thinner than 1 pt., even if I create the line first and then try to change its stroke. When I create a line at any other angle I can make the line thickness whatever I want by changing its stroke thickness. What I want is to make line segments that are .25 or .5 pts, but the minimum Illustrator will do is 1 pt even if I select the line or rectangle and try to change it to .5 or .25 pt. This same problem exists with the rectangle tool when I create a rectangle oriented at either at 90° or 180°, but if I rotate that same rectangle to anything other than 90° or 180° I will then have the ability to change the thickness to less than 1 pt. Any ideas what's going on?

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Correct answer emil emil

Select all objects and in the Transform panel uncheck Align to Pixel grid. Also if desired, uncheck this options for new objects from the menu of the Transform panel.

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emil emilCorrect answer
Inspiring
June 16, 2012

Select all objects and in the Transform panel uncheck Align to Pixel grid. Also if desired, uncheck this options for new objects from the menu of the Transform panel.

    DavidLaufer
    DavidLaufer
    Inspiring
    March 30, 2013

    This fix works on some objects and not others, Still experimenting, but this is better. 

    Is there a way to turn off "align to pixel grid" as the default for new documents? 

    Monika Gause
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    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 31, 2013

    Hi MG- thanks for this feedback, I use Illustrator daily, but I must say I have never seen Edit New Document Profiles. Does not appear under Edit, I don't find it in preferences, nor in Window, and it Illustrator Help does not seem to list it. Thanks again for the help... D


    The new document profiles are Illustrator files which are located at a very special place:

    http://blogs.adobe.com/adobeillustrator/2009/05/startup_profiles_a_great_tool.html

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    Gernot_Hoffmann
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    June 16, 2012

    In CS2 it's the same bug, but it works correctly if I type

    0,5 pt or 0,25 pt. Strange phenomenon.

    Even 0,0 pt works, is shown as 0 pt. In PostScript termi-

    nology this means the thinnest line  which the (- so far

    unknown) output device can draw.

    Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

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    Anonymous
    June 16, 2012

    Hi Gernot, It didn't work for me (I'm using CS5). All values I tried whether less than 1, or greater, would not work if I used a comma instead of a period. Thanks for the input. - Ken

    Hi emil, That works. Thanks. - Ken

    sonofmrsnak
    sonofmrsnak
    Inspiring
    July 12, 2012

    Hope this bug was fixed in CS6 :-)

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