Why doesn't illustrator reflect properly?

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February 7, 2018
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Hi,

I am having trouble reflecting the first V (vertically). As you can see when they are side by side, it is not a true reflection. Does anyone have a good solution? Thanks!

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Correct answer Monika Gause

Instead of expanding try and make a symbol, then reflect the symbol instance

sugarcoated293Author

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Thank you all!

It helped to make it a symbol!

Ares Hovhannesyan

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Did you use Reflection Tool Panel? Also you can reflect with ALT+Transform(+SHIFT).

Doug A Roberts

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ares: you'd get the same thing with both those methods.

making a symbol is probably more practical than expanding.

sugarcoated293Author

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HI Doug,

I reflected it using the reflect tool (vertical reflection then made a copy).

They were constructed via Illustrator using my Wacom tablet to draw them and selecting a calligraphic brush from the brush tool in Illustrator.

Doug A Roberts

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the path gets reflected, but the brush applied to it stays the same. you'll see similar things with other transformations, like rotate. i think you'd need to expand the appearance to reflect it properly. i can't think of another way off the top of my head anyway.