Why doesn't illustrator reflect properly?

[sugarcoated293]

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!

[SJRiegel]

Distortions like this are often caused by Align to Pixel Grid being selected in the Transform pallet.

[Doug A Roberts]

how are you reflecting them and how are they constructed?

[sugarcoated293]

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]

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.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

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

[Ton Frederiks]

But make it a Static Symbol, Dynamic Symbols have the same problem.

[Ares Hovhannesyan]

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

[Doug A Roberts]

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

making a symbol is probably more practical than expanding.

[sugarcoated293]

Thank you all!

It helped to make it a symbol!