Why is my artwork not centred in the Recent Files thumbnail Illustrator CC 2017

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September 30, 2017
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Hi there forum guys and gals,

Can anyone tell me why when I view some of my files in the Recent Files thumbnail layout in Illustrator CC 2017 that either the artboard is cropped on the left, or the artwork is justified to the left leaving a larger white gap to the right?

If you open the file, you can see that it is perfectly centred on a square artboard, but when resaved the thumbnail shows different.

Recent Files screenshot

Fit to Selected Art result

File opened in Illustrator

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Mejor respuesta de Monika Gause

The text objects "Flavour" and "Co" have been rotated. Rotate them back and you get the preview you want. In order to move the text along the path, use the path text brackets as described in here

How to create type on a path in Illustrator

But actually why should you care about a preview - is it really worth it?

sharp_hands16B8

Community Expert

If you highlight your text on the path and select all the text on each path, are any highlighted segments hanging off that side of the circle? I suspect it may be a paragraph/character element defining space around the type on path area.

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craigriches66Autor

Known Participant

Hi Mark

I could see nothing.

Would it help to look at the file for yourself and see if I am missing something?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2poaadxe8jus0ya/flavour%20and%20co.ai?dl=0

Monika Gause

Respuesta

Community Expert

The text objects "Flavour" and "Co" have been rotated. Rotate them back and you get the preview you want. In order to move the text along the path, use the path text brackets as described in here

How to create type on a path in Illustrator

But actually why should you care about a preview - is it really worth it?

Myra Ferguson

Community Expert

Is there any chance there's a stray point that Illustrator is taking into consideration in addition to your visible artwork when centering your thumbnail?

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craigriches66Autor

Known Participant

I thought that but in selecting all on active art board, nothing extra showed up. Neither did outline view show anything extra.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Obviously Illustrator uses the bounding box frame from the embedded PDF.

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craigriches66Autor

Known Participant

Sorry? There was no "embedded PDF", this was created in Illustrator from scratch. I am not sure what you are referring to? My apologies if I appear too much of a newbie here, but I am sure there was no embedded PDF used, so can't see how a bounding box can be in use?