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horizontal distribute center button not working illustrator

Community Beginner ,
Jun 30, 2020 Jun 30, 2020

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I notived this yesterday that the horizontal distribute center is not working illustrator.

 

When you select objects and space them out, and then want an even distrubution you jsut press the horizonal distribution button, and that usually works perfectly.  However, it will now put them all to the objects to the most right object.  And then just today a new update came out, and I thought that it would be fixed within this update - but still not fixed.

 

All the other buttons seem to work as they should except for this one.  

 

Anyone else having this problem?

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Adobe Employee , Jul 08, 2020 Jul 08, 2020

Hey @grafiskwingman: Are you still having issues with Distribute functions. Would it be possible for you to share a file or video where you are experiencing this (would go a long way in helping us understand this better). You can email me at vsharm@adobe.com.

 

Regarding the behavior desribed in your original post:

Do you still need to manually change "Align To" settings multiple times like in previous version (24.2). We believe this should have been only a one-time need. Again, please let me kn

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Community Expert ,
Jun 30, 2020 Jun 30, 2020

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There is a bug in version 24.2 with the align function. Today there has been a fix. So please update to version 24.2.1

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 01, 2020 Jul 01, 2020

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Update totally did not fix the problem.

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 02, 2020 Jul 02, 2020

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I did update - that was the update that I was talking about in my original post.  

 

So to summarize - I have 24.2.1 - and it didn't fix it.

 

Thoughts? 

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Community Expert ,
Jul 02, 2020 Jul 02, 2020

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Did you reset the preferences?

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 28, 2020 Jul 28, 2020

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yes I did - didn't help!

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 01, 2020 Jul 01, 2020

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OMG!! I have the same problem.  None of my horizontal distribute buttons are working.  I have a project due tomorrow and all of a sudden my "go to" button does not work.

 

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 01, 2020 Jul 01, 2020

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Yeah- I just updated my Illustrator and that still did not fix the problem.

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Participant ,
Jul 01, 2020 Jul 01, 2020

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Not sure if it's the same, but noticed that the bug is gone, I updated earlier today.
Now though, when I want to distribute the vertical space between several identical objects, it distributes the objects randomly. 
Example: 
I have 7 identical boxes, I want them to distribute evenly from a low position to high, much like stairs/steps. 
It distributes maybe 1, 2 and 3 correctly, then a "jump" then lower for the next two, to the last box. 

 EDIT: this might be a cause of it being too late. But I do think it's behaving weird and different from normal. 

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 01, 2020 Jul 01, 2020

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I figured it out in csae you are still having this problem.  Go to Windows->Align to open up the Align toolbox.  Then in the bottom right corner there is an "Align To" box. Go to this box and go to select "Align to Selection". 

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Participant ,
Jul 01, 2020 Jul 01, 2020

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That's the bug that should have been solved with this new update. 
It did on my com, but created a new problem. (Mentioned above)

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Community Expert ,
Jul 01, 2020 Jul 01, 2020

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Did you reset the preferences after the update?

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Participant ,
Jul 01, 2020 Jul 01, 2020

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No, I did not reset the preferences. 
Hopefully that is not standard M.O.?? 

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Community Expert ,
Jul 01, 2020 Jul 01, 2020

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SInce some versions it seems like it's necessary.

You can rename the folder if you want to just try it (in case it doesn't help you can revert that) https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/setting-preferences.html

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Jul 01, 2020 Jul 01, 2020

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It did not change anything. 
Still feels like it's acting weird with the Vertical Distribute Space option. 
Works as expected with the other vertical align. 
As I noted earlier, MAYBE it's just me, but Distribute Spacing is acting like Distribute Objects. 
It does the same if I click on either. Should it be doing that? 

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Jul 02, 2020 Jul 02, 2020

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Did you reset the preferences?

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Jul 02, 2020 Jul 02, 2020

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🙂 yes... "It did not change anything". 

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Community Expert ,
Jul 02, 2020 Jul 02, 2020

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And you have version number 24.2.1

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Jul 02, 2020 Jul 02, 2020

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Yes. I will test this on the previous version I have on my laptop. 

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Adobe Employee ,
Jul 08, 2020 Jul 08, 2020

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Hey @grafiskwingman: Are you still having issues with Distribute functions. Would it be possible for you to share a file or video where you are experiencing this (would go a long way in helping us understand this better). You can email me at vsharm@adobe.com.

 

Regarding the behavior desribed in your original post:

Do you still need to manually change "Align To" settings multiple times like in previous version (24.2). We believe this should have been only a one-time need. Again, please let me know if this is not the case.

 

This is what I posted on other threads when we released the fix: Please note that after upgrading you might still see that Align To sets itself to Align to Key Object. If you see this, please manually set the Align To to the required setting, and this reported bug will not happen again. You’ll need to this one time only.

The reason Align To might get set to Key Object after update is because Ai remembers your last Align To on subsequent launches as well. So, if your last Align To was Key Object before quitting/upgrading, after first multi-selection, it will set itself to Key Object. After you manually change it one-time, it will work fine.

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Jul 08, 2020 Jul 08, 2020

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I think this was due to me finding the distribution odd, I actually think it is working how it has always worked, as it acted the same way in the previous version. It does distrubute spaces evenly. I am sending you a video now. 

It's not the "align to key obj" bug, which was solved with the most recent update. 

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Jul 08, 2020 Jul 08, 2020

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Thanks for your response and email Uffe.

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Jul 08, 2020 Jul 08, 2020

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My pleasure. And sorry for hi-jacking this thread! 

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New Here ,
Feb 18, 2021 Feb 18, 2021

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Hi I am having a issue with the distributing horizoltally where it is putting different spaces between the objects. I am selecting multiple items and when distributing horizontally by 10 pixels i can clearly notice that the same spacing is not between everything. Its almost doubled between certain letters. Ive gone back and repeated it numerous time and it still work work

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New Here ,
Aug 25, 2020 Aug 25, 2020

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 This fixed it. Here is an image of the setting. 

Screen Shot 2020-08-25 at 1.54.35 PM.png

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