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Aligning while using artboards vs. without is different, why?

Community Beginner ,
Aug 09, 2024 Aug 09, 2024

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I'm wondering if anyone can help me as I assume this is a setting. 

 

When using artboards I can select an item and the align buttons in the toolbar are accessible and I can just align to the artboard without requiring select all. When I'm using just a canvas without artboards I can't. When I select an item the align buttons are greyed out. 

 

Is there a setting that I can change so that I can align to the canvas without having to select all each time?

 

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Aug 09, 2024 Aug 09, 2024

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I'm not in front of a computer, but with the move tool active, look under the three dots or the gear/cog icon, there's a drop down menu with alignment options for either selection or canvas.

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 09, 2024 Aug 09, 2024

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Thank you! So that allows me to align with canvas, so that's amazing BUT now everything will only align with canvas. If I select 2 or more items they will all align with artboard, not each other. If I'm using artboard I can select 2 or more items and they will align among themselves without aligning to the canvas. 

 

I hope that makes sense. 

 

Side note: When I compare the settings between artboard and non-artboard files, artboard does have it as selection, not canvas, it actually can't be changed to canvas either.

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Select all before aligning has been a long standing hack to achieve the same result as align to canvas when in selection mode.

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