Comments on Tips & Techniques: Precision in Illustrator

"The distance the object moves each time you ...

2011-10-25T15:58:27.263-05:00

"The distance the object moves each time you press an arrow key is determined by the Keyboard Increment preference. The default distance is 1 point (1/72 of an inch, or .3528 millimeter). To change the Keyboard Increment preference, choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > General (Mac OS)."

Hi- Thank you for this. I'm using Illustrator...

2011-06-10T11:39:39.763-05:00

Hi-

Thank you for this. I'm using Illustrator CS5-- and it still is unable to give the precise measurement--rounds up to 2 decimal points.

Glad the correct info is actually "there" in thefile. . . .but, I'm still having a related (possibly problem) and the tech fellow at Adobe couldn't tell me how to fix it.

I needed to move the edge of an illustration by 3 or 4 decimal points, and was unable to do ti. The image or edge in question kept snapping back-- and I'd turned off all of the snap to and related options.

Help. (a fellow designer had the same problem in CS3)

fyi- we're both on Macs.

I believe you are wrong about rounding up in CS3. ...

2010-09-01T10:56:10.639-05:00

I believe you are wrong about rounding up in CS3.

I am working in CS4, the rest of the Designers here are in CS3.

While using CS4, I have tried to add to my document size using the + sign in the artboard, adding 7.0625 either making it 2 wide or 3 wide. When I add it in CS4 14.13 and it should be 14.125. So when I add it once more the total length is off by that much x2.

But we just did it in CS3 and it held the correct number of digits whether it was 3 for 4 past the decimal point. And we got the dimensions in the end we needed.

So there is a stupid problem in CS4 that should not be there.

It was never a problem in the older versions either. Now I can not tell you if 88 even had the ability to add up in the dimension boxes or not since that was way back in 1989/90, but I would say within the last 10 years it has not been a problem.

I tried a box measuring 5.1875 x 4.234375 (inches)...

2010-08-24T16:22:26.290-05:00

I tried a box measuring 5.1875 x 4.234375 (inches)and Illustrator rounded up on the fourth digit. I copied and pasted into Freehand and the box measured the exact measurements. You can see all decimal places in Freehand, but only 4 decimal places in Illustrator.

Regarding this issue, this page contained the best...

2010-03-26T09:08:22.265-05:00

Regarding this issue, this page contained the best answers I have found on the web This is an issue Adobe can't seem to acknowledge or give any profound direct answer, as shown in their Forum.

@Anonymous: I don't understand what you are as...

2009-08-05T16:19:47.525-05:00

@Anonymous: I don't understand what you are asking. Can you explain in a little more detail?

If this is indeed true, then why when I create a &...

2009-08-05T16:13:41.476-05:00

If this is indeed true, then why when I create a 'box' using the three decimal points and place it on my two decimal point rounded artboard is it smaller?

And since when are designers so 'dumb' as to not be able to understand three decimal points that you need to round up for us?