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As in title, when I apply stroke value to a path created with pen tool in Ai CS 5.5, this path is being moved. That doesn't apply to all shapes I made. Is there a setting that needs changing or what. I'm unable to create a proper, precise drawing because of that.

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what do you mean by "this path is being moved?" – Jin♦ Jun 26 '11 at 22:18
I wanted to attach images but I can't. By "being moved" I mean being moved. Anchor point is moving down the artboard a bit every time I change value of stroke. Relatively, I should say, to other objects, to artboard, to grid. – superego Jun 26 '11 at 22:21

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I hope I'm understanding your question correctly. It seems you may want to tweak the stroke alignment option a bit. Namely align "stroke to center," "stroke to inside" and "stroke to outside." If you do center align, then you may not notice the shift.

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Edit: I understand your problem now.

You need to disable "Align to Pixel Grid" in the transform option panel for this path.

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It is aligned to center and it shifts! When aligned to inside or outside it stays still. I noticed that already. But obviously aligning it not to the center is not a real solution here. Rendering stroke should be very basic function and it seems like what's happening here is a "feature" of Illustrator. I'm being sarcastic now. There must be a solution, I 'd like to believe... – superego Jun 26 '11 at 22:54
@superego I see. I updated my answer, hope it helps. – Jin♦ Jun 26 '11 at 23:04
I noticed one more thing. This is happening only when incrementing stroke value with arrows inside of appearance panel. when I type in the value the path stays in place and everything works as expected. Yet - the strange behaviour described above is a mystery. – superego Jun 26 '11 at 23:05
@Jin - thank you. You have solved it! I appreciate it! – superego Jun 26 '11 at 23:08
@Jin - could this be made default for every art drawn? I looked though preferences but found nothing. – superego Jun 26 '11 at 23:11
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