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What home printer would allow for exact alignment of front and back?
None.
End user printers are not designed for perfect registrations. None of them. It should always be expected that paper will shift and move slightly and never be pulled through the printer in the ...
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What home printer would allow for exact alignment of front and back?
The only kind of sheet fed printers I know of that can achieve accurate registration are printing presses. They have suckers to lift each sheet, and mechanical lays to push or pull the paper into the ...
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Is there a general rule regarding font spacing?
It's called kerning, which is an additional spacing applied to specific pairs of characters1.
The aim is to have a perceived equal spacing between glyphs. Mathematically equal spacing based on the ...
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Inkscape: How to evenly space objects?
Use the Align and Distribute panel.
Do the shapes first. Select them and Align: Centre on horizontal axis, then Distribute: Make horizontal gaps between objects equal.
Group the shapes.
Select the ...
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Why do triangles do this with alignment
Illustrator's align options use the bounding box as the area of definition, not the center point.
Therefore, when you click the align buttons, Illustrator is centering the triangle's bounding box ...
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Sketch: vertical text alignment
Sketch only allows to vertically center text if they are fixed and do not using the native line-height of the font. This is how you can active the vertical alignment options:
Create a text layer
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When should center align paragraph text be used?
In my opinion...
Never
Center aligning is fine for headlines, sub-headlines, captions, figures, etc. However, for paragraphs there's never a reason for line-for-line centering.
Line-for-line centering ...
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Distribute evenly such that object spacing to page margins = spacing between objects
Use a couple of helper objects aligned to the edge of the rectangle (or page) by using snapping, then do the distribute, then delete the helper objects.
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Why do triangles do this with alignment
Center of an arbitrary object is a bit diffuse concept. See there are four possible centers for a triangle. those are:
Center of Gravity (COG), aka. Centroid,
Circumcenter,
Incenter,
and Orthocenter.
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Illustrator: Rotate one object to align another object
Select square
Activate direct select tool (a, white arrow, no this will not work with the black arrow*)
move mouse to one of the corner points of the square.
Once you snap to corner (be sure you have ...
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staggering line paths evenly in illustrator
Option One: An Effect
Draw one path.
Select it and choose Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform from the menu.
Tweak the values there. (Note the settings in the screenshot below)
Then,...
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Illustrator CC: Turn off align objects to pixel grid
If you want to disable it in Illustrator CC2017 follow the steps below since it was changed:
First click this Icon in the top right Corner:
Then click the following entry in the Menu that popped up:
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How do I align objects within the key object?
There is no "one button" to align and distribute to a key object. It needs to be done in steps. And it requires somewhat manual interaction. And it seems that Distribute Spacing is more appropriate ...
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alignment issues with logo design
Snapping circles can be tricky, but in this case you can use guides.
Switch to View > Outline and do like this:
Create a horizontal guide which snaps to the point where the three circles must ...
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How can I align layer to center of canvas in Photoshop
Select the Move Tool.
Select the layer you want to center.
Press Ctrl / Cmd + A to select all. (This creates a selection the size of the canvas which you can then align the selected layer according to....
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Illustrator: can I align an open path to either Inside or Outside
You can't align the stroke of an open path, but you can align the path itself!
From Preferences → General check "Use Preview Bounds":
This will use the visual appearance of objects to create ...
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Illustrator: Centering two groups according to an object in one of the groups
In addition to Joooja's answer, here are two other methods.
Smart guides method:
Just the fastest ever, if you have a simple artwork. Just select the center of the big circle use move it to center ...
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Inkscape, align objects top has space between objects
I think this probably a rendering issue because the width of the white line seems to change with different zoom levels.
Anyway, if you want to combine the shapes in a heart shape, I suggest the path-...
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When should center align paragraph text be used?
Wedding invitations. Some greeting cards. Very formal, very brief pieces of text. Some poster and advertising headlines.
Centered or "center justified" or "ragged-center" text is ...
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Footnote style using asterisk should have space or no space between symbol and note?
Yes, I generally use a narrow space like third, quarter or thin space.
However, if you have multiple footnotes, or they span across multiple lines, or the numbering/symbols take up more space, you ...
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How to align several objects on the same x coordianate?
Use the Align tool Window → Align (Shift+F7)
and select Horizontal Align.
Make sure you select what you are trying to align it to.
Artboard - Align it all with the center of the artboard
Selection -...
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How to align text box on Figma?
That line is the baseline, it's where the characters "sit":
The outer rectangle is the Text Box. If you just clicked on the screen with the Text tool selected it will create a one-line text. The ...
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Inkscape: How to evenly space objects?
You need to use the align and distribute dialog.
In order to get equal spacing between sides and between objects, you probably need 5 objects: 2 vertical lines with 0 stroke width on the sides of the ...
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How does unobviously uneven spaces between words in justified text affect reading?
It's not really about legibility. The text can be understood whether it's justified or not. The issue, as I see it, is about readability - how easy it is to read the text, how much effort must the ...
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How can I align and distribute objects diagonally in Illustrator?
Here is a different approach to achieve something similar to what I show in my other answer.
If you just want to distribute the letters purely based on their geometry, you can do the following:
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Why am I unable to distribute rotated text evenly in Adobe Illustrator 2024?
Because Illustrator sees all objects by their rectangular bounding box. Illustrator does not see the text the way it is visually presented.(I am unable to screenshot this because bounding boxes vanish ...
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