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How do I stop Illustrator from snapping to pixel increments?

THIS HAS BEEN UPDATED IN VERSION 23.0.1 You have to turn OFF "snap to grid" behavior. The preferences for alignment of objects are in three DIFFERENT places: In VIEW menu uncheck "Snap to Point" (...
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Smart guides aren't smart

Smart guides aren't smart They are but do not work so good with grids because the pixel grid moves the object on the previous or next pixel/point. Disable the "align to pixel" and "align to point" ...
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How do I stop Illustrator from snapping to pixel increments?

In Illustrator 2019, the snap-to-pixel toggle has been moved to a more convenient location in the top right of the application. It is the magnet icon connected to three vertical squares. Clicking it ...
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Illustrator CS6 - cut document into three panels

So if I got this right. You could either manually make 3 artboards side by side, or: With Rectangle tool M, draw a rectangle on top of your current artboard and make sure it is exactly the size of ...
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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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InDesign: how to get anchored objects to flow within text boxes

The option you want to set is Keep within Top/Bottom Column Boundaries in the Anchored Object Option With the anchored object selected go to Object -> Anchored Object -> Options and check Keep ...
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Illustrator CS6 ".ai" replaced by ".pdf" when Save As PDF

If you have an AI file open, then click File > Save a Copy instead, then choose the PDF file type. If you do that, Illustrator simply exports the file as a PDF, and doesn't open the PDF automatically....
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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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Creating leaf shape illustrator CS6

Use the Pen Tool to draw the shape. There's nothing particularly difficult here if you learn how to use the tool. If you don't get the curves perfect first time, you can adjust them later using the ...
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Photoshop - Scale an image based on part of the image

This is Ben. Ben's head is 100 pixels wide. But you want his head to be 80 pixels wide. You draw a box 80 pixels wide in the center of the area you want to resize relative to (in this case, Ben's ...
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Smart guides aren't smart

Apparently, all this has nothing to do with Smart Guides. Check if Align New Objects to Pixel Grid selected (if so, turn it off) If it's on... it will keep on jumping like this: To turn it off, go ...
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Round corners (fillet) in Illustrator CS6

The others have given an answer that works by eyeballing and plugin. I will give 2 answers that work by measurement. The other one uses a script the other is manual. By Script There is a wonderfully ...
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Round only three corners of a rectangle in Illustrator CS6

You can also use this nice script; Round Any Corner by Hiroyuki Sato, you can download their entire package of useful scripts from their website. Using the Direct Selection Tool (A) select the ...
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How can I make my typing "stick" to box side?

Have your text on its own layer. Convert to Smart Object (can be done on Layer Menu, Filter Menu, or Layer Panel) Edit Distort Align the angled sides first: Then adjust for the size you want it to ...
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Script to automatically snap all points to grid in Adobe Illustrator?

Here you go, make sure the paths that you want to snap are selected: // jooSnapToDocumentGrid.jsx #target illustrator main(); function main(){ var grid = getDocumentGrid(); ...
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illustrator cs6: cut through multiple layers with top layer

I could suggest you another method for your end product. You Could use clipping mask for creating Void in your entire design. How to Do this? Group all your Objects or layers except the top layer ...
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InDesign: how to get anchored objects to flow within text boxes

All of the problems you describe are inherent in the underlying structure of an InDesign document. E.g., InDesign can only calculate how to move text out of the way of an anchored object after the ...
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How to put a layer into one of the RGB channels?

Your own answer is really close, but there is a better way... You can use ADJUSTMENT LAYERS to strip the unwanted channels out of each layer rather than deleting them by hand. This is non destructive ...
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Rounding and aligning crescent shapes in Illustrator

You aren't far wrong with your approach, certainly for making the crescent shape by using the path finder exclude function. To round the corners, add two anchor points using the add anchor point tool ...
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How Would I Generate a Human Face Using Software?

Luckily for you, there are some free options but you need to understand that achieving the specific look you are looking is a matter of actually working on that look. First, the 3D model of the head ...
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Make path that have same space between each other inner triangle

You can create the lines with a few Transform effects. Draw a single horizontal line Add a Transform effect (Effect → Distort & Transform → Transform...) with some vertical movement and ...
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How to delete pixels from image?

You are mixing concepts. That is a vector image which does not use pixels. Deleting pixels is better done via Photoshop, but to fix your current situation: hit A click each black box and hit DEL
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Creating leaf shape illustrator CS6

You can create this by merely drawing a perfect circle. It's several extra steps but it takes absolutely no skill with the Pen tool. To draw a circle, hold down the Shift key while dragging with the ...
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Exporting Photoshop Paths to Illustrator?

I just tried (File > Export > Export As...) and selected svg from the drop down list of file types. The svg it makes seems to work perfectly in Illustrator.
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Exporting Photoshop Paths to Illustrator?

First off, I realize you are using CS6 but I'm on CC, so their might be difference. With that said, you need to make sure all your shape layers are selected/highlighted. Then, while selected, go to "...
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Fill the inside of a hollow font

You cannot fill the font without expanding the font in a program like Illustrator and using the live paint tool to fill the type but then you would not be able to change the letters. Other options ...
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