Interactive Llama :: Interactive media tutorials and tips » palette http://www.interactivellama.com/blog Interactive media tutorials and tips Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:54:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Illustrator: Align objects without moving one of the objects http://www.interactivellama.com/blog/archives/illustrator-align-objects-without-moving-one-of-the-objects/ http://www.interactivellama.com/blog/archives/illustrator-align-objects-without-moving-one-of-the-objects/#comments Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:36:00 +0000 Stephen James http://smjdesign.com/designwell/?p=83 So you have a business card built in Illustrator and you want to center the text on the card. If you select the 3.5″ x 2″ box and the text box and click “Vertical Align Center” on the Align palette, Illustrator will move each object halfway towards the other object!

If you want only to move the text and not the 3.5″ x 2″ box, you will need to make the 3.5″ x 2″ box the “key object.” To do this, select both objects, then click the 3.5″ x 2″ box (not a Shift+click though). This will align all the other objects to the “key object” you just clicked.

–Stephen M. James
www.smjdesign.com

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