I’ve been using Adobe Illustrator CS, and CS3. And when they come up with their new CS4, I’m so excited! It’s jam packed a lot of nice feature like multiple Drawing Board (pages), and enhanced working experiences. But I just don’t understand the new Smart Guides! Really annoying.
I didn’t knew it at first. Working at something as usual. Then when it become quite big and it has so many vectors, I got frustrated by the so called Smart Guides. And I just realized all of the anchor, paths, and objects I’ve created before didn’t align very well!
The deadline is near and my drawing is ruined! WTF.
This is the video showing you how badly implemented the Smart Guides on CS4. I just want to align an anchor with another anchor I want! Not aligning with some random object’s center 
Adobe please, at least look at how Corel Draw do a really Smart Guides. They’ve done it right. So when I move an anchor over another anchor, it detecting that I want to align with it.
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on 04/14/09 at 06:22
I think you may even be able to turn off a lot of the annoying settings in the preferences too - there seem to be a lot to play with so I hope to find the cure by messing with the settings a little.
on 05/20/09 at 20:09
Now, all I need is to figure out how to fix my "Raster EPS Format" settings in Photoshop and I think I'll be set. I spent a while reading the Adobe forums with no luck on a good solution. I guess there is always CS2.
I'm just not sure these upgrades are worth the effort.
How do I move an object, eg a square so the corner i grab on to alignes??
This used to be so easy with older illustrator versions.
It's no longer smart guides, just guides..
so skip that last comment :-)
Thank you for that Command tip (Ctrl on the PC) to cause CS4 Smart Guides to act more like CS3. I was astounded that I could not get a dragged anchor point to pull a Smart Guide at a 45 degree angle from another anchor... Like, wtf... With Cmd/Ctrl it works like it's supposed to!
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