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Bachtiar Rahady
02/22/09

Annoying Smart Guides on Adobe Illustrator CS4

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 :crazy:

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.

Tags: adobe, align, anchor, annoying, arrggh, bad, behavior, cs4, frustrating, human, illustrator, node, path, point, smart guide, useless

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# littlepixel

on 04/14/09 at 06:22

They were a lot better in earlier versions, but you can roll the settings back to do what you describe; on a mac, if you command drag with the smart guides it seems to ignore all the 'align to random objects centre' type stuff and just snap two anchors together, or parallel objects - but without quite the fuss of not pressing command. I'm sure it's probably the same on a PC if you use alt or cntl as a key modifier.

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.

# norgviking

on 05/20/09 at 20:09

thanx littlepixel you've saved my life

# steelie

on 07/14/09 at 13:44

littlepixel saved my sanity here too!
Thank you sooooo much!

# Cory

on 09/02/09 at 22:55

Wow! Thanks, this is such a simple solution, but it was killing me too.

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.

# Mads Jakob Poulsen

on 01/06/10 at 15:04

this works only for one anchor right!?
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..

# Mads Jakob Poulsen on 01/06/10 at 15:07

No, it actually does work,
so skip that last comment :-)

# ethan on 02/26/10 at 02:40

@littlepixel
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!

# PixelOz on 06/15/10 at 13:22

You can do it without pressing the Cmd/Ctrl key too. You have to turn on Construction Guides in the Preferences.

You select Edit in the menu then Preferences then Smart Guides... and then you make sure that the check-box for Construction Guides is selected then you don't have to press the Cmd/Ctrl key to see those other extension lines from anchors and 45 degrees lines etc.

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And thanks for you complaining about it cause it was giving me the same trouble but when you showed me your video on Youtube I just though that something must have been wrong with it so I set out to find out what it was and I discovered this and now they work the way they are supposed to work again for me too! so that is kinda funny ja,ja,ja

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