• Adobe Illustrator

  when I shrink a object it get distorted

  Posted by Leandro Petreca on February 15, 2011 at 11:02 pm

  Hi!
  when I shrink a object it get distorted…

  Did someone had this problem before?

  Adam Ferguson replied 9 years, 3 months ago 16 Members · 28 Replies
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  Les Nemeth

  February 16, 2011 at 6:38 am

  You need to shrink it proportionally. Either use the scale tool dialog box and enter the values for “Uniform” scale, or use the select tool, press Ctrl + Shift + B (latin for View > Show/Hide Bounding Box), hold the shift key down, and resize from one of the corners.
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  Leandro Petreca

  February 16, 2011 at 12:08 pm

  hi Les,
  Thanks for the answer…
  This is the way I have done! And still distorting. It goes fine…but When it get too small the anchor points place wrong!
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  Christina Rodriguez

  February 16, 2011 at 11:33 pm

  Do you have any styles applied? What des it show in the appearance panel?

  Have you tried creating a compound shape then scaling? Command-8

  BTW I downloaded and was able to scale. Perhaps there is something wrong with Illustrator.

  C.R.
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  Leandro Petreca

  February 17, 2011 at 2:39 am

  I’m using CS5… what about you?
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  Christina Rodriguez

  February 17, 2011 at 3:59 am

  I have an old version… so yours may be a problem with one of the newer features.

  C.R.
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  Les Nemeth

  February 17, 2011 at 4:14 am

  I’ve also tried it in CS5 and yes, I see what you mean now. I didn’t check the file before.

  When I scale it down to even 15-20% or less it starts to deform. And going below 15% really messes it up. It must be some rounding error in AI because when I copy the path into PS and scale it there even to 2%, the path looks perfect.

  You might want to post it on Adobe as a bug…?
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  Les Nemeth

  February 17, 2011 at 4:21 am

  Oops, no! I take it back.

  I don’t if you got the file from someone or you created it, but apparently some internal data messed up during creation, because when I recreated the illustration (even in the same document) and scaled it, it worked fine even scaling it down to 2%.

  So I recommend to re-create it from scratch. If it happens again, delete your prefs file and then create it again. Sometimes the prefs file gets corrupted for whatever reason and all sorts of stupid things can happen.
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  Leandro Petreca

  February 17, 2011 at 10:57 am

  Les,

  I think I’m understanding why… This object was a line and them I made it (Object –> Path –> outline stroke)… But It shouldn’t happen anyway.. 🙁
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  Les Nemeth

  February 17, 2011 at 6:24 pm

  No, that has nothing to do with it. That is how I recreated it, yet it had no problems.
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  Leandro Petreca

  February 18, 2011 at 11:51 am

  I did all this things and still the same… are you using mac? I’m using mac!

  Thanks for your attention

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