Set Object’s Actual Size

Tips

May 15th, 2008 by Rype

Set Object’s Actual Size Thumbnail

If you are ever needed an object with a stroke to have exact dimensions, you probably got frustrated very quick. By default, Illustrator doesn’t take into account the dimensions of a stroke. You can easily change this by going Illustrator > Preferences > General and check the Use Preview Bound box. Now, Illustrator will take into account the dimensions of strokes, brushes, effects, and so on.

Set Object’s Actual Size

  1. Great tip, does this work on all versions of Illustrator?


  2. I’m not sure, do you have a earlier version? If you do you, that would be awesome if you could check!


  3. I’ll have to check from home. I have CS3 here at work, but CS at home.


  4. Thanks!


  5. Ooh…
    nice tip…
    I didn’t know that.
    Thanks so much! That will be very useful!


  6. Worked in CS2. Thanks!


  7. Oh nice. Little things like this are frustrating and counter productive. Great tip.


  8. AI 10 too


  9. Thank you so much for sharing that!


  10. Glad to hear it works in older version!


  11. Oh man - so much time I could have saved had I known this!

    I’ve just been setting the stroke to ‘inside’ which was working for most things, but not all.


  12. I feel so stupid. I even asked about it in some forum and didn’t get any good answer.

    THANK YOU.


Add a Comment