Pixel Snapping Illustrator CS6
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- d_rek
Help!
Anyone else deal with the nightmare that is Illustrator CS6's pixel snapping?
This shit has a mind of it's own! Any tips / suggestions would be very much appreciated!
- d_rek0
Fuck it. Just going to abandon the pixel grid. That shit is from another fucking planet!
- MrT0
Is it really bad? I intended to press the order button for this today...
- d_rek0
MrT
It's pretty bad... been reading Adobe user forums for the last hour trying various fixes and whatnot.
Biggest and most headache issues i'm experiencing:
-object edges not aligning to pixel grid, although their preview would indiciate otherwise
-stroked objects bugging out - even though the object previews as being on whole pixels the actual object edge is somewhere else. Trying different stroke options only seems to compound the issue
-rounding corners on objects has weird anti-aliasing and leaves odd stray pixel artifacts near the rounded corners
-it's just fucking a headache
- animatedgif0
Utter fucking garbage, thought the program was just buggy as fuck till I noticed this hidden option.
Gets even more retarded that in a document some objects can have it enabled and others can't so if you're working with other peoples files and copying between documents then the pixel snap setting starts to infect your documents
- animatedgif0
Wouldn't be a problem if Adobe pushed Fireworks for web design instead of trying to fit all these different square pegs into the round hole.
- I always thought Fireworks was meant for web design.ORAZAL
- it is, Adobe just ignores it exists and prefers to add web design features to Ill,Ind,PSanimatedgif
- Continuity0
^^^ Fucking this (@animatedgif)
If Adobe kept their apps focussed on what they're supposed to do, instead of trying to make them be everything for everyone, they'd work better and they'd be far less fucking bloated, too. I'm looking at you, Photoshop.
- d_rek0
@animatedgif
Do you recommend fireworks for creating UI iconography? My immediate impression of fireworks have always been that the toolset is too limiting for complex artwork creation.
- not to butt in, but non-snapping Illustrator is probably the best for illustration iconographymonospaced
- I am working on a firmwide icon library right nowmonospaced
- Yeah, I figured it out. pixel preview with no snapping, except on occasion i'll make something snap so I can get a perfect 1px line or whateverd_rek
- animatedgif0
Fireworks is best for layout, buttons, text etc.
However you certainly can create iconography in it:
two designers who use it :
http://hicksdesign.co.uk
http://ivomynttinen.com/work/Personally I use Fireworks a bit like a print designer uses InDesign. I do Photomanip and masking in Photoshop, Logos/vector illustration in Illustrator then bring it all together with the layout/UI built in FW.