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Menu

  1. View > Snap to Pixel ❌ : Turn off this feature.
  2. Window > Control ✅ : Toggle this to show/hide the top control bar.
  3. Window > Type : Character and Paragraph tabs for typography.

Tricks

Replicate a shape multiple times accross a circle path

  1. Your shape is already drwaen in Illustrator,
  2. Calculate your degree value by deviding 360 (degree) by the quantity of shapes you want at the end,
  3. Go back to Illustrator,
  4. Switch to outline view [Ctrl]+[Y] keys,
  5. Draw a circle that will be your path,
  6. Position the circle relative to your shape (since this affect the angle of the end shapes),
  7. Select just the original shape,
  8. Switch to rotate tool [R] key,
  9. Click [Alt] key then select the rotating center indicator from your original shape and move it to the center of your circular path,
  10. In the Rotate window enter your degree value in the angle field then click the "Copy" button,
  11. Click on [Ctrl]+[D] keys to individually create each shape, one at a time,
  12. Delete the circular path.

Preferences

(1) General

State En Fr State En Fr
∅ Disable Auto Add/Delete ✅ Double click To isolate
∅ Use Precise Cursors ∅ Use Japanese crop marks
∅ Show Tool Tips ✅ Transform pattern tiles
✅ Show/Hide Rulers Across All Documents ∅ Scale corners
✅ Anti-aliased Artwork ∅ Scale strokes & effects
∅ Select Same Tint % ✅ Enable content aware defaults
∅ Show The Home Screen When No Documents Are Open ∅ Honor Scale on PDF Import
∅ Use legacy « File New » interface ✅ Zoom with Mouse Wheel
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Force Enable Pinch-to-Zoom on Touchpad
∅ Use Preview Bounds
✅ Display Print Size at 100% Zoom
✅ Append [Converted] Upon Opening Legacy Files
✅ Show system compatibility issues at startup

(2) Selection & Anchor Display

Selection

  • Tolerance: 3 px
State En Fr
∅ Object selection by Path only
✅ Snap to point 1 px
✅ Control click to select Objects behind
∅ Constrain path dragging on segment reshape
∅ Show anchor points in selection tool and shape tools
✅ Zoom to selection
∅ Move locked and hidden Artwork with Artboard

Anchor points, Handle and Bounding box display

State En Fr
✅ Highligh anchors on mouse over
∅ Show handles when multiple anchors are selected
✅ Hide corner widget for angles greater than: 177°
  • Enable rubber band for: ✅ Pen tool ✅ Curvature tool

(5) Guides & Grid

Grid

  • Gridline every: 10px
  • Subdivisions: 5
  • ✅ Grids in back
  • ✅ Show pixel grid (above 600% zoom)

(6) Smart Guides

Display options

State En Fr State En Fr
✅ Alignment guides ✅ Anchor/Path labels
✅ Object highlighting ✅ Measurement labels
∅ Transform tools ✅ Spacing guides
  • ∅ Construction guides: 90° & 45° Angles

Snapping Tolerance: 4 pt


(11) Performance

Others

  • Undo counts: 100

(12) File Handling & Clipboard

Files

  • Number of Recent Files to display (0-30): 20
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