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Anyway to stroke Inside the path?

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p1kuo

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Sep 4, 2003, 2:58:10 PM9/4/03
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I know Photoshop makes this distinction, and if I remember right, streamline does this also.

when i add stroke weight to a path, the stroke gets added to both sides of the path (a two point stroke = 1 point stroke on one side of the path and another point stroke on the other side).

sometimes i can't snap to items and align items very well because of a thick stroke.
Is there anyway to make it so that it's all on either the inside or outside? Either that, or reset the bounding box to include the stroke?

thanx

p1kuo

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Sep 4, 2003, 3:35:26 PM9/4/03
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Thanx Dave,

Object>path>offeset path didn't work for me, but
Effects>path>offset path did.

Object>path>offset path just made another path with the amount of offset but the stroke was still on either side. dunna.

Effects>path>offset path (eith the negative numbers) moved the stroke into the path. which is great, but in doing so it 'shrank' the size of the object by the amount of the offset.

Is there anyways to do this while the object's appearance stays the same?

Dave Rioux

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Sep 4, 2003, 3:09:54 PM9/4/03
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Select the item:
then..
Object ->
Path ->
Offset Path
And using a negative amount (i.e. -.01in)
will give you and inside only stroke.

Big Giant Head

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Sep 4, 2003, 3:32:26 PM9/4/03
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Show me your work where this is a problem

p1kuo

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Sep 4, 2003, 3:43:41 PM9/4/03
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>>>Show me your work where this is a problem .....


lets say i have two rectangles, both are the same size, one is just a solid fill w/ no stroke (a), the other has a stroke w/ no fill (b). If i increase the stroke on rectangle B, Rectangle B will get a lot bigger than rectangle A, even though the path is the same dimensions. Dave's suggestion will fix somethign like this. since it'll push the stroke back into the original path

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But if i were just randomly drawing things and applying thick strokes, and i use the offset path trick, my drawings will become smaller after i apply the effect. which doesn't preserve the way the jobject looks originally. Is there anyway now to push the path out to the edge of the stroke instead of pushing the stroke into the path?

=)

Teri Pettit

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Sep 4, 2003, 3:50:26 PM9/4/03
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p1kuo,

It sounds like you might just want to turn on the "Use Preview Bounds" option for the Align palette (see its menu.) The option is also available on General Preferences.

This will cause the Bounding Box, Align palette, and Transform palette to measure objects by the area that their preview covers, including strokes and effects such as drop shadows, instead of by their anchor points and bezier outlines.

Snapping will still happen to the anchor points, though.

p1kuo

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Sep 4, 2003, 4:20:42 PM9/4/03
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good enough for me.
thanx =)
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