Align By and Align To separate per object aligned
Current alignment in Illustrator is barely sufficient. I should be able to align any object or path by any point to any object or path by any point.
Perhaps if you created an alignment tool that allows us to select not only the alignment objects, but the points for each object to align by then your alignment methods would be so much more robust.
Using the align tool would create a list of alignment participants on a slide-out panel. When selecting an element to align, you would pick from one of the 9 reference points or click anywhere on the object to create a custom alignpoint. Then when you were done selecting elements, you would pick the alignment method (align Horizontal) and all of those elements would be aligned by the point you selected. What's more is that you could save this "alignment strategy" to realign those elements by those reference points later using a simple action. Hit me up for more details on this if you are interested.
Think of an alignment point as the alignment equivalent of a transform point with 9 positions.
Jason Burnett
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I wonder what workflow or task requires a method like this? Why realigning some object later again? Just curious.
