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Align Stroke to one side of open path

The feature which allows you to align stroke to inside or outside of a path for closed shapes is fantastic and gives a great deal of dynamic help. Currently, the only way to align a stroked path and another shape is inaccurately with only visual cues or expand the stroked path and lose editability.

I don't know if it has been suggested but a feature which allowed you to preserve a non destructive workflow and interact with shapes more easily is very much within reach. Simply create an equivalent for the align stroke to inside or outside of path for unclosed paths.

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Under Review  ·  AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded  · 

The team has encountered several issues with this feature. It requires them to change the basic algorithms and it is going to take them more time than anticipated.

While it still works in Beta 28.8.0.7, the next Beta build will have Inside/Outside aligned strokes for open paths disabled. The Beta is scheduled to be live on 7th of August.

Once this is ready to be enabled back, the team will update the status.

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  • Chris Noll commented  ·   ·  Report

    New version and still broken, even after getting an email response from Adobe support saying that the problem was fixed?

  • Andrew Anderson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please fix this. It is beyond annoying to have to change outer/inner stroke to a center stroke and then manually offset it using effects. Just do it automatically for us please.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just shocking that we can't align strokes to open paths as we choose!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    All three stroke gradient types should be applicable to all three stroke alignments. At the moment, I can only use all three gradient types if the stroke is aligned to the center of the path. If I need to make for instance a circular gradient on a stroke (the second gradient option), I am forced to align the stroke to center.

  • Sam Blomley commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please make this a feature. Align stroke on open paths is an important feature that I would very much like to see.

  • Skies commented  ·   ·  Report

    It is strange that this is not possible in Illustrator, since it is possible in Photoshop.

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