Move pattern (swatch pattern) within shape with direct selection tool
Some colleagues of mine are able to move a pattern filling within a shape by holding down < and the direct selection tool (white arrow). Some others - including me - are not. It's quiet annoying to move a pattern numerically within the shape (transform --> move).
Adobe Support was not able to solve the problem.
Johanna Rothe
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Fernando Zamora
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this has been happening to me from time to time. all of a sudden i can't transform my pattern by holding tilde key.
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Monika Gause
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In addition it would be very important to make this kind of modifier key (there are several like it) platform independent as well as language independent.
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Jeff D
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You can move patterns while holding ~ and click+dragging with the Selection Tool (v).
However, its implementation is terrible. There's no live preview of the pattern moving, so you just have to keep click-dragging, releasing, and re-adjusting. It's tedious and imprecise.
You can instead use the Move dialog (select the object and hit Enter/Return). Here, you can use Transform Pattern to move the pattern by precise increments with live preview.
Please, Adobe, make this function more intuitive.
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Anonymous
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Have you tried using "~" instead of ">"? This may be a keyboard language issue.