Change labels for Align buttons to match the reference line rather than a position change
The labels that pop-up over the align panel are wrong!
Well, when one wants to align objects left, right or centre – the aligning reference (imaginary) line is vertical, isn't it? Then why are they called "Horizontal Align"? And vice-versa for aligning objects top, centre and bottom. What's the reasoning behind this? Dyslexia?
Florin
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Anonymous commented
What matters is that objects being aligned horizontally, move horizontally. Horizontal alignment makes X coordinates of the several objects the same, vertical alignment makes Y coordinates the same. Hence they are horizontal and vertical, respectively.
Answering the question about the process and finality — the buttons are COMMANDS, so I'd say it is definitely talking about the process.
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Florin
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Let's agree to disagree… When one says "vertically aligned" would you think about a horizontal axis? Exactly…
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Take a look at similar buttons in Paragraph panel: these say Align Left and Align Right, and do a very similar thing for lines in paragraph. Both 'left' and 'right' belong to the horizontal axis. I understand you mean 'move left TO meet the vertical line', but I also understand why the movement is more important.
These Align buttons’ icons could have no reference lines displayed (and many apps don’t).I respect your position, your request is valid, but I wouldn’t hope much to get it changed...
Unlike this report with the 'Vertical' label for area type, — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/45711817 — where the label was clearly wrong (and the team agreed on it and fixed it), matching all other apps that allow this. What you offer contradicts the acknowledged paradigm. Even CSS that this page uses to display things uses 'horizontal' to describe it (https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_align_horizontal.asp) -
Florin
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Hi, I get that, the movement of the objects is horizontal – but what's more important here: the process or the finality? The reference IS VERTICAL. Even the icon shows a VERTICAL line…
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Taking first three buttons for an example, this is most probably because objects get moved along the horizontal axis to match the vertically oriented reference. This horizontal movement is more prominent on canvas, and it’s what gets changed (the X coordinate, the horizontal one).
Plus this seems to be a widely accepted paradigm: Core DRAW uses it, Affinity does, other apps ...Inkscape uses careful 'Align left edges', which is interesting.On the other hand, there’s a report about 'wrong names' used in the Reflect tool dialog (and buttons in the Properties panel): https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/31671772
So it’s always a different POV on these and some who find the convention confusing.Welcome to UserVoice, by the way. Please comment and upvote and report, it all matters.
