My sad story

In the much maligned post-CS3 smart guides, there are some known problems. This Adobe forums thread is a good example. That was all very helpful but my problem is a little different.

I primarily use the Construction Guides feature and I often enter some odd ball numbers that I’ve derived from one geometry or another (like the example here). A very basic example is if I want to use 30° angles, like so:

Notice that I turn those pesky Alignment Guides off — it’s a matter of preference. In the new system (post-CS3), I have to hold command to make my Construction Guides show up. Dumb UX, but I’m a big boy, I can handle it.

My trouble is, the angles don’t always show up. In fact, when this happens I’m often completely unable to revive them without a restart of Illy. On the other hand, the alignment counterparts are always happy to turn on … even though I don’t want them.

There are other times when I do get Construction Guides but only for 45° angles, regardless of what I change them to. They act more like their alignment counterparts but without the spastic guessing lighting up my screen.

In both cases, a restart of Illustrator usually corrects things. But this happens a lot. And those silly Alignment Guides are always happy to pop to life.

Getting to the point

Can anyone confirm that this is a bug, or my system is messed up, or I’m just not qualified to use this fancy new software? I do so love jumping back to CS3 when I need truly Smart Guides.

I’m on Illustrator CS5 v15.1.0 running in Mac OS X 10.7.3.

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Source : Link , Question Author : plainclothes , Answer Author : Scott