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And moving/zooming are disabled while the dialog window is up, meaning I cannot navigate to the guide I need to see.įor these reasons, I need to be zoomed in on the guide, tweaking the measurements from the top Control Panel. The Scale tool's pop-up dialog isn't useful either. It overshoots or undershoots the guide I'm aiming for. Well, I tried using this click-drag scaling method as well, but the level of precision is too low to be usable. Pointer away from the reference point, and then drag until the object Want the reference point to be in the document window, move the

To scale relative to a different reference point, click where you In Illustrator is there a way to precisely scale to a pivot point or "reference point" that is off the screen? I mean when you want to zoom in somewhere far away from where you set that point and then scale precisely to align something.
