Designer scaling & alignment problem

[EkJohnson]

I can't even Google this question 😛 

I'm having a problem that I've never had before with keeping scaled objects in alignment with Designer 2. I'm a total amateur so I'm sure it's something simple. *sigh*

For some reason, I have a group of objects/curves that when I scale the entire image up or down, they fall out of alignment whereas everything else scales as expected. I thought maybe it was how I originally created those objects but after completely rebuilding them, I have the same issue. 

In the two photos, the original is shown and the blue "rays" extending from the lettering (which has been converted to curves) is correct. But after I try enlarging the image, those blue rays start "drifting" as if (I guess) the space around them is scaling as well? You can see them falling out of alignment around the "e" "k" and "s" in the second photo but it's of course the entire image doing it. Everything else is good, the stars and their rays, the letters/curves and so on.

If it matters, it doesn't seem to make any difference wether the rays are grouped alone or with the letter/curves etc (grasping for straws there)

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance,

Eric

[Old Bruce]

This could be due to grouping of the various objects/layers.

You didn't mention this but there is a problem with the "stars" as well. Regarding the "stars" I think some of the strokes (if not all) have the Scale with object turned off. This is in the strokes panel.

   

[EkJohnson]

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for the idea but while setting the stroke to scale with the object worked nicely on the stars, neither that nor changing the grouping around seemed to have any effect on the alignment issue. I copied out a couple of the letters and the curves associated with them to a fresh artboard in the same document to test the groupings versus no groupings at all and so on, but got the same results as before. I've also tried creating entirely new documents both with and without an artboard and pasted it in and it still falls out of alignment. It's bizarre because none of my similar designs have had this problem. CLEARLY I've done something wonky (twice) but I have nooooo idea.

[Old Bruce]

To be honest I don't see anything out of alignment here.

[EkJohnson]

It's where the blue curves stop meeting up with the red & orange curves after I do any scaling.

[Old Bruce]

To me it looks like the black stroke is covering up the blue fill. That is the black stroke on the Blue and the black stroke on the p and the s.

[Callum]

Hi EK Johnson,

If possible could you copy and paste the problem objects into a new document and then upload a copy of it here so I can look into this further with you?

Thanks
C

[EkJohnson]

Hi @Callum,

Thank you for reaching out. 🙂

Attached is my problem child, pasted into a new fresh document with the behavior following. I also don't know if it's related but it might be worth mentioning, unless it's just me (which it very well could be) but I can't seem to have the Move tool active and click down through the layers to select anything which has been weird and annoying. This drawing was part of another document (that I somehow managed to get huge dimensions of 52.963 in x 25.348 at 300 DPI, not sure what I did there)  where I was doing a lot of testing and learning with things like the Contour tool to make the extruded text effects I have in this so who knows what I did to break things?  😛 

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