Position of artboard

[tiago1801]

I noticed something strange lately. My artboards are overflowing the content. 

 

As you see that artboard is way beyond the zero position. The real positioning is x = 510. Not only X but Y is not normal anymore.

 

At the beginning everything worked fine but now I see in different mode.

 

What is going on?

[Callum]

Hi Tiago,

 

I have looked at your image and I'm not able to see anything wrong I'm afraid. Would it be possible for you to provide a little more detail as to the exact nature of your issue? 

 

The coordinates you see in the Transform tab are in reference to the anchor you have selected I can see from your screenshot(see attached) that the centre of your shape has been selected as the anchor point which means the coordinates are correct.

 

C

[tiago1801]

@Callum

 

As you see now, the X is 510 far from zero point

 

The width of content is of 1020 pixels but that artboard start from 510 px mark and its width is of 1020 px. So, it's not possible to have that without overflowing the whole page.

 

 

[Callum]

Hi Tiago,

 

Please could you click the square in my attached screenshot to see if that gets the coordinates back to normal for you?

 

C

 

 

[tiago1801]

Let me show another raw work. This content is of 1500 width and 1500 lenght.

 

If you see image 4, you'll notice image starting point is of -250 px and not 0, which it is suppose to be.

 

Image 3 is exactly at the centre of page.

 

I hope I got clear now

[tiago1801]

Hi Tiago,

 

Please could you click the square in my attached screenshot to see if that gets the coordinates back to normal for you?

 

C

 

Yeah. What happened?

[Callum]

The coordinates you see in the Transform tab are in reference to the anchor you have selected, the anchor you had selected was the centre square which is the centre of the object. The square in my previous screenshot is the origin point anchor :)

 

 

C

[tiago1801]

The coordinates you see in the Transform tab are in reference to the anchor you have selected, the anchor you had selected was the centre square which is the centre of the object. The square in my previous screenshot is the origin point anchor :)

 

 

C

Still confuse. For what is that?

[Callum]

Hi Tiago,

 

I'm not too sure what you mean by your latest reply, if possible could you provide a little more information?

 

C

[tiago1801]

Hi Tiago,

 

I'm not too sure what you mean by your latest reply, if possible could you provide a little more information?

 

C

 

You said: "The square in my previous screenshot is the origin point anchor"

 

I asked you what those archor points are for exactly

[Patrick Connor]

The anchor points control what the X and Y are indicating. So you see the coordinates of any corner or edge or centre point in the document or artboard coordinate space.

 

You don't always want to know where the top left is, and this way you choose which corner (or centre) you want to know.

[R C-R]

tiago1801,

 

To see what the anchor points in the Transform panel do, try selecting an object in a test file. In the transform panel, click on the center anchor point as in your example. Now change either the R (rotation) or S (Skew) value in the Transform panel. Now select a corner anchor point & do the same thing.

[tiago1801]

Still a little bit confuse the purpose of those anchor points

[R C-R]

The anchor points control the center point of a rotation or skew done in the Transform panel -- there are nine possibilities for that. They also display the x & y coordinates of those points, so if (as in your example) the center anchor point is selected, the panel will display the x & y coordinates of the center point of the selected object, not its top left corner.

 

To see the coordinates of the top left edge, click on the anchor point outlined in red in the screenshot in Callum's second reply to you. Note that the top left anchor is shown in white & all the others in grey in the Transform panel, which can be a little confusing, but the selected one is shown larger than the others so check that if you are uncertain which one is selected.