Comments on: Illustrator 101: To Scale or Not to Scale? Strokes, That Is.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:57:58 +0000

if you have multiple objects scaled up to 150%, how do you scale down text or other objects so that they remain in the same position?

By: muez

muez — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:25:26 +0000

Thank you very much for the tip!
was looking for it. really help me a lot :)

By: welly

welly — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 07:16:31 +0000

Life saver!!

I’m pretty new to Illustrator and have recently done some company logo design in which I used effects, gradients, transparencies etc, and when I scaled the logo down to web size it was loosing the look completely. After checking scale strokes and effects it’s fine when scaled down!

Thanks for the tip!!

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By: Sahus Pilwal

Sahus Pilwal — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:56:22 +0000

Was looking to achieve this functionality but never bothered to look in the transform drop down menu. Thanks for the stroke scale tip!! ;)

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:57:02 +0000

Yahhoooo!! Saved me a lot of time googling this. Thanks!!

By: Allison

Allison — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:11:06 +0000

Fantastic – I did not know this, you saved me a lot of hassle. Thank u.

By: ezra

ezra — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:21:06 +0000

saviour!

By: Tim G

Tim G — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:49:09 +0000

Here’s a gotcha: If you’re importing an .ai document into your doc, if the original doc didn’t have these prefs, be sure to embed prior to scaling. Your new doc will not override the existing prefs. (Just discovered this the hard way.)

By: BB

BB — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:46:24 +0000

Thanks, I am a graphic design student and its funny all the things teachers don’t teach you! I was about to get a major headache until I read this tip.

By: airlie

airlie — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:31:18 +0000

thank you thank you! exactly the answer I needed.

By: Ramsi

Ramsi — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:59:09 +0000

OMG the answer! so simple! thx

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:08:07 +0000

A related question:
Is it possible to scale the stroke weight without scaling the object? I have a drawing with a lot of different stroke weights. Now I want to make all strokes a bit thinner (say 80%) without scaling the object. Does anybody know how this would be done?

By: Gunnar @ Trigger Vision Media

Gunnar @ Trigger Vision Media — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:39:43 +0000

This was super helpful. Thank you so much! I would have never figured this out by myself…

By: Ben S

Ben S — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:37:44 +0000

Aaaah this has been bugging me since I started using Illustrator years ago. Thanks very much for sharing this useful info with us all! Life saver :D

And yes… it’s taken me this long to getting round to putting ‘scale object and stroke in illustrator’ into Google…

By: Bigger and Louder Farts

Bigger and Louder Farts — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:33:21 +0000

I wonder if I could get a bounding box on my a$$?

By: Laura G

Laura G — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:19:31 +0000

I had been looking for this,
all this week, thank u very much
u saved my life :D

By: Holly D

Holly D — Sun, 24 May 2009 10:37:39 +0000

Horray! I’ve been changing mananually and finally figured it was time to figure out how to do this in AI – I’m more familiar with Corel but have tried to wean off it to AI but go back to Corel when I can’t figure something out. Thanks for the great tip!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:35:41 +0000

This is a great tip, but it didn’t work for scaling down a brushstroke. What am I doing wrong? Also, I am working with a logotype, and as I scale the illustration with the brushstroke larger, eventually this distorts the position of the type. Any suggestions?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:20:52 +0000

Thanks for this – I’ve been tearing my hear out wondering why strokes didn’t scale!