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Drawing

Last updated 6/5/2015

Move plane to match object

When you want to draw or bring objects in perspective at the same depth or height as an existing object, select the

existing object in perspective and click Object > Perspective > Move Plane to Match Object to bring the corresponding

grid to the desired height or depth. You can now draw or bring new objects in perspective.

Scale objects in perspective

You can scale objects in perspective using the Perspective Selection tool. While scaling objects in perspective, the

following rules apply:

• Scaling is done in the object’s plane. When you scale an object, the height or distance is scaled based on the object’s

plane and not the current or active plane.

• For multiple objects, scaling is done for objects that are on the same plane. For example, if you select multiple objects

on the right and left plane, then all the objects that are on the same plane as the object whose bounding box is used

for scaling, are scaled.

• Objects that have been moved perpendicularly, are scaled on their respective plane and not the current or active

plane.

Adding text and symbols in perspective

You cannot directly add text and symbols to a perspective plane, when the grid is visible. However, you can bring text

or symbols into perspective after creating them in normal mode.

To bring text or symbols in perspective, do the following:

1 Select the existing text or symbol using the Perspective Selection Tool and drag it to the required position on the

active plane, while the grid is visible.

2 The Edit Text option is available in the Control panel and under the Object > Perspective menu. In addition, you

can edit text in isolation mode or by double-clicking the text object.

A Edit Text B Edit Perspective C Isolate Selected Object

The Edit Symbol option is also available in the Control panel and under the Object > Perspective menu. In addition,

you can edit a symbol in isolation mode or by double-clicking the object.

Depending on whether you are editing a symbol or text, the options in the Control panel change to Edit Symbol or

Edit Text.

A symbol instance in perspective is the same as an expanded symbol instance. You can edit a symbol definition just as

you would edit the symbol definition of a flat symbol instance. However, a symbol definition cannot contain art types

that are not supported in perspective such as raster (images), non-native art, envelope, legacy type, and gradient mesh.

Note: Functionalities such as replacing a symbol, breaking link when expanding the a symbol instance, and reset

transformation do not work on symbols in perspective.

As a workaround to replacing a symbol instance, you can Alt+drag (Windows) or Option+drag (Mac OS) a symbol

instance in perspective and leave it over the symbol in the Symbols panel. However, make a copy of the symbol before

replacing the symbol instance because when you drag the symbol instance, the previous symbol instance is

permanently deleted from your document.

You can edit or modify text in the same way as is done in the normal mode. For more information, see Creating text.

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