{"id":16742,"date":"2010-12-20T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T00:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2010-12-20T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T00:53:09","slug":"a-tiny-tip-on-illustrator-anti-aliasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/20\/a-tiny-tip-on-illustrator-anti-aliasing\/","title":{"rendered":"A tiny tip on Illustrator anti-aliasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader today wrote, &#8220;Can anyone tell me if it&#8217;s possible to drag a one-pixel-width diagonal line in Illustrator without it forcing anti-aliasing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My suggestion: Try choosing Effect-&gt;Rasterize, then choosing 72PPI and no anti-aliasing. \u00a0If you often need this technique, you can create a graphical style &amp; then easily apply the look to multiple paths. \u00a0You can also get some funky lo-fi pixel-art looks by cranking the PPI setting way down.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately it&#8217;s largely unnecessary to think about this stuff now that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2010\/05\/illustrator_cs5_has_excellent_pixel_chops.html\">Illustrator CS5 has excellent pixel chops<\/a> (at last).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader today wrote, &#8220;Can anyone tell me if it&#8217;s possible to drag a one-pixel-width diagonal line in Illustrator without it forcing anti-aliasing?&#8221; My suggestion: Try choosing Effect-&gt;Rasterize, then choosing 72PPI and no anti-aliasing. \u00a0If you often need this technique, you can create a graphical style &amp; then easily apply the look to multiple paths. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16742"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}