How to align all selected points to a grid?

Question

I'm working with Illustrator to make some icons. I use grid with step = 1px and after I scale/rotate shape elements I want them to automatically align to the grid. I know CS4+ has such an option in transform settings, but I have only CS2 at hand and I was hoping that there's some other way of aligning selected points to the grid (hidden option, script?).At the moment I'm selecting each point and manually move it up-left them down-right so that it snaps to a grid, but that is VERY slow and prone to mistakes.Is there a way in Adobe Illustrator CS2 to align all selected points to a grid?**UPDATE:** Changed the question details: it should read **grid** instead of *pixel grid* (otherwise it was misleading).

Answer 1

I don't know about aligning to the grid in CS2, just the pixel grid in recent versions, but this should work in any Illustrator version:

1. First make a guide and position it where you want the objects to align to.
2. Then select all the objects as well as the guide.
3. Click the guide one more time to highlight it. (It becomes the “key” alignment object.)
4. Then click the button for the correct alignment in the Alignment panel; easiest if picking left or right aligned in my opinion.

Hope this helps, let me know if you need more help. :)