Dimtri,
I read the posts for this string and was curious so I did a bit of reading in the Adobe Help Manual for Illustrtor CS4. This is what I found:
In the index there was no mention of snapping an object to another anywhere. There was mention of snapping points to each other.
While watching a Lynda.com Video taught by Deke McCelland He did a bunch of aligning objects to each other. This is how he did it. In the preferences on the Selection and Anchor Display panel, he had us check both Object Selection by Path Only and Snap to Point. Then he stressed memorizing the command for turning the bounding box on and off (Cmd + Shift+ B) By turning off the bounding box you can move drawn objects by an anchor point rather than the path itself rather than resizing the object like you would with the bounding box turned on. Then by dragging the anchor point you want in alignment with a point on another object, your cursor shows when you have an anchor point under it, by its appearance (black triangle with rectangle as tail) when you drag the anchor point to the position of another anchor point, the cursor turns to a white triangle when they are perfectly aligned. I worked through this at 6400%. There was no jumping to or snapping, just the indicator with the cursor changes. Which from the Tutorials I was watching was normal.
I used CS4 on an Intel mac with OS 10.5.7.
I hope what I posted was helpful. When I read of problems and difficulties others are having, I get curious and try to work through the problem so as to learn what to do before i come across it in a work situation.
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