: Spacing objects evenly on a spine with an open path using the blend tool I made a blend of stars and chose the replace with spine command. The stars are not evenly spaced. I then decided

@Correia448

I see from your follow-up comments that this is a curved path. You said you added anchor points...were you doing that manually, with the Pen tool, eyeballing the intervals? Select the spine and then select Object > Path > Add Anchor Points...do that over and over again, and that should do the trick, though the objects still may not be perfectly spaced apart.

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@Margaret771

after replacing the spline,


select the path and use Path->Simplify...and move Curve Precision to 100%

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@Murray976

While it seems like this should be easy.. it is not. The truth of the matter is, there's no way to control the spacing of objects in a blend accurately. Yes you can add anchors and push/pull handles to try and eyeball the spacing. However on a non-linear path, you'll almost always have uneven spacing in a live blend.

The only way around this is to expand the blend and manually align objects, or expand and use the distribute buttons on the Align Panel.

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@Megan533

It should work if you first make a blend between the two stars with specified steps (I chose 18) and then add anchor points to that path.

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