Determine gradient location/direction

[purrlions]

If you have a shape and click on circular gradient fill, you will have the gradient in the center of the shape. If you click the gradient tool after that, and click and drag in the shape, you can specify where the gradient will occur in the shape.

Working backwards, I have a file from a customer that I need to determine exactly where the gradient was custom-applied within a shape. Is there a view that has a means of showing where the gradient was applied? Is there a gradient handle that can be viewed or modified?

Also, in this particular case it looks like it was a circular gradient applied to a square, after which the square was pulled to distort the gradient to a flatter 'galaxy shape'. Is there a way to achieve this effect without distorting the shape? A special keyboard command that stretches the gradient in one direction but not the other?

Thx in advance if you can help,

 

[itchybug]

purr:

In response to your last question, and in the spirit of working backwards, you could scale down the shape in one direction, then apply the gradient, and then scale the object back to its original dimensions (IE if you want a laying down galaxy, you'd scale the shape down horizontally, apply gradient, then re-scale up horizontally.

HTH

Bert

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