We’ve heard about several of the great new features in Illustrator CS5, including some pretty amazing new paint tools. This one, however, is near and dear to my heart. If you’ve ever tried to make web graphics in Illustrator, you know that anti-aliasing causes unpredictable results. Well, predictably bad results really. I haven’t used these features yet, but I’m really looking forward to trying it out!
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Sometimes you need more fine tuning than this. Set your Preferences > General > Keyboard Increment to 0.125 pixels. Then you can nudge lines around as needed.
Also, if you don’t want to see the pixels for the whole document or you’re using an older version of Illustrator, put everything in a group or layer and apply a rasterize effect with antialiasing turned on.