Illy CS2 on XP weirdness

delooch · March 17, 2009, 01:50:02 PM

Ok, this happened before, but went away after a restart of illustrator.

I cannot grab the nodes on a bounding box to resize. i can grab the box and move it, but no resizing allowed. the cursor doesnt change on a mouseover, i dont know WTF.. I can resize in the transform panel, but grabbing nodes and willy-nilly sizing isnt allowed anymore..

what am i missing?

gnubler · March 17, 2009, 02:03:26 PM

What about selecting the shape and typing E for free transform. I always have my bounding box turned off, it annoys me. I use "E" a lot.

delooch · March 17, 2009, 02:18:24 PM

yeah, that works, but i should be able to resize with the plain 'ol selection tool (v) as well..

jezza · March 17, 2009, 03:08:47 PM

There's a preference thashould enable you to use 'area select' dunno where to find it in windows.

Have you used a Quark short cut? I often do... press the equivalent of apple U to ungroup (that's the QX keystroke) but it switches 'Smart Guides' in Illy

DigitalCrapShoveler · March 17, 2009, 03:18:58 PM

Object locked? Locked Layer maybe? Part of a clipping mask? It could be many different things. Is it file specific?

delooch · March 17, 2009, 03:33:37 PM

locked layer? no.
locked object? no.
new document? same results.

the cursor does change from a pointer to a black arrow with a small white dot when i hover over the node, but it doesnt let me grab the node. I can grab the object and move it, but not the nodes -

Direct selection tool (white arrow) does work fine.

anyone know how to dump the preferences in winXP??

DigitalCrapShoveler · March 17, 2009, 03:55:49 PM

The box is actually a guide. Go to >View>Guides>Release Guides.

delooch · March 17, 2009, 04:02:41 PM

nope. but close. it was under "View>show/hide bounding box".

First it was my guitar playing career, now this. my cursed short stubby fingers got me again with a mis-fired keystroke.

thanks all.

DigitalCrapShoveler · March 17, 2009, 04:10:35 PM

I got the same Pointer Icon with the guide situation when placing over a node. When the box is converted to a guide, it can be moved but not resized. Oh well, at least you got it figured out.

delooch · March 17, 2009, 04:14:00 PM

you did get me looking on the right drop down..

like with most software issues, the problem once again was between the keyboard and chair.

DigitalCrapShoveler · March 17, 2009, 06:51:29 PM

If a restart won't fix it, maybe a new carbon-based life form will. :laugh:

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