CS2 illustrator - scaling tool malfunction?
yanosh (6 pencils) | Tue, 2008-05-27 15:43Hey All,
So I've read all the forums across this site and the entire web and am completely perplexed. I do not have/run entourage or Quicken, so it isn't that. Here is my problem:
I woke up today to do some work on illustrator and I am no longer able to scale any boxes - be they created by the rectangle tool or the text tool. When I click on my selection tool it now merely acts exactly the same as the direction select tool - it can move my boxes all over the page but will not allow me to click on any sides to scale the box manually. I currently am trial-and-erroring my way through numerical transformation (and am going CRAZY!)
I am relatively new (a year or so) to the program - and it is very possible that I've turned off some function thus making me unable to scale using my selection tool. But my two hour search through the menus has yielded nothing.
any advice?
Thanks
JG
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First, repair permissions. If that fails, move your pref and plist files for illustrator to the trash. Hopefully it's just a corrupted preference file; this happens to illustrator from time to time.
As for a setting, I can't imagine you could turn off 'scale' for your objects...
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Dirt and Rust
Thank you.
It took a while to track down all the preferences/plists that kept reappearing but it's all good once again.
I assume that I will need to repeat this action/actions from time to time?
Again thank you so much
"Show bounding box"?
(menu item: view-Show/Hide bounding box)
"Try not, Do! or do not, there is no try."
-Yoda
That's actually a good one to remember. I've turned off bounding boxes before and it's no fun.
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Powerpoint is not a design application
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Dirt and Rust
The key stroke is DECEPTIVELY easy to invoke! lol
(right after I posted this I had turned it off to check my example, AND FORGOT to turn it back on again. . . for a minute I was like: WTF is up with this thing!? then I thought: Oh yea. . . go turn it back on! lol)
"Try not, Do! or do not, there is no try."
-Yoda