What is Illustrator Selecting?
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- ********
Does this happen to you?
Illustrator CS4 is saying I'm selecting a big object when I'm only selecting a small one.
Using the white arrow (A), I click on a shape that is not grouped and not masking anything either, and it gives me this huge area, with nothing else in it. I hit the V key and it gives me the image above.
The shape is 55 px wide, but it says at the top that it is 4131.183 px.
I can copy and paste this into a new document and it's normal. I can also close and reopen the document and it is fine.
Why?
- ad10
it sometimes does this to me too. i'd love to know the answer. there is no pattern in when it chooses to do so.
running cs6
- ETM0
Zoom out to the max and be sure there are no stray points or objects outside your artboard. That's usually all it is when it happens to me.
- d_gitale0
I have had this as well a while ago. It is definitely not stray points.
As far as I remember it mostly happened with imported files from later Illustrator versions.
- bm6660
You may have a guide selected. That normally causes this issue!
- you can't select guides and objects at the same time. am i wrong??CanHasQBN
- You can select both. You're wrong.monospaced
- oh, i've always had my guides locked (by default i guess). thanks.CanHasQBN
- It's InDesign where you can only select one or the other.monospaced
- orrinward20
If it's from new Illy versions it could be the artboards?
- Do a Shift+Ctrl+Y and see what it's selecting.orrinward2
- Or just Ctrl+Y rather!orrinward2
- Fax_Benson0
Left over bounding box or clipping mask from an imported graphic?
- i_monk0
Illy has done this randomly since pre-CS days. If closing/reopening doesn't work, shutting it down and restarting the program will.
- monospaced0
This glitch has happened for many years and many versions. It's random. Just use your white arrow and select the points of the offending object. Sometimes it's a random object on your page. It's kinda like shaking and hitting an old tv with a glitchy picture. Don't know why but it happens and that works for some reason.
- jeveritt0
Happens all the time!
Lock the object (Apple + 2) then unlock all (Apple + Alt + 2) seems to solve the issue!
- sothere0
i hate that bastard. happens all the time. Its not a stray point cos when you use a different tool like scale it doesn't recognise the larger object.
stupid.
- nato0
Just a weird bug that's been around forever. Double-clicking on the object to Isolate it and then clicking back out will usually fix this as well. Another fix is to try hiding and unhiding the object.
- ********0
Illustrator pisses me off so much.
It's the annoying uncle that visits at Xmas, wants everything his way
- cannonball19780
delete the selection?
- Fuzziest0
restart 3 times.
- doesnotexist0
you don't have to do any of this.
select all, then deselect. fixed.
- wish it were true, but this is rarely the case in my experiencemonospaced