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  • Cannot stetch shapes?

    Posted by Tom Scott on April 9, 2009 at 2:28 am

    Hey im fairly new to illustrator, it has been working fine until recently.

    With the normal cursor i cannot drag and stretch objects instead i have to use the specific tool, to scale objects.

    This is really frustrating so even if it sounds like a stupid question you help would really be appreciated, thanks

    im using adobe illustrator CS3

    Thie Thomsen replied 17 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Thie Thomsen

    April 10, 2009 at 2:21 pm

    What pointer tool are you using? The white or the black one.

    You can’t scale with the white one, as this one is specifically for moving/selecting anchorpoints/lines. The black one is for moving/stretching entire objects.


    I can see your spot colours…

  • Tom Scott

    April 10, 2009 at 11:06 pm

    yeah im using the correct cursor, but it seems as though somehow the attributes have copied to the other cursor

    thanks for the response

  • Thie Thomsen

    April 11, 2009 at 9:51 am

    in that case it sounds like you’ve accidentally hid your bounding boxes.

    ctrl+shift+b toggles them back on (command+shift+b on a Mac).


    I can see your spot colours…

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