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  • transform handles have disappeared

    Posted by Indian_tut_guru on May 14, 2007 at 10:25 am

    hi

    i have illustrator CS2 installed on windows vista home OS.

    my problem is that recently my transform handles have disappeared. every time i have to scale down anything i have to use scale tool. no transform handles r appearing.

    how can i get ’em back.

    thnx in advance

    Luxman Akim replied 12 years, 2 months ago 5 Members · 6 Replies
  • 6 Replies
  • Mike Gondek

    May 14, 2007 at 2:35 pm

    Try resetting your illustrator preferences. Since you said this used to work good chance this will be fixed.

    If you had a huge rectangle outside the canvas on your page, and you do a select all, it may appears you lost your transform handle, as they are just outside your view area. Most likley my first suggestion is your solution, but mentioning this as I once had someone in a class in that situation.

  • Indian_tut_guru

    May 15, 2007 at 11:07 am

    hi

    thnx for ur reply

    where should i reset my preferences. i went to file preferences but there is the option to reset warning dialoges.

    how to reset preferences in illustrator cs2

    regards

  • Mike Gondek

    May 15, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    Immeditely after booting illustrator hold down these 3 keys (Shift Ctrl Alt) until prompted about do you want to reset your prefs.

  • Melody Sandola

    June 4, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    Under View click on show bounding box. This was driving me crazy too!!!

  • Chris Fraser

    March 15, 2010 at 8:09 am

    Such a simple solution, this has been bugging me for years! Thanks!!

  • Luxman Akim

    March 7, 2014 at 3:19 am

    I think, to restore auto transform in illustrator as seen in the picture attachment sent it, you just press Shift + Ctrl + B or select View – Show Bounding Box. that’s it!

    I hope this can help

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