Bounding Box Problems

I am using Illustrator CS3. I have a document with art and text. When I click on a piece of art, there is a large bounding box (not really sure if that's what it's called) that encases the entire document and it's always attached to whatever piece of art I click on. Is there anyway to release any bouding boxes or maybe reveal what it actually is? I'm new to Illustrator and frustrated.

If you are seeing a bounding box with no object inside, then try setting a stroke color or fill color. You should see two color swatches in the top toolbar on the left. Clicking either of these will let you select a color. Left swatch is fill and right swatch is stroke.

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Hi Jen,
I'm most grateful for your response!
I am running Flash CS4 10.0.2 on a 2.4GB Mac OS X 10.5, MacBook Pro with 4GB RAM.
Following your reply, I tried a new AS2 file - and there is absolutely no issue! Its fine. How odd!
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Hello,
I already googelt a lot, but could not find a solution to my problem. Well, the thing is I have created some .eps images in various other programs. Now I want to 'place' them into a InDesign document, in order to combine them into a multi-panel picture.
Well, the images have white background, i.e. the bounding box does not fit the visual content of the images. How can I adjust the size of the bounding box to match only the visible parts of the picture?
I really found no hint for something like "select bounding box" or "adjust bounding box". Resizing the brown frame (I think this IS the bounding box, correct?) always resizes the figure itself, which is not what I want, because the white background at the sides causes distortions of the proportions of the visible image.
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I was quite tickled with it myself... As is to be expected it uses the old frame though, so for example if you've placed something to the trim box, but then want to include the bleeds it's not much use as it'll shrink it at the same time. I can't see how you could make it understand that you want it the original size, not shrunk.
This is when another script I have comes in useful, to save you having to navigate to the correct place for that file, you select something and run it and it places from the parent folder of that object. Forget where I found it though....

Effects change bounding box background color

This is a technical continuation of my earlier inquiry - to which I found a workaround but not the solution.
Create a document with a black background.
Drop a graphic with a transparent background, or a block of white text, on that background.
Print. You have stuff on a black background.
Now apply an effect to that graphic or text - emboss, glow, whatever.
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Despite much discussion and suggestions of the obvious (match color spaces, use CMYK graphic, remove underlying black background, etc.) not one thing I ever tried eliminated this bounding-box shadow, which, oddly, does not seem to appear on other colored background, even dark ones. ID is doing something with the black background... but what?
This also happens when (as in my specific case) a photo with a rich-black background refuses to match with a black background of the same color build. The photo is a deeper, shinier, rich black while the graphic black is colder and grayer.
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The full-rasterization technique in the original post fixes the problem, yes. I experimented with quite a few other settings along this line including letting the printer handle color and setting the mode to PS2. Nothing - as before - corrected the issue.
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And, finally, is this only an issue on my printer, or will the magazine's page imager render the same fault? These are pretty expensive ads for the client and I don't want to see these lovely bands when the magazine hits my desk. If it's just my printer, I can live with the workaround. But as this is a high-end HP with genuine PS3, how can a RIP with PS3 handle it any differently?
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Bounding Box Lags Behind

Hello. I'm on PS 5.5 for PC. When I use tools that create bounding boxes (rectangle marquee, lasso, etc) the bounding box lags behind and only appears when I click off the tool. I tried to reset preferences and reset tools but problem persists. Thank you.

A lot more information about your hardware and software is needed.
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If you give complete and detailed information about your setup and the issue at hand,
such as your platform (Mac or Win),
exact versions of your OS, of Photoshop (not just "CC", but something like CC2014.v.2.2) and of Bridge,
your settings in Photoshop > Preference > Performance
the type of file you were working on,
machine specs, such as total installed RAM, scratch file HDs, total available HD space, video card specs, including total VRAM installed,
what troubleshooting steps you have taken so far,
what error message(s) you receive,
if having issues opening raw files also the exact camera make and model that generated them,
if you're having printing issues, indicate the exact make and model of your printer, paper size, image dimensions in pixels (so many pixels wide by so many pixels high). if going through a RIP, specify that too.
a screen shot of your settings or of the image could be very helpful too,
etc.,
someone may be able to help you (not necessarily this poster, who is not a Windows user).
Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419981?tstart=0
Thanks!

Bounding Box

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I'm a newbie to Spry and I attach an image of a problem. I get a partial black bounding box line to the righthand bottom edge of the heading and a partial white line to the left and part of the bottom edges of the dropdown box. Yet when I check out the variousSpry options in the properties panel, I can't seem to find one to turn this off. Can anyone offer some guidance please?

Hi...just had a brief moment here..
Check these two items... "borders"
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if the is a link... there is some kind of borders outline that attached.... set them to "0"... do not just leave the boxes blank...
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:10:34 -0700
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Subject: Bounding Box
Re: Bounding Box created by glaustin in Spry Framework for Ajax - View the full discussion
Hello
As promised, I've uploaded my test page to: http://www.gbatdemo.co.uk/sprytest/testpage3.html. The problems are all in the button "services". I have two problems (as I now have 2 sub menus. The first issue is the lines I mentioned above around the left and bottom of the drop down box. The second problem is the 2nd sub-menu that opens to the right kind of mashes into the1st drop down box. I'm sorry if this is obvious stuff from this newbie but I just can't seem to find what I'm doing wrong.
Any help would be appreciated or let me know if you need more info provided.
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