Handles disappear

Sometimes, when working on an Illustrator document the handles of (all) objects disappear. Neither clicking with the select- nor the direct selection tool will show handles. Rebooting doesn't solve the problem. It seems to be some kind of setting that I'm accidentally activating, but I can't find my way back. Or is it a bug? I'm working with CS3, Win XP. Any suggestions?

Dirk,
we are not just talking about Hide/Show Edges (Ctrl+H/Cmd+H) here, are we?

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The video I am watching this guy is just dragging every line to make curves. And every anchor point is a corner. He is not switching back and forth between the pen and the anchor points tool, and he is not using the convert points tool. He draws a curved line and starts another straight line only to curve it with a click and a drag. It is super efficient, and I could save a world of time if I could figure out what he is doing.

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Recreate:
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Bug in Studio 10.3 - Automatic Handler disappears in horizontal layout

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KelVarnson wrote:
Darryl.Burke wrote:
Nothing wrong, unless the OP has a custom class named GridBagLayout in the same package, one that either isn't a LayoutManager or doesn't have a default constructor.My guess as well.
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2 quick fixes available:
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Motion path handles disappeared

I've been working in After Effects for a little while now and am having some of my motion path handles not appear when they should. I'm working on a slideshow and they seem to appear for all of my other pictures. What I do is go in between the start and end point of a path and move my picture away from the main (straight) motion path I created which usually creates a new keyframe on my timeline and inserts a point on my motion path with two handles I can adjust to make the path curved. This time it just creates the point on the motion path and keyframe, but doesn't allow me to make the path curved. It's really strange and has happened to me before. The way I solved it earlier was to remove the point where it wasn't working and insert a new one, and it would magically turn on, but that doesn't seem to work now.
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That worked, although it's a few extra steps that I shouldn't have to take (and haven't prior to this). I held down alt by mistake at first and it only gave me one handle, but if I just tap alt and then click--->drag away from the point, it does provide me with a handle in each direction, which is what I was ultimately needing. Here is a screenshot of that layer although it's pretty standard.
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Why do crop box and handles disappear after carrying out a crop?

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Message was edited by: Nick Harrison

All you have to do is click on the edge of the image to bring back the handles, or click-drag to make a new crop. You don't have to quite the tool.

Anchor Points and handles disappearing in Illustrator CC – Windows 8

Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help.
This is becoming a consistently re-occurring issue for me, and it's not specific to any particular file.
The bounding box is visible, so I have a blue outline and blue "anchor points" at the end of each line, and I can even use the new CC round edges option, however I have no anchor points to do any resizing, and I can't hover the black arrow tool just outside the edges of a shape to quickly rotate it.
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This is literally driving me mad. When I change something via convert anchor tool and then release, the handles disappear and when I click back on the anchor point they go back to where they were originally. I want them to stay selected. The path has been created using the pen tool.
Another related question, is there a way to just select one of the handles when clicking an anchor point? Whenever I click both are selected so when I move the mouse, the other handle is being manipulated too.
And another question, is there any way to stop anchor handles reverting to their original position settings when clicking to activate them? I always have to click, then undo.

You may work on one handle only by Alt/Option+ClickDragging it; you may also retract one handle that way.
ONLY IF you're using the white pointer. Doing that with the Convert tool will duplicate the segment. Again, Nicola, don't use the Convert tool to select points. That's what you're tripping over.
Funny name for it, show edges...how are you meant to work out what it means from that name? With pencil and paintbrush you double click and choose keep path selected, you'd think it'd be the same.
Nicola, you need to spend some serious time in the documentation.
The Keep Selected option for the Pencil and Brush tools is an entirely different function. It determines whether a path you draw with the tool REMAINS SELECTED after you mouseup.
The Show/Hide Edges option in the View menu determines whether a path's selection edges DISPLAY when it IS selected.
I'm certainly not defending Illustrator's awful interface design; I'm just telling you how it is. (All the more reason you need to read and work through the instructions.) The Show.Hide Edges command is actually a workaround for a particularly bad aspect of Illustrator's poor design: it's insistence on displaying edges of all contents of selected Groups, Clipping Paths, etc. All those selection edges frequently get in the way, so somewhere along the way, Illustrator had to add an option to override the annoying standard behavior. This, too, is poorly done, because you really can't operate for long that way.
Other programs don't have to second-guess themselves in things so basic as selection display, because they have more sensible interfaces to begin with.
JET

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PECourtejoie, That was a lot of text! I did not include most of it, but I did include anything related to the video card. I hope I included what you need. If not, I can copy the whole shebang. Thank you for all your help.
Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.1.2 (13.1.2 20130105.r.224 2013/01/05:23:00:00) x64
Operating System: Windows 8 64-bit
Version: 6.2
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:10, Stepping:7 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Physical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 3293 MHz
Built-in memory: 8045 MB
Free memory: 4931 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 7046 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
Image tile size: 1024K
Image cache levels: 4
The GPU Sniffer crashed on 2/6/2013 at 3:19:27 PM
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced
OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
OpenCL Version: 1.1 CUDA 4.2.1
OpenGL Version: 3.0
Video Rect Texture Size: 16384
OpenGL Memory: 1024 MB
Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Video Card Renderer: GeForce GTX 650 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Display: 2
Display Bounds: top=-30, left=1680, bottom=1020, right=3360
Display: 1
Display Bounds: top=0, left=0, bottom=1050, right=1680
Video Card Number: 2
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti
Driver Version: 9.18.13.1106
Driver Date: 20130118000000.000000-000
Video Card Driver: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 x 4294967296 colors
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Video Card Memory: 1024 MB
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Control handles do not remain showing

I have show handles for multiple selected anchor points turned on, and all of the handles are showing, but as soon as I drag out a guideline the handles disappear. I was watching a tutorial video where the handles remained showing as the guidelines were dragged and snapped to points. Is this a difference between Windows and Mac versions of Illustrator?

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I have a camera parented to a null that is being used for this shot. The camera zooms close to the planet very quickly, and then i wanted it to approach slowly (like a coming out of warp shot). Seems easy enough.. The camera slows down at Z position =40,000. The next keyframe is set to 41,000 so that it moves slowly forward . The problem is, the camera way overshoots the keyframe value then backs down to 41k. When i look at the graph i see that it curves up, but it does that on the first set of keyframes as well and the camera doesn't make any unwanted movements. Does anyone know what could be going on? The keyframes are easy-eased, but i tried turning that off and the camera still did this movement.

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Lorna in Southern California

You need to increase the Content Height setting,
Lorna. I can tell you right now that your Content
Height is more like 1000-1200 as it stands. Just
compare the width of the page to the height. Imagine
a square with sides the same size as the width of the
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James, wow, you were right. I set the text field to 1500 pixels and the page length visibly lengthened. I now have the Counter at the bottom of the page.
BUT WAIT! THERE IS A NEW PROBLEM! <she shrieked>
When I clicked to insert an Email Me button, it went to the bottomest bottom of the page and slipped below the bottom page boundary. You know how when Bugs Bunny was hiding behind a large rock, you could see his ears twitching and you knew that he was hiding there? Well, similarly, I saw two, maybe three handlebars to what I know is the Email me button, but when I clicked onto the handles to "grab" the button and lift if from where it should not be, those handles disappeared, not to return. Of course, I experimented to push the page down longer, using the Counter button as a bulldozer, but the page would not lengthen, probably because it reached the limit of the 1500 pixels. So I figured: If I set the text field to max out at 1500 pixels, how is it that the Email me button has slipped below that? And so I bring the issue to the Forum once again.
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Lorna in Southern California

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