PSE9 The crop/recompose tool is stuck on recompose

I've tried to reinstall Elements 9 but its still stuck. Its ok in PSE8. Any idea how to fix it. I can crop using the Image menu but if there is supposed to be a short cut then I prefer to use it.

Don't hover. Click. The black triangle means that there is a group of tools in that slot in the toolbox. Many tools have this. You must either click and choose another tool to switch or tap the letter that appears when you hover (in parenthesis at the end of the tool's name) to switch to the other tools. If you do it that way, watch the icon for it to change to the one you want.

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I don't know how far you have been up to with your code. I never really cropped the artwork by code, I only placed the crop marks using this code:
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Since I've never scripted the printing in Ai, I cannot tell you how to crop while printing, but this might get you started. In CS4 they introduced multiple artboards, which requires different code for cropping, as far as I can see from the ref PDF.
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m.

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imjohn

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Great to hear that Nick
Hi Jacob,
Long time. Winter is at our doors here. I am OOTO for this Thursday & Friday + Weekend. Will get back on the forums soon.
With Best Regards,
Raghuveer

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Run it when you have the layers created.
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I use PSE 9 and i just recently encountered a problem trying to crop a photo. I can't find the crop tool. What am I doing wrong?

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Which operating system are you using?
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You should be able to Left click and hold on the toolbox icons to see the fly-out menus for the tools that share the same slots.
Tools in the toolbox that have other tools in the same slot have a little black arrow to the right of the tool icons.
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I was amazed at the amount of info you put into that post. Thanks for that effort.
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I should have checked the performance right there, but I didn't. Right under Silverlight, you mentioned Flash. I decided to check the prefs on it, and found that it was set to allow sites to save info to my computer, and Camera/Mic and Playback were changed from "Block" to "Ask Me". I distinctly remember setting those for maximum privacy. I reset them, cleared all the files, and exited the prefs.
I just checked them again, and everything is changed back to allow Flash to have its way. Looks like I'll be uninstalling that now...
I also installed Acrobat recently, just to have an alternative to Preview. Sea Monkey opened an alert box just now, telling me to watch out for the Acrobat plugins, as they've been known to cause problems. Gotta love Adobe.
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