RE - Transform in Illustrator CC

Hello,
I can't transform my shape in Illustartor CC.
i.e - I have a rectangle which I can neither scale, nor rotate.

c,
I doubt whether there is any (concious) reason behind it.
It can be difficult to distinguish between and select objects in a group.
One way is to use the expanded layer in the layers palette, with the Group expanded: you can see which objects are selected, and you can select them there (if you can regognize them by shape/name).

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Hi, I have a problem. I can`t find how to free transform in Illustrator like in Photoshop.
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Can someone help me? It seems to be easy to do this but I really can`t find the perfect option.

thinking about it, envelope distort would probably be easiest for your case:

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Hello,
I'm using CS4 and am having trouble with the free distort tool.
I didn't even know it existed until I googled it and have always instead pasted what I wanted into PS, rasterized it, distorted it, then pasted it back into illustrator and traced it with the new perspective.
I'm trying to follow this tutorial-
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Illustrator/14.0/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-646da.htm l
However, when I select my object(s), then use the free transform, all it does it change the whole size as if i'm using the resize tool.
I tried selecting all of the objects as individuals, putting them in a group, and even making the whole thing into (1) large compound path and it's still doing the same thing every time.
Holding the various keys it mentions do nothing except change the point at which the resize is occuring (from lower right to center and so on)
Using the free distort tool under effects does not change where my anchor points are. Ideally, I'd like to move those as well while free transforming, though perhaps I'm just wishing the program could do more than it can?
Hopefully someone can help me do what I want.
I'd like to go from point A to point B as shown here-
http://i44.tinypic.com/msgj75.jpg
but without the use of pasting into photoshop to do it.
Thanks!

Okay, so by holding the shift/ctrl/alt option, I was able to start seeing perspective distorting with your help. However it always moves (2) handles (right or left) depending on which side I'm on. Am I correct in assuming that that's just the way that tool works unless I use free distort in effects? I want a literal FREE transformation like in PS to achieve the look as I've shown it, and have all of my anchor points move as well.

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The Free Transform tool in Illustrator CC won't snap to Guides, and Smart Guides don't seem to work either.
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In CS6, Free Transform with Smart Guides allowed you to snap to paths, points, alignments and guides.
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James,
Depending on the urgency of your plight, you may await some cleverer suggestions, or read on.
When seems to be wrong for no apparent reason, and it is not limited to certain (existing) documents, you may consider the following (you may have tried/done some of them already) and see whether it helps, unless someone comes up with a cleverer suggestion.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file; 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences:
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to 3 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder Other options (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool, and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Can´t transform illustrator files

I´ve just downloaded the application because it said it can transform illustrator, indesign and photoshop files. Since the app to see those type of files is not supported on the ipad I thought this would be a solution to my problem of seeing my work on the ipad.
I tried converting a illustrator file and it said file type not supported, then tried a indesign file and the same thing happened.
I´m using an ipad with ios 6.0.1 and trying to convert the files using diferent apps (dropbox, fileBrowser, mail) it always pops the same messege "File type not Supported"
Someone knows why or is there a solution to the problem.

After investigating with the issue, I can confirm that we are aware that the CreatePDF app no longer supports InDesign, AI or PSD conversions. We found that our conversion wasn’t generating the results we expect and have temporarily disabled this capability until we can fix the problem. We expect it to be fixed sometime in the first half of 2013. I apologize for the confusion.

Illustrator won't transform images!!

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I tryed pressing ctl + T on windows illustrator to transform, it did it before but now theres a red line around my image and I can't edit it, does anyone know what im doing wrong?
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I think you're confusing keyboard shortcuts with Photoshop's.
While Ctrl+T gets you free transform in Photoshop, it merely toggles Character palette visibility in Illustrator.
Hit 'E'. That's the keyboard shortcut for the free transform tool in Illustrator. For quick resizing/scaling, you can use the regular selection tool (black arrow) if you have bounding box set to show.
Yes... I know... Adobe cross-application user interface uniformity is an ongoing joke.
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I did a little screencast here, anyway the bug is a simple one to explain. For some reason the transform/bounding box disappears on single objects, but behaves normally on multiples and groups.
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cheers
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(Illustrator CC 2014 18.1.0 – OSX 10.8.5 MBP 2.66GHx i7 | 8GB RAM)
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Thanks to you both Monika Gause and Jacob Bugge
All those alternatives certainly match up to the testing I'd done, probably the fastest/cleanest is to just hit "unite" in the pathfinder palette.
For the benefit of other users, coming only recently from CS5 this is an interesting new option, MENU = OBJECT > SHAPE > EXPAND RECTANGLE (snapshot below) once you have "Expanded" the rectangle it will behave as expected where toggling back to the black Selection Tool (V) will show the transform handles.
I'll be heading over to Yosemite in the next week if I get some downtime to make it happen! (crosses fingers - back up - back up - back up...)
cheers
Dave

How to resolve this error - "Cannot save the illustration The requested transformation would make.."

Hello Adobe Community,
I am trying to organize some album artwork within a pre-designed template and I keep getting this error when trying to save the file in the eps file format:
Cannot save the illustration The requested transformation would make some objects fall completely off the drawing area.
All the art is within the bleed lines. The only transformation I did was rotating one of the pieces 180 degrees. I'm not exactly sure what it is referring to when illustrator says objects are going to completely fall off the drawing area.
Your insights would be appreciated.
Thank you!
Chris

Did you use Guides at all? From the View menu, choose Guides>Clear Guides. Then zoom way out and do a Select All and see if there any stray points near the borders of the artboard. Direct select them and delete. Then try your transformation.

Problem with Illustrator CS3 transform tool

When I draw an object in Illustrator, for example a rectangle, then use the transform Height & Width boxes in the options bar to resize the rectangle into a square, the resulting square will not reflect the original size I wanted. For example: the original rectangle was 240 points by 174 points. I typed 250 points into the W & H boxes of the option panel to resize the rectangle into a 250 point square. Instead of a 250 point square, I get a rectangle 249.979 pts by 249.983 pts. Trying again with the same 250 point values will give me 250 pts by 249.993 pts. Trying a third time will result in the size I wanted originally. This has only started to happen within the last few weeks. I don't know what I did to cause this. Does anyone have any ideas??
Many thanks in advance, Fred.

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I am using Illustrator CS6 (Mac). I am using free transform tool. Why can't I use Shift Option Command to distort in perspective?

I am using Illustrator CS6 (Mac). I am using free transform tool. Why can't I use Shift Option Command to distort in perspective?

hong,
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PC, CS6 Illustrator, Crash, Outil Transformation manuelle

Bonjour,
Le problème est présent sur 2 postes Windows 7 en 32 et 64 bits (les seuls sur lesquels j'ai installé l'application).
Lorsque je sélectionne des objets sur un calque, que j'appuie sur "outil transformation manuelle", et que je click (peut importe où dans le document), Illustrator plante et affiche "Adobe Illustrator CS6 a cessé de fonctionner"...
Voici l'erreur Windows remontée :
Signature du problème :
Nom d’événement de problème:    APPCRASH
Nom de l’application:    Illustrator.exe
Version de l’application:    16.0.0.682
Horodatage de l’application:    4f6e45b7
Nom du module par défaut:    Illustrator.exe
Version du module par défaut:    16.0.0.682
Horodateur du module par défaut:    4f6e45b7
Code de l’exception:    c0000005
Décalage de l’exception:    0000000000162532
Version du système:    6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Identificateur de paramètres régionaux:    1036
Information supplémentaire n° 1:    e234
Information supplémentaire n° 2:    e23474cf1eb573ab2031c05ac18c3b96
Information supplémentaire n° 3:    92b1
Information supplémentaire n° 4:    92b1d216da02caae1438586c9930ff52
Suite installée : Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard.
L'erreur plus en détails dans les rapports d'évènement Windows (x32) :
Nom du journal :Application
Source :       Application Error
Date :         03/12/2013 14:13:20
ID de l’événement :1000
Catégorie de la tâche :(100)
Niveau :       Erreur
Mots clés :    Classique
Utilisateur : N/A
Ordinateur :   Test-PC
Description :
Nom de l’application défaillante Illustrator.exe, version : 16.0.0.682, horodatage : 0x4f6e762b
Nom du module défaillant : Illustrator.exe, version : 16.0.0.682, horodatage : 0x4f6e762b
Code d’exception : 0xc0000005
Décalage d’erreur : 0x001e5833
ID du processus défaillant : 0xdf0
Heure de début de l’application défaillante : 0x01cef0276d0cc36c
Chemin d’accès de l’application défaillante : C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS6\Support Files\Contents\Windows\Illustrator.exe
Chemin d’accès du module défaillant: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS6\Support Files\Contents\Windows\Illustrator.exe
ID de rapport : adc2a6ac-5c1c-11e3-b60b-080027cd8a6e
XML de l’événement :
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    <EventRecordID>1640</EventRecordID>
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Ce n'est pas très clair vos systèmes de mise à jour :
Si je récapitule, j'ai fait une mise à jour :
- à la main pour la version 16.0.3
- automatique via le menu aide
- automatique via le creative cloud
Différences entre les 3 ?
Maintenant le problème ne semble plus se produire (avec celle du creative cloud) sur au moins l'une des 2 machines. Je vais procéder de même sur l'autre.

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I don't have CS4 either and I am forced to keep 2 versions of Illustrator on my machine because of this bug.
Adobe should not force users to upgrade, just to get a bug fix.

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