Stamps, lines, shapes seem to "snap to grid"

I am using Adobe Acrobat X Pro, and recently my custom stamps stopped appearing exactly where I click on the pdf. Instead, they show up a slight distance away. Then when I tried to put multiple stamps down close together, they would all line up together the same distance apart regardless of where I clicked, almost as if they were doing a "snap to grid" or something.
Today I noticed the same problem when drawing a line - it seems to "snap" into place just above or below where I actually drew it. And with shapes like rectangle or circle, they will only increase in size by rigid increments when I am drawing them.
I have looked all over this forum and other places on the internet for a solution to this problem with no success.
Help!

Never mind. I found it. And that seems to have fixed the problem. I just don't understand why things suddenly starting snapping to grid when they didn't do it the day before. I must have inadvertently hit Shift-Ctrl-U at some point. Thanks.

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I use the handles snapping to grid functionality extensively when creating icons and other detail-intensive shapes. How do I re-enable this feature, or is it necessary to revert to an older, more functional version of Illustrator?
This is very frustrating, such a simple feature and, for no logical reason, it has been removed from Illustrator. Makes me regret updating and paying for Illustrator CC.

there was a discussion on this when the feature was first removed. did you see it? I think a support staff member posted in it, but nothing positive...
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~Thanks

not that I know of, but you can cheat by creating a square that turns green when Snap is on and it turns Red if Snap is off
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Hi,
Delete these files.
com.apple.desktop.plist
com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences. Drag those files to the Trash, empty the Trash and restart your Mac.
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-Ron.

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I apologize if this seems a redundant post, I've read many people asking this but have seen no definitive answer, so I wanted to simplify the question and see if we can get a real answer:
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Thanks Larry,
I have seen this posted as a solution, but to be clear it is not just a matter of rectangles not snapping, NOTHING will snap to the grid. Not a rectangle, not an existing object, not the pen tool, nothing. Even if I create a rectangle and go through the steps of expanding it to get rid of this new "live" feature, it still will not snap. So, I'm afraid that rectangles are not the culprit here, and I know from reading the forums that others are having the same issue with snap to grid simply not working at all.
RUNNING THE MOST CURRENT VERSION OF ILLUSTRATOR CC, I UPDATE FREQUENTLY.

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Of course it will.
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I'd still make a case that this is a bug, and to the best of my recollection, it is NOT how it worked in CS3; I use the rounded corner effect pretty regularly... I would certainly have noticed this "in the old days."
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it always snaps two pixels above or two pixels below where I'm trying to snap to grid, which is the green line I created.
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My anchor points used to snap to the grid when using the pen tool on a 1px before in Adobe Illustrator CC 2014. Has this changed for this version?
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THIS IS REALLY FRUSTRATING (and I'm not the type to use all caps all over the place). Here are the repro steps (in case that were helpful):
Illustrator CS6
Turn on snap to grid.
Create a circle.
Drag out each of the handles closer to the corners of the circle's space.
Notice that the handles snap to the intersection points on the grid.
Illustrator CC (18.0.0)
Turn on snap to grid.
Create a circle (move it around to double-ensure that snap to grid is functioning properly for the shape).
Drag out each of the handles.
Notice that there is no way to ensure that the handles move in the exact same amount all the way around the circle. They do not snap.
Try the scale tool. Select a point and hit ‘s’, then drag out a handle. Notice that it still doesn’t snap to point.
This sort of thing is suicide for Illustrator. It’s the one program that should let you make whatever vector shape you want without having to resort to crazy workarounds. How can we make awesome things like this without the kind of control we used to have in Illustrator?
BTW, there's another thread on this topic too:
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