Where the bounding box and handles gone?
Today I had updated Illustrator 2014 to .1 and I did realized that bounding box are gone...
It works fine where two or more objects are selected but for one object it just disappeared...
How to get it back?
Hi, thank you for your answer
It applies to plain rectangle tool, it looks like they just made changes to it and for now it doesn't behave as it was in version 18.0
When I do select two plain rectangle using a shift key then, bounding box is back again, ready to sue..
Thank you for Pawel's script link
PS. Is there any place here to post a feature list and to be pretty sure they - I mean Adobe's team, will check it and to apply in the newest version of AI?
I'm mobile phone designer, and there is hundreds sall things which will make my job pretty easy instead of new great features which my or may not needed for most of the mobile app designers?
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can you view text outside of the canvas? as when using the view menu you can see animation paths, bounding boxes and handles???
I'm in the middle of a text animation design treatment and unless my memory is completely failing I thought this was an option.
An example would be selecting all layers and being able to see all bounding boxes and animation paths while moving along the timeline.
Of course this could be quite a mess if you couldn't selectively chose which layers, its just with this current project it would be so helpful if
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I do understand shift + v " to "Show Full View Area" and shift + z to fill screen, etc.
and command + & - for zooming
what I'd like to do is selectively view, say, the text outside of the canvas as you can see the bounding box
which contains the text or object when selecting one or all layers in the layers column
I haven't used this feature in a while though I do recall using it in the past.
Any help would greatly appreciated
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Lost the bounding box (scale handles)
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Robert,
There are a few more options.
As Larry said, the Live Rectangle bug is limited to the MAC versions starting with 10.7 and 10.8, but not 10.9 (Mavericks) or 10.10 (Yosemite). Hopefully, the bug will be fixed soon.
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To get round it in each case, it is also possible to Expand the Live Rectangles to get normal old fashioned rectangles, or to Pathfinder>Unite, or to use the Scale Tool or the Free Transform Tool.
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Why do crop box and handles disappear after carrying out a crop?
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haggyabeken,
I am afraid you have come across the Live Rectangle bug which is limited to the MAC versions starting with 10.7 and 10.8, but not 10.9 (Mavericks), see this thread linked to below.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1595973
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A more permanent way round that is to create normal old fashioned rectangles, after running the free script created by Pawel, see this thread with download link:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1587587 -
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Jocelyn TremblayHi,
I did a major breakthrough by rethinking the model. Now I get a real speed improvment, and if the image is fully opaque, there is not too much drawback.
Instead of a simple bounding box, I'm creating a grid in which each cell represent a region of the source and is float4(1). if there is any non-zero transparent pixel. In the last kernel of the graph, i'm processing only when the corresponding value in the grid is float4(1.). I get really efficient results from that. I'm including two graphs. A basic one with a fixed grid of 16px (I didn't do any beanchmark for the grid size) where I output the original image composited over the scaled grid in green. The second one, where the last kernel is a box blur, the grid size equal the blur radius, and there is a convolution kernel between the grid and the box blur that expand the grid to fit the blur.
GridExperience.pbg
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<graph name = "GridExperience" xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/PixelBenderGraph/1.0">
<metadata name = "namespace" value = "com.jocelyntremblay"/>
<metadata name = "vendor" value = "Jocelyn Tremblay" />
<metadata name = "version" type = "int" value = "1" />
<!-- Image inputs and outputs of the graph -->
<inputImage type = "image4" name = "src" />
<outputImage type = "image4" name = "dst" />
<!-- Graph parameters -->
<parameter type="float2" name="sourceSize" >
<metadata name="minValue" type="float2" value="1"/>
<metadata name="maxValue" type="float2" value="4096" />
<metadata name="defaultValue" type="float2" value="634., 396." />
<metadata name="aeUIControl" value="aePoint" />
<metadata name="aePointRelativeDefaultValue" type="float2" value="1, 1" />
</parameter>
<!-- Graph parameters -->
<parameter type="float" name="gridSize" >
<metadata name="minValue" type="float" value="1"/>
<metadata name="maxValue" type="float" value="64" />
<metadata name="defaultValue" type="float" value="16" />
</parameter>
<!-- Embedded kernel -->
<kernel>
<![CDATA[
<languageVersion : 1.0;>
kernel getProcessingGrid
<
namespace:"com.jocelyntremblay";
vendor:"Jocelyn Tremblay";
version:1;
>{
input image4 src;
output float4 dst;
parameter float2 sourceSize
<
parameterType : "inputSize";
inputSizeName : "src";
>;
parameter float gridSize
<
minValue:float(1.0);
maxValue:float(64.0);
defaultValue:float(5.0);
>;
region changed(region inputRegion, imageRef inputIndex){
return region(float4(0, 0, ceil(sourceSize.x/gridSize), ceil(sourceSize.y/gridSize)));
void evaluatePixel(){
float j;
float4 pix;
dst = float4(0.0);
for (float i = 0.; i < gridSize; i++){
j = 0.;
for (j; j < gridSize; j++){
pix = sampleNearest(src, float2(floor(outCoord().x) * gridSize + i, floor(outCoord().y) * gridSize + j));
if (pix.a > 0.){
dst = float4(1.0);
i = j = gridSize;
]]>
</kernel>
<kernel>
<![CDATA[
<languageVersion : 1.0;>
kernel drawProcessingGrid
<
namespace:"com.jocelyntremblay";
vendor:"Jocelyn Tremblay";
version:1;
>{
input image4 src;
input image4 processingGrid;
output float4 dst;
parameter float gridSize
<
minValue:float(1.0);
maxValue:float(64.0);
defaultValue:float(5.0);
>;
void evaluatePixel(){
float4 gridSegment = sampleNearest(processingGrid, float2(floor(outCoord().x/gridSize), floor(outCoord().y/gridSize)));
if (gridSegment.a > 0.){
//process
dst = float4(0., 1., 0., 1.);
float4 tt = sampleNearest(src, outCoord());
if(tt.a > 0.){
dst.rgb = tt.rgb;
else{
//do not process
dst = float4(0.);
]]>
</kernel>
<!-- Instances of the nodes -->
<node id = "getProcessingGrid" name ="getProcessingGrid" namespace = "com.jocelyntremblay" vendor = "Jocelyn Tremblay" version ="1">
<evaluateParameters>
<![CDATA[void evaluateParameters() {
getProcessingGrid::gridSize = gridSize;
getProcessingGrid::sourceSize = sourceSize;
}]]>
</evaluateParameters>
</node>
<node id = "drawProcessingGrid" name ="drawProcessingGrid" namespace = "com.jocelyntremblay" vendor = "Jocelyn Tremblay" version ="1">
<evaluateParameters>
<![CDATA[void evaluateParameters() {
drawProcessingGrid::gridSize = gridSize;
}]]>
</evaluateParameters>
</node>
<!-- Connect the graph -->
<connect fromImage = "src" toNode = "getProcessingGrid" toInput = "src" />
<connect fromImage = "src" toNode = "drawProcessingGrid" toInput = "src" />
<connect fromNode = "getProcessingGrid" fromOutput = "dst" toNode = "drawProcessingGrid" toInput = "processingGrid" />
<connect fromNode = "drawProcessingGrid" fromOutput = "dst" toImage = "dst" />
</graph>
GridExperienceBoxBlur.pbg
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<graph name = "GridExperienceBoxBlur" xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/PixelBenderGraph/1.0">
<metadata name = "namespace" value = "com.jocelyntremblay"/>
<metadata name = "vendor" value = "Jocelyn Tremblay" />
<metadata name = "version" type = "int" value = "1" />
<!-- Image inputs and outputs of the graph -->
<inputImage type = "image4" name = "src" />
<outputImage type = "image4" name = "dst" />
<!-- Graph parameters -->
<parameter type="float2" name="sourceSize" >
<metadata name="minValue" type="float2" value="1"/>
<metadata name="maxValue" type="float2" value="4096" />
<metadata name="defaultValue" type="float2" value="1920., 720." />
<metadata name="aeUIControl" value="aePoint" />
<metadata name="aePointRelativeDefaultValue" type="float2" value="1, 1" />
</parameter>
<parameter type="float" name="blurRadius" >
<metadata name="minValue" type="float" value="0"/>
<metadata name="maxValue" type="float" value="25" />
<metadata name="defaultValue" type="float" value="5" />
</parameter>
<!-- Embedded kernel -->
<kernel>
<![CDATA[
<languageVersion : 1.0;>
kernel getProcessingGrid
<
namespace:"com.jocelyntremblay";
vendor:"Jocelyn Tremblay";
version:1;
>{
input image4 src;
output float4 dst;
parameter float2 sourceSize
<
parameterType : "inputSize";
inputSizeName : "src";
>;
parameter float gridSize
<
minValue:float(1.0);
maxValue:float(64.0);
defaultValue:float(16.0);
>;
region changed(region inputRegion, imageRef inputIndex){
return region(float4(0, 0, ceil(sourceSize.x/gridSize), ceil(sourceSize.y/gridSize)));
void evaluatePixel(){
float j;
float4 pix;
dst = float4(0.0);
for (float i = 0.; i < gridSize; i++){
j = 0.;
for (j; j < gridSize; j++){
pix = sampleNearest(src, float2(floor(outCoord().x) * gridSize + i, floor(outCoord().y) * gridSize + j));
if (pix.a > 0.){
dst = float4(1.0);
i = j = gridSize;
]]>
</kernel>
<kernel>
<![CDATA[
<languageVersion : 1.0;>
kernel ConvKernel
<
namespace: "After Effects";
vendor : "Adobe Systems Inc.";
version : 1;
description : "Convolves an image using a smoothing mask";
>
input image4 source;
output pixel4 result;
const float3x3 smooth_mask = float3x3( 1.0, 1.0, 1.0,
1.0, 1.0, 1.0,
1.0, 1.0, 1.0);
const float smooth_divisor = 9.0;
float4 convolve(float3x3 in_kernel, float divisor) {
float4 conv_result = float4(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
float2 out_coord = outCoord();
for(int i = -1; i <= 1; ++i) {
for(int j = -1; j <= 1; ++j) {
conv_result += sampleNearest(source,
out_coord + float2(i, j)) * in_kernel[i + 1][j + 1];
conv_result /= divisor;
return conv_result;
void evaluatePixel() {
float4 conv_result = convolve(smooth_mask, smooth_divisor);
result = conv_result;
region needed( region output_region, imageRef input_index ) {
region result = output_region;
result = outset( result, float2( 1.0, 1.0 ) );
return result;
region changed( region input_region, imageRef input_index ) {
region result = input_region;
result = outset( result, float2( 1.0, 1.0 ) );
return result;
} //kernel ends
]]>
</kernel>
<kernel>
<![CDATA[
<languageVersion : 1.0;>
kernel BasicBoxBlur
< namespace : "AIF";
vendor : "Adobe Systems";
version : 2;
description : "variable Radius Box Blur"; >
input image4 src;
input image4 processingGrid;
output float4 dst;
parameter float blurRadius
<
minValue:float(0.0);
maxValue:float(25.0);
defaultValue:float(5.0);
>;
dependent int radiusAsInt;
void evaluateDependents(){
radiusAsInt = int(ceil(blurRadius));
parameter float gridSize
<
minValue:float(1.0);
maxValue:float(64.0);
defaultValue:float(16.0);
>;
region needed(region outputRegion, imageRef inputRef){
float2 singlePixel = pixelSize(src);
return outset(outputRegion, float2(singlePixel.x * ceil(blurRadius), singlePixel.y * ceil(blurRadius)));
region changed(region inputRegion, imageRef inputRef){
float2 singlePixel = pixelSize(src);
return outset(inputRegion, float2(singlePixel.x * ceil(blurRadius), singlePixel.y * ceil(blurRadius)));
void evaluatePixel(){
float4 gridSegment = sampleNearest(processingGrid, float2(floor(outCoord().x/gridSize), floor(outCoord().y/gridSize)));
if (gridSegment.a > 0.){
float denominator = 0.0;
float4 colorAccumulator = float4(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
float2 singlePixel = pixelSize(src);
for(int i = -radiusAsInt; i <= radiusAsInt; i++)
for(int j = -radiusAsInt; j <= radiusAsInt; j++)
colorAccumulator += sampleNearest(src,
outCoord() + float2(float(i) * singlePixel.x, float(j) * singlePixel.y));
denominator++;
dst = colorAccumulator / denominator;
else{
//do not process
dst = float4(0.);
]]>
</kernel>
<!-- Instances of the nodes -->
<node id = "getProcessingGrid" name ="getProcessingGrid" namespace = "com.jocelyntremblay" vendor = "Jocelyn Tremblay" version ="1">
<evaluateParameters>
<![CDATA[void evaluateParameters() {
getProcessingGrid::sourceSize = sourceSize;
getProcessingGrid::gridSize = max(1., blurRadius);
}]]>
</evaluateParameters>
</node>
<node id = "ConvKernel" name ="ConvKernel" namespace = "After Effects" vendor = "Adobe Systems Inc." version ="1"></node>
<node id = "BasicBoxBlur" name ="BasicBoxBlur" namespace = "AIF" vendor = "Adobe Systems" version ="2">
<evaluateParameters>
<![CDATA[void evaluateParameters() {
BasicBoxBlur::blurRadius = blurRadius;
BasicBoxBlur::gridSize = max(1., blurRadius);
}]]>
</evaluateParameters>
</node>
<!-- Connect the graph -->
<connect fromImage = "src" toNode = "getProcessingGrid" toInput = "src" />
<connect fromImage = "src" toNode = "BasicBoxBlur" toInput = "src" />
<connect fromNode = "getProcessingGrid" fromOutput = "dst" toNode = "ConvKernel" toInput = "source" />
<connect fromNode = "ConvKernel" fromOutput = "result" toNode = "BasicBoxBlur" toInput = "processingGrid" />
<connect fromNode = "BasicBoxBlur" fromOutput = "dst" toImage = "dst" />
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Resizing in Illustrator CC using the Bounding Box is no longer accurate. What happened?
In Illustrator CC, resizing an object using the bounding box is no longer accurate. Snapping to other objects or the grid or anything is completely wrong and, worse, inconsistent. Here is a single box being resized 3 times to the same object. Each time, it becomes a different size.
I used the center-left handle to resize the black box, snapping it to the right edge of the red box. You can see that, each time, it "snaps" to the edge incorrectly. My 80 pt box becomes 78.479 pt, then 79.295 pt, then 79.518 pt.
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Or you may have a look at the list since something is obviously wrong.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file (you may have tried/done some of them already); 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
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Even more seriously, you may:
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Forcing onPress to react on the exact shape, rather then on the bounding box
If I have a clip with an imported image then clip.onPress
reacts on the
bounding box of the clip rather then on the exact shape of
the imported
image even if the imported image has a transparent
background.
To make it to react to in image shape only I have to use
Trace BitMap which
results in deterioration of the image quality and if the clip
is moving,
Trace BitMap also slows down computer perfprmance.
Is there other technique to make onPress to react on the
exact shape, rather
then on the bounding box?An image is always rectangular, it just may have transparent
parts. So an MC containing an image is always as big as the whole
image (at least).
You could use the MovieClip.hitArea property, and create
another MC inside your clip that specifies the active area for
mouse clicks. This is easy if you have the image loaded into the
clip inside the Flash IDE.
If it's loaded on runtime, you might use the BitmapData class
(if you use Flash 8) to get the pixel value of the image at the
position where the image was clicked, check if it's transparent or
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hth,
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Save only the bounding box region of image as png?
Hi,
I'd like to save each layer's item as png.
If possible, i'd like save only the bounding box of image(of an item), and the corresponding bounding box's origin/size info(relative to artboard's origin) somewhere as text file.
To do this,
I need to be able to get a bounding box of an item.
and possibly artboard's origin. (because I'm not sure where a bounding box's coordinate's origin is).
Thank you in advanceIf I understand you correctly you have one table with a bunch of yes/no values (SA, SC, SS, etc.). Then for each record in that table you want to output a string listing all the fields from the first table which = yes (i.e are checked). Perhaps
the following code would get you started:
Sub JimNeal()
Dim strProcedure_Value As String
Dim rst As DAO.Recordset
Dim rstOut As DAO.Recordset
Set rst = DBEngine(0)(0).OpenRecordset("TableWithCheckboxes")
Set rstOut = DBEngine(0)(0).OpenRecordset("OutputTable")
Do Until rst.EOF
strProcedure_Value = ""
If rst!SA Then strProcedure_Value = strProcedure_Value & "Surface Area,"
If rst!SC Then strProcedure_Value = strProcedure_Value & "Surface Contour,"
'... etc
If rst!SS Then strProcedure_Value = strProcedure_Value & "Steep Slope,"
rst.MoveNext
' Strip off final comma
If Len(strProcedure_Value) > 0 Then strProcedure_Value = Left(strProcedure_Value, Len(strProcedure_Value) - 1)
' Output the string to your output table
rstOut.AddNew
rstOut!Procedure_Value = strProcedure_Value
rstOut.Update
Loop
rst.Close
rstOut.Close
Set rst = Nothing
Set rstOut = Nothing
End Sub
-Bruce -
Who Decided to Combine the Search Box and Address Bar?
A very wise person once said:
"Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler!"
That fundamental rule of design has been volated with Internet Explorer 9.
I've been using IE9 for about a month now, trying to get used to all the new things. Performance-wise it's nice, and the changes to security are welcome. Okay, so the color-management is half baked, and it still has its problems, but I guess
it's an improvement.
But what idiot decided to make the search box and the address field one and the same?
You think I'm being petty? Go try to research what a particular file is - for example, go see if you can find info on "bib.dll".
It wants to make it into a URL. It's not a URL. It may LOOK like one, but it's a name, honest!
Putting quotes around it doesn't help. Maybe I'm missing the advanced syntax it takes to get such a thing to be a search term instead of a URL. Even if so, how is this an improvement or simplification? It's certainly not intuitively obvious how
to force a search, short of dredging up a link to Google and typing info in there directly.
Doing a search and typing in an address are two FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS.
And hey, it's not a big deal that you can no longer see what it was you searched for, and maybe even edit it and search again. No, because now the search engine pages have to waste space to put up a box showing what you just searched for, since it's
now GONE out of the address field.
How does stuff like this pass a design review?
And to think the Microsoft Engineers worked extra hard to take it out.
You Engineers at Microsoft need to take the product back from your moronic marketing people and make it actually work right.
-NoelEd, with 36 years software engineering experience, I know the difference between the difficulty of adapting to change and when something just isn't right.
This isn't right. Ever hear the phrase "apples and oranges" to describe two things that don't go together? That concept fits well here.
You say that thinking along the lines of "you no longer had to think about which box you want to type into" helped justify the change.
Is there something wrong with thinking? This is akin to saying, "you no longer had to think about which nozzle at the gas station to fill your tank from".
Diesel doesn't work in a gas engine. Nor does the water from the garden hose.
You say "both methods of typing work in the one box". But they don't, logically! Did you actually read this thread?
Is there something wrong with logic?
Alas, what the simple users of the general public want and what experienced computer users need are clearly two different things, and it's clear looking back that this move simply marked another step in Microsoft's clear intent
to walk away from making serious computer operating systems that actually
work. Windows 8 is testament to that (and don't tell me you haven't noticed all the negative response). Other such things include Windows Search - which is designed to be unable to actually do an exhaustive search... Even going
back as far as hiding file extensions by default. And don't get me started on the use of telemetry to justify deprecating such things as Windows Backup.
Do you understand the difference between leading and following? Which, as a concept, would you say is better? You need to stay the hell away from trying to emulate what Google does. You can do better! If you want a different
example, follow Firefox - it still has a search box. Even Apple - known for dumbing things down to the level of the family dog - stil puts a search box in Safari.
I don't mean to be critical of your response, Ed, but this is a good example of "the operation was a success but the patient died".
Thank goodness there are 3rd party developers who are struggling to put back functionality Microsoft keeps removing. But then Microsoft removes the APIs they use. That's not going to keep!
P.S., Watch the film "Idiocracy" some time.
-Noel
Detailed how-to in my eBooks:
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Whenever I click on iTunes store, it just takes me to this huge add to download the new version of iTunes. I have tried clicking the download box and downloading it, but it still will not let me past the add so I can buy music. What gives
this is a follow up from the profane post earlier....
i have done this twice in two other posts..
here is my problem.. i started off trying to update itunes, it failed twice and said i needed to install manually via tools.
the only place to get to tools is the pop up box that appears when you click check for updates.. if there is an available update then the pop up shows up with the quick time and itunes files to download. so i finally figured that out. i clicked on tools and manual update, four files were saved to a file. Apple mobile device support, another one similar, itunes, and another one i cant remember. I only downloaded the itunes file seeing as though thats all i needed to accomplish in the first place.
so then i restarted my computer bc you need to reboot and then reopen itunes for update to take effect. once i have itunes back open i plugged in my new 5s which i am trying to sync to my computer to get all my stuff back bc i lost my previous phone over the weekend.. once i plugged the phone in an error stating i needed to unistall the apple mobile device support and itunes and then reinstall. well i dont know where those files were originally stored on my computer AND since my itunes was updated, just not the other 3 associated files, when i click check for updates it says its up to date and then pop up containing the quick time and itunes does not pop up thus i cant get back to the tools tab to manually save the 4 files again.
so i was just going to uninstall itunes all together and then i thought well what happens if it erases all my photos apps songs etc... which would defeat the whole purpose in the first place of me trying to sync my new phone to get all my stuff back.
so i literally have no idea what to do at this point.. if you have read this you are probably just as confused as me...
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