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Illustrator CS6 (win7) eyedropper is misbehaving

Jun 14, 2012 9:30 PM

Tags: #illustrator #eye_dropper_problem #cs6 #eyedropper_tool

The eyedropper tool in Illustrator CS6 is causing me great frustration and i'm seriously convinced that it's buggy.

 

Ordinarily it will select the "Appearance" of a vector, but sometimes (compleatly randomly as far as i can tell) it will start to only sample the direct colour of the pixel under it, this includes the RGB colours of guides, edge-outlines and even the lime-green smart-guide annotations.

 

What's worse is this strange little bug/setting seems to stay with a file once saved. I've doubble-clicked the eyedropper tool to check what options are selected (all except the top-level appearance checkbox) and they are also the same in a file not displaying this oddity.

 

I hope I've justed missed some unknown keyboard short-cut or some strange setting.

 

[We're running CS6 on six Windows7 machines and have experienced this issue on all of them]

1205 Views   4 Replies   Latest reply: macdonaldshall, Aug 9, 2012 7:57 PM
 
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  • Mylenium
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    1. Mylenium,
    Jun 14, 2012 11:40 PM   in reply to voodooC-T
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    The Shift key samples colors, so maybe your mouse driver is acting up and emulating it...

     

    Mylenium

     
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    2. voodooC-T,
    Jun 14, 2012 11:56 PM   in reply to Mylenium
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    Thanks for the reply, you're correct in that it's the exact same function that the shift-key ordinarily performs.

     

    But I doubt it's a driver, it's on six different computers and only on files that have been saved with the issue.

     
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    3. voodooC-T,
    Jun 18, 2012 3:29 PM   in reply to voodooC-T
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    Im sorry but I have to bump this. It's causing a great deal of heartache.

     
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    4. macdonaldshall,
    Aug 9, 2012 7:57 PM   in reply to voodooC-T
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    This has been a problem since CS5.  It's caused me a great deal of heartache, too

     
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