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1. Re: Why is it so difficult to resize rectangles in the new Illustrator
Jacob Bugge Nov 21, 2014 1:56 AM (in response to solshuffle)solshuffle,
I am afraid you may 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) or 10.10 (Yosemite). Hopefully, the bug will be fixed soon.
So a switch to Mavericks or Yosemite with a reinstallation might be the way to solve it here and now.
To get round it in each case, it is 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.
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:
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2. Re: Why is it so difficult to resize rectangles in the new Illustrator
solshuffle Nov 21, 2014 2:00 AM (in response to Jacob Bugge)Thanks Jacob, I just upgraded to Yosemite, so will re-install Illustrator to get it fixed. Thanks a lot!
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3. Re: Why is it so difficult to resize rectangles in the new Illustrator
Jacob Bugge Nov 21, 2014 2:13 AM (in response to solshuffle)You are welcome, solshuffle.
You may run into new issues. One of the known ones is cured by:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572
Some have found that the page may turn up blank to start with, so it may be necessary to reload the page.


