AI CC 2019 Line Handles Missing

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
October 23, 2018
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I'm sure it's because my Preferences were wiped out, but I am missing the "middle" handle boxes at the end of a line. I used to be able to use my Black Arrow tool to pull on the middle box and change the length of the line. Now there are only 2 boxes, one at the top and one at the bottom. Can someone tell me how to get that function back. I can use the White Arrow tool, but would prefer to not have to change tools.

Before & After upgrade

handle missing

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meganchi

Legend

I had the same issue, but it happens at 100% or lower zoom level. If I zoomed in at 150%, the middle handles appear.

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letterwoman13

Participant

The same thing happened to me all of a sudden and it was driving me crazy. I found out what the solution is. You need to go under View > Show Bounding Box. Or hit Command + Shift + B. Then the center handles should reappear. I remember I was messing around with the Hide/Show options and not too long after, I noticed the handles disappeared.

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Anonymous

Same here. What the heck? This CC 2019 is really buggy... I can now call Adobug CC 2019

Effigy Studio

Participant

I've noticed that in CC 2019, they have made the left hand tool panel customisable (it may have been in previous versions, but I didn't use it). What I have found is that occasionally the tool panel goes crazy and re-arranges itself. Where the direct selection tool is normally (top right spot) another tool is in its place. I have noticed a correlation between this getting re-arranged and the handles disappearing.

If you reset the tool panel back to default layout (via the 3 little dots under the tool panel), this seems to fix the disappearing handles issue. Maybe Adobe should look into this (as to why the tool panel randomly re-arrage the tools).