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August 19, 2010
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Illustrator CS5 Rotate Tool Anchor Point Bug

  • August 19, 2010
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Summary:

I can reproduce this bug consistently, every single time.  I am unable to set a new anchor point for the rotate tool in Illustrator CS5.

Steps to reproduce the bug:

1.  Create a new shape, doesn't matter what

2.  Press R or just select the rotate tool

3.  Alt-Click to pick up the anchor point and drag to a new posiiton

4.  Let the mouse go- at this point the anchor stays locked to the cursor even if I click and am only able to unlock it from the cursor if I click on a new tool, but without getting to choose a new anchor point.

Also I tried this with a Intuos 2 tablet and pen with the same results.  I have an NVidia Quadro FX 3500 card installed with the latest driver as well.

I'm not sure if this issue is related, but also in After Effects CS5 if I press 0 to start doing a preview and then click away say on Firefox, then click back to After Effects, I am unable to click around inside After Effects to get the render to stop.  It makes me wait until the whole comp is pushed into a ram preview before it unlocks itself.

Any ideas?

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      Eugene_Dest
      Participant
      April 5, 2012

      May be the bounding box is off?. In illustrator, go to View > Show bounding box > Enjoy

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        curtjj8219063
        Participant
        March 15, 2012

        I've had this bug for as long as I can remember now - it occurs with the rotate tool and also the scale tool.

        If I want to position the pivot point I have to use the mouse, which works fine. I would contact Wacom, but to be honest I'm somewhat jaded by relentlessly lacklustre product support throughout all areas of everything that I just can't be bothered.

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          SebAnd
          Participant
          January 11, 2011

          I have found that if I click directly on the pivot point I can drag and drop it without any sort of Alt funny business or any hanging to my mouse. I'm not sure if this is a happy glitch or they just made life easier in CS5.

          CarlosCanto
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          CarlosCantoCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          September 4, 2010

          I can't test on CS5 now but I use it everyday at work and haven't noticed a difference with CS4

          3.  Alt-Click to pick up the anchor point and drag to a new posiiton

          4.  Let the mouse go- at this point the anchor stays locked to the cursor even if I click and am only able to unlock it from the cursor if I click on a new tool, but without getting to choose a new anchor point.

          I didn't know about Alt-Clicking and dragging to change the rotation reference point, Alt-Clicking works fine for that purpose without dragging. I did Alt-Click and drag with the same results, no bug or lock with CS4, I'll try CS5 on Tuesday.

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          randallgator
          Participant
          September 3, 2010

          I too experience this problem and was hoping to find a solution.  I've tried reverting to early Wacom Driver versions with no success. I find that if you "break the connection" between the pen and the tablet then the rotate point will drop and the rotate dialog will appear.  I've found that this only works reliably when lifting the pen straight up off of the tablet til it loses signal. Not ideal for precision work.  You'll notice that the rotate point drops when you move over to the menus, so I'm guessing it has something to do with the "drawing area."

          My system specs for comparison.

          Intuos 3

          Windows 7 x64

          Wacom driver v. 615-3a

          Illustrator CS5 15.0.1

          Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ Driver Version 258.96

          Core i7 920 Processor

          12Gb DDR3 Ram

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          Infinity_SpiralAuthor
          Participating Frequently
          September 3, 2010

          I did have some half-success by uninstalling, restarting, then reinstalling java and all it's updates.  Also Color Munki was trying to install multiple versions of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable so I uninstalled that and just installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x64 Redistributable which looks like the most recent one.  Illustrator still won't let me use the alt key to pick up the anchor, but if I select an object and then select the rotate tool, then left click and drag on the anchor I am able to get it into a new position without it sticking.

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          Infinity_SpiralAuthor
          Participating Frequently
          August 26, 2010

          Wacom is saying they aren't able to reproduce this bug and that it's an Adobe issue hmmm how annoying.  Love when the buck gets passed around.

          Mylenium
          Mylenium
          Legend
          August 19, 2010

          Your After effects problem may depend on specific features or effects used, so post your question over there and provide more info. As for your AI issue, I have no idea. Quite possible there's a bug somewhere. Does it also occur with guides and grids? Any particular reason you need the rotatete tool and not the generic transform?

          Mylenium

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          Infinity_SpiralAuthor
          Participating Frequently
          August 19, 2010

          The rotate tool lets me rotate around a specific anchor point for fractal or spirograph-like effects whereas the transform tool just rotates in place and doesn't offer the ability to move the anchor.  I tried uninstalling the wacom driver for the intuos3 tablet and the program functions normally so my guess would be that this is a driver bug not and adobe bug.

            Mylenium
            Mylenium
            Legend
            August 19, 2010

            I see... Was beginning to wonder, as it works with no issues for me.

            Mylenium

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            Infinity_SpiralAuthor
            Participating Frequently
            August 19, 2010

            Also I forgot to mention, I am on Windows7

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