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July 10, 2025
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Illustrator pattren fill are not rotating or scaling, seems like it's locked

A few days ago, my illustrator program started having a problem when rotating or scaling a pattern fil from my swatches.
It does not matter if I use a screen grab and put it into swatches or a vector pattern, It makes no difference.
The shape changes, the fill stays in one place.
With and without all the boxes checked?

I have uninstalled and removed all presets, even went so far as to reinstall my illustrator.

I have tripple checked the obvious "scale and rotate object blocks" I've been using Illustrator for as long as it's been around, never seen this. It works on our other machines.
I have no idea how to fix. Please help.

lejaun_4167Correct answer
Participant
July 11, 2025

I found a sollution.
It seems like there is a glitch in the new Illustrator update. When all the "scale or rotate fills and strokes" are selected in the "transform panel", you are still not able to transform them.
I noticed that transform toolbox and transform each toolbox are not the same.
I ticked all the boxes in Transform each toolbox.
Now it seems to work
See screenshot of the Transfor each toolbox.
Fixed!!!

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pixxxelschubser
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July 10, 2025

Try this:

 

 

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lejaun_4167AuthorCorrect answer
Participant
July 11, 2025

I found a sollution.
It seems like there is a glitch in the new Illustrator update. When all the "scale or rotate fills and strokes" are selected in the "transform panel", you are still not able to transform them.
I noticed that transform toolbox and transform each toolbox are not the same.
I ticked all the boxes in Transform each toolbox.
Now it seems to work
See screenshot of the Transfor each toolbox.
Fixed!!!

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pixxxelschubser
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July 11, 2025

Why don't you use the Rotate Tool to rotate? (see my previous screenshot)

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Alexandre Becquet
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July 10, 2025

I tried and everything is working. And yes can you give us the versions of the OS and Illustrator ?

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Ton Frederiks
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July 10, 2025

What are your OS and Illustrator versions?

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July 11, 2025

Illustrator ver. 29.6.1
Mac OS 15.5
I have checked other machines last night and found another designer in the office that is experiencing the exact same problem. She has all the latest versions OS and Illustrator.

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