I have been working on a figure for a paper, and I am now having a peculiar issue with one of my pasted images. I had been able to click on the image to select it; however, once I resized it, I could no longer select it, unless I selected the corner of the bounding box. The other images can still be selected and moved, but the one image cannot be moved or selected anymore.
Yes, I checked both. It becomes unselectable from one move to another. If I hit undo, changing it back to the previous scale, I can select it again. Then, I scale it down a little and it’s no longer able to be selected unless I left click and drag through the bounding box. But even then, I can’t left click and drag the image around.
Thanks for sharing the details. Could you also confirm the version of the OS/Illustrator installed and share a small screen recording of your exact workflow and the problem, so we can better assist you?
I am running Windows 11, computer specs are Threadripper 3970X 32 core processor, 256GB DDR4 RAM, AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, and the files are being worked on while stored in a 2TB NVMe drive. I'm running Illustrator CC v29.8. I have tried uploading a video, however, it says I do not have permission to add a video. Any suggestions?
The image that is going wonky is a linked image. It's current scale size is 1.78%, although it is still 148x245 cm in size. They are massive (4 kilometer long drone images) orthographs that I am trying to align the geology from river valley to river valley, so the images are huge. I made them smaller in photoshop, saved them as TIFF files, then copy and pasted them into Illustrator to scale them down to their relative sizes to one another.
The file that wasn't working was linked and not embeded. I did embed it, and now it's working when I scale it further. So, who knows? Something weird is happening with it.
Yup! That sounds exactly like what's happening! It appears that this bug has been occurring for nearly a year now. Hopefully, it will get some attention soon.
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