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That is the message I get when I try to scale an object in Illustrator 25.3.1 when I try to scale an object.
Mac OS 11.4.
What is the fix for this? I use Illustrator professionally, and can't afford for it to simply refuse to perform straightforward tasks.
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I selected the object I was having trouble with and hit the Object: Expand Appearance and it solved the problem. Might help.
I figured it out for my project. (Someone suggested it earlier in the discussion.)
I'm using: iMac-M1chip, macOS Monterey 12.3.1/illustrator 26.2.1
>Window>Transform> uncheck 'Scale Strokes & Effects'
Now I can Shift + drag to scale my grouped objects.
I found that only *some* objects / layers of illustrator art files were (no other word I can come up with other than "corrupted"). I ended up recreating thoses objects / layers from scratch and the entire art is now scalable with no issues.
FYI: I did not upgrade or downgrade software, just tested until I found the objects that would not scale dues to the noky error.
My solve was to rasterize the layer I needed to scale, I don't need to edit this art so this work around worked.
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This is sad. Adobe should be fixing this so that people who want to keep their Illustrator documents as vector art do not need to rasterize.
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@annb49847561 schrieb:
This is sad. Adobe should be fixing this so that people who want to keep their Illustrator documents as vector art do not need to rasterize.
And you have the same problem?
Did you check out one of the 5 solutions?