Unable to see anchor point and handles of paths in Illustrator (Bounding box)

[aaddiiooss]

Hi. I'm working on an Illustrator file in CS5. Suddenly when using the Direct Selection Tool - anchor points and handles are not visible regardless if selected or not. They're just not appearing. They DO exist though. When I click-drag to select an area where I know there is an anchor point and then I use the arrow keys to move the anchor point - I see the path change. But I don't see the anchor point that I am moving.

This is all occuring only on a particular file. When I open a new .as file and try to duplicate the problem - all works fine.

Any ideas why this is suddenly happening? I assume I accidently hit some thing to change a setting but I can't figure out what. I've checked Selection & Anchor Display in the Preferences, but can't find anything different there when comparing it to a file where everything is working normally.

Thanks

[Mike_Gondek · Accepted solution]

View >> Show Edges

Or View >> Show Bounding Box

[aaddiiooss]

Thanks Mike. That was it.

rcraighead... I'm on PC so ctrl+H thanks

[smartwatertrek]

Must've hit CTRL + H to hide rulers after using Photoshop and it did something entirely different. THANK YOU.

[mattzi]

Thanks! Wonder how I changed that setting. Ah tried to hide illustrator! cool makes sense

[VirtualZAK]

Saved life! Thanks!

[Mike_Gondek]

Saved a life today, how awesome is that. Thanks for making me feel important.

[husamert]

i am using photoshop cc 19.0 release and ctrl + h doesnt help. when i hit ctrl + h the pen selection becomes unvisible or visible. but what i want to see is the dots while drawing with pen. i can draw with pen but no dots ?

[Monika Gause]

husamert  schrieb

i am using photoshop cc 19.0 release and ctrl + h doesnt help.

You might want to ask this in the Photoshop forum.

Photoshop

[Kølle_Kaj]

NEW q

[Monika Gause]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/K%C3%B8lle+Kaj  schrieb

NEW q

In this forum you are allowed to use more characters than in an SMS. Please take advantage of that.

[Dynamic_epicness5DD6]

Thanks!

[iherok]

That's correct but it still won't show the anchor point.

To see the anchor you need to go to -> preferences -> tools -> and enable "show reference point when using transform"

[tatis_letters]

Thank you so much! I hade same problem and it helped me!

[tatum5C41]

thank you mike!!!!! 

[renatas80376812]

Perfect. Thank you!

[Tsou5CF7]

Thank you,Mike.  

[rcraighead]

Probably hit "Cmd-H" (Mac).

[Michael J White]

Thank you!  I was having the same problem.

[igornova]

You saved my time!

[tongsau]

This is likely a Photoshop to Illustrator confusion. I ran into this by thinking it would Hide a selection similar to Photoshops marching ants. But this only disables edge selection even though it will show you the lines on mouseover. I was in a very intricate drawing and didn't want to see the selection edge. Apparently the functionality of this feature eludes me.

[rcraighead]

When selections are hidden (Cmd-H), lines only appear with "mouse-over" if Smart Guides are on (toggle them off with Cmd=H).

[teelux_evans]

I was having the same problem in SC6. Thanks

[jpp94175922]

thank you

[HishamHoweedy]

THANK YOU!