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jomar...@hotmail.com
Apr 12, 2012, 7:53:58 AM4/12/12
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Hi
I'm having a problem with anchor points in one document. In all my other documents, if I click on an path with the Direct Selection Tool, the anchor points and the control lines (is that the correct name?) become visible and I can alter the shape as needed. However, there is this one document in which if I click the path or an anchor point with the Direct Selection Tool, the anchor points and control lines do not show. They show if I click and drag the anchor point, but I cannot change the control lines because if I release the mouse button, the anchor points and control lines disappear. I suspect that I accidentally changed some setting through a keyboard short cut. What setting would cause this behavior? I'm using Illustrator from CS 3 (13.0.2) on an Intel Mac (running OS X 10.5.8).
Thank you in advance for any help you can give me
Jomar Bueyes
I'm having a problem with anchor points in one document. In all my other documents, if I click on an path with the Direct Selection Tool, the anchor points and the control lines (is that the correct name?) become visible and I can alter the shape as needed. However, there is this one document in which if I click the path or an anchor point with the Direct Selection Tool, the anchor points and control lines do not show. They show if I click and drag the anchor point, but I cannot change the control lines because if I release the mouse button, the anchor points and control lines disappear. I suspect that I accidentally changed some setting through a keyboard short cut. What setting would cause this behavior? I'm using Illustrator from CS 3 (13.0.2) on an Intel Mac (running OS X 10.5.8).
Thank you in advance for any help you can give me
Jomar Bueyes
Dave Turner
Apr 12, 2012, 10:49:00 AM4/12/12
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layer? Double click on the layer you're working on and you can change
the color of the anchor points and lines.
Hope that works!
jomar...@hotmail.com
Apr 12, 2012, 11:05:55 AM4/12/12
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On Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:49:00 AM UTC-4, Dave Turner wrote:
Hi Dave,
Thank you for your response. It was not the color of the layer. After talking with a few people one of them told me to check "Hide/View Edges" under the View menu. It turns out that I had accidentally set "Hide Edges" when I pressed command-H trying to hide Illustrator (For many applications command-H means "Hide Application" in Mac OS X).
Thank you again for your response.
Jomar
Thank you for your response. It was not the color of the layer. After talking with a few people one of them told me to check "Hide/View Edges" under the View menu. It turns out that I had accidentally set "Hide Edges" when I pressed command-H trying to hide Illustrator (For many applications command-H means "Hide Application" in Mac OS X).
Thank you again for your response.
Jomar
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