Adobe Illustrator 10 help

[Ron_Mexico]

Hi, I have a little problem with Illustrator, I can't resize images anymore, using the select tool. When I click on an image I don't get the grab boxes to manually scale or resize. The selection tool acts more like the direct selection tool.
I have restarted the program, rebooted the puter, uninstalled and reinstalled the program.
Is anyone familiar with this problem and the resolution?
Any advice would be very appreciated.

[Jon_King]

Happened to me on and off on one machine. We tracked it to overheating believe it or not! The CPU fan was not running or intermittently, we replaced it and whammy all is fine. Man that bugger ruined the life of one of my designers until we found that problem... Hope this helps.

[limbo]

Welcome To Webmaster World Ron Mexico :)

edited>> I think Jon King has answered you real question. thought you had a new copy <duh!>

[monkeythumpa]

Make sure that the layer is not locked. If that doesn't work, try a reinstall.

Object > Unlock All

[Ron_Mexico]

Thanks to all.
I found an adobe forum that had an FAQ to address this, seems it's not too uncommon, and is most related to user error.
here's what I found:

Topic Why can't I resize objects with the selection tool any more?

Teri Pettit - 08:16pm Jul 1, 2005 Pacific

Problem description:

You used to get a box displayed around the selection with hollow squares at the corners that you could drag to resize the objects. There is no such box anymore.

Solution:

Use the View>Show Bounding Box command (Ctrl-Shift-B on Windows or Cmd-Shift-B on Mac) to turn it back on. The same command toggles it off again. Most likely you accidently hit that key combination when aiming for something else.

By the way, you might want to try using the Scale and Rotate tools as an alternative to the Bounding Box. They allow you to click to set an arbitrary point to rotate or scale the objects around, which the Bounding Box doesn't let you do. They also let you grab the object by any position on it and drag that position to where you want it to go, which again the Bounding Box doesn't let you do. (For example, suppose you have a picture of a person, and you want to keep the left knee where it is, and scale it so that the right eye is snapped to something else. With the Scale tool, you would click on the left knee to pin it, then mouse down on the right eye, and drag it to where you want it to go. You couldn't do that with the Bounding Box, since the points you care about aren't at the edges or center.)
Here is a link to all the Adobe forums, this might be handy for someone in the future.

[adobe.com...]

p.s. I Like this forum : )

[Jon_King]

Thanks... I should have looked ther first!

[limbo]

Don't know Why I deleted my answer now :)

You can also scale/resize objects using the scale tool (shortcut: s).