Holding Shift with Smart Guides enabled when using Scale tool is works unreliably
macOs Sierra 10.12.6
Illustrator 23.0.1 - Scale tool doesn't work the same as it's been for years!! Ugh!
Please revert to the legacy behavior of scaling shapes, images and text proportionately by using the scale tool + holding shift key and drag to enlarge or reduce size of shape proportionately. This way has been burned in my brain for many, many, many years. My fingers move faster than I can think, and now my logos turn out wonky unless I scale it the long way, by opening up the scale tool and typing in percentages!! No thanks.
For now, how do I get the scale tool to work like it used to? Is the work-around the same for Illustrator 23.0.1, as it is for Photoshop?
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2548154
Wendy Reynolds
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Yeah, I can relate to this, Keith...
With Smart Guides it jumps and flickers if only we deviate a pixel more...
Without Smart Guides Scale still fails to show exactly when a Uniform changes to One-Axis-only: no cursor feedback, no visible lines to divide borders between quadrants... Would you mind me extracting this comment into a separate report? -
Keith
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This is a different issue than the Smart Guides one.
Using the Scale tool (s) if you hold shift and scale, you need to stay close to a 45 degree path when dragging in order to keep the proportions locked. Illustrator EASILY unlocks the proportionate scaling when the users deviates a small amount from 45 degrees. It's very easy to do as a user and the amounts can be small depending on the degree the user moves. So it's very very easy to accidentally scale something to almost proportional size such as w:100% h: 92% while the SHIFT key is being held.
I wish holding SHIFT would simple lock proportions regardless of the angle I choose to drag. If I wanted freeform then I should be able to release SHIFT or not use at all. -
I suppose the original report is about a different thing...
Wendy, is this still an issue for you?
Actually, I never met the problem... Photoshop had this (and they finally gave a proper option for that), but Illustrator... we still have to hold Shift to scale proportionally...
Does anyone here experience the opposite? Hold Shift for non-proportional, and proportional when nothing is held? -
Sandi, this is a known issue, reported here:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/36247978-constrain-shift-key-doesn-t-work-with-smart-guid
Please try to disable the Transform Tools option for Smart Guides in Preferences. Reply back if it does 'fix' the problem, here or in that report above.(Edited by admin) -
Sandi
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Scale Proportionally issue - holding SHIFT will only work if I drag exactly on the 1:1 ratio line If I deviate from that exact line, while holding SHIFT, no scaling occurs. I have tried with real-time drawing turned off, GPU turned off, etc. etc. Still no good.
Using 26.0.3 (64bit) on Windows 10 -
Lord Helmet
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Freshly updated to 25 (Windows). Trying to scale proportionally with SHIFT (while having Smart Guides active) is still a pain, since you'll have to aim for a 45° angle (also says so in the online help).
If I wanted to "aim", I'd not be in need of a hotkey locking the proportions.
