Scale Strokes & Effects checkmark in Transform panel is disabled when nothing is selected
Illustrator has many ways to reach certain values, options and functions: through menus, panels, preferences, etc. Accessibility options are fine most of the times, and we are all used to this approach (sometimes it becomes ridiculous, like with many ways to access Transform).
But there are some toggles which are hard to control.
'Scale Strokes and Effects' can be accessed in Preferences (as a global option), in the Scale dialog (as a local option), and in Transform panel (as some kind of contextual option)...
No. I lied, but in a way I once was fooled by Ai. These are the same option, and they are ALWAYS global. Toggling it in the Scale dialog makes the option in Preferences tick/untick. Same happens with their copies in Transform.
It is confusing, but this report is about the fact we can’t toggles this (or its smaller brother, 'Scale Corners') in Transform, when nothing is selected. They are just grayed out, disabled, as if they were a contextual option, which requires a selection ang gets applied to it. But it’s a wrong assumption and a lie, unintentional though.
Fix this, please. Not a user request! Bug.
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
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Also reported here:
https://twitter.com/aisuckage/status/1511673840715415560