An empty document that makes Pathfinder Unite fail and a bounding box to become loose
I am sending you an empty Illustrator file that leads to Illustrator starts to glitch badly. These are not Illustrator glitches, but a change in Illustrator's behavior due to the open document. But behavior of the App that depends on open document is a bug itself isn't it?
This document is completely empty. And how can error be reproduced? Below are 2 examples:
The Unite operation does not work:
1. Open the document.
2. Create 2 intersecting rectangles.
3. Apply Pathfinder / Unite.
4. The operation is unsuccessful.
Image rotation does not work:
1. Open the document.
2. Import any image into the document (or drug and drop it).
3. Press E (transform tool) and rotate the document by an arbitrary angle.
4. The operation leads to strange results — the bounding box takes a strange shape and another attempt to rotate the image leads to unexpected results.
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Ah, this is something very strange and super cool, since I can reproduce it — which means the team would probably be able to experience as well.
My first guess was the document actually has something in it, and it’s just Layers fail to display it. That’d explain the bounding box oddity, but not the pathfinder one.More observations.
1. The second layer doesn’t influence both behaviors.
2. Layers seem normal, nothing is hidden, locked, it has no guides.
3. If I choose to create a live compound shape, it works, but the result vanishes when expanded.
4. Scaling a selection to 1% after Select All won’t help (in case there is an object far from the canvas edge somehow).
5. But the second time you try it (sometimes) — Pathfinder works, and it includes something at the very left, making a rectangle super long as well.It is weird! Thanks for posting it.
