The Linked File dropdown does not resize correctly, often goes offscreen
The 'Linked File' dropdown (visible when a linked file is selected) does not resize correctly.
If the lower-right corner is dragged to resize the left edge very quickly moves offscreen, then when the handle is released the dropdown is often too large to view on the monitor, as it has scaled so wide that it is off the right hand side of the screen. It is difficult to get it to all fit on the screen at once, and if the lower-right handle goes offscreen then it requires a restart of Illustrator to try again.
Restarting Illustrator each time this happens makes quite a dent in productivity, and it's really easy to accidentally scale it by too much due to this bug.
If you can resize it to be wider but still staying onscreen, you can then again drag the handle in the lower-right to see how it is behaving - it resizes very rapidly using the handle as the anchor point for the transform, rather than the left edge staying fixed and the handle moving as expected.
Uservoice won't let me attach screen recordings, I can provide as needed.
Expected behaviour:
Dragging the handle in the lower-right would resize the dropdown by scaling from the upper-left corner, and the window would 'stay' where the cursor was released.
Win 11, Illustrator v 29.5.1 (but has been present for previous versions as well, I don't recall when I first encountered this bug but it's been a while).
Mike Choo
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