Can't select linked png/bmp files when they have transparent backgrounds.
Placing several linked BMP or PNG files with transparent backgrounds causes them to become randomly unselectable by clicking on them. You have to go to outline mode, find and select the edge of the image, or select with marquee tool and then carefully unselect the extra objects. Either way, it cannot be moved except to click on the edge of the images frame. This has been an issue for years. I think I may have even posted about it before, but can't find that now. IMO this is an issue that should be escalated as it such a basic operation that is broken. See the video below. This has been replicated by many others.
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Yes it appears that embedding the file solves the issue. So the bug is that when a certain number of images with alpha (PSD, PNG, BMP tested) are LINKED in a file they can become unselectable except by their edges or by selecting with marquee tool.
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This problem was posted here a few years ago and it looks like someone pinpointed the issue as having to do with linked images specifically. I'm testing this now.
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Images without alpha work consistently, but I regularly run into this issue with alpha images (tested PNGs and PSDs), and 1-bit BMPs. I am working with images sized around 200px on my artboard.
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Marc, there was a recent problem with selecting images, when this are scaled down beyond some threshold — but hardly in involved transparency, only the effective resolution... Can you test and confirm that a duplicate image, but flattened, with no alpha, behaves the same, please?
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Upon further testing it appears that this is also true of PSDs, so it could be that it's a glitch with any image with alpha/transparency. I would also like to note that it doesn't seem to happen right away. It is when there are multiple files like this in one document.
