Set Selection Box not available

[AlexAk]

Hi there,

i couldn't find any answer in the help section or other forums regarding my issue.
Since only recently I haven't been able to permanently set my selection from "ground box" box to "regular bounds" on objects (no matter if cropped images, objects etc.). The option is just greyed out.

I can cycle, but always start on the ground box. I am used to always working with regular bounds to easily scale my cropped images to fit my design.
Its a major inconvenience to me, always making that extra step.

Am i missing something?

Greets
 

[bigoldummo]

I also have this issue. I think? why the is there not a reset bounding box button in this app? does adobe have a patent or is this just some weird prejudice on the part of a dev? in searching for an answer I have found years and years of people hacking workarounds for this and none of them are consistent.

[Komatös]

Hello @AlexAk and @bigoldummo and welcome to the forums.
 

This option is greyed out until the alignment of the object has been changed and the selection box has been adjusted once with Cycle Selection Box ( . ).

Which makes sense, as there was nothing to fix until then.

[AlexAk]

Hi @Komatös thanks for the answer;

I didn´t clarify. Yes the set selection box option is greyed out and i wasn`t able to get it to work even after cropping, aligning, warping or rotating the image (which is weird).

But the real core of my problem is, that i never want to use the ground box and always want to automatically use regular bounds, when clicking on a cropped image. The selection box should always just show around the visual part of the cropped image to better be able to resize it.

This was the standard in pre 2.6 versions of Publisher, as far as I remember, elsewise I wouldn`t be used to this workflow.

 

Is there an option to change it back or is it a new problem/"feature" that needs fixing/rerolling?

[Komatös]

3 minutes ago, AlexAk said:

s there an option to change it back or is it a new problem/"feature" that needs fixing/rerolling?

There is no option and it works now like it works. And no, it worked like this even before 2.6.

[thomaso]

12 minutes ago, AlexAk said:

The selection box should always just show around the visual part of the cropped image

This sounds like the known bug AF-5966 which was announced to be fixed in the Beta 2.6.2.3187:

[AlexAk]

13 minutes ago, Komatös said:

it worked like this even before 2.6

it defenitely did not. I just downloaded the version 2.2 and it worked like I intended it to do. After cropping an image, it automatically showed the cropped visual part as "ground box". The selection box was therefore not bigger as the visual part of the image.

[AlexAk]

Thanks @thomaso;

thats exactly what I suspected. Then Ill just hope and wait it gets fixed in an official patch asap