Quote Originally Posted by csehz View Post
...finally found the tricky is that the handles are quite far away from the object itself, and that confused me.
I've had the problem of distant fill handles on clipart many times. When you can't see the fill handles, zoom way out until they appear. Once you see the fill handles, you can drag them back over to the object.

Similarly, if the fill handles are too close together to edit the fill, you can zoom way in on the part of the object where they appear until you can expand them.