Hi -
I've been using Painter for quite awhile but have encountered a serious problem since upgrading to Painter X. When I try to transform a Shape by dragging its selection rectangle with the Layer Adjuster tool it doesn't work as expected. Instead of smoothly transforming as I drag, the Shape leaps: disappearing the moment I click the mouse to drag, and instantly reappearing -- already drastically stretched -- elsewhere on the canvas.
At this point, with the mouse button still held down, the Shape will respond to mouse movement by transforming smoothly -- but this doesn't really help as the Shape is usually partially off-screen after the leap and the mouse pointer is so far from the adjustment rectangle that I run out of mousepad before dragging far enough.
This "leap" happens regardless of where I click the adjustment rectangle and whether holding the Shift key or not. It happens to all Shapes I attempt to transform, whether made with the Oval, Rectangle, Pen, or Quick Curve tools, or imported from Illustrator.
However, I can adjust Layers using Free Transform, which I mention because it involves clicking and dragging an adjustment rectangle with the Layer Adjuster in just the same way. Also, I can successfully edit individual points of a Shape using the Shape Selection Tool -- so it's not like all attempts to edit Bezier shapes are affected: only overall transforms.
I've tried searching for other mentions of this problem without finding anything. Has anyone else encountered anything like this? Any ideas?
- Dave
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