: What is the best way to resize things in illustrator? I am working with this "complicated" ilustrated cat character in Illustrator. The problem is that I worked and modified what I needed to

@Berumen635

to scale accurately:

Make sure all you want to scale is grouped or selected.

Expand them.

Make sure preference "Scale strokes and effects" is checked.

Drag scale: hold down shift.

Transform scale: enter percentage.

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@Fox8063795

create de objet or group of objets and before rezise convert into Symbol with F8 key, and then you can make anithig with that , and dont make crazy things.

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@Margaret771

The issue could be that the shape of the glasses may not be expanded properly (it got bugged somehow). You can try to "re-expand" it buy creating another shape inside of the glasses shape (just a little square inside the boundaries of the glasses shape and via pathfinder Add it).

This can re-expand the shape, basically reset it and hopefully get rid of the bug. I haven't encountered this bug, but I have been using this method to deal with other issues, and it has worked thus far.

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@Murray976

From the steps described you may have done it a different way that gives you a slightly different result.

To turn a stroke into a fill you would use the following steps.

Select the stroke with the selection tool (the black arrow).

Then from the menu: Object>Path>Outline Stroke.

Not Object>expand

Hope that helps.

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@Miguel516

If you are using cs5 and have align to pixel grid checked in the transform pallet. Then possibly that is causing the problem. I have had many issues with the align to pixel grid box checked. Outlined text especially gets messed up.

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@Nimeshi706

When you double-click you are entering Isolation Mode. In Isolation Mode many objects may act as independent objects rather than groups or compound paths.

From the appearance of your "after scale" image it would seem you only grabbed one part (the outside) of the compound shape and scaled it. You simply need to be certain to select both the inner and outer paths before manually scaling. That's all.

To exit isolation Mode, just tap the ESC key.

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@Jennifer810

Ai has display and offset problems since it exists. This mostly happened (with older versions) when you zoomed in/out. I guess Ai simply doesn't work too good together with some (lots) of graphic cards. To prove yourself that you're not doing it wrong: Simply print it from your current state of zoom and you'll that everything's alright. You just have to get used to it and ... well, ignore it.

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@Kaufman565

Well...

I didn't want to leave this question like this... the answer is not the best solution in all situations, but

this is what I did to get rid of my problem :

I re-installed Illustrator... Problem status : Not Solved.

I re-installed the OS and then Illustrator... Problem Solved

So i guess it was a bug, an error in matrix somewhere, I want to remind you that I tried deleting the Preferences for Illustrator before all this, so the software should have been back to its default settings/preferences, that did not work, its either that Illustrator saves some more stuff elsewhere or something just went wrong on my machine...

If this ever happens to you... this is the best and "short" sollution

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