: Circle tool stuck making ovals in Illustrator I've done something to my shape tool - it's only producing ovals instead of circles, in spite of holding the shift key down. I've found that

I've done something to my shape tool - it's only producing ovals instead of circles, in spite of holding the shift key down. I've found that it's also making parallelograms out of squares - skewing the objects.

I've tried to get a screen grab for you showing the cursor - as this looks different, but Snagit isn't having it, so what I have done is mocked up the cursor in Photoshop. Here it is below:

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: How to control strokes in Illustrator? My stroke is bleeding, and I was wondering how to clean up dirty stroke corners. I'm creating a simple envelope for a newsletter (rectangle and triangle),

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I found what my problem is. I had somehow with quick keys generated this:

Not are exactly what it is but but the problem went away when I close this 'thing'.

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If whenever you are drawing flat shapes they skew, it sounds like you may be drawing on a perspective grid. Turn it off by selecting View menu > Perspective Grid > Hide Grid

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: Circle tool stuck making ovals in Illustrator I've done something to my shape tool - it's only producing ovals instead of circles, in spite of holding the shift key down. I've found that

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: Bounding-box suddenly way too wide & off-center I've been working in an illustrator file for some time now, but today, all of a sudden, all instances of a symbol I've made are 16k pixels wide

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