Problem drawing boxes

[tviman]

This is a wierd one... up until today, I could draw any type of box or rectangle. Now, I can only draw constrained boxes - no rectangles of any kind!!! I can temporarily change the length and width of a box by changing it's dimensions to a rectangle but as soon as I try to move it, it snaps back to a perfect square!

I've uninstalled PM 7.0, cleaned the registry, then reinstalled it, but no luck. I've also tried to reinstall my old PM 6.5 version but the same thing happens.

A little info - this is on a stand-alone Dell Win2000 machine, 160gb drive, 1 gig memory. Like I said, it has been working fine for the last 3 years. I've run anti-virus, spyware, and adware and found nothing.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.....

There's always a better way. The fun is trying to find it!

 

[BionicJohn]

Sounds like the Shift key is stuck down or faulty.

Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.

 

[tviman]

Thanks BigJohn but that was the first thing I thought of. Shift key isn't sticking and it works fine in other applications where the shift key is used to drawing constrained objects.

Some additional info:

I removed PM using Adobe's recommendations for manual removal. Then, I reinstalled PM7.0. On start-up, I get this error:

Plug-in cannot be completed
Some System operation failed
[7212]-[6192] 9001:7224

And PM fails to load completely. I found a "fix" on Adobe's site but still can't PM7.0 to work. I can, however, get PM6.5 to work Okay.

Strange......

There's always a better way. The fun is trying to find it!

 

[BionicJohn]

Plug-in cannot be completed
Some System operation failed
[7212]-[6192] 9001:7224

I take it this was the page in Adobe Support KB you looked at: Error "Plug-in error: Plug-in cannot be completed..." during startup (PageMaker 7.x or 6.5 Plus on Windows)

The only other occasion I have heard of this, a full and thorough re-install of PM cured it.
7.6 - Re-installing PageMaker
Try a custom minimum install - you can easily add other parts later.

Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.