resizing box larger than shape

[rickscr]

I have created some antiscaled master shapes using this method http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa201736(v=office.10).aspx. 

Since doing that, when I place a shape on the page, the "resizing box" (I don't know what it's called, but the box surrounding the shape with the green handles) is much larger than the shape (see attachment 1).  I can't seem to figure out what the problem is.  Can anyone help?

[Paul Herber]

Can you post the shape here (in a .vss stencil)? Or email me the stencil?
paul
at
pherber
dot
com

[rickscr]

Sure.

[Paul Herber]

Yes, your master contains two shapes, the PRV shape and a text callout. When the master is dropped on the page the two shapes are then grouped and the resulting grouped shape has the dimensions od the shape you see.
Also the PRV shape has an excess of surplus space on its lower edge.

[rickscr]

Aha!  Thanks!
It's strange that the text callout never caused this problem before.

The surplus space is so that the connection points will be in the center of the grouped shaped.  When I need to align it with another shape, this lets it align properly.  There might be a better way to do this, but it works for my purposes.