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Participant
August 28, 2023

I can not resize text boxes.

  • August 28, 2023
  • 7 replies
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I hate the new editing software. I would like to revert to the old version.

7 replies

Alexandre Becquet
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 18, 2024

Hello, can you give us more infos?

Participant
March 18, 2024
Yes when I go to apply text to a photo I can not drag, resize, turn, or
move the text at all. This just started today as it has been working fine.
I emptied my cache but that did not fix the issue.I tried different formats
vector, jpeg, png all the same issue.
Participant
March 18, 2024

I canot not resize move or change anything with the text boxes. I am also having issues with resizing. Was working fine a couple days ago 

Participant
March 14, 2024

I have found this to be very frustrating as well.  However, I just stumbled on a way to stretch the text box as you would prefer it to be. Select your text box with the text tool and then open the preferences panel on the upper right bar, next to the warp icon. Then change the V/A setting from metrics to "Optical". I found this unlocked the text box and I could stretch it as required. Hope this helps someone else as there was not one useful response from Adobe anywhere about this.

Inspiring
November 2, 2023
Hi,

Neither the handles on the sidse or the corners let me scale only the box and keep the text size.
The problem does not affect all text boxes.

I recreated the problem boxes and now it works fine.

😛


Pär Thorbjörnsson
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Adobe Employee
November 1, 2023

@ParthoSwe 

 

Could you check the Text layout for the text boxes you are having difficulty resizing without scaling?

If you are using the Dynamic text layout, you will see resize handles on corners only, and these will cause scaling.

However, if you switch to the Default text layout, you should see additional handles on the sides that let you adjust the width, without causing scaling.

 

Abhi G

Inspiring
November 1, 2023

Same problem here. New text boxes can be resized without scaling the text, but erlier created text boxes scales the text when I try to resize only the box. Tryed cleaning the web browser cache – no change. Tried in Google Chrome and Safari.

Amitej S
Community Manager
Community Manager
August 28, 2023

Hey @default319377616o5n5n,

 

Thanks for reaching out.

 

Can you try once after clearing the cache/cookies of the browser you're working on? Sometimes, such errors get resolved with this method. If this still persists, please share a screen recording of the workflow with the issue, and I'll bring this up with the team. 

Let me know.

 

Best!

Amitej