The dynamic text feature always creates its block of text aligned to the top left. If I need it centered horizontally or vertically, I cannot do this, nor can I align it to the right hand side.

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When using the dynamic text feature in Illustrator Beta (particularly when using as variables) the type always aligns to the top and the left, despite what size I make the textframe. This is frustrating if the space I need to fill needs to be centered or right aligned horizontally; or if it needs to be vertically centered or aligned to the bottom. I’ve attached a zip file that contains the illustrator file, the data used, and screen captures when I prepare the file.

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Smriti Capoor

Hello @Colin Flashman thank you for raising this.

This is actually not a capability for Dynamic Text i.e. the feature doesn’t currently support text alignment.

This is worth registering as a feature request so the team can track demand for it. I’d encourage you to submit it on UserVoice (https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests) describing your specific use case (variables that need to fill centered or vertically aligned text frames) will help make the case clearly to the product team.

I am shifting this to the feature request section and closing this request from here.

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Smriti, Product Marketing, Adobe Illustrator

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