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monsonjim
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June 3, 2009
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Justify text in Illustrator---again

  • June 3, 2009
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I've read much about justifying text on this forum but have not found an answer to my problem. In CS3 Illustrator I have justified text boxes brought over from Freehand which in Illustrator have lines which are not justified (with no soft line breaks). I have new boxes created the way suggested in this forum (with what I hope is paragraph rather than point text) but the result is the same in all caes. There appears to be no way in Illustrator to make justify text within a text box; no matter what justify option I chose from the Text dialogue box, nothing changes in the non-justified lines. This is the case if I create text from scratch (as per suggested in this forum) or copy and paste a text, the same non-justified lines appear in the same places.

Is CS3 Illustrator simply incapable of doing what it claims in its Text dialogue box? If so, why, since this is a basic necessity?

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    eksessiv1
    Participant
    August 23, 2013

    I have not seen anyone mention it, but in ID6 it is an option.  I have attached a screenshot.  The only stupid thing is I had to click on the word "Paragraph"

    http://www.fstophangout.com/proof/h669547D0#h669547d0

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    ivoryd
    Participant
    February 2, 2012

    I came across this problem as well - but there is a very simple way to achieve justify in Illustrator.

    The documentation is here: -

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-6400a.html

    Basically you need to drag out a Bounding Box using the Text Tool BEFORE you enter the text. The text can be pasted or typed, but it must be placed within a BOUNDING BOX.

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    Wade_Zimmerman1
    Inspiring
    June 3, 2009

    Like so:

    http://mysite.verizon.net/wzphoto/Text.mov

    _scott__
    _scott__
    Legend
    June 3, 2009

    Illustrator CS3 and CS4 have a bug. Soft returns will break justification. The workaround is to use tabs, spacing, or hard returns when possible. A combination of hard returns and full line justification usually does the trick until the bug is fixed.

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    Wade_Zimmerman1
    Inspiring
    June 3, 2009

    Oh soft returns that is relatively new to illustrator.

    If you are ding any text formatting in a serious way you might want to

    look at ID which is design for that kind of work.

    And that is correct Illustrator is not a publication or layout program

    was never intended to be and probably never will be.

    Have a good day!

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