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Curtis21815009gtw0
Participant
September 28, 2026
Question

Resizing artboard skews text/text becomes uneditable

I noticed all of the text in a project has a slight backward slant. This happened once before over the previous month. I can only attribute this to having been the result of resizing the Artboard without constrain proportions enabled and having the Scale artwork with Artboard option enabled, but not sure why that would skew anything. This bothers me - wondering how much previous work has this flaw that I missed…. Anyway, it doesn’t look like the in place text can be fixed… I’m not finding evidence of paths being affected, only text - has anyone experienced this or understand what is causing this, and if it only affects text?

  • Selecting the text displays the character properties
  • Changing any of the character properties has no affect on the selected text.
  • Selecting text using the Type Tool has no affect either, and does not produce the typical cursor displayed when editing text.
  • Pressing the delete key deletes one character at a time, and undo does not restore the deleted characters.
  • Attempting to type in any of the affected text regions causes Illustrator to freeze, requiring kill process.
  • No settings are reflected in the  appearance and transform panels.
  • Shear is showing 0. 

Illustrator 29.3.1

 

    2 replies

    Abhishek Rao
    Community Manager
    Abhishek RaoCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    September 28, 2026

    Hi ​@Curtis21815009gtw0,

     

    Thanks for reaching out and sorry to hear that you experience this issue. As the expert suggested, could you first check whether the canvas has been accidentally rotated and try View > Reset Rotate View to see if the slant disappears? I would also recommend testing a copy of the file in a new Illustrator document to check whether the issue is specific to this document. If possible, create some fresh text in the new document, enable Scale Artwork with Artboard, resize the artboard, and check whether you can reproduce the same behavior. If the issue occurs in new documents as well, please try resetting Illustrator preferences and updating Illustrator to the latest available version.

     

    Looking forward to hearing back your observations after trying the above steps.

    Abhishek

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    Monika Gause
    Community Expert
    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 28, 2026

    Is perhaps the canvas rotated? You can check in the very lower left of the document.

     

    And yes: scaling artboard with artwork needs to be done with a lot of caution.

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