In Illustrator, when I drag text while holding Shift, it unexpectedly converts to area type only after exceeding a certain text size Tried solutions:Disabled "Auto Size New Area Type" preference.Released Shift before dragging text box.Reset preferences.Checked for conflicting keyboard shortcuts. Illustrator version: [ v 28.2 ]

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Text automatically converts point to area type wile scaling

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February 14, 2024
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In Illustrator, when I drag text while holding Shift, it unexpectedly converts to area type only after exceeding a certain text size

Tried solutions:

Disabled "Auto Size New Area Type" preference.
Released Shift before dragging text box.
Reset preferences.
Checked for conflicting keyboard shortcuts.

Illustrator version: [ v 28.2 ]

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Monika Gause

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Is this a Large Canvas document?

Did you already reboot the system, create a new document, create a new text object and checked if it does the same?

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Shruthi BharadwajAuthor

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Tried everything you suggested - reboot, new doc, new text object, still stuck! Text to area shift issue persists beyond specific size, even in new docs. Could it be related to A3 canvas size? Font compatibility? Preferences setting?

Monika Gause

Community Expert

I have just tried it myself.

So just how large is your text? (in point)

There is a limit of how large a text can get and you might be hitting it. And then what you see might not be area text, but just the text size not getting any bigger.

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