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Type not scaling correctly in linked type objects

Forum|Forum|6 months ago
September 5, 2025
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I’ve just recently started having an issue with Illustrator’s linked type objects. Often when I re-size linked type boxes, I don’t want the text inside to scale relative to the object, I just want the entire object and text to scale perfectly together. I’ve long been accustomed to creating a solid rectangle above the area type boxes (or a border), which causes Illustrator to treat the selection of multiple objects as one and scale everything. Suddenly, seemingly after the update to version 29.7.1, the linked text inside the box does not scale (using the Scale tool) or scales disproportionately (using the Selection tool).

The Free Transform Tool currently appears to be the only way to scale these objects together while keeping the type size proportional to the objects being scaled.

When and how has this behavior changed? Am I missing something?

Screen shot attached.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

@ssamanen It would be useful to report this at UserVoice: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/

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ssamanenAuthor

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Thanks! I'm surprised not many people seem to be having the issue. Could it be related to the processor? I have a 2019 Mac Pro with Intel Xeon W. Are you using an Apple Silicon machine?

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

I use an MacBook Pro, M2, 2022. It is clearly misbehaving and different between versions.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Yes, there are some inconsistencies with scaling threaded text boxes.

Scaling with the bounding box does not work, it only scales the boxes but not the content.

Scaling with the Scale tool works in previous versions like 2023/24 but not in 2025.

Scaling using the Transform panel gives strange results in 2023/24 but works correct in 2025.

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @ssamanen,

Thanks for sharing the details along with the screenshot. To better understand what's happening, could you share a short screen recording showing the full workflow and how the scaling behaves in action? It would also help if you could test the same steps in the latest Illustrator 29.8 version and confirm if the issue still occurs.

Could you also let me know the exact OS version you're working on and whether this behavior is consistent across brand-new documents as well?

Looking forward to your update.

Abhishek

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ssamanenAuthor

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Thanks for the reply! This happens with new and old documents, and I have only noticed it with the latest version of Illustrator, 29.7. I don't have 29.8, and the Adobe app says 29.7 is the latest version, so I guess I'd have to install a beta version to get 29.8?

I'm running MacOS 15.6.1, on a Mac Pro (2019)

Thanks in advance for your help!

Screen_Recording_2025-09-05_at_2-27-09 PM_.zip

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savemetropolis182

Participant

It scales proportionally if you use the transform pallette but doesnt work if you try doing manually with the bounding box or with the scale tool as you demonstrated - super annoying

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