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Any way to fully justify text in XD?

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March 1, 2017
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Any way to fully justify text in XD?

Thanks!

JIM.

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Correct answer elainecc

It's not supported at the moment! You can upvote this in UserVoice, though: Full justification for area text – Adobe XD Feedback : Feature Requests & Bugs

-Elaine

Peter Villevoye

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Just to give y'all an impression of what happens when text is justified.

Mind the gap ! (This text is in Dutch, set at a reasonable line width.)

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Is there an alternate version of XD for Japanese with justification features?

Peter Villevoye

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As I discussed in this thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-xd/how-to-justify-the-text-in-xd/m-p/10838964

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If that helps anybondy, I have found this plugin to be very useful.

https://github.com/amirhosseinhpv/adobe-xd-justify-it/releases

Works very well so far!

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This is embarassing.

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If you have not done that already, I suggest providing your reasons to justify the inclusion of this feature in XD if you have not done it already. In English at least, the justify feature is rarely used in web and mobile apps. Its best use case is in the print media.

Thanks,

Preran

Peter Villevoye

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Peter, dude. You might not be aware that not everyone in the world uses the English alphabet. Shocking, but true. Some people even speak and write entire languages that aren't Latin-based. Even more shocking.

I did explain this in another thread about text justification in XD, but I'm not going to go find it and link to it like you have done.

Between Chinese and Arabic alone, 20% of all living humans use letters and characters that should be or have certain uses that must be justified.

As to what originally brought me to this topic on these forums a year and a half ago, I just happened to have been living in China. And my agency's cilent (rightly) wanted their Chinese text justified on the touch-screen exhibition that they were buidling in Shanghai. The print designers in the department, the art director, the project manager, and even the client could justify the text in every program on their computers. Just me using XD for an interactive experience couldn't. And who was this client who wouldn't accept that the text would be justified in the final application and demanded that I represent it in prototypes? Only Alibaba. And you can't tell a company worth more than a trillion dollars that I can't do the thing they can all do in Word and PowerPoint. So, I got to stay late for weeks updating their text content by making transparent gifs of text blocks in AI then moving them into XD instead of just clicking the little fully-justify button.

The second project I did for Alibaba was their interactive pavillion for the Tokyo Olympics. Low and behold, Japanese is another language that should be justified. So, 2 of the 3 langages I had to make the VR/AR registration/profile-sharing app with were supposed to be justified. That was fun making gifs for. And then covid canceled it, anyways.

So, in summary. You're really passionate about not thinking that anyone else on Earth isn't you.

Dear Obieblu, thanks for sharing your insights on our global writing systems.

I'm very well aware of this phenomena and I try to teach everyone to take note of the many (if not all) of its aspects, when choosing typefaces or setting type in general. This ranges from warning designers not to settle on font families which don't support a decent range of glyphs to at least spell someone's name correctly, to learning how to use Adobe's World-Ready features in software like InDesign for more intricate typesetting in any language.

So your assumption that I'm clueless about this, is wrong.

The verdict that Adobe XD is not yet World-Ready, is true.

As I have replied numerous times: it seems that Adobe is more concerned about implementing a robust and full-featured type engine (like Adobe moderators have indicated before), leapfrogging over the momentary lack of a justification option. That's probably their policy for prioritizing development – don't blame me. I'm missing many many more typographical features in the Text section, even some which are perfectly fit for the web, both esthetically and technically – don't get me started...

Let's stay tuned for a promising new version, or move to another tool ?

A tip: you could use Creative Cloud Libraries to easily exchange and update texts from Illustrator. However, you need to outline the text before dragging into the library, because XD obviously doesn't accept a plain text frame with a justified setting. In case such vector-based parts are getting too complex and too large in file size, use the Assets panel to quickly save and update them as transparant PNGs, that might yield a better visual result than a GIF.

I know, it's a lousy detour, but I hope this helps a bit.

dineshd40338030

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Hi Adobe Product Team,

Please add Justify option text field. its necessarily important for are arabic language. i facing lots of problem clients need this format but no plung also available anywhere. please help me.

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It's not supported at the moment! You can upvote this in UserVoice, though: Full justification for area text – Adobe XD Feedback : Feature Requests & Bugs

-Elaine

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As as little UX note.. perhaps use another word other than 'solved' considering the disappointment factor of Google results for "adobe xd justify text" shows me that the problem of my project manager impatiently waiting for a simple function she can do in Powerpoint has been solved. It definitely gives me, the user, that negative surprise as I find something other than what was indicated after clicking on the text link, and those are to be avoided.

loïc-oliviertl

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Yeah... I was hopeful damn