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CS6 Mouse Wheel Scrolling for Fonts in Character Panel

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June 1, 2012
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in Illustrator CS6 I can no longer use my mouse wheel to scroll the list of fonts [which appear when you click the down arrow next to the font family] in the Character control panel. I could do this in CS5.

Anyone know how to fix this? I think it dos not work in Photoshop CS6 either.

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Meowx

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Year three. Still no word from Adobe. Morale remains low.

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SkyyGirl20201

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Here is the solution for CS6 Illustrator:

1. Select what you typed by double-clicking in the type box and then highlighting all of the letters you wish to change.

2. Highlight the Character name in the menu bar box by clicking in the box so the cursor appears, holding the left mouse button down, and highlighting the character name (see menu bar box below, highlighted in blue)

3. Use your up/down arrows or scroll wheel on your mouse to scroll through the various fonts and see what you typed change accordingly.

Enjoy!

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motoxchic00

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Yes, that would probably be more of a work around, not necessarily a solution (?). That is fine if you want to scroll font by font and yes, it works. But its nice to scroll through a screen full of fonts at once. Better yet, a built in option that not only shows you many fonts (in their font) at once, but in the text you have typed/highlighted.

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peacelove70

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Changing your screen resolution should solve the problem.

This solution came to me while I was messing around with my screen setting with my CS6 on.

After few more testing, it turned out that for my paticular monitor, any screen resolution setting larger than 1152x864(not included) would get me mouse scrolling option for font choosing. It looks like this

anything smaller than 1152x864(included) would not open the mouse scrolling option

Never mind the tradition Chinese in the pictures.

I am using a monitor that can handle screen resolution up to 1280 x 1024, and I am using a built in graphic chip set with window xp.

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Piotr_K_jr

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To clarify things: there are three different lists of fonts in AI: the one in the Control Panel at the top of your screen, the other in the Character Panel and the one in Type menu. The first works well, but the two other are misbehaving, and these are those that display useful font samples. You can have either a working drop-down list _or_ list of font samples; never both. It is simply immature solution; advertised as interface improvement (http://helpx.adobe.com/content/help/en/illustrator/using/ui-interface.htm l), but apparently not finished yet. Or such are current coding standards in Adobe.

BTW: As Ryan A. said it is a shame for Adobe that the two teams (Photoshop and AI) simply do not talk to each other. I use Photoshop CS6 with **delight** and AI CS6 with increasing frustration. NO interface improvements from Photoshop seem to be known to Illustrator team. Where is this long forgotten Adobe Common Interface idea? e.g.: Why I can set scroll wheel to zoom in Photoshop, but have to Alt-scroll in AI? Is that _so_ difficult to apply similar solution? Hey, guys, go have some beer together.

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motoxchic00

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My screen resolution is 1920x1080 and I still have no scroll option in the Character pallet. SO frustrating. I end up using WORD to create my text and scroll through the font samples.

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SDC MKTG

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I find it somewhat pathetic that this is still not "fixed" or added. Do the program teams even talk to one another to make sure experiences are common among Adobe programs or as common as possible without detriment? Common sense or deduction would say no seeing that Illustrator still does not even have right click copy or past like almost every other Adobe program.

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davemakes

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This is primarily how I browsed fonts in older versions of Illustrator, so it's frustrating that this has changed in CS6. Hopefully they will patch this soon.

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davemakes

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Latest update fixed the scrolling issue. Thanks, hard working Adobe folks!

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David Marsh

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Still not wheel-scrolling in the fonts list for me as of today, with 16.0.1 and all of Adobe App Manager's recent updates.

Neither does it work in the Window dropdown menu, which is just long enough not to fit vertically on my laptop display (15.6", 1366x768). Being forced to click multiple times on the little black triangle just to access the full menu is a bit annoying. At least you can text-search for a font, if you know its name.

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David Vaseekaran

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Hi gcsdets,

That is odd, indeed. I just checked - and I am able to click the down arrow key and scroll through the list of fonts. I hope more folks comment, just to be sure if I checked your question out correctly.

May I ask you try something? Select the text that you have typed, hover your mouse on the Font drop down (in the Control Panel), and scroll. You can scroll through the list of fonts, while previewing how the text will look.

Cheers,

David

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gcsdetsAuthor

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Thanks Ivan for the quick response.

Yes, if I simply hover my mouse over the Font drop down it allows me to scroll through fonts [but only shows the single, selected font]. This is quite helpful, if I have text selected, scrolling through fonts quickly changes my selected text to the scrolled to font, allowing me to preview fonts fast.

While I do love and use the feature, I still often like to pull up the "full drop down list" of fonts like I've previously mentioned and use the mouse wheel to scroll through the list quickly. This enables me to see many fonts at once, instead of just a single one at a time. But again, this is where the mouse scroll wheel does not seem to scroll the list. I was able to scroll though the list in older versions of Illustrator CS.

I've attached screenshots to show the specific "list" i'm referring to, just so you fully understand what i'm talking about (which I think you already do).

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nicknameforme

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nicknameforme wrote:
Ivan David,
Please see that this scrolling behavior is fixed. It's really unusable at present. Also when a text object is selected, and you choose the drop down font list in character panel, the list does not position itself in a useful way. The current font should appear right next to the drop down arrow -- as it is currently it can be up high, or down low or totally off the screen. See attached -- the current font "Black Adder" isn't even visible on the list that pops up when hitting the drop down arrow.
Illustrator didn't used to act this way and the font list is plain awful to use in its current implementation...

I'm using CS5 on Windows, and that font menu has always behaved as described above. The font of the selected text object is never aligned to the mouse cursor, most of the time it is off screen because the menu remembers and shows its previous position. So if you select fonts that are on different parts of the list they could be off screen. I never use the mouse scroll will, I use a digital pen with its buttons set to do other things. When I use this font menu and the used font is not in view I look in the control bar at the top of the screen to see the first letter of the name of the font and type it on my keyboard, this will scroll the list and position it with fonts starting with this letter at top or bottom of the menu and then I use the up and down arrows on my keyboard to scroll the menu.

What is the point of your message? I don't know if it behaved this way in CS5 -- I don't remember it doing so -- but even if it did. So what? The point is that the menu is completely unintuitive, unusable and poorly designed.

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