Hypenation not working in small text size

[BorisBlocksberg]

I'm working on large walls for exhibition designs and have placed the walls on a scale of 1:10. Therefore, my texts are also on a scale of 1:10 (2,2pt), the problem here is that the hyphenation does not work. As soon as I scale the texts to 1:1 it works, but not at the reduced scale. Here are my hyphenation settings. Does anyone know the problem and how to solve it?

[Jacob Bugge · Accepted solution]

Boris,

You can work in Large Canvas and scale everything up to the final 1:1 scale, see here,

https://helpx.adobe.com/search-results.html?q=large+canvas+illustrator&scope=%5B%22helpx%22%5D&subsc...

Or you can create the text at 1:1 scale and then scale down as an effect (Effect>Distort & Transform>Transform, scaling to 10% both directions for uniform).

You can Bookmark an empty search like the one above and search all sorts of things,

https://helpx.adobe.com/search-results.html?q=&scope=%5B%22helpx%22%5D&subscope=%5B%5D&limit=10&star...

[BorisBlocksberg]

Thanks for the fast reply! If there is no real solution to the actual problem, I will try to work on a large canvas in the hope of not encountering any limitations later. Thanks again!

[Jacob Bugge]

You are welcome, Boris.

There is no real limitation with the large canvas. You can see it as everything just being stretched tenfold.

Remember to have raster effects and other raster elements at the desired final resolution, instead of ten times higher, which is needed when you work at 1:10 scale.

As I said, you can work with the text parts at ten times the size, then use the effect to scale down.

[Jacob Bugge]

You are welcome, Boris.

If you switch to the large canvas, you can reduce the resolution in raster parts including raster effect settings to the value that fits full size, rather than the 10 times larger needed when working at 1:10.

And you can still choose to upscale the text part(s) and then downscale as effect to fit the current 1:10 size.

[BorisBlocksberg]

Sorry, but I'm not finished yet. After I have created all areas in 1 to 1 scale on large canvases, I load the paragraph formats from the CC library. Result: When applying the formats, they are enlarged 10 times. A format that is loaded in InDesign and has a correct font size of 25 points is displayed on large artboards in Illustrator with 250 points. It cannot be the solution to set the text to 1000% and then scale it to 10%.

[BorisBlocksberg]

Same problems if a paragraph style is imported from a big canvas to a „normal“ canvas.

[Jacob Bugge]

Boris,

Therefore, my texts are also on a scale of 1:10 (2,2pt)

What happens if you copy that text over into the large canvas document?

[BorisBlocksberg]

Your workaround works. As a conclusion:

Applying a CC library paragraph style in a normal canvas and copying it to a large canvas works.

Applying a CC library paragraph style in a large canvas won’t work (imported ten times bigger), also copying the enlarged text to a normal canvas wont change the size back down.

[Jacob Bugge]

Thank you very much for sharing, Boris.

Some say that Illy (job description Adobe Illustrator) sometimes works in mysterious ways (some may say that she always does), and the large canvas is somewhat mysterious in itself; as mentioned you can see it as everything just being stretched tenfold, with some adaptations such as a tenfold reduction in the available zoom level.

But she is always very friendly and eager to help.