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jamied99
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September 15, 2009
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Illustrator CS4 Text Rotation not working as it has in the past

  • September 15, 2009
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When I attempt to rotate a text element, the text does not rotate along with the textbox that it was created inside. Instead, it always stays at the top of the text box and moves left/right (I hope that is an accurate description). Anyone know what is going on with this?

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      Correct answer Mario Arizmendi

      I will post up my file later this afternoon, I'm at work right now. It's basically a new file with just the one text element. I just installed CS4 yesterday (I've used it many times prior) but this behavior that I'm getting is just bizarre.


      I think I know what it is happening in this case.... I have time and was trying to reproduce the issue..

      1. Here I have a text  and a text inside a container (Block text)

      2. Here I use the rotate tool, every thing goes as expected

      3. Here I used the free Transform tool. and as you can see, that tool rotates the container but not the text itself,  so that's the "problem"...

      use the rotate tool instead the transfor tool...

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      Bert-Bert
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      September 15, 2009

      Make sure you are selecting the container and the text, and not just the container.

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        jamied99Author
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        September 15, 2009

        here's a video of what is happening:

        http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisisdarby/3924383276/?processed=1&cb=1253051167707

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        jamied99Author
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        September 16, 2009

        I think I know what it is happening in this case.... I have time and was trying to reproduce the issue..

        1. Here I have a text  and a text inside a container (Block text)

        2. Here I use the rotate tool, every thing goes as expected

        3. Here I used the free Transform tool. and as you can see, that tool rotates the container but not the text itself,  so that's the "problem"...

        use the rotate tool instead the transfor tool...


        Alright, the rotate tool worked, I didn't think of using that. It seems very odd that Adobe made the change to CS4 that caused the Move tool to behave like that.

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