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monsonjim
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June 3, 2009
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Justify text in Illustrator---again

  • June 3, 2009
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I've read much about justifying text on this forum but have not found an answer to my problem. In CS3 Illustrator I have justified text boxes brought over from Freehand which in Illustrator have lines which are not justified (with no soft line breaks). I have new boxes created the way suggested in this forum (with what I hope is paragraph rather than point text) but the result is the same in all caes. There appears to be no way in Illustrator to make justify text within a text box; no matter what justify option I chose from the Text dialogue box, nothing changes in the non-justified lines. This is the case if I create text from scratch (as per suggested in this forum) or copy and paste a text, the same non-justified lines appear in the same places.

Is CS3 Illustrator simply incapable of doing what it claims in its Text dialogue box? If so, why, since this is a basic necessity?

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    eksessiv1
    Participant
    August 23, 2013

    I have not seen anyone mention it, but in ID6 it is an option.  I have attached a screenshot.  The only stupid thing is I had to click on the word "Paragraph"

    http://www.fstophangout.com/proof/h669547D0#h669547d0

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    ivoryd
    Participant
    February 2, 2012

    I came across this problem as well - but there is a very simple way to achieve justify in Illustrator.

    The documentation is here: -

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-6400a.html

    Basically you need to drag out a Bounding Box using the Text Tool BEFORE you enter the text. The text can be pasted or typed, but it must be placed within a BOUNDING BOX.

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    Wade_Zimmerman1
    Inspiring
    June 3, 2009

    Like so:

    http://mysite.verizon.net/wzphoto/Text.mov

    _scott__
    _scott__
    Legend
    June 3, 2009

    Illustrator CS3 and CS4 have a bug. Soft returns will break justification. The workaround is to use tabs, spacing, or hard returns when possible. A combination of hard returns and full line justification usually does the trick until the bug is fixed.

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    monsonjimAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    June 4, 2009

    Much appreciated answer, Scott, but everything you did I've done many

    times in working in Illustrator. In the case of my text boxes,

    however, it simply does not work---unless I use CMD/drag a corner of

    to change the text box to a width that does justify correctly.

    But if I return to the width I need (using CMD/drag) then the

    problem returns as in the beginning, with space at the

    end of some lines. I believe that the parameters of the justify option

    in Illustrator simply cannot deal with certain widths. See what I mean with these

    boxes in attached .ai file. Thanks.

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