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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

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    _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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    Wade_Zimmerman1
    Inspiring
    December 6, 2010

    I've just switched over to Illustrator (forced todo so, since FreeHand is no longer available for the new Mac I've just bought). Everyone kept telling me that Illustrator would be better than FreeHand. NOT SO!

    To the guy who alluded to the fact that this is a design program and we should set type in InDesign...

    DESIGNERS USE TYPE TOO!!

    Don't they realize that DESIGNERS do logos? TYPE is an IMPORTANT part of doing logos!

    I couldn't seem to be able to get my text lines in a logo I'm working on to justify, no matter what I did... so I signed on here, hoping to find an answer. Now I find that there's a "problem with justification"?!?! And I paid almost $2,000 for this CS5 software?!?! I AM ANGRY NOW!! This had better get fixed FAST!

    Now I'm off to look and see if I can figure out why I can't adjust kerning (tracking) by simply grabbing a handler on a text box. At least that way I could have quickly adjusted the words if I put them in individual boxes. But... seems I can't get that to work either. I have to sit and play with the kerning / tracking numbers until I "think" I have it aligned. And that's WAAAAYYYY too time consuming!

    Oh, old faithful FreeHand, how I miss you!


    Now I'm off to look and see if I can figure out why I can't adjust kerning (tracking) by simply grabbing a handler on a text box. At least that way I could have quickly adjusted the words if I put them in individual boxes. But... seems I can't get that to work either. I have to sit and play with the kerning / tracking numbers until I "think" I have it aligned. And that's WAAAAYYYY too time consuming!

    Oh, old faithful FreeHand, how I miss you!

    There are some keyboard short cuts for kerning and tracking but I cannot see how User who considers dragging a handle to resize a text box and having the letters space out to fit to be kerning or tracking would relate to those shortcuts because they would be way to time consuming.

    I'm curious as to where you got your design training? I would think spending time on a logo to make certain it looked right was the right way to go and actually there should be more controls even if they where even more time consuming.

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