Text Bounding Boxes

[beenaroundtheblock]

I have used Illustrator going clear back to vs6. I have been using CS2015 for a couple of years now.

I have a REAL problem with the CS text bounding boxes.

I could swear in the pre CC versions you DID NOT HAVE TO DO THE EXTRA STEP of clicking on annotation point when wanting to quickly switch between editing text within box and or quickly resizing both text and box. Am I doing something wrong or is this something we are stuck with? I can't figure out ANY benefit to this added step???? What am I missing here? why would Adobe making workflow harder this way? I try to minimize mouse selection as much as possible therefore streamlining workflow etc.

Thanks

[Doug A Roberts]

you're talking about the annotation that switches between area and point type right? i think that was added in CC2014. i guess they thought it was more important than being able to resize the text and box together quickly.

note that after you convert, you're resizing just the text: there is no constraining box. you'll have a string of return characters where the edge of your bounding box was.

[Doug A Roberts]

actually, after a quick play around in CS5 my memory must be faulty; can't resize both text and box with just the selection tool in either CC or CS5. i don't think anything was changed there:

area type = bounding box resizes

point type = type resizes

all they changed was making it easier to switch between the two.

[beenaroundtheblock]

I meant you could resize both with selection tool (no clicking on annotation thing) waay back in Legacy version Illustrator 6-8 waay prior to the Creative Suite introduction. Or am I not following you correctly somehow?

[beenaroundtheblock]

And it was one less step to just grab the text tool vs. having to click on the box first and then get the text tool and visa versa.

[Doug A Roberts]

i don't remember much beyond CS2 I'm afraid. how did you just resize the bounding box without resizing the text in that case?

[beenaroundtheblock]

If I remember right, you just grabbed the corner and pulled. If you wanted to resize text, you just grabbed the corner along with the control (mac) and pulled for a proport/constrained resize. thanks for your response/s btw.

[Doug A Roberts]

well, unless someone with either a pre-version 8 copy or a long memory passes by i couldn't say either way. i'd just note here that youy're not just switching between being able to resize text or resize box, you're switching from area to point type, which might mess up things if you're expecting one or the other in a layout.