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suzannee2072493
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January 16, 2018
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Text Boxes - following the angle of the box, not the horizontal?

  • January 16, 2018
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Hi. I am new to Illustrator - and need some help.

I am making a Year Book, and I want the text boxes to sit at different angles. At the moment I can rotate the angle of the text box, but the text remains perfectly horizontal. I would like the text to follow the angle of the box.

How do I do this?

Thank you in advance for your advice!

Suzie

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    Correct answer Kris Hunt

    Make your text box by dragging with the text tool. The way you're doing it now, you're telling Illustrator you want horizontal text to conform to the selected shape, which happens to be a rectangle. If you then turn that shape into a diagonally slanted rectangle, the horizontal text will obediently conform to a diagonally slanted rectangle.

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    Kurt Gold
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    Kurt GoldCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 16, 2018

    Try to rotate with the genuine Rotate tool or the Free Transform tool. Or use the Transform palette.

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    Caroline59
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    October 24, 2021

    OK that does work. 

    Any reason why it should now take several tools and clicks what used to take one tool and one click and drag?

    Really?

    John Mensinger
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    John MensingerCommunity Expert
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    October 25, 2021

    It's one of the differences between Area Type and Point Type.

    Area Type is presumed to be paragraphical and flowable, so basic transform of the frame reshapes the paragraph while keeping the type horizontal. The dedicated transform tools are needed otherwise.

    Point Type would behave the way you want, or expected.

    Jacob Bugge
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    Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
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    January 16, 2018

    Suzanne,

    Are you using the Area Type Tool so the text adapts to/fits within the box, or just the Type Tool with a separate box round it? In the former case, everything should rotate together, in the latter case you can Group text and box (select both and Ctrl/Cmd+G).

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    suzannee2072493Author
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    January 17, 2018

    Hi Jacob, I make a box, and then use the Area Type Tool which drops latin text into my box. Then I select all, but when I rotate it using the selection arrow it still keeps the text horizontal, while the box changes angle. Clearly I am not doing something right!!

    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
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    January 17, 2018

    Suzanne,

    You should do what Kurt says, always.

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