Turn off auto aligment Illustrator 2025

[Stef Goedhart]

I haven't used Illustrator for a few months (after like 25 years of using) and suddenly something changed.

When I try to scale a Paragraph type part, it's aligning my text automatically and actually non-stop the way i would NOT like to align it. Vertically and Horizontally.

It looks like an Ai way of aligning, but I definitely want this to control this on my own.

ANyone a solution?

[Monika Gause]

Could you perhaps post a video of that?

[Stef Goedhart]

i JUST did 😉

[Doug A Roberts]

That looks like normal behaviour for area type?

[Stef Goedhart]

No. It's not moving cause of my cursor. It's moving / changing by itself. You can see in the video I let go the type area and 0,5 sec after that it's repositioning / aligning...?

[Stef Goedhart]

I added a video to show what's happening all the time.

[Ton Frederiks]

Maybe you want Type > Convert To Point Type?

[Stef Goedhart]

I know the difference between this. But still: In the video you can see the text is aligning by it'self eventhoough the width does not change in those 0,5 second.

[Ton Frederiks]

Hard to see in your handheld movie, lot's of movement going on.

[Stef Goedhart]

? Attempt 2. See how the text is re-aligning after I let go the shift for vertical movement. I have never ever experienced this before.

[Stef Goedhart]

@Doug A Roberts @Monika Gause  see what I mean? Even when I not try to reshape the form of the text area, but just move it, it's re-aligning. In this case temporarily but I have really never experienced this kind of text jumps while working in illustrator (or indesign etc).

[Kurt Gold]

I seem to remember that some other user reported a similar issue some time ago. Unfortunately, I cannot locate the corresponding thread.

However, can you share the Illustrator file you used in your video?

[Ton Frederiks]

I understand now what you do. Cannot replicate that though. As Kurt suggested, can you share an example file? You need to rename .ai to .pdf to attach it to a message on this forum.

[Stef Goedhart]

I can. But I think it's in the settings of my Illustrator somehow. It's in every file I create.

While creating the file, I now have TWO Paragraph text areas. One from the other document, one new. And weirdly enough (but it gives hope) the above (green now) does not respond funny, the other does (red now). I already double check Paragraph settings of both, but can't find what the difference of the the text areas is.

[Stef Goedhart]

I added the same text now and it still is different. We must be on to something now haha (Thanks already for thinking with me like this!).

[Ton Frederiks]

Thanks for the file, unfortunately the Illustrator properties are lost when saved as PDF. All the text has become seperate lines.

Can you save the .ai file and rename it to.pdf or check the Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities when saving as PDF.

[Stef Goedhart]

ai. duh... stupid me. check!

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Stef, the difference between the two paragraph settings is that the reflow one is set to Adobe Every-Line Composer and the static one to Adobe Single-Line Composer.

They should not reflow when just moved.

I can see it reflowing when moving, but as soon as I stop moving it shows the original.

[Stef Goedhart]

You rock!!! DOn't know how this happened, but this was exactly what the problem was! Thanks Ton!!

[Ton Frederiks]

@Stef Goedhart  good to hear that helped.

[kphotopage]

I’m not sure I totally understand your problem.

I compared your two paragraphs. If you show your hidden characters, you will notice the red paragraph has hard returns, the green does not.

Also if you check Type>Area Type Options, your settings are different with the two paragraphs.

K

[Stef Goedhart]

@Ton Frederiks  answer was the solution. Don't know why this changes of settings happened, cause i see no shortcut that I might accidentally pressed, but it's solved now!

Paragraph > "Adobe Every-line composer" switched to "Adobe Single-line composer"

https://www.dezigneasy.com/2012/10/when-to-use-adobe-every-line-composer.html

[Ton Frederiks]

@kphotopage The returns do not seem to make the difference, even when you remove them, when the Adobe Every-Line Composer is used they reflow.