Why can't I adjust the scale of my text by clicking and dragging the corner boxes?

[Guest]

Why can't I adjust the scale of my text by clicking and dragging the corner boxes? Why I have the text selected, all it does it let me highlight it to change font, size, etc, OR all I can do is move it throughout the artboard. Why can I click and drag the corner box to adjust?

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[Larry G. Schneider]

Have you accidentally hit Cmd(Ctrl)-B which is the toggle for Show/Hide bounding Box?

[Cozmicone]

You should be able to resize it by clicking a corner node and dragging it with the Selection Tool, which is the black arrow. Can you post a screenshot of what you see on screen? That may help us to identify what the problem is.

[Guest]

I tried the Ctrl B and nothing seemed to happen.  Normally there are more than four handles, usually some on the sides, not just the corners. Here is a screen shot. Normally I should just be able the grad a corner and size handle and click and drap to change the size, rights? It won't let me, all I can do is move it around the artboard.  Thank you for your help -max

[Guest]

[Guest]

When I hover over the corner with the selection tool just the black top of an arrow shops up with a timy hollow square just to the bottom right of it. thanks again

[Larry G. Schneider · Accepted solution]

Sorry I forgot the Shift in there (Ctrl-Shift-B). Also found at View>Show/Hide Bounding Box for us [strong word removed as was reported].

[Cozmicone]

It's because you have a paragraph text box and it doesn't automatically resize text. This way you can change the margins of the text without resizing it which is how paragraph text functions by default.

I'm not seeing the new text paragraph/area indicator on your text box, which is what you get in Illustrator CC, so the only way to convert this text so you can resize it by dragging on the corners is to copy the text, deselect the text box, use the text tool to click once in another part of your document, and then paste the text. The text will then come into your document as one long line if you don't have hard returns in it, but after reflowing the text manually you'll be able to drag the corners to resize the text.

I would recommend not going this route as any text you remove from the area type means that the rest of the text has to be manually adjusted to maintain correct margins. Instead just resize the bounds of the paragraph text and adjust the size of the font in the Character panel.

[MDrewes]

I am not sure this is the answer? There is something that gets triggered from time to time that makes my text boxes stop responding to regular commands with the selection tool and ST and command to scale the text. I am not sure what it is or what I hit but its super annoying. Now to even manipulate the box at all I have to use the Direct Selection Tool and grab the stupid corners over and over again. So, something happened.

[Monika Gause]

  schrieb

I am not sure this is the answer? There is something that gets triggered from time to time that makes my text boxes stop responding to regular commands with the selection tool and ST and command to scale the text. I am not sure what it is or what I hit but its super annoying. Now to even manipulate the box at all I have to use the Direct Selection Tool and grab the stupid corners over and over again. So, something happened.

If this answer doesn't solve it for you, then please create a new thread, tell us your system and version and the exact steps to reproduce your issue.

[Val25610345tufs]

I just had this problem. I was trying to resize a several texts in my design and noticed that other fonts can be resized by the bounding box and the others cannot.

What I found out was that the OTF can be resized using the bounding box and the TTF won't work.