Textbox jumping

[juergen huber]

When I change the text orientation from say left aligned (see screenshot) to centered the whole box (and not only the text within the box) will jump to a different position. I. e. the left margin of the left aligned textbox. WHY? This is very annoying behaviour and does not make any sense, does it? What is the idea behind it?

Regards

Jürgen, Berlin

[Ton Frederiks]

That irritating behaviour has always been there (nobody knows why).

[Monika Gause]

I'm quite sure that should they ever change it, a couple of people will appear asking why that useful behaviour got changed. Like always.

[Ton Frederiks]

Sure, changing existing behaviour always gets resistance (unless it is an option that can be turned on/off).

[Ton Frederiks]

But it is worth to mention it here:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com

[Monika Gause]

In the meantime Kelso Cartography has a script that can chage the alignment without moving the text

http://kelsocartography.com/scripts/

[juergen huber]

Haha, very funny and typical Adobe. Other companies have made a market out of fixing illustrator stuff. Take Astute for example and their plug-ins. Without those serious vector work in illustrator is impossible. I wish I did not have to run a plug-in, script, whatever, but have a program (that is not cheap by the way) that works properly.