Illustrator: For some reason it's not possible to alter a text area with the Direct Tool once I've drawn it, I can only move the entire object. Same goes for objcts. All corner points stay marked, no matter what I do. I've been working with Illustrator for years, I can't find the mistake, I've checked all the settings.
View 2 RepliesI'm using an iMac and Illustrator CC. I created a text area box. I want to place text from an outside Word document into the area box. When I go to File>Place and locate the text file, I click on Place. When I'm returned to my Illustrator CC document, the original area box is deselected and my cursor is loaded and ready for me to drag out a new area box. Shouldn't the placed text fill the original area box?
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Everything I try when rotating rotates the entire area + the text in side, which makes the positioning of the shape my text is in wrong.I am after being able to change the inside text angle and content whenever needed.
I'm using Illustrator CS6 with a file that someone else produced. Many of the area text bounding boxes are way bigger than they need to be. In Freehand, I used to be able to double-click on a corner of the bounding box and the box would automatically resize itself to just fit around the text (loved that feature!). Is there something similar in Illustrator? Or do I need to go through and manually resize all the bounding boxes by dragging them smaller?
View 4 Replies View RelatedAn Area Text Object is created...
the Transform Effect is applied to it (a rotation).
The text rotates, but the fill disappears...
whether it's the original object or if copies are added.
After selecting the area type tool, I try to click and drag but I get an error message: You must click on a non-compound, non-masking path to create text inside a path. This worked before but I must have screwed something up.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm having this strange issue with the Photoshop type tool in Photoshop CS5. It might be, although I'm not sure, a bug. The tool itself is working and lets me add text and edit. But the box that shows up when editing text (and the blinking line that shows where I am in the text) - has gone invisible. I am having this issue in only one document. - I tested the type tool on other documents, and everything was normal. I've looked up shotcuts and hotkeys to check if I've tapped a key or something, but it doesn't appear to be so.
Now about the document; it does have quite the amount of text layers, and a lot of text in them. I've tried resetting the type tool, and I've restarted the program.
When I restart the program, the tool works as it's supposed to - but after editing or adding a new text layer, the editing area is gone again! Is this a bug, or have I touched keys that do odd things?
In IV 2011 can text be word wrapped in the defined text area.
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I endlessly find that I have text line objects which I later wish had been proper text areas (because I want to control the size of their bounding box, for example).
Is there any sensible way to convert a text line object into a text area object - it's a bore to do it by creating a new text object and then cutting and pasting the text, and it is seemingly a trivial thing for the software to do automatically.
Alternatively, is there an option (perhaps a hidden one) to have all text objects created as areas rather than lines?
Is it possible to change the alignment of text within a text area?
By default the text is located top left. Horizontal justification can make this top center or top right, but how about bottom left / center / right or even middle left / center / right?
I have an image with a text layer and another text layer. The text on one layer overlaps an area of the text on the other layer (which I want to do).
But what I really want is for one of the two overlapping sections to be behind the other to give the appearance that the two text objects are intertwined. I have attached the image to this post. The items I am talking about are the two sections of the large orange "C" that cross over the large blue"C".
Is it possible in Xara to create a non-rectangular text area? For example, I'd like to create circular or oval text areas.
View 8 Replies View RelatedFitting text to a specified area. To clarify, I am trying to fill letters into a Harley Davidson logo. The top and bottom rockers on the logo have the text skewed to fit the shape of the shield. If you are familiar with the logo, the text in the top and bottom rockers has one flat side and one stretched side.
I've attempted to try some text to path options but they aren't doing at all what I need. It's essentially a standard line of text with either the top or bottom (respectively) stretched to fit the point of the top rocker and the curve of the bottom.
How would I go about restricting text to a certain area?
Like I want to have some text within an area so that I can keep on typing and the text will automatically wrap to the next line when it gets to the edge of the area a bit like how the textarea box on the forum works.
I designed my contact form in Photoshop cs6, and i have some pretty text areas, where i want to make that users could type in it, when i put it on web. I know that i have to slice something up, but what next? How do i make a working text box in Photoshop cs6?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am owner of the Xtreme5 Xara version (i've not already get more recents ones ! ), and I would like to know if it is possible to change the text area, not to have a squirreled shape for this text. (Or if there another method, I am interested in too !)
Very useful when you have to surround the shape of a picture, for instance...
I put a simple picture to explain easily... :
How can I extract text from polyline area. Ideally scaled by some factor (drawing in millimeters convert to area in meters).
I need to write a lot of areas of some room etc. into them and i want to know if there is another possibility than select polygon note the area and make text.
I'm unsing AutoCAD 2005 CZ.
How do I move text to a different area of the photo?
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How can I enter a value for alt in Illustrator?
<img src="USA-map.png" width="480" height="360" border="0" alt="" usemap="#USA_map_Map"><map name="USA_map_Map"><area shape="rect" alt="" coords="203,208,230,222" href="javascript:void(0)"><area shape="rect" alt="" coords="248,472,273,486" href="javascript:void(0)"><area shape="rect" alt="" coords="139,142,170,156" href="javascript:void(0)"></map>
How to protect some area in the Illustrator from changes? Like Photoshop does.
What I mean is: In the Photoshop I can select some area with Selection tool, let's say a rectangle. Then I can edit that area without a risk to harm any pixels outside it. I can apply any filter to it (blur, etc.), I can fill it with some colour or pattern. And the area outside the selection will be unchanged.
I can not find any way in the Illustrator to do the same or even a similar thing! I can isolate some object or group. but I can not isolate an area/region.
How do I calculate the area for a section of an extruded profile and display it in a drawing note? I see how to add a field <AREA> in the text dialog box, but it comes up as N/A in my text box in the drawing. This is also the case for <MASS> and <VOLUME>. How do I get the drawing fields associated with the physical properties of the model?
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I cannot just delete the orange because it is convering things from other layers beneath which I cannot simply delete.
I've created an artboard at a certain size. I put some objects within the artboard. But the exported PNG is not the size of the artboard, but is only the size of the graphics on the artboard.
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View 11 Replies View RelatedI've been looking high and low for this and I can't seem to find an answer. I have two paths, some text and a line going through the text. I want to be able to keep the part of the line that intersects with the text, and leave the text intact. All of the "Pathfinder" modes seem to either not keep the intersecting part, or delete the rest of the text also. Is there something I'm missing?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have encountered a bug that when I copy text located at the desktop area. X6 (32/64bit) will crash. if I forget this bug during my work! I need to drag the contact back to the work sheet before I copy.
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