Touch Type improvements
Touch Type is a nice tool that is still unfinished.
- Can’t select several glyphs at once (not by Shift+clicking, not with a marquee)
- Can’t constrain rotations to 45° by holding Shift
- Can’t constrain movements to axes by holding Shift
- Can’t select a glyph when it’s even partially obscured by another one next to it
- Can’t reset selection to original states via on-screen controls
- Snap to Glyphs obviously doesn’t work with it (imagine if it would have)
- There is no way to apply changes to one glyph without shifting all glyphs to the right (relative/absolute mode) — previously reported at https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/34552057-make-the-touch-type-tool-work-both-sides
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
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The same way we can hold Shift to be move an object only horizontally /vertically / diagonally, or rotate it to angles based on 45°, same should apply to moving characters with the Touch Type tool.
This can allow us to quickly fix kerning without using a field, interactively.
For now it Shift does not affect it :( -
This request seems like an interesting thing to add as well:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/39471382