I'm trying to move the bottom line of a text box.

I select the box's line with open arrow, hold down the SHIFT key to constrain - and it automatically deselects the type box that I was trying to move. I can select the line with the open arrow and move it that way, but it's too easy to make an error and shift the box. I need the corners to remain perfectly square which is why I'm holding the shift key.

I've had this problem with the last few upgrades.

I'm an Adobe Illustrator user for more than 25 years - certainly not a newbie.

PLEASE FIX

This might be difficult to explain, but at the moment, when pasting text within Illustrator (it can be from a different artboard within the doc, or from a different Illustrator doc, or Word, basically it doesn't seem to matter where the text comes from) or if just create a new text box and type within it, and try to resize the box, it seems to create more text boxes within the main box, and the text would 'snap' into the smaller box. If I stretch the box wider, the text will 'snap' back into the bigger box again, and I can then delete the randomly created text box as it is empty and not affected anymore. If I keep moving the edges of the text box around, every time the text within it is affected by moving or not having enough space it will just pop a new box. It will carry on indefinitely as long as I'm shifting the size around.

This only happens when creating text boxes that you can resize without affecting the size of the text inside it. Typing without a text box seems to be fine. It has also started doing it with any objects within Illustrator. For example, I create a basic rectangle shape. Then, using the bounding box, I drag a corner to resize it, and as I do that, it is generating more rectangles as I go. In the layers panel, they are listed as normal, as if I duplicated the shapes or text boxes.

Here is a screen recording: https://drive.google.com/a/giuliodecandia.com/file/d/1Uu2KZfbD21msW4OBIXA60zVcZIfzhJgc/view?usp=drivesdk

It's the latest version Illustrator 23.0.1 running on MacOS Mojave 10.14.1

Here is the discussion I have had on Adobe forums: https://forums.adobe.com/message/10784929

In Illustrator CC (Latest version and several previous) on Mac:
- BUG 1: Copying text with a Paragraph and/or Character Style applied and pasting it into a new text box adds a "+" to the end of every applied style, effectively breaking every bit of formatting that has been done. (Every style must be reapplied to the text to make the text update when the Styles are updated).

• BUG 2: When Staggered margins are set while editing the Style Sheet (e.g. a 20px Left indent and a -10px First Line indent), clicking on the "Tabs" tab, wipes out all newly set indents. The only way to keep the indents, is to first close the Style Sheet, and then re-open it and then edit the Tabs.




• BUG 3: (ties into BUG 1) Any Style with a "+" added to it indicates that alterations have been made to the text outside of the Style. But, updates to the Style that don't affect the altered setting aren't applied to the text. This mean's that any styling to the text outside of the Style effectively breaks the entire link to the style. This 'should' function as Style sheets do in InDesign... keeping the link to the Style and treating the adjustment to the text as a manual override to just the adjust aspect (such as changing the text to a different color than used in the Style). What's the point in applying a style (beyond formatting text) if any alteration to the text breaks the Style?

I've been using Illustrator since it was a version 1.x application and the last few versions have been very ******* Style Sheets (bugs and poor implementation). Please fix current bugs first, rather than adding more new features!

Adobe Illustrator CC 22.1

I updated my Illustrator App, and of course, I had to migrate all my templates over to the new CC2018 folder. Why do you make us do this EVERY update?

Additionally, ALL of my Favorited fonts were lost. Ive spent so much time sifting through my fonts to favorite fonts in each class. Now, after the cc2018 update, all of my favorite font filters are gone. Why would you reset our font filters on this update? It seems you guys come out with more bugs than features in all of the Adobe CC software I use, Yet you insist on increasing your prices and force us into a subscription model. Every year I get closer to dropping Adobe and moving to full functioning software made by professionals in the field, rather than a Quantity over Quality Software subscription company.

TEXT BLOCK CURSOR NOT INDICATING ACTUAL CURSOR LOCATION
This has happened a few times to me, but is not consistent.

When editing text in a type block I use the pointer to hi light the area where changes are required but the changes occur at a different point in the text.
I have attached an image to clarify this - the black editing block is hi lighting the additional space I intend to delete but the actual character deleted is a few characters away (in this case the letter 'f' which shows with a blue edit line in this image - after undoing the action).

Illustrator 2017 had the ability to, while transforming the type on the path shape, to keep the text on it the same size and proportions when doing so. I would select the path with direct selection tool, then hit command, and text would stay uniform when transforming path.

Now, in illustrator 2018, using same steps and command, type doesn't stay uniform, it gets squished.

Below are video links I recorded to show how the action works in 2017 and 2018 illustrator.

2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QORO9Xro
2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XscdrAqBZR8

Notice how type gets distorted when moving bounding box in 2018, but I was able to make it stay proportionate in 2017.