Can’t zoom out after editing a text
When I zoom in on text with a magnifying glass.
Then switch to the text tool, change the text and switch back to the magnifying glass, then I can no longer zoom out with the Alt key.
I have to switch to the selection tool first. And then back to the magnifying glass to zoom out with the alt key. Does that make any sense?
When I want to zoom out with the Alt key, the hand always appears to move.
Only when I have switched to the selection tool and then back to the magnifying glass, the minus symbol appears when pressing the Alt key to zoom out. This is extremely annoying and very uncomfortable.
Ben
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When you edit a text, Illustrator goes into dedicated text mode.
Some keys in this mode don’t act like they normally do. The most obvious example — actual letters, they just get typed. Same goes for Spacebar — instead of panning, it inputs spaces! But an ability to pan a document was so important to users (before middle click pan was introduces especially), that an additional way to access Pan was added, a long time ago. Opt/Alt while editing text indeed enables Pan temporarily.This can’t be changed, and the intended way of dealing with this is to commit the changes we make with either Escape or Cmd/Ctrl + Enter, or just use another ways to zoom out, like Cmd/Ctrl + Minus, or Alt + Scroll — these don’t interfere with input, like Space.
