Single line text temporarily breaks to two lines when being moved or adjusted
This issue has been discussed in the Adobe Community forums, and other people have been able to replicate it.
This is the current 28.1 version of Illustrator as of Dec. 21st 2023.
If I have text that is close to the edge of the text box, and I try to make kerning between two characters tighter/smaller, Illustrator temporarily shows the text breaking into two lines, as if it won't fit on one, before readjusting to one line again. It's making it very difficult to fine-tune kerning, as I can't see the progress I'm making. The kerning information in the Character palette does reflect the changes being made.
Steps taken: use keyboard keys to tighten kerning between two letters, when the text is close to the edges of its containing text box, also while moving said text box using keyboard arrow keys
Expected result: Kerning visible tightens, text box moves as-is
Actual result: The single line of text temporarily breaks into a two-line format while performing the action, then returns to single line
I've also noticed this happens when the text box is selected and being moved via the arrow keys. A community expert has said it can happen clicking the font family in the character tools and other items that shouldn't affect them.
Things that have not solved it:
- Resetting preferences
- Changing kerning from Auto to Optical, etc.
- Changing Paragraph options from Adobe Single-Line Composer to Adobe Every-Line Composer, or vice versa (this can temporarily solve it for a few hours, then doesn't work again)
For info on what has been tried and discussed on the community forum:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/strange-kerning-behavior-in-newest-illustrator/m-p/14311052#M391621
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Thanks for the reply Egor. I've personally never seen this behavior in Illustrator before, so I'm guessing something for the 2024 app was done differently with processes/operations it, as you mentioned. I hope a solution or fix is found, as it's rather difficult to customize kerning with the text moving around.
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Yep, Illustrator waits a bit before applying justification settings after text is modified locally...
Sometimes it’s noticeable like this, sometimes less visible.The other question is 'why?' though.
In this particular case it feels like Illustrator has to adjust word spacing to fit the first line as a whole... but if we open justification and set all Word Spacing to 100% and keep Letter Spacing at 0% (and don’t touch Glyph Scaling) — Ai still performs the same way, with a false break!My guess is that it takes custom tracking into consideration also. If I set it to zero — well, the same thing we briefly see happens, the text splits. Perhaps it’s somehow related to the order of operations it needs to justify the text.
Anyway! It doesn’t really happen in InDesign. I am pretty sure it can be fixed, and it should be.
