Create text larger than 12pt when zoomed out! (Plus wacom type tool error)
When I'm putting together a HD storyboard, i.e zoomed out to view a range of 1920x1020 artboards, clicking on the document with the text tool just makes a tiny cross symbol and doesn't allow me to type.
NOTE - Wacom tablet seems to create the cross. Laptop track pad does create text but at 12pt which is crazy small to edit when zoomed out.
It would be great if Illustrator acknowledged my zoom level and didn't default to giving me text so small that I can't highlight it or easily edit. Constantly zooming in and out every time I want to annotate or use text is a really inefficient workflow. I feel like this didn't used to be an issue.
(On a 4k XPS15 display)
Thanks!
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I see what you mean, Tom, and that's an interesting idea, 'zoom-indpendent text size'. But it will make the text size jump depending on your zoom level, and in some cases the sizes would be way too similar but still different, and this would spoil things, if not for you, but for others.
However, there is an intended way of solving this.
Open Window > Type > Paragraph Styles panel. Make sure you have [Normal Paragraph Style] there selected.
Create a piece of text, set the size you want to use (and font, if you wish to change it).
In the panel’s flyout menu choose Redefine Paragraph Style command.
From now on (in this specific document) all your new text will inherit the settings you specify in this style.You can also double-click the style and set the settings all at once.
If you wish to make it a default style for all the new documents, you should modify document profile files. A brief instructions can be found here: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/create-custom-new-document-profile.html
Does it help you in any way? Please reply.
