Rezising text boxes has become annoying
When having a text inside a text box is impossible to resize this box. If one tries to do so with the pointer the text gets deformed, there´s no way to resize the box. And if tries to do it with the Direct Selection Tool (A) using both ends of the box, illustrator does anything totally different, like moving the box to one side or even Redo of any other object arround.
The only way to do it is selecting each corner of the box and moving one at the time.
Juan Galvis
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Juan, wait a bit... are you using Free Transform tool to scale an area type? I noticed the cursor in the video.
To scale an area type you should use Selection tool with the bounding box enabled. Plus, it would work for scaling only area type texts together — nothing else included in the selection, not the point type you have there selected initially, not a background rectangle underneath — this limitation irritates me a lot, but currently I try to understand what do you try. -
Derek Watson
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Is the text block set as Area type? Check this for details…
https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/illustrator/using/manage-text-area.html
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Creative Cloud Desktop should have the Beta section in it, it’s available for all the users.
You can install the Beta version next to the general one, they co-exist just fine. The only problem is that Windows would make it the default app to open .ai files when installed, and it’s not that simple to force it to tell the difference, since it can’t really distinguish General Ai from Ai Beta.
So, if you are interested in making this fixed (and have some new features — and sometimes bugs!), you can either try this build, or try to downgrade, or just wait until the fix gets pushed into the next GA build. -
I don't know, I have 30.1. Creative Cloud automatically installed in my computer this version.
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Juan, there was a similar problem with this in 30.X, fixed in the latest Beta, starting with build 45.
What version are you trying this with (this is reported in Beta Bugs, but IU have to ask). Does it work for you in Beta as it should? -
Here's an example. As I try to resize the box with the direct selection tool (A) using two nodes, it "undos" or moves the object in a arbitrary way. Also trying to do it, my illustrator crashed and closed automatically.-
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Juan - can you share a video depicting the issue reported?
