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An error occurred while saving the comment Meanwhile I made a script for this: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vhvv51d8wuk86lx9n21od/FitAreaTypeFrame.jsx?rlkey=0q2he1xj0tlt177khzm68870n&dl=1
Supports English and Japanese locale.
Unfortunately, I was not able to find a way to toggle Auto-Size (height), only force enable it, but all other Fit options work — for rotated objects too (and it can convert irregular shapes into rectangles. Supports different text alignment (detecting it by the first line).
Hope this helps. Please feel free to test and use and comment.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment I actually clearly see the difference now, and agree these differ.
Auto-size in Ai makes the frame to auto-expand or auto-shrink vertically when text is added or removed, while keeping the width fixed. InDesign offers a lot more options in Text Frame Options > Auto-Size: height and width separately or together, proportionally or not, from a chosen corner or side, with minimum and maximum values...
But double-clicking a frame marker or a corner does a different thing altogether — it actually resizes the frame to hug the text from the side/sides needed at the moment, and it makes the text to overflow when it gets added later. It’s basically 'auto-size once'.
We can do the same thing though in a way already, utilizing something InDesign does not have — point text.
Double-clicking the round marker on the right side of the bounding box (or going Type > Convert to Point Type) and then clicking it again when it goes white effectively makes the frame hug the text tight, giving mostly the same results.
The downsides of this solution — it requires two precise double-clicks instead of one, and it drops all the Area Type Options if you had any (like Inset Spacing or First Baseline distance) — which is mentioned in this report: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/47243432I’d say it’s close enough, but why not going a bit further and actually have it. Voted.
An error occurred while saving the comment Robin, but why do you specifically say you don’t mean the 'Auto-size' option? What is the difference for you?
An error occurred while saving the comment There's 'Auto Size' option in Type > Area Type Options that does this
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An error occurred while saving the comment Ah, I see, you work with thousands, and the fields are just too narrow for these large values.
Therefore you can’t surely tell a double-click (selects a full 'word' between spaces, a value or a unit, depending on the click location) from a triple-click (selects all)... although a triple-click would put the cursor at the end, thus 'scrolling' the contents... at least it’s how it behaves on Windows :)
Also, Ai puts the units within the fields, to allow conversions (type a unit you need and get it recalculated to the document’s chosen ones).If you surely need to select a fields fully — click the caption (W / H...) instead, once — this selects the corresponding field. Sure, 'W' is smaller than a field, and it’s harder to aim it (and still, after decades of muscle memory, I click both the fields and the captions), but the method exists.
Hmm... I don’t think stretching thу inputs to fit the values would work in all cases... this could make them blow up rather ugly in some dialogs. Transform, like many other panels, have the same width, to allow them to bet switched without UI jumping, and making this one panel larger would break this — when these aren’t docked with a larger panel, like you have it. It’s the only 'legal' way to resize Transform, so it might seem it has plenty of space to make the fields wider...
Recently the Align was fixed to have this width finally, and boy it was painful to have it larger than Transform and Pathfinder, which are often grouped.
Perhaps allow stretching these only in the forced width cases, like yours? Needs further thinking.There’s a similar request about the Properties panel being rigid in the same manner: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/32011942
Just to complete the picture — can you show a full screenshot of your workspace.
An error occurred while saving the comment Hmm... David, how do these look for you? Can you share some screenshots, please?
For me Transform looks like this, with all the digits and the units visible (and the 'mm' gets just slightly trimmed with larger values).
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An error occurred while saving the comment I’ve extracted your Recent Tools idea into a separate entry — upvoted.
As for the main part of the request — Illustrator allows us to customize the tool panels (and I think you know it...)
Surely we can choose only 1 or 2 columns, but we can stuff these full of separate tools as we like. They won’t make a separate default toolbar to pick certainly, but feel free to make you own (and back it up to keep and restore in an emergency case).
So what your request is about then? A preset out of the box? A 'smart' mode 'show everything you got!'? A mode to 'expand all tool groups into tool sections'? Something else? -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Daniel, am I guessing right — it happens only in Properties panel, but not in the Control or Transform ones?
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An error occurred while saving the comment @Wasim, does it happen in any document, or this one only? With these settings only or with default ones too?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Changing a color mode does NOT mean choosing the corresponding set of presets. These are defined by the Document Profile used.
If you picked a document size based on a Print-based profile — Illustrator would warn you about the mismatch, right in the dialog, just above OK button, with the ⚠️ icon, saying exactly what would happen: your Print-based CMYK Black would be converted to your forced RGB.
Use Print-specific presets to create the document. In the modern File > New dialog these are the top row categories. In the classic New Document these are presented with the very first drop-down.Ai can’t really decouple presets from the color mode — it would break many established workflows.
While the idea of 'oh, the user picked CMYK! I guess it means they need a Print profile' (like Affinity does) seems smart, it’s not.
In Ai these document profiles are not only about the color mode, but also units, styles, safe frames, etc.It’s a problem — with the New Document redesigned, the users lost the concept of the Document Profile.
...but I personally think it should be fixed with a better UI and education, instead of one more 'smart' guess forced on users. This won’t help newbies much (adding to the complicacy), but harm pros, who often need a CMYK document (with the units, presets, etc.) but in RGB color mode though (because of fluorescent Pantones or similar things). -
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Illustrator Beta (starting with 30.9.0.52) now offers its own approach to dynamic text.
Text auto-resizes and reflows to fit its container as we scale or reshape it. It also works with Type on a Path, so any curve we draw gets the same fit-to-space behavior.
Please try it and share what you think about it with the team in comments — the feedback we share is shaping what gets shipped.
- Select the Type tool. Click to add a line of text, drag to create a text area, or select an existing type object.
- Turn on Dynamic Text (the T with a lighting bolt button) from the Contextual Task Bar, Properties, or Control panels.
- Resize or reshape the bounding box to see the text fit itself.
- Alter the settings in the Properties panel (only there for now)
An error occurred while saving the comment David, got it, unmerged it back.
An error occurred while saving the comment Another custom free script for this got published here:
https://github.com/inaniwaudon/illustrator-textAn error occurred while saving the comment There is a custom script solution published at https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/auto-change-text-size-to-size-of-text-box/td-p/12518793
It takes each text line of a live area type object and makes it fit the width of the frame. It’s *almost* like Express does, but somewhat different. Anyway, this is a suitable and effective workaround.An error occurred while saving the comment Except for 'Capitalize' should be an option.
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This is finally addressed in the latest 30.8.0.7 Beta build, hooray!
Clicking the soft area of a drop shadow (or any other raster effect region) no longer selects the object casting it. We can now click straight through the effect region to select whatever is behind it.
Please check if it works for you and share if there are cases when you need the legacy behavior.
An error occurred while saving the comment Tyson, nope, so far this was considered to be just straight useless, so it was decided to not make it into an option. You are the first one I know who found a useful application for this behavior. When you find something is protruding — what do you do with it though?
An error occurred while saving the comment Meanwhhile, web apps are going to allow this. Not Ai though.
https://x.com/tldraw/status/2022838096601981064An error occurred while saving the comment Dror, it works indeed. But it also prevents selecting an object by clicking its fill :)
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An error occurred while saving the comment Transparency in raster images is completely other thing and I afraid would be much harder.
But if yes, let's go further:
'Selection raster alpha tolerance slider'
Background sometimes is not exactly transparent, so 5% (or 13 units for 0-255 range if RGB), for example, would be enough to eleminate 'almost transparent as well'.An error occurred while saving the comment I would say 'Select ignores raster effects' would be better.
An error occurred while saving the comment No, selecting object by path' only is not 'the same as 'click-through raster effects'.
Make at least option 'don't select by external appearance', please. I would prefer even more complex way, by separating raster and vector effects to be sensitive for clicking, but this will get things to complicated, I afraid. -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Lilith, when you view the PDF using Acrobat or try to import the PDF into Illustrator — do you see the text?
Can you share this file with the team, please, via sharewithai@adobe.com? Mention the link to this report in the text somewhere so they can track it back here, https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/51724761 -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Andy, please clarify — do you mean the Retype function? or the 'Show similar fonts' in the Character panel? or something else?
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Marking the issue as resolved as per the user comment below.
An error occurred while saving the comment @Love, were you able to solve the problem? Does anything like this happen in Ai today?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Michele, can you check, please, — is it any better today?
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An error occurred while saving the comment @pressprintparty, I suppose it’s not an issue today? Or is it still?
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Hi,
Please get in touch with us at any of the other support channels – https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html . Since this is not a generic issue that we can reproduce at our end, we will need someone to look into your machine to figure out what is going on here.
With best Regards,
Raghuveer SinghAn error occurred while saving the comment Ken, how about today’s Ai? The font explorer changed a lot since then — can you know cycle the Font Family field with the arrow keys and have the font changed on canvas?
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An error occurred while saving the comment Daniel, is it any better today?
An error occurred while saving the comment Does it happen for you in Photoshop also? It does for me.
I thought it is my problem solely, happy to hear it’s no mine only. Sad to hear it exists. -
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An error occurred while saving the comment Sara, is it any better today?
My guess it’s because of the different names’ lengths.
The longer name forces the Transform block to be just slightly out of the space to becomes collapse.
Here, look, the first image is
fcFKol.tif
the second is
aZbOwh.tif
Same 6 letters, but characters themselves are wider.
Alas, this happened because of the recent GenAi changes — the added 'Edit Image' button, as well as 'Concept to vector'.
I struggle from a similar problem as well.
Please upvote these 2 requests to hopefully fix this mess later:
1. Allow us to customize/choose features/controls/order in Control panel — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/41107240
2. An ability to disable all generative tools and options, like Text to Vector Graphic, Generative Pattern... — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/47462738