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  1. Dynamic Text (as in Photoshop) or Capitalize (optional) & Fit (as in Adobe Spark / Express)

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    24 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » Type, Fonts, Text  ·  Admin →
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    Started (Available in Beta)  ·  AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

    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)
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    Carl commented  · 

    The existing 'Auto Size' option in Type > Area Type Options
    does not do this, as it resizes the text box to fit the text. What we want is for text to fit into a fixed text box..

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    Carl commented  · 

    Yes, I need this feature, too.

    I am creating 6000 flash cards, each having a word on it. Some words are very long, and must shrink to fit the text box. As I am doing this with variable and script, to automatically resize the text would save from manually examining each and every card and fixing it when necessary. This is not only tedious, but also error-prone.

    This feature could have an option to enlarge/reduce the text to always fit the text box. What we are asking is to reduce only and leave the shorter texts alone.

    Carl supported this idea  ·