To scale a Point Type, you can use the scale tool (S hotkey ), but also the black arrow selection tool which is more convenient for this. If you first click and drag, you are defining and creating what is called "Text Box" which is the one that wraps the text. If you just click and type, you are creating the first kind of text you are talking about - it is called "Point Type" Tromboniator, answered that question in full details, but I'll try to say it with another hopfully simple words. There appear to be 2 types of text boxes in Illustrator.one where you can resize the box and not warp the text, and one that warps the text. Gmannib wrote.This is something that's always bothered me. If you discover a way to do it, please let me know! Drag far enough, and you get empty box outside your typing.Īs I say, I know of no built-in way to change one into the other, without creating a new text object. If you exit the Type Tool, grab the Selection Tool, and drag a handle, the text box will grow, and the invisible typing will appear in the box as there is room for it, at the size at which you typed it. Type something, and it will fill to the right until it hits the box, then it returns to the left, and so on until the box is full, at which point additional typing will no longer be visible, but a red square around a + appears at the lower right of the box. If, instead of clicking, you click and drag with the Type Tool (or draw any shape and click it with the Area Type Tool), a rectangle appears with the flashing insertion point in the upper left. If you drag one of the handles, the type will resize according to which handle and which direction you take it. Then hit esc or select another tool, such as the Selection Tool, and the bounding box will appear. Type something, and it will continue along the same line until you hit a return. You will see a tiny x and a flashing insertion point. Point type is created by selecting the Type Tool, then clicking it in the document. Unless Mike or someone proves me wrong (that's fine, wouldn't be the first time) there's no way to do this by accident. No selection method I know of makes them behave the same way. I had to download a script to accomplish this (CS3). I THINK the question is: What keystroke combination might I accidentally hit to turn area type into point type? Unless something has changed in CS5, the answer is : none. Either you're confusing the heck out of me, or I didn't understand the question.
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