How do you justify text in Illustrator?
I'm running version 9.0. When I cut and paste text from Word or if I type text in, it looks as if it were in .txt format. Just long strings of text, each paragraph one line.
When I select the text object and click "Justify" in the Paragraph menu, nothing happens.
How do I solve this? Thanks.
I don't know it off the top of my head, but all I can say is that Illustrator has the most decent "help" book of any graphics program I've seen--I'd say to give that a shot first if you haven't already. (On a related note, the tutorial in it is also excellent.)
Pretty sure you have to have a shape that you're pasting the text into, before the Justify command will work. If you just paste in from a word proc., then you'll have to hit Return to break up the line.
you are using the former, and you need the latter.
click and hold on the text tool to bring up the other text options. the text shape tool will let you draw a shape and then you can paste the text into it.
ret's advice is the best, but I might add that you could be inadvertanly pasting unwanted carriage returns. If you are deleting these troublesome guys, here's an easy work-around...
1. Copy your text from where-ever,
2. Open Notpad.exe (Standard on MS OS's)
3. Turn Format->Word Wrap off.
4. Paste your text into Notepad.
5. Copy the loooong single-line paragraphs out of Notepad and Paste them into illustrator.
(added since it wasn't explicit in the other posts)
6. The justify selections are Window->Type->Paragraph ... this usually pulls the "Paragraph" tag up in front of the "Type" tab on most peoples set-up.
Illustrator help, please?
How do you justify text in Illustrator?
I'm running version 9.0. When I cut and paste text from Word or if I type text in, it looks as if it were in .txt format. Just long strings of text, each paragraph one line.
When I select the text object and click "Justify" in the Paragraph menu, nothing happens.
How do I solve this? Thanks.
I don't know it off the top of my head, but all I can say is that Illustrator has the most decent "help" book of any graphics program I've seen--I'd say to give that a shot first if you haven't already. (On a related note, the tutorial in it is also excellent.)
Pretty sure you have to have a shape that you're pasting the text into, before the Justify command will work. If you just paste in from a word proc., then you'll have to hit Return to break up the line.
just save text in WORD as *.doc...then PLACE in Illustrator as a *.doc.....ggaarrrrggghh (wookie yell)
the text tool enters text as a single line.
the text shape tool enters text within a shape.
you are using the former, and you need the latter.
click and hold on the text tool to bring up the other text options. the text shape tool will let you draw a shape and then you can paste the text into it.
click and drag the text tool to make a box/shape. then ctrl+v.
Then Alt+Ctrl+T to open the paragraph styles window (to justify).
ret's advice is the best, but I might add that you could be inadvertanly pasting unwanted carriage returns. If you are deleting these troublesome guys, here's an easy work-around...
1. Copy your text from where-ever,
2. Open Notpad.exe (Standard on MS OS's)
3. Turn Format->Word Wrap off.
4. Paste your text into Notepad.
5. Copy the loooong single-line paragraphs out of Notepad and Paste them into illustrator.
(added since it wasn't explicit in the other posts)
6. The justify selections are Window->Type->Paragraph ... this usually pulls the "Paragraph" tag up in front of the "Type" tab on most peoples set-up.
ret has it. That is the easiest way.
yippee...oh ret...oh ret...thank you...oh ret!!!
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