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Vertical justification in Illustrator

Vertical justification in Illustrator

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Vertical justification in Illustrator

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- [Nigel] Hi, I'm Nigel French. Welcome to Type Tips. Vertical justification in a text frame is something that's been available in Adobe InDesign since the dawn of time. But it's new in Adobe Illustrator. So here is one possible usage scenario. I want to add some text to this image to create a logo treatment. I'm going to start out by drawing myself a rectangle. In fact, a square centered on the image. I'll hold down option or alt and the shift key to do this. Then I will come and choose my area type tool. And rather than as you might expect, click inside the frame, I will click on the path. Now because I have my preferences set to fill type objects with placeholder text, this is what I get. Before I go ahead and replace this, let's just take a look at the area type options. We can also access these under the type menu. In addition to the vertical justification, which I'm going to set to justify, we have the option to…

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