The Paragraph Panel in Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator Paragraph panel

The Adobe Illustrator Paragraph panel has all the attribute that be relevant to an entire paragraph, such as alignment, indents and hyphenation. Hyphenation is not cover in this article.

Access the Paragraph panel quickly by click the Paragraph hyperlink in the Control panel or by choosing Window→Type→Paragraph. To see additional options in the Paragraph panel, click the triangle in the upper right corner of the panel (the panel menu) and choose Show Options.


For example, you can’t flush left one word in a paragraph — when you click the Align Left button, the entire paragraph flushes left.

ALIGNMENT

You can prefer any of the following alignment methods by clicking the appropriate button on the Paragraph panel:

Align Left: All text is flush to the left with a ragged edge on the right. This is the most familiar way to align all the text.

Align Center:  All text is become centered.

Align Right:  All text is flush to the right and ragged on the left.

Justify with the Last Line Aligned Left:  Right and left edges are both straight, with the last line left-aligned.

Justify with the Last Line Aligned Center:  Right and left edges are both straight, with the last line centered.

Justify with the Last Line Aligned Right:  Right and left edges are both straight, with the last line right-aligned.

Justify All Lines:  In this forced justification method, the last line is stretched the entire column width, no matter how short it is. This alignment is used in many publications, but it can create some awful results.

You can choose from the following methods of indentation:

First Line Indent:  Indents the primary line of every paragraph. In other words, every time you press the Enter or Return (Mac) key, this spacing is created.

To avoid first-line indents and space after from occurring — if you just want to break a line in a specific place, for example — create a line break or a soft return by pressing Shift+Enter (Windows) or Shift+Return (Mac).

Right Indent: Indents from the right side of the column of text.

Left Indent: Indents from the left side of the column of text.

By default, the Eyedropper affects all attributes of a type selection, including appearance attributes. To customize the attributes affected by these tools, double-click the Eyedropper tool to open the Eyedropper dialog box.

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