Not to sound funny about this - but Illustrator is an Illustration program. Yes it has some controls - but if you are really going to set type - please use Quark or InDesign.

Just use the justify with last line aligned left.

Thanks for your replies..,but I dont want to use the justify with last line aligned left. I want to know how to make the perfect justified text(a perpect box shaped text) with ILLUSTRATOR program.

You're going to have to either adjust the size (width) of the box to get the best looking text or adjust the size of the text so it fits your width better. This is the only way to do it unless you want to do it by hand.

Check out Justification… in the fly out menu. There you can set the settings for justification. Make sure that letter spacing is all zero. Note that this will porbably give you strange spaces between the words.

In general, the quality of your text justification will be directly proportional to the length of your measure. With a short measure, any typesetting application, Adobe Illustrator included, will be forced to add large amounts of word or letter spacing to justify your text. Assuming that this is not the issue at hand, here are a few of things you could try:

Advance Justification Options

Thankfully, even Illustrator offers some advanced options for text justification. You could try adjusting the minimum, maximum and desired settings for word, letter and glyph spacing.

Hyphenation

When enabled, hyphenation should improve the quality of text justification. Illustrator offers advanced options here as well.

Single-line vs. Every-line Composer

When the Single-line Composer is enabled, Illustrator will adjust word spacing on a per line basis. Contrastingly, the Every-line Composer will reflow all lines of text in an attempt to normalize word spacing and therefore improve justification.

All of these advance settings can be found in the additional options dialog of Illustrator's Type»Paragraph window.

Thank you all:)

Heron,

Actually, Illustrator's justification controls are pretty much equivalent to InDesign's. I'd argue that thanks to the paragraph composer, both Illustrator and InDesign have better justification than QuarkXPress. (You may choose to think that as an Adobe employee, of course I'd think that. But it's my honest opinion.)

Cheers,

T

If you want to force justify the last word(s) in Illustrator, hold down the option key when you hit return.

Thomas,

I do page layouts all day long in the States. I deal with one art director in Paris who wants everything done in Illustrator. I'm sorry, but when one is laying out a 40 page brochure -- and page 6 is being moved to page 13, and 21 is half left on 21 and the other half moved to page 30 and followed by page 30 is now 31 and toss 31... one who is aware of production and production time stays within a page layout program.

if you are designing - or doing 1 say, poster, book cover, etc. yes, by all means have fun in Illustrator...

Otherwise, as I wrote before use Quark or Indesign.

And I honestly couldn't care less if you were an Adobe employee - glad you have employment. When something works - why fix it. I'm an original Beta and Gamma tester of Quark - and it is like second nature to me. I'm at the stage, I'm an old dog - and sorry I don't want to learn new tricks - I just want the job done right the first time.

>When something works - why fix it.

What do you think of the paragraph composer's capabilities as shown in this demo?

Nice that the average guy can do that...

Honestly, it took more time watching it in that demo, then it does for me to do it manually... in any program.

Nice to see hanging punctuation - that is one thing I find the young-uns don't understand...

Now how about centered lines with ellipses optically centered too?

I'd be interested in whether other experienced typesetters who have in fact used both Quark & InDesign find the paragraph composer helpful.

It's amazing how much better hanging punct. makes a page look.

Eric
If I haven't told you before, or recently, I love that cat!

I like the excited writer better. His eye is the best part.

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I tend to turn it off and just do my breaks manually. It hate the way you sometimes get all the word space nicked out of a line when you have APC switched on. Seems better in the long run, maybe because I prefer to trust my eyes.

By the way, with reference in the movie you linked to, the right hand par wasn't really the best example to use, as the last three lines get progressively shorter. Maybe the word ‘in’ on the second line could have come up (if the measure would allow).

If not, wouldn't one (if one were a person responsible for setting copy for training videos) just re-write the dummy copy to fit nicely?

Also, the overhanging double quote shown next seems a nat's too far overhung, don't you think?

Chris