Illie is just doing what she is supposed to do. It is your text that is the problem.

Why have you got all those returns at line ends? They shouldn't be there.

Delete them and things will behave as you expect them to.

steve fairbairn wrote:

 

Illie is just doing what she is supposed to do. It is your text that is the problem.

 

Why have you got all those returns at line ends? They shouldn't be there.

Delete them and things will behave as you expect them to.

The Op is trying to set the text to a preferred way the lines should break to the next line. there is no reason that the soft returns line breaks should not be honored.

That ios what line breaks are for to be able to choose the way you want the text to flow.

You are correct Jacob soft returns were Introduced in I believe CS 2 and the justification and hyphenation should not be part of the equation if you do not desire hyphenation for instance.

It is an old bug since the inception of the soft return.

Perhaps it is fixed in CS 6 we will find out soon I already have my license on order.

there is no reason that the soft returns line breaks should not be honored.

Soft returns only work when the lines with hyphenated words exceed the available with of the text box.

In the OP's example the boxes are too wide for the hyphenation to function.

Not a bug by my definition  but a poor feature or I won't be surprised if it is deliberately limited because they use it in the same way in Photoshop. If you copy text with non-paragraph breaks (soft returns) from Illustrator and paste it in inDesign the hidden characters show that Illustrator uses another kind of character that has nothing to do with soft return.

Take two minutes and go to InDesign if you want to understand how Spider wants it to work

I know all about that. InDesign has the infuriating habit of disarranging text that one has maybe spent a long time arranging.

If you insert an optional hyphen at some point, the lines previous to it it may suddenly be completely messed up although there was nothing wrong with them before.

It sometimes takes some considerable effort to hyphenate a paragraph satisfactorily and InDesign's automation of the hyphenation process frequently works against you.

If you take pride in your work a more manual approach is often more satisfactory.

OK, my bad then, I missed  to read that or didn't understand it  is officially acknowledged by Adobe. I guess they are using the same code in Photoshop too - may be the same team is writing that part for multiple programs.

InDesign does not use the same Type engine as far as I know and I think that Photoshop and ID type engines are more related toeach other than Illustrator's type engine.

Which is one of the problems.

But I am pretty certain, though only guessing, that this will all come togehter in CS 7. And perhaps this bug might be fixed in a point release.

It would make illustrator so much more apealing.

As I recall it, AI didn't get the ID text engine code, what it got was most of the features of the ID engine coded into the AI engine, the main feature being every-line composition.

Yours

Vern

They wrrote it but that does not mean the implemented it coreectly.

Does not matter this is a bug in AI.