4 Replies Latest reply: Sep 25, 2014 12:58 PM by Jacob Bugge RSS

    Is there a way to tighten a text bounding box?

    Combat By Design Community Member

      Hey all,

       

      I've looked before but never found a definitive answer to this question:

       

      Is there a way to tighten the text bounding box without converting it to outlines?

       

      I work for a screen printer, and want to figure out a way to tighten the bounding box without changing the leading and without converting it to outlines in order to be able to edit said text. We deal with a lot of clients who send us names, that are often misspelled, and after an initial proof need to be corrected. Sometimes we need to center this text to an object.

      Illustrator's bounding box, unlike that of Corel (which is our primary program, and won't open AI files) includes the leading below the type, so when you center it, it's not visually centered:

       

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      So I guess my real question is is there a way to get the text centered (as seen below) without converting the text to outlines, or messing with the leading, or is there a way to tighten the bounding box?

       

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      Thanks in advance!

      -K