How to center text on page?

[jimmyglance]

Hello. I have what I ams ure is an easy question to answer for most....

I am currently working on a cd jacket, and I am at perhaps what should be the easiest part...inserting the credits and production notes.

for some odd reason I cannot get the text to simply, center itself on the page....as in, it is aligned left, and I want it to be centered, line for line, working its way down..??

I have searched these forums and have had no luck.
so i turn to you=)

Thanks again to all!

using A.I 10

 

[apepp]

...in the align palette you have the option (from the flyout menu) to align to artboard...

...rather than just clicking a typing, another way is to drag out a text area with the text tool and centre to page with the paragraph palette (resize the box to the width of the page...

...another way to align objects to another is:

1. select all objects to be aligned

2. press and hold the alt/option key, click once on the object to align to, this appears to do nothing until you do step 3...

3. choose the alignment from the align palette

Andrew

 

[apepp]

...in short...

...best to create text areas with the text tool first (wherever possible) as opposed to click and type...

Andrew

 

[jimmyglance]

Thanks for the help....

I tried exactly what you said, even starting from scratch just to make sure I was doing the best i could.....but it still did not work?

I selected my text, by using the text tool.
Held the ALT key.
Clicked on the text I wanted to align., "which made the highlighted text box become un-highlighted
Clicked on the "horizontal aligh center" icon in the aligh tab.

nothing happens.
perhaps I brought up the wrong aligh menu?

sorry to be a bother about such an easy task

 

[apepp]

...no, the align tip was a tip for aligning object/s to another object...

...you want to align to the artboard/page in your case...

...choose the 'align to artboard' option in the align palette flyout menu (arrow top right of palette), then choose the align option with the object selected...

...it's better to create text in text areas by dragging out a text area and typing, the use the paragraph palette to centre etc...

Andrew

 

[apepp]

...with text centred (paragraph palette) in the 'text area' (created by dragging an area with the text tool) you can then align that 'text area' to the artboard with align to artboard option turned on...

Andrew

 

[apepp]

...you can also centre text that is just typed (click and type method) by using the paragraph palette, shortcut to centre text is apple/control+shift C...

Andrew

 

[apepp]

...there are essentially two ways to create text, click and type or drag an area out with the text tool and type into that text area (the better method)...

Andrew

 

[apepp]

...the align palette is under window > align...

Andrew

 

[jimmyglance]

WOW!
Thank you so very much!
I simply found the "paragraph palette" you spoke of, and selected the center align!

You have been so very helpful.
And have perhaps saved my ass.

Once again, Thank you.

 

[apepp]

...the difference between 'click and type' and 'area text' is that when you use the select tool to drag the selected text with 'click and type' it stretches the font into all sorts of shapes...

...the text area method will not affect text shape with pulling the bounding handles only how text breaks fall...

Andrew

 

[jimmyglance]

HAHA.
You Just answered my very next question/problem....
"How to freely resize or push and pull a text box."

You my friend, have taken so much stress off of me!

I owe you.

One Thousand Thank You's
Jimmy.

 

[apepp]

...no problem, happy to assist, i was there once pounding the wall of frustration!!!

...hold the shift key while dragging a 'click and type' method of text to constrain it if need be, or use the scale tool....

...with the 'text area' method of typing, use the scale tool, select the text frame, double click the scale tool in the tools palette and enter a value...

...or...

...click on the link symbol in the transform palette to constrain and type a new width or height...

Andrew

 

[apepp]

..also with the scale tool, if you select the object to scale, then choose the scale tool, hold down the alt/option key and click, where you click will be it's point of origin to scale from (default is the centre of the object selected)...

...you can also drag that crosshair symbol (point of origin) around if you can get hold of it...

Andrew

 

[apepp]

...the alt/option key is very useful...

Andrew

 

[jimmyglance]

So I am starting to see...
quick and clean!

 

[apepp]

...the free transform tool is also quite useful...

Andrew

 

[apepp]

..another useful tip:

...if you apply a transformation (or copy perhaps) to one object you can simply apply it to another object (or the copy just made) by pressing apple/control D key...

...can create some interesting patterns this way...

Andrew