Text tool typing problem

Question

Hi, I use illustrator CS4, lately i ve trouble transforming the text box. its not the usual. The text gets scaled up and down. and shrinks .. see the image u 'll understand.. thanx..
Text in the right side is the original text.  I used the text tool , created a text box and pasted the content.
after that i clicked the selection tool..
then , free transform. (short cut ;e')
When i transformed the text box, the text inside gets shrinked.
Normally, the text content aligns itself within the new box without change in the font size.
something is new now.. the text shrinks or expands now..
what is the problem?
thank you ..

Answer 1

Did you scale a point text or a group of some point texts? If yes, any tool will scale the text content.
For an area text object, you can do this to just transform the bounding box (characters' size and scale will not be changed):
1. Use Selection tool(Black select) to select the area text object, then scale or rotate.
2.
    a. Use Direct Selection tool(White select) to just select the path of the area text(In fact it was called as text container, not bounding box, I made a mistake in the former reply), then select all the anchor points on the path(Shift + Click each anchor points with Direct Selection tool), do this we can really select the bounding box.
Refer to the image below, all anchor points become to solid blue point, and the every line of text content have NO blue underline.
    b. Use Scale tool or Rotate tool or Free Transform tool to transform.