Art box vs Bounding box

I have an annoying problem with our company logo. It excists of text with an arrow in a circle. This means of course that anchor points are used to create the circled arrow. But these anchor points have handles that go out of the artbox area. So when I place this logo in InDesign, the bounding box is bigger than the actual art/logo. This is very annoying because now I can't center the logo in an easy way...
By the way; when I open the logo in Photoshop I can choose the option 'Crop to; Art Box (in stead of Bounding box)'. That is just how I want the logo to be shown in InDesign.
So I'm hoping that there also is an option or preference in Illustrator or InDesign that enables me to use the logo just the way I want...
Can someone please help me?

When you File > Place in InDesign, select Show Import Options. Choose the appropraite bounding box from the dialog that will then present itself.

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I'm a newbie to Spry and I attach an image of a problem. I get a partial black bounding box line to the righthand bottom edge of the heading and a partial white line to the left and part of the bottom edges of the dropdown box. Yet when I check out the variousSpry options in the properties panel, I can't seem to find one to turn this off. Can anyone offer some guidance please?

Hi...just had a brief moment here..
Check these two items... "borders"
or,
if the is a link... there is some kind of borders outline that attached.... set them to "0"... do not just leave the boxes blank...
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:10:34 -0700
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Can see the bounding box of the object present on the art-board but the colors of that object are not visible!!!! Why???

I have made some objects in 8-bit design style using rectangular grid tool.
I was working on the file, and i saved the file, and then illustrator crashed, and all the data in the 8 bit grid wasn't showing up, only the bounding boxes(rectangular-grid) of those 8-bit designed objects were present with no color/no fill.
I am attaching some screenshots and jpegs to show how it was before and how it is now.
Can somebody help me out in this?

Illustrator crashed when saving and most probably took some of your file with it.
Do you have a backup copy?

Enlarged bounding box around imported vector images (InDesign/Illustrator CC 2014)

Hi all, I've searched the forum for an answer but can't seem to find one. Hopefully someone can help.
Ever since my upgrade to CC2014, whenever I import a vector image from Illustrator into InDesign, the image comes in with an expanded bounding box. Unlike in the old days (i.e., the moment before I upgraded), when the bounding box would exactly enclose my image with no extra white space on any of the sides.
Sometimes the bounding box is small and sometimes it's gigantic. I cannot determine any rhyme or reason why it varies. Sometimes it's wider on the sides than on the top/bottom. Other times it's gigantic on one side but not the others. Basically, it's all over the place with no consistency that I can determine.
I find it incredibly visually distracting to have these weird-sized bounding boxes around my art, and it sucks to have to constantly resize them on every imported image.
I promise there are no guides, stray points, etc. in the Illustrator files. There is absolutely nothing "invisible yet there" that would create these expanded bounding boxes.
Two samples are below.
Note on this first one that the bounding box is wider at the right than the left.
On this second sample, note that the bounding box is gigantic in general, but especially at the top, and it's smaller on the sides/bottom. Huh?
Any ideas? I desperately want this to stop. Just want a bounding box that exactly encloses my artwork after I import it.
Thank you for your ideas or suggestions,
Laurie

Hi Bob, thanks very much for this info. I figured there was a checkbox hidden somewhere...
I tried all of the cropping options and although it seems like this would be a fix, it's unfortunately not fully resolving the issue.
The option that gets me closest is "crop to art." However, as you can see from the sample below, there's still a pretty large gap at the bottom, as well as a small one at the left side. (The top and right actually are cropped to the art, as requested.)
Do you have any other suggestions of things I can try? Or does anyone else have any ideas?
Thanks again,
Laurie

Illustrator files not getting cut off in bounding box of InDesign

Hello,
I have a page in illustrator full of vector images. I bring it into InDesign and crop them by putting each piece in it's own window. Then, I make a pdf. When I open the pdf in Illustrator it looks fine but when I hit the preview/artwork option, I can see that all the images from that original Illustrator doc with it. Is there any way to have just the vectors I have revealed through each InDesign window come in? The InDesign Files contains multiple pages and each window contain only ones part of that illustrator file...but all the other pieces in the illustrator file stay outside that cropped area of the window when brought into Illustrator again...anyone know how to avoid this?
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babs

I think it should work the way she is doing it I would say this is a bug of either ID or Illustrator but you have a work around, however if she changes her mind or is asked to recrop she now has one lousy time.
The way she was doing it is the logical way and what the feature in ID was about.
Perhaps before hitting the preview artwork she can flatten the art or maybe by placing the the pdf in a blank Ai document instead of opening it would do the trick.
I see what she is saying, the solution is is simple when you get the pdf into AI select all the art and open the pathfinder and hit the second icon on the bottom row which is trim that will clear the art work outside of the bounding box now when you hit outline preview or select all the art you will see only what you have showing in ID.
But I would place this in a already existing or in a new document rather than opening it because if you accidentally save it without renaming it I think you might lose the ability to use that pdf to edit the clipping mask which is what you are creating in ID and it is translated that way in ID as well.
Unless of course you really want to lose the rest of the artwork for sure.

Placing AI files Bounding Box vs Crop

I've wished and not found a global preference for AI files to place with Crop To set as Bounding Box.
Using Bridge to drag files into a layout is not helping as ID is defaulting the image frame to the AI page size. I've got strong objections to leaving a frame three to ten times the image size and of course Fitting > Fit Frame To does not respect the bounding box, but rather the page frame.
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Along these lines, things I would like to change;
In the Place dialog, Show Import Options is unchecked by default.
Using Preview during Place isn't that great for an AI image one inch square in a letter size page.
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I don't use Bridge, but the first time I Place an Illustrator file, I set the import options to "Art", and then the next time I Place one I uncheck the box and the import options remain set on "Art" until I change them again (or restore preferences). Doesn't dragging from Bridge work the same way?
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Bounding Box Problems

I am using Illustrator CS3. I have a document with art and text. When I click on a piece of art, there is a large bounding box (not really sure if that's what it's called) that encases the entire document and it's always attached to whatever piece of art I click on. Is there anyway to release any bouding boxes or maybe reveal what it actually is? I'm new to Illustrator and frustrated.

If you are seeing a bounding box with no object inside, then try setting a stroke color or fill color. You should see two color swatches in the top toolbar on the left. Clicking either of these will let you select a color. Left swatch is fill and right swatch is stroke.

Rotation of bounding box ?

I know I can get the transformation info on a sprite to work out the position of a bounding box used for collision detection, but if the image is being rotated, how can I rotate the bounding box for a more accurate collision test.
the image is rectangular so a square(ish) bounding box won't do.

1. Are we operating under the same definition of
"bounding box?" My experience has always been that a
bounding box is the region in which a sprite is
counted as existing for the purpose of collision
detection. I didn't see any collision detection in
that code.
2. If we -are- talking about collision detection, I
will now (after review) agree with you that the
Polygon object doesn't have all of the functionality
needed. However, an object which represents a
bounding polygon could be used quite nicely in this
situation, as it could be freely rotated internally
and fixed to a given point on the sprite.yes, bounding polgons are sometimes used - but the point of bounding rectangles, or bounding circles, is that they are cheap in terms of computation.
calculating in the intersection of 2 polygons is not simple, and not cheap.
Additionally, the most significant content of my post
was the corner detection; no two bounding polygons,
regardless of their orientation, can be intersecting
if none of the corners for either polygon is
contained within the other.yes they can, very easily infact.
not sure how good this is going to look /me tries some ascii art ;]
1
4oox xoo5
ox xo
x x
3xxxxxxx2
6
its 2 triangles {1,2,3} and {4,5,6} arranged to overlay each other (they form a star shape).
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Am I misunderstood as to the purpose of a bounding
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Text put into a canvas element with context.fillText() always has a black box where each letter goes. If the text is black you just see the black rectangle. If the text is not black you see it on the black bounding box. Surely this is not right.

This has happened on the last few versions of firefox, as long as canvas has been supported. I see other people's screen shots from canvas tutorials, and the text always looks normal. On my system, any text put into a canvas element via context.fillText() will have a black bounding box for each letter, sized appropriately for the letter. If the text is black, of course you only see rectangles. If the text is a contrasting color, then you can read it, but it looks bizarre.

Thomas...same kind of crap here.
I used Custom Text - entered a sentence, hit return, entered another.
Set to 72 pt.
The default alignment is centred - I want left aligned text...the text start point stays at the centre of frame and the sentence runs off the edge of the bounding box.
There is no settings in the Text or Title inspector dialog to correct that!
Using Transform will not sort it!

Bounding boxes appear in Acrobat after exporting from InDesign

Whenever I create outline fonts in my CS3 version of InDesign (I haven't upgraded to CS4 on this one program yet), I'm left with some very strange thin white lines surrounding some or all of the resulting letters that look suspiciously like bounding boxes. This never seems to occur if I don't create outline fonts, but simply embed the fonts and create a PDF using the Export command, so I have to believe the anomaly has something to do with this conversion process within the program. If I use illustrator CS4 to create outline fonts and then place them within my InDesign documents, I don't appear to have the problem. However, that's not a very desirable solution as it negatively impacts the fluidity of layouts and the ease of design, both of which I use in design for.
And yes, these small thin white lines do print, so the problem is far more than merely academic.
Has anyone else ever experienced this issue, and if so, how did you solve the problem (assuming you did)?

Sorry about that, I apparently forgot to attach the file; have done so now.
The method I'm using for creating outlines is simply to use the "Create Outlines" command under the Type menu within InDesign. Then I create my PDF files by using the Export command under the File menu and choosing the PDF/X1a option. 99% of the time I get perfect results, it's only when I try to make outline type that I encounter this problem. You'll clearly see the artifacts in question in the example attached.
I don't know whether or not the press would have printed these artifacts, as you suggest, since no printer has been willing to execute a file that shows any anomaly in the proof process. I can't say that I blame them.
Hopefully you will see what I'm talking about and can recommend a solution, though I like your idea of simply giving them a properly executed file and then telling them to get a life. It hasn't worked so far, as I unfortunately deal with a lot of Neanderthals around here, but I suppose it's worth putting forth again the next time this issue arises. It will.
By the way, no print house of my choosing is this far behind the curve, if at all. These cavemen are always printers who have long-standing relationships with my clients, and for whatever reason (generally lowest cost I'm sure), the clients think they hung the moon. We, of course, no otherwise, but it does it profit a designer to tell his client he or she is crazy for using a printer who is a decade behind the technology curve.
We cowboy up and seek solutions, eh?

I have 4 equal oblong shape created with borders How do I go about knowing what size the selection area is so that I can crop an image to fit. I don't want to use paste in then adjust the bounding box to suit

I have 4 equal oblong shape created with borders How do I go about knowing what size the selection area is so that I can crop an image to fit. I don't want to use paste in then adjust the bounding box to suit

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Is there a way to tighten a text bounding box?

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:
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?
Thanks in advance!
-K

Combat and Dandreu,
You may use this silly way:
1) Tick Edit>Preferences>General>Use Preview Bounds;
2) Select the Type and Effect>Path>Outline Object.
That will reduce the Bounding Box to the actual bounds of the letters so you can centre as you wish.
Remember to untick Edit>Preferences>General>Use Preview Bounds before you get a reverse issue.

CS2 Need to set text bounding box to snap to exact measurement, not em size and without leading

I am currently using CS2 working in a sign shop designing signs, banners and vehicle lettering.
When working with text I need to know the exact letter height, not the em and without the leading. I need it exactly the way it would measure if converting the text to outlines. The reason I need this information is that when I output the lettering to a cutter/plotter to cut vinyl media I need to know the exact measurement so I can nest my lettering on my media size. The media is typically 24" wide which gives me 22.5" of available space once the pinch rollers on the machine are considered. Pinch rollers are rollers that engage a knurled driving wheel and "pinches" the media between them and thus guides the media through the plotter. Of course, when using any media one must make the best use of it to avoid making scrap or using more than is needed for the job at hand. Converting text to outlines gives me that measurement.
One time awhile back I did a google search on this and found a one or two button fix that made the bounding box snap to the exact "ruler" height of the text. It worked great. But I got away from design work for a short period. When I returned I'd forgotten the process. Back when I did find it I never bookmarked or made a text file explaining the process and I'm ost in finding it again.
I don't know exactly how I worded the google search but the answer I was looking for came up on the first page. That's probably why I didn't feel the need to bookmark it or write it down. Now, I've googled dozens of different wordings for my question and get nothing. It's likely a nomenclature/jargon issue and I've yet to stumble on it again.
If anyone could help out I would so greatly appreciate it. As it is, when I get to the point that I need to know the exact ruler height of my lettering I convert my text to outlines. But then, as sometimes happens, I'll desire to change the font or try someting different but the text is not live so I'll have to start over with that line of lettering.
I sincerely hope my explanation of my questions makes sense to anyone who might be reading this.

Jacob Bugge, you are a blessing. This effect not only saves me time but avoids a lot of frustration when a client wants to change some copy or I commit a spelling error or have some other brain malfunction. Not to mention the sometimes hundreds of single words or number groups I must fit onto an artboard set to my available media space.
Option 2 is exactly what I was looking for and I'll remember it forever now as I've spent parts of the past week searching that answer only to hear over and over again, "You can't do that in Illustrator".
Thank you so much for your quick response!

Can you view text outside of the canvas? as with the view menu you can see animation paths, bounding boxes and handles??? many thanks

re: Motion 5
can you view text outside of the canvas? as when using the view menu you can see animation paths, bounding boxes and handles???
I'm in the middle of a text animation design treatment and unless my memory is completely failing I thought this was an option.
An example would be selecting all layers and being able to see all bounding boxes and animation paths while moving along the timeline.
Of course this could be quite a mess if you couldn't selectively chose which layers, its just with this current project it would be so helpful if
I could see the text beyond the canvas to aid in my animations.
many thanks,
robert
Motion 5
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thanks for both of your responses
I do understand shift + v " to "Show Full View Area" and shift + z to fill screen, etc.
and command + & - for zooming
what I'd like to do is selectively view, say, the text outside of the canvas as you can see the bounding box
which contains the text or object when selecting one or all layers in the layers column
I haven't used this feature in a while though I do recall using it in the past.
Any help would greatly appreciated
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R.

How can I align a text object by the visible text and NOT by its bounding box?

Illustrator CS4.
I am trying to align some text to the center of the artboard. The bounding box is bigger than the text, so when I try to align it to the artboard it doesn't actually center align the artwork as I need it to. The text is needing to be aligned with another text object, so I can't just center align the text and then align to the artboard (which would eliminate the bounding box problem, I think). To make matters worse, the text I want to align has a stroke.
The only way I know to currently align the text properly is to convert it to outlines. This is what I've done, but I need something better. I want to be able to have my illustrator file that has all editable text and then be able to make a separate identical file with all text converted to outlined paths. The only thing holding me back right now is that I can't get the exact alignment while everything is still as text.

The solution is to simple to believe and probably why you over looked it.
You make two text frames to exactly the height and width of the text. You position the text in the relative location and then group the text frames then center that group on the artboard.
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