Selection Marquee to Select a Callout

[Bruce Kieffer]

It takes a super large, unpredictably sized, selection marquee to select a callout. I think it has something to do with the angle of the arrow and the Max Text Width as set in the OIP. Has anyone found an easy way around this?

[maarten.]

You could use alt while draging your selection box...

The reason why your selection box has to be bigger: a Callout is a linePIO. When the rotation of the PIO is not 0, the textobject inside the PIO will be rotated so that it will look horizontal. Because of that, the bounding box of the textobject is no longer {x,y},{x+TextObjectLength,y+TextObjectHeight} but it becomes a rotated bounding box (inside the pio the bounding box isn't rotated, but because the pio is rotated, the bounding box get rotated too (see attached image)). And because of that, the bounding box become "bigger" and you need to make sure your selection box reaches all the way round this bounding box.

[Bruce Kieffer]

maarten,

The selection marquee I have to make in order to get around my callout is huge compared to what you show the bounding box to be, and it's impossible for me to predict how big I need to go to get it selected. The attached screen shot shows about the minimum marquee I can do to get my callout selected.