I believe that this is a bug in InDesign but maybe there is a work around. If you have text and you stretch it at all by grouping it or using the scale tool ID kinda loses track of what the actual size, etc. of the text is. If you use the eyedropper it doesn't truly pick up whatever size the text is. It looks like whatever it originally started as. Is there anyone to get it to work properly?
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Eyedropper and text attributes
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Double click the eydropper tool to get settings. Click the triangle next to Character Settings and make sure everyhing, or what you want, is checked.
If these are checked, the eyedropper will pick up the attributes, including scaled. when you drag the loaded eyedropper over the target text it will apply all attributes including the scaling - wheter from the Scale tool or the Object/Transform menu command.
For best printing, you're usually better off using the Character pallette - using a font size as close to your intended size as possible, and then scaling in the Character palette - as little as possible.
If these are checked, the eyedropper will pick up the attributes, including scaled. when you drag the loaded eyedropper over the target text it will apply all attributes including the scaling - wheter from the Scale tool or the Object/Transform menu command.
For best printing, you're usually better off using the Character pallette - using a font size as close to your intended size as possible, and then scaling in the Character palette - as little as possible.
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It seems to work okay when it is just scaled using the scaling tool but if it has been grouped with anything else and changed it doesn't. If you look at the character size, etc. it will read the same for both the text that you picked up the attribute for and the one that you applied it to but it is obviously not the same. It mainly looks different on horizontal scale. I can even select the scaled text and copy it into a new text box and it is wrong. Somehow still reverting back to what the text looked like before it was grouped and horizontally stretched.
I cannot replicate your problem in any way.
No matter how I scale, whether via transform command, scale tool, character palette, it always carries across when copying and pasting. The character palette does shoe the new setting. I scaled just horizontaly and uniform with same result.
On grouping: If you group different text boxes with different character settings, you can run into a problem. Double click eyedropper and check ONLY the characteristics you wish to pick up. In your case it would be Characer only, no paragraph, fill, etc.
No matter how I scale, whether via transform command, scale tool, character palette, it always carries across when copying and pasting. The character palette does shoe the new setting. I scaled just horizontaly and uniform with same result.
On grouping: If you group different text boxes with different character settings, you can run into a problem. Double click eyedropper and check ONLY the characteristics you wish to pick up. In your case it would be Characer only, no paragraph, fill, etc.
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