FIT TO TEXT FRAME? 1

[Mechel]

I would like to know is there an option to fit text to a text frame (box).

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[viol8ion]

You do that by resizing!

In the future it would help if you would mention the version of the app (ID is on the 4th version presently and each is DIFFERENT) as well as your OS (Mac or Windows). None of us here are mind-readers and quite often the info you provide helps us answer your question correctly.

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[Mechel]

THANX FOR YOUR INSIGHT.

I work on ID ver. 2.0 and on Windows.

I once worked on CorelDraw and they did have an option "Fit text to frame" so I would just like to know if you can do it in ID too, and if not, if I can write a script to do it like a macro in Microsoft Word.

Thank You

 

[viol8ion]

As far as I know, with 2.0 there is no option for this. ID is a professional DTP application designed with real typography, so it doesn't have this little tricks that you find in some other apps. ID provides you with total control over text, with control over alignment, kerning, leadin, spacing and more. You can do anything in ID that you can in CorelDraw, it just will take a little experimentation is all.

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[jimoblak]

Corel is unique with this trick. Quark, PageMaker and InDesign cannot do this. If your text is the same size and style within the frame, you can select it all and use the hotkey combination of SHIFT-CTRL-> or SHIFT-CTRL-< to scale the text until it fits the frame.

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[Mechel]

Thank You so much jimoblak, you've been a real help.

 

[AdobeTim]

jimoblak...you've always been able to scale text up and down using cmd/ctrl + > or < in ID...with or without the text being of uniform size...I did read this thread quickly, though...am I missing something??

 

[jimoblak]

You read my post correctly Tim but I may have been misled by my Mac. I had also thought that if you had mixed styles (such as a headline and body copy) they would each scale up and down... but the quick test that I did on my Mac when I posted showed that only one of the styles changed scale. I forget if I was using ID2 or IDCS at the time. I just tried it again on Windows ID2 and everything scaled together correctly.

I wonder if my Mac just hiccupped. ...Or maybe it was the new year's hangover. I don't think any of us should trust forum posts until at least January 3rd.

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[AdobeTim]

Here's to the 5th of January...and also to hoping that your Mac fully recovers. ;^)

 

[Sheri99]

I'm quite new to InDesign myself and I don't know if this is a difference between version 2 and CS. In CS, you can Fit Frame to Content (in the Object Menu), then Ctrl+Drag the bottom right corner of the fram with the selection tool to scale the frame while simultaneously scaling the text. Seems to work best on a single line text frame.

Sheri