On Do, 2004-12-16 at 15:35 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:15:04 -0400, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
In InDesign (as of CS) a size of text doesn't change, if you change its frame size.
That's totally unrelated. We're speaking about scaling text object itself, not its frame (which would make sense only for flowtext).
I'm talking about the fact that InDesign is unrelated here itself ;)
As Bulia pointed out, it's totally different if I scale the flow-object or the text itself, but think of the text inside a flow-object as scalable. That is what InDesign allows you to do via the Character style menu... you can stretch separate characters vertically and horizontally. Now I'm just talking about the concept of representation here. Take the information of the transformation dialog and put it into the font properties window. An apply behind the v and h stretch spinbox button will change the size to the will calculate the new size using the vertical respectively the horizontal stretch factor. If a flow span can be transformed, this will also work just as in InDesign that you can mark some text and stretch just a few word within a flow-object. So in the big picture, there _is_ a relation to the problem. Just that you can't scale the text as an object in InDesign, doesn't mean you can't stretch it.
Now I'm not sure, how I'd handle groups. They seem to be a problem with any concept because you can't just go along and resize the text within them, because the group still has to be transformed (and therefore the text would show up to large). Maybe if a selected text is within a group that is transformed it should keep it's pt size in the xml but have a size multiplied with the group transformation being displayed? respectively show the group transformation in the spinbox I'd like to introduce and only do the display-cheating when you press apply.
Hmm, that's it for now, got some other stuff to do.
Take care!
David