On Jan 10, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Ken Brasher wrote:
If I understand right I can enter my field name("Location") and
enter whatever percentage in the factor?"<magnify type=setwidth
factor=90>"
I'm very new to this so really appreciate the help.
Yes, you can use your own field name and whatever magnification factor
you want. A factor of less than 100 will make the text narrower, kind
of like it's been squashed from the sides, and a factor over 100 will
make the text wider. Play around with the numbers and see what you get!
You could also use the <setwidth> tag, but that sets the width to an
absolute value. The <magnify type=setwidth> tag sets the width
relative to whatever (vertical) point size the text is already in.
On Jan 10, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Mark Hardee wrote:
Would be nice if these attributes are recognized when they are used
in the host application (InDesign)..
If a user does any copyfitting in the original doc, it's lost when
you export the PDF for Fusion.
I think we're talking about two different things here. There's no
such concept in InDesign as copyfitting; you just manually play with
the text attributes until whatever static text you have fits.
InDesign does not calculate different values for variable data like
FusionPro can. We do attempt to bring over as many text attributes as
we can when importing from QuarkXPress and InDesign, but they use
different proprietary typesetting algorithms, which are different from
each other as well as from FusionPro's algorithms. So we can't match
them exactly, nor could they match us exactly.
I'm not sure which of the two Ken was referring two in his original
message: a static scaling of the text, or a variable copyfitting
situation. If you want to do copyfitting, the simplest way is to just
put the text in question into its own text frame (flow) and turn on
copyfitting in the Overflow Options dialog. (Select the frame, then
go to the Text Frame palette and click Overflow, and select "Adjust
text to fit.") Then you can go into the OnCopyfit rule and change the
type from "text" to "setwidth". Writing a new rule with the
CopyfitLine function (or David's variation) is only necessary if you
want to keep all the text on one line, possibly in a frame with other
text.
Dan
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