Thanks, the fact that you're using the "Adjust text to fit" setting tells me that you're using "true" copyfitting on the flow, with the OnCopyfit rule, rather than doing something using the FusionProTextMeasure object. (I was confused because you mentioned that in your initial message in this thread.)
The OnCopyfit rule is designed to figure out what magnification factor to apply to the entire flow of text to make the contents fit. A flow can consist of multiple connected frames, which can wrap around other frames. The contents can contain text in various point sizes, all of which will be magnified within the parameters specified in the OnCopyfit rule. Unfortunately, it's not designed to give you any kind of feedback about exactly what sizes anything end up in after it calculates the magnification factor. In other words, for this kind of copyfitting, the answer to your question is No, there's no way to determine the actual output point size of any text that has been copyfitted. And I can't think of any way to expose this information that wouldn't be horribly complicated. That said, if you wanted to use some logic with the FusionProTextMeasure object to roll your own copyfitting, similar to what the CopyfitLine function does, then you could expose whatever point size it calculates out as a global and use it in another rule. In general, though, such rules are limited to single frames with text all in one size, and trying to do anything more complicated, is, well, more complicated, to the point that that kind of work would be so specific to your job that it would be beyond the scope of what can be done in the context of this forum. You may need to look into some custom Consulting work for that kind of complex template building. Furthermore, I see a potential logical problem in the requirements you describe. How do you know that if the English text fits, that the French text is necessarily going to fit at some percentage of the size of the English text? It seems to me that you can't really make the size of one relate to the size of the other reliably. So, I would just set each flow to copyfit on its own and let them each do what they need to do to make things fit independently. Maybe the requirements can be reexamined? You may also be able to make this work by putting all the text, English and French, in the same multi-frame flow and use keeps to make each "block" of three variables stay together. You can also use a tag such as <page destination="topofcolumn"> to force a break into the next frame in a multi-frame flow. Dan +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- FusionPro 5.0 Now Available! Variable text on a curve and soft drop-shadows for variable text LIMITED TIME upgrade offer of $299 per license for current customers: http://fusionpro.printable.com/store/upgrade New licenses available for $599 each at: http://fusionpro.printable.com/store/ All FusionPro 5.0 customers to receive FusionPro 5.1 with Adobe Acrobat 8 and InDesign CS3 support when released for FREE. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -- Users of FusionPro Desktop have unlimited free email support. Contact Printable Support at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- View FusionPro Knowledge Base, FusionPro Samples at www.printable.com/vdp/desktop.htm -- You are currently subscribed to fusionpro as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Note: All e-mail sent to or from this address will be received or otherwise recorded by the e-mail recipients of this forum. It is subject to archival, monitoring or review by, and/or disclosure to someone other than the recipient. Our privacy policy is posted on www.printplanet.com --
