Font Size in & Leading in TextFrame

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9 total messages Started by HenryL Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:43

#1261

Author: HenryL
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:43

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Hi,

I've a problem on font size and leading handle in textframe.

There is a textframe with text on difference font size, for example, first line with font size 10 and 2nd line with size 12 .... and there are total 10 lines. With this 10 lines, the textframe is overflow. To make the textframe become not overflow, it need to decrease the font size and the leading by 0.1 in each characher of the textframe until the textframe not overflow.

I've tried to loop through all the charachter inside the textframe and do the reduction (on character.pointsize and character.leading) but the performance is very low as there are many characters inside the textframe within those lines.

Is there any faster way to make the font size and leading reduce in the Textframe until not overflow? Please advise. Thanks.

HenryL

Re: Font Size in & Leading in TextFrame

#1220

Author: HenryL
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:33

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Hi,

I found shortcut keys (crtl + shift + < or crtl + shift + >) for point size and (alt + up arrow or alt + down arrow) for leading that work on a selected textframe.

Does anyone know what function calls that actually used by those short cut keys? Please advise. Thanks

Henry

Re: Font Size in & Leading in TextFrame

#1230

Author: Peter Kahrel
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:03

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Henry,

Work on paragraphs, not characters, that should make a difference. And if there's a lot of text it pays to work on arrays, bot collections:

myParagraphs = myTextFrame.parentStory.paragraphs.everyItem().getElements(); 
while (myTextFrame.overflows) 
   { 
   for (i = 0; i < myParagraphs.length; i++) 
      { 
      myParagraphs[i].pointSize -= 0.1; 
      myParagraphs[i].leading = -0.1; 
      } 
   }



Peter

Re: Font Size in & Leading in TextFrame

#1233

Author: HenryL
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:21

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Thanks Peter, it works.

Re: Font Size in & Leading in TextFrame

#1238

Author: HenryL
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:23

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Hi Peter,

There is issue when using Paragraph. When a line contains difference font/font size in difference characters, expected result would be the font size decrease in proportion maner with the original font/font size.

However, the output result using paragraph is not what expected, it changed into the same font/font size in the whole line.

Any advise for this issue? Thank you.

Henry

Re: Font Size in & Leading in TextFrame

#1240

Author: Peter Kahrel
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:37

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Ah -- if you have different point sizes in a paragraph then you would have to process characters, not paragraphs. But you did that already, didn't you? Anyway, you could use the script I posted earlier in #2 and replace "paragraphs" with "characters". That will probably be a bit quicker than what you had before.

Peter

Re: Font Size in & Leading in TextFrame

#1244

Author: HenryL
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:36

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Hi Peter,

Yes I have done it using characters but what I wonder is that there is a short cut key function in Indesign interface which can do it smoothly and in very good performance.

That why I would like to know exactly that functions and use that functions call instead.

Thank you very much for the advise.

Henry

Re: Font Size in & Leading in TextFrame

#1245

Author: Harbs
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:40

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You'd probably be better using textStyleRanges rather than characters.

-- 
Harbs
http://www.in-tools.com

Re: Font Size in & Leading in TextFrame

#1246

Author: HenryL
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:12

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Thanks Harbs. It works.

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