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Drop Cap problem

May 14, 2012 8:07 AM

Tags: #cs5.5 #bug #drop_cap

When text in TextFrame is aligned to baseline and scaled - Drop Cap becomes too large and hangs over text. Is it an InDesign bug or I've missed something?

 

Here is an example of such behaviour: scale is 200%, drop cap size is 8 lines. I'm using InDesign CS5.5.

DropCap.png

 
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    May 14, 2012 8:13 AM   in reply to PavloK

    Can you describe how you scaled the text, and which text inthe frame is being scaled?

     
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    May 14, 2012 12:22 PM   in reply to PavloK

    I don't really know if this is a bug or not, but it seems to be the result of having the preference for scaling set to Adjust Scaling Percentage instead of Apply to Content.

     
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    May 14, 2012 1:11 PM   in reply to PavloK

    Maybe you should tell us the whole story.

     

    What are you trying to accomplish? Why do you need to scale the text frame?

     
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    May 14, 2012 2:24 PM   in reply to PavloK

    Instead of using the global baseline grid, add a custom grid to the textframes (you can add it as part of an object style). That seems to do what you need.

     
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    May 14, 2012 2:47 PM   in reply to PavloK

    Wouldn't hurt. If it's a bug and not "as designed" (and I don't know why it would be designed that way), then it's still there in CS6. It won't, most likely, get changed for CS5.5, and maybe not for CS6 either, but perhaps in the next version.

     
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