MarkJonesEMKT Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Hello All, I am having an issue adjusting paragraph line spacing between multiple text boxes. I have a variety of text boxes that need have their text spaced individually from each other, however, every time I change the settings in one text box, it changes the settings for all of the text boxes. Is there anyway to force the paragraph settings to be static for each box? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
step Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 When you say "line spacing," are you referring to leading? The first thing that comes to mind would be to make sure you aren't using "legacy line leading." From the text editor, click Paragraph > Global Settings > Use Legacy Line Leading. If that doesn't help or I've misunderstood the description of your problem, try and clear things up a bit and give us the version of FP/Acrobat/OS/etc you're running. It might also be helpful to post a screenshot of the behavior you're seeing compared to how you intend it to look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJonesEMKT Posted January 5, 2016 Author Share Posted January 5, 2016 I have attached two sample screenshots of what I'm trying to do. 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MarkJonesEMKT Posted January 5, 2016 Author Share Posted January 5, 2016 Basically I want to have to text boxes of the same size but with different length paragraphs and I want to make the paragraphs look like they are the same length by adjusting word and leading space ratios for each text box individually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
step Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Hm. Okay, that's interesting. Well maybe I still don't understand what you're asking but you can set individual leading on a per-text-box basis. In fact, you can specify differing leadings within the same text box. You just don't do that in the "Global" settings. As the name suggests, that globally affects all of your text flows that are using "auto-leading." If you want to specify a unique leading for the first paragraph, highlight the first paragraph in the text editor, click "Paragraph" and plug in a value for "absolute leading." If your paragraphs are variable or you just don't feel like fine tuning the leading for each paragraph, you could get Copyfit to do it for you. With your text box selected, click "Overflow..." on the text box's property window. Select "Adjust text to fit" and "allow text to expand to fill." Doing so will create an "OnCopyfit" call back rule in your list of rules. Replacing the contents of that rule with the code below will only adjust the leading in order to make text fit. if (!Copyfit(new MagnifyAttributes("leading", 25, 400, 6, 172))) ReportWarning("Could not copyfit text in flow " + FusionPro.Composition.CurrentFlow.name); You can adjust the values to your liking. In the above example, "25" is the minimum amount the leading is allowed to be magnified, "400" is the maximum. "6" is the minimum leading size (in points) and "172" is the maximum. Meaning: while FP is trying to make the text in a given frame fit, it will not shrink the leading below 6 point or 25% of its current size and it won't increase the leading to more than 172 points or 400% of its current size (which ever comes first). I also just want to mention (even though it's basically the opposite of what you asked) that you can have two linked text boxes with the above Copyfit applied to them that will optionally flow some of the first column to the second column and increase the leading in order to keep the formatting uniform across the two columns. I've attached a proof of both methods as well as the template that created them.example.zipproof.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkJonesEMKT Posted January 5, 2016 Author Share Posted January 5, 2016 Thank you so much! The CopyFit rule did exactly what I needed it to do. I appreciate the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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