Hi Mordy:
In your article you say "A nice little feature is that while you're scaling an Area Type object, Illustrator previews live how the text will reflow. (InDesign can also do that if you click, hold for a second or two, and then start dragging.)" Unless you've got some specially enhanced version of ID, I think you'll find that InDesign has no comparable text reflow preview as in AI. Yes, holding the mouse a sec before dragging will allow you to see your text dynamically resize, but that's not exactly the same (or as useful) as Illustrator's reflow preview. Otherwise, you're right as rain on everything else!
Scott
Beautifully explained! I can't wait to get to work tomorrow to try it out. I wasted all afternoon trying to figure out how to resize the frame without scaling the text. The Help on F1 didn't mention View > Bounding Box which seems crucial to making it happen.
Thank you!!!
Very nice and detailed explanation. Helped me a lot to understand the difference between the two text types in Illu. Is there a way to convert a point type text into an area type text (so we can resize the box without resizing the text)?
Text Reflow Preview in InDesign?
Hi Mordy:
In your article you say "A nice little feature is that while you're scaling an Area Type object, Illustrator previews live how the text will reflow. (InDesign can also do that if you click, hold for a second or two, and then start dragging.)" Unless you've got some specially enhanced version of ID, I think you'll find that InDesign has no comparable text reflow preview as in AI. Yes, holding the mouse a sec before dragging will allow you to see your text dynamically resize, but that's not exactly the same (or as useful) as Illustrator's reflow preview. Otherwise, you're right as rain on everything else!
Scott
This is quite helpful.
Thanks for doing this
Resizing text frames
Beautifully explained! I can't wait to get to work tomorrow to try it out. I wasted all afternoon trying to figure out how to resize the frame without scaling the text. The Help on F1 didn't mention View > Bounding Box which seems crucial to making it happen.
Thank you!!!
Area Text vs Point Text
THANK YOU, Mordy, for clarifying a frustrating situation. We can always count on you!
dude, you're awesome. i was
dude, you're awesome. i was so frustrated... thank you!!!
Great explanation
Very nice and detailed explanation. Helped me a lot to understand the difference between the two text types in Illu. Is there a way to convert a point type text into an area type text (so we can resize the box without resizing the text)?