Publisher text flow problem

[Rainieria]

When I flow text from one frame to the next, the font size decreases enormously (a factor of about ten). How do I fix this?

[walt.farrell]

A frequent cause of that issue is that one of the text frames has been rescaled, rather than resized. If you change the size of a text frame using the lower-right, detached, handle it will change the size of the frame and rescale its contents. So, when resizing, make sure you use a corner node that is attached to the frame border.

That is, don't use this one:

 

[Move Along People]

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[Rainieria]

Thanks for the tips. I'm afraid those solutions and suggestion don't work. Whatever combination of techniques I use I still get one text frame with bigger or smaller fonts than the other.

There's been no resizing, the document is an IDML import which I saved as an afpub. Clearly something is wrong with that import file which a friend did using his InDesign 5. (I can't do it again mayself as I have no Adobe products, there is no means of reinstalling my old CS3 - that's why I bought Affinity Publisher)

I think my only recourse is to start again with a fresh clean AF Pub file and copy unformatted text into it. Makes IDML imports only marginally better for me than copying and pasting from pdfs

[walt.farrell]

35 minutes ago, Rainieria said:

There's been no resizing, the document is an IDML import which I saved as an afpub.

There is an acknowledged bug where this can happen with IDML imports, so that's probably what you've hit.