Resize text frame both horizontally and vertically by double clicking the diagonal handles

[Intuos5]

You can currently resize text frames horizontally by double clicking the centre handles on the left or right hand side of the text box. The same goes for vertical resizing. I would like to also have a resize to smallest bounding box of the text by double clicking the handles at the corners of the text box (e.g. bottom left/ right). That would be convenient for example for reworking large text boxes for titles, which overlap with other text frames.

[fde101]

When you resize in one direction, there is only one possible outcome.

When you resize in both directions, there are many possible sizes that could result, so how would it know what size to actually make it?

[MikeTO]

If you want to resize a text frame in both directions you're probably not using it for paragraphs of text but just something like a title as you mentioned. In this case you might consider choosing the new Layer > Convert to Art Text command. It's not in the context menu for some reason so you might have missed it.

Cheers

[Intuos5]

1 hour ago, fde101 said:

When you resize in one direction, there is only one possible outcome.

When you resize in both directions, there are many possible sizes that could result, so how would it know what size to actually make it?

It's the default in Adobe software, you resize text based on the horizontal and vertical size that the paragraph currently has (its boundig box). There's only one possible outcome. It actually doesn't affect the text or layout at all.

[walt.farrell]

15 minutes ago, Intuos5 said:

you resize text based on the horizontal and vertical size that the paragraph currently has (its boundig box)

That's Art Text in Affinity, not Frame Text, I think. Art Text can be multi-line, and conforms to the size of its bounding box.

[Intuos5]

6 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

That's Art Text in Affinity, not Frame Text, I think. Art Text can be multi-line, and conforms to the size of its bounding box.

Not necessarily, I may want to resize the box again, later for instance. It's just a convenient way to get large text boxes to a small size.

[Old Bruce]

21 hours ago, fde101 said:

When you resize in both directions, there are many possible sizes that could result, so how would it know what size to actually make it?

The smallest (rectangular) perimeter for a given area of text would be a square, so the closest to a square.

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

The smallest (rectangular) perimeter for a given area of text would be a square,

???   Probably I've misunderstood you, but I would think that

has a smaller rectangular perimeter than any square you could draw around that text.

 

[Old Bruce]

Using Arial 12pt I got it into three lines with more of a square shape and a smaller perimeter. The units are inches. This is from one line of text with a 2.518 inch perimeter.

[walt.farrell]

28 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Using Arial 12pt I got it into three lines with more of a square shape and a smaller perimeter.

Ah. I didn't think we were allowing a modification to the text, such as changing the number of lines.

[Intuos5]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Ah. I didn't think we were allowing a modification to the text, such as changing the number of lines.

That's my requedt and that's what Indesign does, it creates a rectangle (unless the text itself is more square). I don't care about the smalles possible size, I care about easily resizing the text box ☺️