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Hi, 

I know that you resize the height of text frame to last line visible by double clicking on the resize handle / control point. That resizes the frame to align with the baseline, which I great, that it was I want most times. But I have a need for the frame to align to descender height instead. Is that possbile. 

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14 minutes ago, PepGold said:

But I have a need for the frame to align to descender height instead.

I'm curious why you need that.

It is possible for Artistic Text but I do not think it's possible, for Frame Text except by adjusting the text Baseline. In Designer you can select the text in the last line, open the Character panel, and adjust the Baseline there.

E.g.,

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16 minutes ago, PepGold said:

But I have a need for the frame to align to descender height instead. Is that possbile. 

Not to the best of my knowledge and experience. This is because every font (Gill Sans, Arial, Courier, etc., etc.) has different heights for the Ascenders and Descenders.

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40 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Without modifying a text baseline you can use the required descender height as the text frame's bottom inset, for instance:

Interesting idea. It does require Publisher, though, and the screenshot in the first post appears to be from Designer.

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3 hours ago, PepGold said:

But I have a need for the frame to align to descender height instead.

Like @walt.farrell, I am curious why you would need that. Is it for aligning with or snapping to something else or what?

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7 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

I'm curious why you need that.

Perhaps is it due to an (unnecessary) fear of losing, on print or export, the protruding parts of the letters?

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6 hours ago, Oufti said:

Perhaps is it due to an (unnecessary) fear of losing, on print or export, the protruding parts of the letters?

If that happens then it would be probably because a bug has been introduced into the software; otherwise you don’t need to worry about it.

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13 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

I'm curious why you need that.

Maybe it's snapping related

E.g. Snapping a picture frame to the text frame covers the descenders 

I'm just as curious as to why the apps choose to display the descenders outside the text frame in the first place?

 

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