Pins (Pinning) scales incorrectly if not 300dpi

[Warpspace]

Pinning is great agt 300dpi. If at another DPI, however, every time you copy/paste something, even in the same document, the pins are scaled incorrectly. This gets frustrating fast, when you have to copy objects a lot, such as with assets. When pasting on non-300dpi, the offets are incorrect as well as the scale.

 

150dpi.afpub 300dpi.afpub 600dpi.afpub

[Hangman]

Hi @Warpspace and welcome to the forums,

Try the attached files...

Copying and pasting within the same document should now work as expected but if copying to a new document, set the new document units to pixels.

 

150 dpi pin.afpub300 dpi pin.afpub600 dpi pin.afpub

[Warpspace]

Those files you attached work great! Copying these to my files works well, too, even when they're not set to pixels. I can't figure out how you got it to work, though. Is there a setting in the pins' groups that you changed or something?

[Hangman]

Hi @Warpspace,

I'm glad the files are working for you when copying them...

There is a text scaling bug/issue in the apps which means if you have a text frame containing text at the document resolution and then you change the dpi of a document, say from 300 dpi to 150 dpi or to 600 dpi, save it an reopen it and then create a new text frame and flow the text from the original text frame to the new text frame the text in the new text frame is scaled by the document resolution increase or decrease.

This means that when you have pinned objects and the resolution of the document has been changed and the document is saved, closed and reopened, when you duplicate or copy and paste the text frame or the group of items containing the text frame the scaling you're seeing occurs.

The workaround for your files is to delete the text frame containing the dpi text in both the 150 dpi and 600 dpi files and recreate them at their native document resolution. Then when saved and reopened the pinned objects won't scale because there is effectively no change in resolution, i.e., the 150 dpi text frame was 'created' in a 150 dpi document and likewise the 600 dpi text frame was 'created' in a 600 dpi document.

A simple test to demonstrate the issue...

1. Create a 300 dpi Publisher document, add a text frame and some editable filler text
2. Change the document dpi from 300 dpi to 150 dpi in the Document Settings dialog
3. Save, close and reopen the file
4. Add a second text frame to the same page
5. Reduce the height of the first text frame so you now have overflow text in the first text frame
6. Link the first text frame to the second text frame and you will see the text point size increases based on the decrease in document resolution
7. Likewise, repeat steps 1 to 6 above but at step two increase the document resolution from 300 dpi to 600 dpi and you will this time see the text point size decrease based on the increase in document resolution.

[Warpspace]

Ah, yes, I did indeed change the DPI I was using from 300dpi to 600dpi when I created a new document, but I copied many of my objects over. Thanks so much for your help! You've saved me so many hours of repetative rescaling!

(keep this bug report open, as it is indeed a bug and the workaround involves reauthoring)

[Hangman]

Hi @Warpspace,

No problem at all, I'm glad I've saved you from hours of repetitive rescaling... hopefully this issue will be resolved at some point in the near future...