Text Formatting

[BHIP]

In Publisher.

In the attached, the above text box is Lato 12pt. 

The other text box (the very tiny What) is also Lato 12pt. Why is it so much smaller? 

All I do is draw a new text box on the page I'm on, thinking it will use the last font and size I used, but it's not the same. 

 

[walt.farrell]

Where did the first frame, the text in the first frame come from?

If they came from InDesign there are some known scaling issues that can cause a problem like that. 

But if you've just created them yourself, it's more likely that for one of the frames you resized it using the outer (unattached) handle on the lower right, which is a rescaling handle. 

[BHIP]

Hi Walk and thanks for your help.

I draw a new text box on each page. Screen Recording of the process.

I see the resize outer (unattached) handle and it does rescale, but I have to make the text box HUGE to get the font to the right size. 

 

[walt.farrell]

The problem may be with how the previous frame was created or filled.

Where did the text come from? For example, did you type it?

[BHIP]

The previous frame was copied and pasted because the new frame I was drawing was screwing up the font. 

[thomaso]

The text cursor height in your video  seems to indicate that the font size is correct but the characters have some modifications set, in the example below for instance reduced height and width. (in case of your example in capitals also "small caps" might be activated)

For issues with text / font appearance it is always useful to take a look on the font properties – and for a forums thread to show the related panels in a screenshot.

[BHIP]

Yeah, so the Superscript was active. I didn't activate it. LOL Oh well. Thank you! 

[thomaso]

34 minutes ago, BHIP said:

Superscript was active

Interesting, was it set in "Typography"? – To me Super- / Subscript unfortunately affect specific characters only. I don't find a way to affect the entire selection.

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, thomaso said:

To me Super- / Subscript unfortunately affect specific characters only. I don't find a way to affect the entire selection.

If you set it in Positioning & Transform (where I've highlighted) it affects all characters, as they are fake superscripts created by making the characters smaller and raising their baseline.

[BHIP]

The help on this platform is amazing. 

Thank you so much!

[KarinC]

I've seen things like this happen and I can't figure out how. Once, I could not type in a text box because somehow the indent or first line indent had been set to some insane value like 50,000 inches. I was typing but I couldn't see what I was typing because it was a mile away. Someone here said that can happen if you are using the scroll wheel and not watching where the mouse is but I've not been able to duplicate it. I've had superscript activated sometimes too without knowing why.

I've found that if I want to change a stroke width but I didn't click in the width box in the stroke window dropdown from the tool bar and type in a number which doesn't register as a stroke width (because I wasn't in the stroke width box) but changes the opacity of the layer instead.

This happens in Publisher.

[KarinC]

56 minutes ago, BHIP said:

The help on this platform is amazing. 

Thank you so much!

By the way. Hello to Joshua Tree. I used to live in Yucca Valley just down the road.

[BHIP]

Nice. The cooler weather has arrived and it's brisk and chilly. Love it! 

[thomaso]

13 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

If you set it in Positioning & Transform (where I've highlighted) it affects all characters,

Thank you! – Embarrassing I never tried this S: menu before, as if I haven't even seen it.

Do you know where it is defined which glyph exists as 'true' sub-/superscript? In a short test it's obviously font dependent but also appears confusing in comparison with the Glyph Browser:

 

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, thomaso said:

Do you know where it is defined which glyph exists as 'true' sub-/superscript?

It is defined in the font.

If you mean do I know where you can tell, you could certainly open the font with a Font Viewer application and see what it says.

As far as the Glyph Browser: You seem to be looking at the Unicode Superscript and Subscript Block of characters. If you were to instead Search for characters with superscript in the name, you'd see this for Arial:

and for subscript you'd see this:

The combination of those are what I would call the "true" super- and subscript characters for that font. Note that several of the ones I show are Greek or other non-English code-points.

Edit: Basically, if it's really important I guess you could type a string of characters in your font and set them to typographic super- and/or subscripts and see which ones you get.