Scale Parent to text Child

[Sephen]

Hi,

I've got a text box with a number eg. 512 how do i scale the Parent box when the number changes?
I also tried text styles but that doesn't work either its important that the box has rounded corners.  

Thanks!

[carl123]

It helps to know what app(s) you have.

But it can be done in Publisher, using....

Art Text
Text Frame Panel (for the black fill colour)
Paragraph Panel to add 4 decorations (with required stroke size, rounded corners and Indents)

Attached file may be easier to understand

 

autobg2.afpub

[thomaso]

I can't open V2 to see how Carl did it, – nevertheless, here a workaround with a pinned object for one end of the background. It moves with typing. The Art text frame itself has a paragraph decoration as background fill colour.

rounded txt frm grows.afpub

[carl123]

10 hours ago, thomaso said:

I can't open V2 to see how Carl did it

Here's the same thing for those still on V1

 

 

 

autobg2-for-V1-users.afpub

[thomaso]

Thanks, @carl123, clever solution to achieve the corner radius via the Decoration's stroke width!

If the fill gets set as a Paragraph Decoration, too, the Text Frame panel is not required + you can save the design as a Text Style.
(…which, for a different font size, only needs to adjust the Bottom Indent if the stroke has "Scale with Object" activated.)

[Sephen]

Thanks! thats exactly what i wanted.

[thomaso]

On 11/3/2023 at 5:29 PM, carl123 said:

Text Frame Panel (for the black fill colour)
Paragraph Panel to add 4 decorations (with required stroke size, rounded corners and Indents)

If you use the Paragraph Decoration for both stroke AND (background) fill you don't need a Text Frame panel of APub and can create it in AD or APh, too.

For a more rounded shape (circular frame caps) you can use additionally the Character panel with its Horizontal / Vertical Scale options + Baseline shift.
This may require fiddling around but – other than the Pinning method – the Decoration setup…

… doesn't need APub and
… can be saved as Text Style + quickly applied to other Art Text objects.
… can be scaled with Move Tool as object

growing rounded text frame.afpub

Edit: "Decorations" aren't available in the Paragraph panels of AD / APh, so APub is required for this workflow.

[prophet]

8 hours ago, thomaso said:

… doesn't need APub

I don't have Text Decoration in my Paragraph panel in Designer or Photo (2.5.7)

[thomaso]

39 minutes ago, prophet said:

I don't have Text Decoration in my Paragraph panel in Designer or Photo (2.5.7)

Oh, sorry, I missed the difference between the Paragraph panels.