Scaling factor of text frame

[jboone]

The old behaviour I am used to page plus x9 and below is that the text would not squash when I tried to make the frame taller or squeeze it when making it wider.  Working as designed I am sure, but I personally don't like it.  Perhaps consider a control key when users want to squeeze and squash text.  Text frames are a huge part of what I write in and gives me all the control I could ever want.  This goes beyond assigning a specific size to text and expecting it to be the same throughout the document when the text frame is sized differently than its respective chapters.  By the way, I tried this on text that was copy pasted into a frame, from page plus.

 

There should also be one corner that that will have none perspective movement, or axis locking what ever it is called.

[jboone]

I do see that when raw text is brough from a text editor that the behaviour is not the same so I have to wonder what sort of things the copy buffer is grabbing and why it would read the text from page plus text frame differently.  The work flow from page plus is compounding itself to be very very difficult transition.  Exact in a lot of ways but becoming impossible to interject.

[walt.farrell]

If you're describing some kind of bug, it's not clear what is happening vs what you think should be happening. More details? Screenshots?

On the other hand, if you're asking for a new feature in Publisher, this is the wrong forum. New features should be requested in Discussions and suggestions for Affinity Publisher Beta on desktop.

[jboone]

Yes here is a comparison of the two differances.

[walt.farrell]

Thanks.

Apparently, some formatting characteristics that you don't want are being copied. You can avoid that by using Edit > Paste Without Format (or, for some other situations, Edit > Paste Special may also be useful).

[jboone]

That sure sounded good Walt but it came in exactly the same way, text without formatting.

[jboone]

I will also say that I selected the text frame and tried to bring it in many ways with the same squeezing.  Selecting the text inside the text frame had a very different and unexpected result and brought it in as an unselectable chunk of random text area.

[walt.farrell]

27 minutes ago, jboone said:

That sure sounded good Walt but it came in exactly the same way, text without formatting.

But I thought you wanted it without formatting, since it's the formatting that is making it appear squeezed.

[Chris_K]

Hi jboone

From the looks of it you are using artistic text which will scale in this manner with the option to constrain using shift. You may want to make sure you are using Frame Text which will allow you to alter the frame without altering the text

Cheers

[jboone]

Thanks Chris but I get some inconsistent results and not sure of the procedures for copying but it looks like when I select a text frame in pageplus9 then paste it into publisher, it places the objects as a group, which I don't like as the text is separated and can deform.  There is no way this will be helpful to me.

[jboone]

Selecting a 400 line ascii text and pasting it into publisher will put it into a space that can not be selected or moved or resized it appears.  I doubled clicked on the text here and hit alt a for select all.  There are no handles that can be selected for moving or resizing text.