Shrink textframe to text horizontally

[Joachim_L]

Maybe covered elsewhere? Vertically shrinking the textframe to text height is working. But horizontally shrinking leads to unexpected results. See attached image. Also there are differences depending on the font. Two upper examples are Arial (OTF) and the lower example is Milo OT (OTF).

[Pauls]

for me it depends on the height of the text frame. It seems to make the text flow to the height

[Joachim_L]

? Wrong explained or I don't get what you mean. Perhaps the arrows were misleading. I wanted to remove the extra space left and right of the text by clicking the handle on the left/right.

[Pauls]

can you pop a sample document up - I'm not getting the effect you are seeing

[Joachim_L]

Here you go. First doubleclick the middle bottom handle, then doubleclick the middle right handle.

shrinking-textframe.afpub

[Pauls]

have you resized those text frames  in any way after creating them?

[Joachim_L]

Yes, I did. Changed the text size and dimensions of the text frame a bit. Nothing extraordinary.