Resizing text blocks

[ronnyb]

It would be great to be able to double click on any corner of a text container (artistic or frame) and have AD resize the container to fit the content while anchoring on the OPPOSITE handle. So if you double click on the lower right handle, the container would maintain its location at the upper left corner, and resize the double-clicked handle to make the container enclose all text inside it. Similarly, double clicking on the top middle handle would anchor the container at the lower middle handle, and resize accordingly. This is a really nice and quick way to clean up text objects for selection and getting them press-ready when there are lots of overlapping objects, which happens quite often... Thanks again!

[Dave Harris]

Interesting idea. Presumably it'd do nothing with Art text because the Art text container is always sized to fit the text.

 

Eventually Frame text will support multiple columns, and flowing text between frames. Then resizing the frame like that would change the appearance of the text, by re-flowing.

[ronnyb]

This is one of those things that just work great in Adobe and if I recall correctly, Freehand/Virtuoso on NeXTstep used to have it as well... I agree about the Art Text, doesn't make much sense. It's ok about changing the shape of the text-block, one can easily undo it if the logic resizes it incorrectly. That sometimes happens in Adobe apps as well, but often it yields great results...