Designer - Text Style - Drop Caps

[q166132]

Hello,

I have a problem with the Height in lines.

If I put 1 it works with 1 line, but if I put 2 then I got 3 and if I put 3 then I got 5.

What I did wrong?

Mike

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @q166132.

I'm not sure what's happening there, but I think you mean Publisher, not Designer. Drop Caps are a Publisher feature, and not present in Designer as far as I know. Also, your screenshot is from Publisher (the red text flow icon on your Text Frame confirms that).

I just tried setting up Drop Caps in Publisher and it worked as expected.

Are you on Mac or Windows? What version of Publisher do you have?

Can you supply a sample document that shows this, and does it still happen if you close and reopen the document, or close and reopen Publisher?

[q166132]

19 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

I'm not sure what's happening there, but I think you mean Publisher, not Designer. Drop Caps are a Publisher feature, and not present in Designer as far as I know. Also, your screenshot is from Publisher (the red text flow icon on your Text Frame confirms that).

Sorry Walt, I meant Publisher. 

 

19 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Are you on Mac or Windows? What version of Publisher do you have?

Windows 10 Pro Produktversion 1809 Build 17763615 

Publisher 1.7.1.404

 

19 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Can you supply a sample document that shows this, and does it still happen if you close and reopen the document, or close and reopen Publisher? 

Of course. there the document.

And yes, it's the same after reopen.

Ido-Saluto-003.afpub

[walt.farrell]

Thanks for the info and document. I'll take a look later, or maybe someone else will have an idea.

By the way, if you go to your original post in the topic, and Edit it, you can change the subject line to say Publisher rather than Designer. That may help avoid some confusion

[Old Bruce]

On 7/14/2019 at 1:37 AM, q166132 said:

I have a problem with the Height in lines.

If I put 1 it works with 1 line, but if I put 2 then I got 3 and if I put 3 then I got 5.

What I did wrong?

 

This is a font thing. I don't have the font from your document and the substituted font worked fine, the only way I can get the drop cap to misbehave as you demonstrated is to use Bernhard font. Actually it is a Leading thing. Change your leading from default to either % or Exactly...

[q166132]

That works, thank you.

[Lorox]

On 7/15/2019 at 6:37 PM, Old Bruce said:

On 7/14/2019 at 10:37 AM, q166132 said:

I have a problem with the Height in lines.

If I put 1 it works with 1 line, but if I put 2 then I got 3 and if I put 3 then I got 5.

What I did wrong?

 

This is a font thing. I don't have the font from your document and the substituted font worked fine, the only way I can get the drop cap to misbehave as you demonstrated is to use Bernhard font. Actually it is a Leading thing. Change your leading from default to either % or Exactly...

This is a bit weird, though, as I hadn't set the line height to "default", but I still had the same problem today (Publisher 1.9.3): 10pt text with 15pt leading ("exactly"), aligned to a baseline grid of 15pt:

Instead of making the drop cap 2 lines high (as set in the drop cap options) it became 3 lines high (or 5 when 3 was set). I think this happened right after I activated the baseline alignment feature. However, when changing the leading to 14,99pt instead of 15pt (with baseline alignment still on) the drop cap changed to the desired (and set) height of 2 lines. Same when I set the line height to 150% instead of 15pt exactly (which with a 10pt font size should actually be equivalent).

Now after a few clicks back and forth – even with leading (15pt exactly) and baseline grid adherence inherited from my general paragraph text style – it mysteriously still works.

This is a bit puzzling as I don't really know any more what's different now than when I started observing that drop cap height glitch...