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Can I resize Frames Automatically if they are threaded with breaks?

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    • #59282
      rydesign
      Member

      I am having an issue with trying to get my frames to resize without manually dragging handles around. i love that when you flow text in to an untreaded frame you can just cntl+option+c to resize the frame.

      I have threaded text frames with frame breaks where I want the text to jump to the next text frame. Problem is I can't just Cntl+option+C them. I have to go back and manually resize each frame. Is there a way to do this… or is this something better suited for the scripting section?

    • #59291
      Lala Lala
      Participant

      A less than perfect way: click each text box, ctrl+X (cut), ctrl+option+shift+V (paste in place), now the text box is unthreaded and you can use ctrl+option+C on it.

      You have to work backwards from the last text frame to the first, otherwise the text reflows when you cut it. Also slightly ugly, the text boxes have no thread 'entry' but they have an 'exit' (red arrow at the bottom right for the text that is now considered unplaced).

    • #59301
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Any time I do a job the text frame is the same size on every page. I never! And I mean NEVER resize a text frame on a page.

      I think you should look into using your Keep Options (which are located in the Paragraph Styles), and you should be using Paragraph Styles for every piece of text.

      Using Keep Options in your Paragraph Style – means that you assign a certain style to a piece of text, and you can tell that style “Start in the next column/frame/page etc.” That means you won't have to eyeball each page and resize text frames, the text with that style will automatically go where it's wanted.

      You can also tell a Heading to Keep with the next 2 or 3 lines, or a piece of text to Keep with the “previous” line (CS5 and up only). These instructions to Keep with text work quite well in telling Headings, body text, etc. where to go on a page and instruct them to never only have 1 line of text on the following page, so a 5 line paragraph won't be 4 lines on one page and 1 line on the next page, you can tell it to Start 2 and End 3 (or whatever way you like).

      Take a look – I think you'll find it more efficient than Resizing text frames to push text around :)

    • #59304
      Anonymous
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