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Make all headline sizes Fit to Frame

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    • March 23, 2012 at 9:42 am #61877
      Chuck Nigash
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      I pose this as a question to Scripting Kings tuned in.

      The script would have to take into acount the Style (to identify headlines from body text) Text Frame size and somehow scale the point size within a percentage (we'll say 98%).

      Is it even possible?

    • March 29, 2012 at 4:21 am #61900
      Colin Flashman
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      I think I have a solution which will help. the full tutorial is available at https://colecandoo.wordpress.co…..und-holes/

      The solution doesn't require scripting at all, but instead relies on GREP styles.

    • March 29, 2012 at 5:37 am #61901
      Chuck Nigash
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      Brilliant! I really like the context too. As mine is for news publishing, sometimes editors need to make long names fit into prescribed column widths — the hardest being a single column. And here is what I did (following your steps): In GREP Style, I used [[:alnum:][:punct:][:space:]] to seek and adjust the possible characters.

      To make it effective, I had to adjust leading to taste for each Character Style. I tried to zero out that leading and it was overleaded (unleaded? heh heh). But this is a great tip and I'm glad to have asked.

      18 Thank You's!

      Chuck

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