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Xara Designer Pro X9 9.2.1.28737 DL x64 Jul 8 2013
Windows 7 pro x64
1. Start Xara
2. Activate Text Tool (T) and type a letter
3. Select (V) the letter
4. On the side handles, try to stretch horizontal or vertical. It stretches only in both directions.
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This is a new intended text handling behaviour for DTP/Web Publishing and Web sites.
If you want to intentionally squash/stretch text, group it first.
This is noted in the Help file under Stretching and squashing objects:
and Scaling text areas and columnsQuote:
Note that text in text areas and columns does not squash or stretch when adjusted with the Selector Tool, unless it's in a Group that is being scaled. Instead the width/height of the area or column is adjusted.
Quote:
If you scale a text area or text column using the Selector Tool, the text itself is not scaled, only the dimensions of the area or column are changed. Use the Text Tool font size control to change the actual text size. However if the text is inside a Group, resizing the group will scale the text.
Yes, that worked. However, something is still suss. Once the text is ungrouped, Xara allows then stretching for all text, grouped or not until you close and restart Xara. Is this intentional??
To be consistent, stretching should then only be allowed for groups, not only per program session??
If I understand you correctly, then I can't repeat that.
1. Start Xara
2. Activate Text Tool (T) and type a letter
3. Select (V) the letter, then group (CTRL+G)
4. Stretch text sideways - All good.
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5. Delete the text (press delete).
6. Activate Text Tool (T) and type a letter again.
7. Select (V) the letter, (same as step 3), this time do *NOT* group.
8. On the side handles, stretch horizontal or vertical < Why can I stretch although this text was not grouped?
Nope - following your steps, I cannot repeat that.
I restarted Xara and this time it didn't behave this way. I tried recreating all the steps when I posted this but can't reproduce this behavior when I follow my own steps. I looked at the bottom of the screen to confirm it was a text, not a group when I could stretch it. If I ever can reproduce this problem I will be posting back here. Please delete or move this post as you see fit. Thanks Sledger.
Alternatively, if you don't want to group it just adjust the aspect ratio in the Text Tool.
surely all you have to do is just click on the lock asect ratio padlock to freehand stretch as required
you dont have to group it at all
just click the padlock again and stretching reverts to previous behaviour
Seems to be an anomaly. I can't reproduce it here either.
On the upside, this new behavior seems like a very good thing when working with text boxes. Bravo.
-- Ben
all you have to do is just click on the lock aspect ratio padlock to freehand stretch as required
you dont have to group it at all
just click the padlock again and stretching reverts to previous behaviour
:thx
Perhaps you changed the "Smart Transform" setting with XaReg2 to have the text-box handling as in previous versions of Designer but I can only squash or stretch text in version 9 when it is grouped and I use the selector tool with the aspect ratio unlocked. Of course, Pete's solution also allows you to do this when using the text tool but then you have to enter a new value manually in the aspect ratio box.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Frank
nope - xdpx9 without xareg
i noticed the difference in stretching text as soon as i downloaded xdpx9 and worked out to use the padlock to transform with or without proportional as required
i wasn't aware anybody else saw it differently tbh
If the text is in a text box or column, grouping is necessary but not otherwise. Everything seems to work as described in help in my case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Frank
youre absolutely right
i hadnt noticed it in a text line or box because frankly id never resize text that way
it certainly doesnt bother me either way
i wonder if somebody from xara could tell us the rationale for changing this behaviour
I think one of the main reasons could well have been the problems many people have run into when resizing text areas (using the selector tool) in their web designs.
Often it would happen that text became slightly squashed in one direction which while it looked fine in Designer it of course would not render that way in browsers.
The result was that text areas when published would exceed (overflow) the expected area and spoil the design, of course - this is not WYSIWYE (expect) and thus has lead to many support queries.
The new behaviour of re-flowing text in columns or text areas when using the Selector tool solves this problem.