tomacigale wrote: > Gregory Pittman wrote: > >> tomacigale wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is there a way to avoid to change text size when resizing several text >>> frames at a time? For example, if I select two text frames with text in >>> it, >>> then I change their width, then the text size changes also. >>> >>> I just want my text to keep their size (defined in paragraph style)... >>> >>> >> I'm not sure if I know what you mean...are you grouping them? That's the >> only way I can select two frames at once with my 1.3.3.2 on WinXP. >> After that, I can resize the frames any way I want without affecting the >> font size. >> >> > Hi, > > no, I don't want to group the frames, I just modify two or three at a time > (for example : changing the row height in a table). > > To reproduce the issue, follow these steps: > 1) Create two text frames (for exemple X:20 Y:20 W:20 H:20 and X:50 Y:20 > W:20 H:20) > 2) type some text in the two frames > 3) select the frames ([click and drag] or [click and <shift key> + click]) > 4) Change H from 20 to 50. > 5) The text size has changed. (see picture attached) > Hmm. It looks like this is some special kind of mode -- not sure what the purpose of double-selecting frames is supposed to be. There may be some malfunction in height adjustment, since I note that I can't even adjust height with the mouse, but can adjust width.
At any rate, to stop this nasty behavior, unlink the width:height in the XYZ tab (the chain icon) -- that stopped it for me. Perhaps someone else on the list knows what shift-clicking is supposed to do or be for... Greg
