Edited text stretches to fit width

[sisom]

Hi, I have a piece of text (just one word) that I made several months ago, and I wanted to duplicate it, and change the word to something else, but when I edit the text, and delete characters, the remaining characters increase in width so that they still take up the same width as the original word did. If I add more letters than there were originally, they shrink in width too. I've obviously done something to do the original text to make it do this, is there any way of making it act like 'normal' text?

[Ron P.]

I'm assuming that your text is in a UFO file? What type of object is your text, Text object, Path or Image object? I've tried to replicate this, however when I remove characters, I don't get the same result as you. The text box, area that the text characters consume, grows smaller, or larger if I add characters, the text characters however do no change in their size.

In the screenshot, I duplicated the text, then deleted the word "Corel". Notice the text bounding box. It is not the same size as it would be if I had not removed the word. The Guidelines are placed against the edges of the text bounding box, to illustrate the original size.

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[sisom]

Hi Ron, sorry for the very long delay in replying. It's a Photoimpact object, PI X3 says it's a Text Object.



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This is the UFO file:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/halp4oan4 ... tretch.ufo

[Ron P.]

Oh boy, this is one of those things that will mess with your mind..

I downloaded your UFO file, and sure enough it does as you stated. I even created a copy of your file, using Save as, and tried it with the new one. Again it stretched the text. Now it's time to remove what little hair I have left. I then started a new UFO file, typed in the text, duplicated it, and then deleted one character. It did not stretch.

What I done with both your file and mine, is remove the outline, remove the shadow, both of which made no difference. In yours it stretched in mine it did not.

Here's a screenshot of my file..

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Now here's the only difference I found in them. In your file, I noticed on the Tools Settings that there is nothing selected for Split Text.

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While with my file there is. How it got selected I have no idea, it was automatically done.

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Ok still have one or two hairs left, then I must start on my mustache (ouch)!!
So finally in your file, I deleted everything, then typed the text again. I duplicated it, and then deleted a character. Guess what, no stretching. Don't know what's happening in your end, or how to get the Split Text as Character set. But that seems to be what is causing the stretching. Here's a zip file with a couple of UFOs.

[sisom]

Hi Ron, perhaps I changed the text to a path, and then from a path back to text, something like that? Unfortunately I can't remember what I did to it!