User manual

Resizing text areas
Using the Text
Tool, you can click and drag on any of the corner control handles. The text in the area will be
reformatted to fit the new size.
Alternatively you can use the Selector Tool to resize the text object, but in this case the behavior
changes. Usually when you resize and object in the Selector it resizes everything including the text. So,
for example, if you resize a simple text object or text column. This is consistent with the normal operation
of the Selector
Tool.
However in the case of flowing text areas this would cause undesired side-effects; you almost certainly
do not want part of a flowing text story to be a different point size than the rest. Therefore, the Selector
Tool behavior varies depending on whether you are resizing one text area that contains a flowing text
story, or resizing the whole text story. The rule is:

If you resize a single unconnected text area (or simple or text column) then the area "container"
and text content are resized together.

If you select the text areas of the whole flowing text story (they have to be one a single page)
then a resize will resize the text and areas together.

But if you resize a text area that is part of a flowing series of text areas, then only the container
size is altered and the text inside remains the original size, and will be re-formatted to fit the new
size. This is like resizing a text area with the Text Tool.
If you want to resize all text in a text story, select it all with "Ctrl + A", and apply the required font size.
You can rotate a text area, using the Selector
Tool as normal, and the text will flow through the rotated text area normally.
Text flow is unaffected if you rotate any of the text areas
Word count
The word and character count total of the current text is shown in the status line. This also shows the
number of overflowing words. If any region of text is selected, it shows the count of this selection
instead.
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