Operation Manual

192 Working with Text
To do this, several options are open to you:
• Physically resize you text frame if you have space. See Resizing
objects on p. 234.
• Consider rewriting your story, making it more concise!
• Resize your text, as described below.
To resize frame text once frames are sized and positioned, various tools are
available on the Frame context toolbar.
The Text Sizing flyout offers three tools for controlling how frame
text scales through the text frame. These are "once-off" operations
(compared to the "continuous" Autofit options shown below).
Fit Text
Click to scale the story's text size so it fits exactly into the
available frame(s); further text added to the frame will cause text
overflow. You can use this early on, to gauge how the story fits, or
near the end, to apply the finishing touch. Fit Text first applies
small point size changes, then small leading changes, then
adjustments to the paragraph space below value, until the text fits.
Enlarge Text
Click to increase the story's text size one increment (approx. 2%).
Shrink Text
Click to reduce the story's text size one increment.
Each frame's story text can adopt its own individual autofit setting as follows:
The AutoFit Options flyout offers three autofit options which
continuously act upon a selected frame's story text.
No AutoFit
This is the normal mode of operation where, if selected, text won't
automatically scale throughout the selected text frame.