automatic resizing of text frames doesn't work properly with text variables
I have a text frame containing just a single text-variable. The text frame is set to horizontal size adjustment. If the varibale is shorter than the text frame then the frame is resized properly. If the variable is longer the text is being squeezed together. The frame stays as big as it was before.
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Mara
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Same here... and kind of desperate to see it has been said 4 years ago.
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Don Ayer
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Autosizing doesn't work correctly with text that contains page number markers or section markers either.
On my parent pages, I've got folios in a text box to which I've assigned a transparent fill so it will have contrast in instances where it appears over a graphic. That text box needs to resize based on the width of the folio, but it does not.
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Alexxander Shae'en M'taal commented
Glad to see that other people are having the same issue, although this is 2 years old initially, this means I'm not doing something incorrectly, InDesign just hasn't solved the issue
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Jacques Kloppers
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I've got the same problem. I have an auto-sized (width only) text frame on a master page. Within is a Text Variable (File Name) and it is rendered as an abstract blob of compressed letter shapes on both the master and print page.
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JonHHC
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I've been looking for a solution to this as well. Using a paragraph style with shading doesn't work either. I find it hard to believe this is an unsurmountable problem for Adobe's programmers.
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Piotr Kocybik
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I've got the same problem. That's how things are at the rim of Indesign. Unfinished business.
