scaling text - not working as expected

[crapher...@hotmail.com]

Hi there.

We don't use CD very often, it's fair to say at this point, but we
discovered a problem this morning that amazes me. We had a series of
illustrations (maps mainly) that were supplied as CDR files and we had
to scale them down to approx 70%. We did this by doing 'select all'
then keying in 70% in the Transform palette. After that we saved it and
exported as an EPS file and imported into our typesetting system for
page layout. When the author checked their proof he noticed that some
of the text labels on these maps were either missing or incomplete.
Sure enough, in the resized CDR files the text boxes had got smaller
but not the text so that was why some bits were missing. Aargh! We
should have noticed it but obviously we didn't.

Looking around online I see this is a bit of a recurring 'problem' with
CD. I read that this will happen when your text is 'paragraph' text
rather than 'artistic' text. As a test I changed all the text to
artistic (there was lots!) and resized again - and it worked. So, my
question - do we have check and adjust this whenever we resize stuff
with text? I'm sure we must have done this before and today was the
first time the problem came to light. Is there maybe a way to
automatically select all text objects (like in Illustrator) so we could
then convert them all together? Why is there this distinction between
'paragraph' and 'artistic' text?

Any answers would be good! Thanks.

Iain

[Character]

crapher...@hotmail.com wrote:

You might try this BEFORE scaling: (remembering to back up all originals, of course)

Select All, then Arrange/Convert to Curves (Shortcut is Ctrl-Q)

- Character

[Iain Robinson]

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I can see that that would work. It's
certainly a workaround, but not ideal for us. Just find it hard to
believe that we have to either manually change each text item to
artistic (quite time consuming) or to curves (which obviously limits
future editing, unless we keep a second version).

I guess we'll have to use whichever method is appropriate on a per
figure basis - unless anyone else has a wonder cure?!

Thanks,
Iain

[Sue]

[Sue]

The reason there are two types of text with CD is because in addition
to a drawing program like Illustrator it is a layout program and you
can have linking text from page to page. The earlier advice about
converting to curves before resizing is excellent and will fix the
problem. The ability to edit raster images from within CD simply by
double clicking the image, to create multipage documents, (we have some
files of business cards that are 150 pages), to automatically impose
and add crop marks, to trace creating vector from raster images all
without leaving the program, IMHO makes CD head and shoulders better
and more productive than Illustrator (we have CS). You might want to
spend some time discovering the ease of use of CorelDraw.

Sue

[Iain Robinson]

Thanks Sue - that makes sense. I knew there would no doubt be a good
reason for the behaviour - I just didn't know what it was! I have no
doubt that CD is a good program (it wouldn't have lasted this long if
it wasn't) it's just that we rarely have to use it in any way that's
that involved. Mainly just to create EPS files of CDR's that we have
been sent.

cheers,
Iain