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Topic History of: Homothetic proportions in lettering
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Author	Message
Gwindel	Wonderful! Perfect happiness! Thanks!!!!!
Steph L	Hi Kramy, That's great news! I'm glad to see ComicLife improving version after version. And don't worry, it's never too late for improvements! Keep up the good work! Steph.
Kramy	Hello Steph, It has been awhile - but I thought I would let you know that we will be adding the ability to constrain proportions in 1.4 by pressing shift (to be released in about a month or two - but we will start beta testing next week). Hope this is not to late! --- 1:1 images will also be added in 1.4.
Gwindel	As I said earlier, homothetic proportion with illustrations would be nice too (I mean one pixel in the illustration becoming one pixel in the comic on CL) without having to fiddle with handles.
KeynoteKen	You're correct in that you can't currently do this with Comic Life. It's a feature that I would like to see as well and you can be sure that the fine folks at plasq do read these forums and take the posts here into consideration when developing the software.
Steph L	Hello, As I didn't get any feedback from my post in another thread about lettering in Comic Life, I've decided to create a new thread. How can we keep the exact letter proportions when scaling lettering in CL? IMHO, it is impossible. I've spent a few hours trying to do just that and I couldn't manage. Is it a bug or is it the way CL behaves?* Here are a few examples. 1) I want to create a title, say "My nice comic". But I'm not happy with it after creating it and I decide to change it to "My extraordinary comic". Problem: the letters now have to squeeze in the container which doesn't change its size. The same problem happens when I change the font. 2) If I decide to choose a bigger or smaller font size, the lettering is not modified at all, although the size number is modified in the "details" panel. 3) As solution # 2 doesn't work, I try to scale the lettering with the green handles (in v. 132), but it is almost impossible to keep the homothetic proportions of the lettering, even while pressing the shift key. In any basic Mac drawing software, when you drag a corner of an object while holding the shift key, the width/height rate is kept, but it is not the case with CL. As a consequence, in the 3 cases above, if I want to keep the standard proportions of the font in the lettering I am creating, I have no other solution than creating the lettering from new. I don't find that very intuitive for an app which claims its ease of use. I think that now that there are green handles to scale lettering, the shift key should be used to keep its proportions. Moreover, there should be a possibility to consider the lettering container size as locked or unlocked. It should be unlocked by default, so it adapts to font size or text alterations. But if one wants to lock it, a button, or contextual menu, should be able to provide that function. * I've tried on both v. 126 and 132 of Comic Life on my PB Ti G4 (PPC, of course). Thanks.

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