Steph L
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Homothetic proportions in lettering - 2007/03/03 01:50
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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