Scalable Fonts

[HF]

I am continuously putting the Aspect Ratio protection on groups of objects in
Visio. However, when I resize the group object to a smaller size the textbox
areas adjust, but not the size of the actual font. What ends up happening is
the text becomes wrap text in the box.

Is there a way so that when you resize an object that contains text, the
font size will also scale when you have the aspect ratio protected?

Thanks.

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Hi HF,

You can do this with Visio's ShapeSheet (look under the Window menu...)

In the Character section, you'll find the Size cell. In that cell, you can
add this formula:


GUARD( 12pt * Height/1in )

where:

12 pt is the current font size
1 in is the current height of the shape.

change 12pt and 1 in to match your current values.

Guard locks the font size from being changed by the user/UI, but you don't
need the GUARD function to make this work.

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

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[John Goldsmith]

Hello HF,

Checkout this training section that covers scaling text with its respective
shape:

http://office.microsoft.com/trainin...ID=RP101324441033&CTT=6&Origin=RC101324451033

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith
www.visualSignals.co.uk