I have a do***ent that was sent to me that has 14pt(12.5) in the character size box in the control panel. What is the (12.5)? I tried to make the text a paragraph style, but it does not want to pick up the (12.5) part, what ever that is.

scott_falkner

The text frame was scales. The text was 14 pt, but after scaling became 12.5 pt. This is one of InDesign's worst concieved "features", and I ahve yet to hear a convincing arguement for it.

Select the text frae with any selection tool (arrow, white or black) and select Scale Text Attributes from the Control palette menu. That, too is a badly named feature, since selectig the command causes nothing to be scaled. It will simple remove the modification status of the text, making it simple 12.5 pt.

mike witherell

A little too much Illustrator-like thinking available within InDesign!

Mike Witherell

carijansen

This most often occurs as result of scaling grouped objects, but can also occur on individual text frames if the "Adjust Text Attributes When Scaling" is disabled.

When scaling a number of objects similtaneously there is no need to group them together first. In other words you can prevent this from occuring as a result of scaling groups :-)

Instead think of using the Free Transform tool.
(a) your text will resize and
(b) objects based in several layers will stay in their own layer :-)