Hello all.

Using CS2 on MAC OS X

I am fairly new to InDesign and very new to using xml, so please be understanding if I am asking a question that everyone knows the answer to.

I am outputting xml files from InDesign which are then re-imported after some text changes to the original do***ent. The problem I have is as follows: I tag a text box that has to remain a certain size. The text within that box is altered using the xml file. When I re-import the xml file the 'new text' may have more characters than the original 'headline' - I then have layout issues.

So, if anyone is still reading this ; ) what I basically need to find out is:

Is there a way I can instruct CS2 to reduce the size of the text to fit the text frame?

I am thinking that I might have to use some sort of script (I will be posting this in the script forum also). I know there is an old script called 'Fit frame to text'. What I need seems to be the opposite of that as I know that I can fix the size of the original text box.

If anyone out there can help, even if you have a suggestion of where I should be looking, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

eric_

If you have alternate stylesheets, this may be a scriptable thing.

In pseudo-Applescript-ish code it might look like:
-- Assumes you've labeled every Headline box with a script label "hdline_box_1"
set myHeadlines to every page item whose label = "hdline_box_1"
repeat with thisHeadline in myHeadlines
-- (not sure how you *really* say this next line)
if overflow of thisHeadline = true then
-- Assumes you have several different "Hdline" paragraph styles with differing type sizes
set paragraph style of contents of thisHeadline to "Hdline Size 2"
end if
end repeat