This one is long overdue.
We need to be able to scale letters in Paragraph text. Sometimes you need just that little to fit a lot of text in small space.
I think most designers would say you should be using a condensed font for that purpose.
But if you really need to do that, you can ... just convert the paragraph to curves and then you can stretch it in either direction.
Not every job you do in CorelDRAW is "designer" job. You have a lot of mundane everyday jobs like making labels with product ingredients and such.
On the other hand, you can have a product label with tons of text in three or four languages (some Latin, some Cyrillic) in Paragraph text with irregular shape in size 4.5pt or smaller, with every font style you can imagine applied. No narrow, condensed or compressed font can help you here like font scaling can. I know, because I've been doing it in Illustrator for years. But then, doin' it in Illustrator is called "industry standard"
Back on topic. I've been waiting for this option since ver. 4 of CorelDRAW. It's simple and productive thing to have.
Maybe you could use Fit Text to Frame (Text - Paragraph Text Frame) - screenshot from X5
Best regards,
Mek
I'm intrigued by this "horizontal font scaling" subject. I'm not familiar with the term at all. I've only used kerning and highlighting certain lines of text and adjusting the size etc. to get it to fit. Perhaps if I could see a sample side by side with a killustrator version and a cd version.
Can you not just select the text and apply a horizontal or vertical shift to it? Normally you don't want to impact the text itself, but the spacing itself. (Within reason, of course.)