Set font size default to decimal inches. When making text the size is not accurate. Have been manually
correcting by drawing parallel lines at top and bottom of text and putting on a dimension. Making tags and
labels with a laser that require accurate text size. Once adjusted the text created at the laser is very accurate.
Thanks for any help
Some discussion of this topic: Will "true font size" ever be addressed?
Thanks for the info
In CorelDRAW I have to use a "quick and dirty" approach of typing out a capital letter "E" with the artistic text tool and sizing it to however many inches tall it should be in a sign layout. Then I select the dummy letter and type out the text string. Obviously this approach works best on sans-serif fonts (like Helvetica or Eurostile) whose boxy characters have tops and bottoms that line up perfectly with the font's built-in baseline and cap height line. I can also position dummy letters and align other type objects to it using the align to baseline setting in alignment palette.It is technically possible for CorelDRAW to include an optional type sizing method (and type alignment method) that references the baseline and cap height line. All fonts have those values in their font dimensions. There is an overall UPM size and numerical positions for baseline, cap height line, ascender and descender. Those values can be used to set type at a certain physical cap height size.I've been making the same feature requests to Adobe for years. It's even more aggravating to size, position and align type objects in that application. The blue bounding box generated around a type object doesn't have any relation to the UPM dimensions of the font file either. I've compared the differences in FontLab Studio and Illustrator.I understand how page layout works for print, designing type on a grid, etc. I'm not calling for Corel to get rid of those methods. But we need an alternative option for other types of design environments. The two type setting methods can co-exist.In sign design the capital letters are what gets measured and referenced, not merely the distance between one baseline and the next baseline of text above or below it. The physical size of the capital letter is what the customer sees. If someone orders 24 inch LED-lighted channel letters those capitals had better be 24 inches tall. Not some random number smaller than it. The same problem exists in pixel-based motion graphic design. I like to make capital letters be exactly a certain pixel height. The type looks noticeably sharper and more legible on a LED sign when the baseline and cap line of the type matches the pixel grid precisely.