Hello forum,
I am dealing with a pamphlet right now and I have been having a hard time with text styles namely to get the text to fit on a baseline grid. The grid is 12 points and so I have designed the styles so that all line spacing properties are multiples of 6, so that I can get in-between spacings between headings, and then just throw in a line with no text, styled with 6 points specified before and after paragraph as well as line height.
Now, this sounds good in theory, but in practice it is a lot harder. I found out after many trial and errors, that the character size also counts and overrides the line height which makes the whole thing of creating text styles a total guesswork.
For example, the main text is Sabon 10 pt with 12/12/12 (berore, after, line height). Now I want to add a paragraph heading with Myriad and I make it 10,5 bold, to make it stand out a bit, with the same line spacing. Now this will wreck the whole thing so that lines in different columns don't line up because the text will deviate from the baseline grid.
When I change text size of the paragraph heading to 9,5 pt it suddenly behaves and fits in. Now, that is good, but I don't think text styles should behave like that, they should respect the line height and if the text is too big, the letters on different lines should just overlap.
Now when the text size matters and overrides line height (at least in paragraph text) it makes the whole thing unnecessary complicated and difficult. I hope you can look into this Corel.
Maybe I'm not understand, but look at this...
Correct, you do not understand The problem arises when you try to add something more than just plain paragraph text. Read my entry again.
When I paste the text, I always discard fonts and formatting in the paste dialog.
I'll be back with some screenshots of what's actually happening.
Doesn't matter. Word's font manipulation is not the same as Corel's. Text still keeps some preferences even if you discard formatting. Word predefines text in some way that, when you copy/paste it, it still keeps some settings regardless what you do in Corel.
Sometimes can help if you first, after copy it from word, past it to notepad. He can't keep almost anything. Than copy it from there. It's better than write everything from scratch in Corel...
At least you can try that...
wache, look at this animated gif
This is text with reset all other styles
Sancho said: wache, look at this animated gif This is text with reset all other styles
Than it has to be X5.
In X4, at least at my comp it's looks like this:
As I said, I tried to create same conditions for mistake, but couldn't. Whatever font I put it will keep same line distance no matter what (as shown). You can set another font, size whatever you want, but line spacing is the same. If the font is too big, it will overlap, but spacing will stay the same.
Sorry I can't help you about that, but it seems that it is X5.
look in attached cdr (14 ver)
I looked. That is not standard paragraph text for one. You don't need paste special. In regular paragraph text can be done everything.
For second - when I convert that text to regular paragraph text, everything works fine.
You mixing one thing - corel HAVE a problem regarding paragraph text but not in line spacing. It has different first row! Spacing in first row is some different that in others. You can see it in your text as well - If you move your text in second colum for a bit down, you'll see that rows are even. Line spacing is ok.