Comments on: Getting Rid of Text Size Parentheses

By: Brian McNay

Brian McNay — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:18:01 +0000

I found the solution for CS4 and CS3.

Select the text box in question, not the text inside it but simply the text box. Now in the upper right corner of the control pallet (the very top menu), near quick apply, click on the control palette flyout menu and choose redefine scaling as 100%.

By: liz

liz — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:11:54 +0000

Any solutions to a problem of typing in menu fields (such as font name of type size) changes the text within the layout of an indesign cs3 document.

By: Brian McNay

Brian McNay — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:37:48 +0000

To correct this problem in CS4 simply select the text box in question and return the scaled size percentage to 100%

Thank you, I’ll be here all week. Don’t forget to tip your Blatner.

By: walter

walter — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:02:35 +0000

Well – its now Cs4. And none of the above applies – all i can find is a command >window >object&layout >transform and from the menu in the transform palette I can select “clear transformation” wich does nothing. Will this überstupid engineerinvented //$#&•// never end?

By: Mirell, studio +vibez

Mirell, studio +vibez — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:28:37 +0000

indeed thxs alot…
SAVED me from having to work around it…
I can surly smile again

By: BLinDesign

BLinDesign — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:46:54 +0000

Try:
1) click arrow tool on the type box
2) Window > object & layout > transform
3) in the transform window, the little arrow in the upper right corner reveals either “scale text attributes” or “redefine scaling at 100%” (depends on version you’re using).

By: Desmene

Desmene — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:33:53 +0000

Oh sweet heavens… thanks for posting the fix to this incredibly puzzling and annoying problem!

By: Kerry Applin

Kerry Applin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:56:56 +0000

Well, over a year of using CS3 and this problem still persists, though as far as I can find (wasted 2 and a half hours so far) Adobe has made this problem even harder to solve. Personally, I will be re-investigating my Quark options (never thought I would say that). This issue is too costly in terms of time to continue to work around.

This is a “feature” that never should have been introduced in the first place.

Grrr

By: susan Hoffman

susan Hoffman — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:07:43 +0000

I’m still having trouble.

We are using CS3, the preferences are unchecked, I’m using the arrown tool, I don’t have the ‘Scale Text Attributes’ option, I’ve tried the x/y coordinates, and I still have parens. My preferences are correct. This is a CS2 doc that I’ve opened in CS3.

What am I missing?

By: mike

mike — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:17:45 +0000

thanks! been trying to figure this out all day.