Scale Text Grouped With Shapes?
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Is there any way to make layout scale text along with drawings?
Most basic example, I have a box grouped with the letter "S" in it to denote a skylight. I would like to resize the box and have the S stay proportional to the original drawing.
outlining the text box doesn't help since the text box will also resize without adjusting the font and some of my symbols need to be grouped with a circle anyways.
Is there a way to convert a font to a drawing, like the outline font option in Illustrator? If the letter were drawings instead of fonts that would solve my problem.
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Text in LO is like text in a text editor. The size is set in the Fonts or Text box. Use 3D text from SketchUp instead and you can scale it with the viewport box.
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@dave r said:
Use 3D text from SketchUp instead and you can scale it with the viewport box.
the symbols (and the grouped text) need to scale independently of the model so I would need a sketchup model and viewport for each symbol if I was to do this. Also sketchup 3D text prints poorly at small sizes and contiains no curves so can be distracting that way at certain sizes as well.
Any thoughts on my last question?
@calvinennis said:Is there a way to convert a font to a drawing, like the outline font option in Illustrator? If the letter were drawings instead of fonts that would solve my problem.
I've tried to trace around the Helvetica "S" but getting the curves right is maddening.
I no longer have access to Illustrator (also used up the 1 month demo period they offer now on another project)
and I wonder, does the Layout Insert option even import vector art? -
There is currently no option to insert vector art into LayOut. You can check to see what file types are available for insert yourself by clicking on File>Insert. The only other option I see is to make raster images of your symbols and import them into LO. If you make the symbols as large as you'd need to start with, you could probably maintain decent appearance as you scale them.
I guess I would just add the symbols as text and resize them to suit. You could spend a little time determining how big the symbols need to be for various drawing scales and set up a scrapbook with text sizes you could sample. It would take a few minutes to do but you'd only need to do it once.
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LO is a bugger like that!!! Indesign, illustrator and photoshop have this function right.
My suggestion is that you drag all your standard text boxes to a LO document and export a PNG file at high res and then drag this back in and use a clipping mask for chuck it up! That way they will scale!
PAIN in the butt though!
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