Locking text to alignment of graphic?

trancelogix,

As I (mis)understand it, you wish to keep the text unchanged and centred horizontally (and vertically but that is unaffected by horizontal scaling, and once centred vertically I belive it will stay that way) on the (total length of the) bar graph, and that the text is centre aligned (Paragraph) if still live.

I believe that the full length part of the bar graph is made with stroked paths with Round Cap to keep the end shape when scaling horizontally, .

I believe

I also believe you wish to have the text literally locked so that it just moves to the centred position when the bar graph is scaled while keeping the left end in place.

I am afraid there is no way to actually lock the text that way, but you can either scale the bar graph and then realign the text, or you can scale both and then scale the text inversely (as in 50% after 200%).

I am sure Kurt must/soon will have an action/script ready.

To avoid editing of the text you can outline it if not already.

Edit: Much better what K said.

Trance, Hi

I would set it up this way.

Getting Started

Layers: Bars on one Layer, Area Type on another Layer.

Type, Center Paragraph.

Area Type: Make it the same height and width as your bar.

Type>Area Type Options>Align Vertical center.

From there, Duplicate

Then all you have to do is white arrow select anchors and move to right or left and your type will move with your bars.

You have the option to lock and unlock

K

Aligning only vertically? Or both vertically and horizontally?