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Robert at ID-Tasker
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July 11, 2024
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Un-Fittable TextFrame?? ... Or rather a bug...

  • July 11, 2024
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Can someone please tell me what is wrong with the TOP TextFrame in the attached IDML file?

 

In what way it is "locked" - because when I'm trying to execute Fit Frame To Content - nothing happens?!?!

 

Top TF is a result of copy&paste from Word DOCX document - was part of a group in WORD and after importing to InDesign was extremely huge but easily resizable - then copied into a INDD document - then IDMLed.

 

After creating a new TF - by threading - and then deleting original TF - the new TF resizes perfectly fine.

 

Bottom TF has been created in InDesign and is perfectly fine.

 

I don't see anything strange in the IDML?

 

 

I've almost posted the first part - but kept digging and I think I've discovered a bug... so I've left it for context instead of posting a reply.

 

The same DOCX file - if IMPORTED, Ctrl+D - works fine - the same TFs WILL get resized when Fit Frame To Contents is executed on them...

 

Saving in WORD as RTF - doesn't fix the problem when copy&pasting.

 

There is no problem when the "text frame" in the WORD isn't part of the group - so it looks like there is a bug in InDesign when in the text pasted from WORD are groups...

 

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Mike Witherell
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July 11, 2024

The top textframe appears to be corrupt. The bottom textframe appears to work fine.

It could be a chance corrupt textframe within the InDesign document.

It could be a buggy word docx source file, too.

Do you want to post the word file?

Mike Witherell
Robert at ID-Tasker
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July 11, 2024

I'll try to prepare a sample - but why the same WORD file - works when PLACED? 

 

And still doesn't work when saved as RTF and then contents is copy&pasted?