Cancel Out of Dynamic Text

Thanks for this — Conrad's deselect trick worked for me too, and Pete's new Release option is even cleaner, it kept the look of the block instead of snapping back to a plain paragraph box. I ran into this making greeting cards where I reuse the same short blessing line in a few places, so keeping the fit while I tweak the wording matters. For the wording itself I usually start from https://thebibleblessings.com and then adjust the line to fit the card.

Hey ​@Trevor.Dennis !

Just wanted to let you know that there’s now a new function in the Dynamic text properties panel where you can Release the Dynamic Fit property whilst maintaining the previous appearance of the text while it was Dynamic. Previously when you’d disable dynamic text, you’d lose the appearance as the layer would revert to a Paragraph text box, but now you can get a block looking how you want it while dynamic then release the dynamic property to have more exacting control over your text from there! 

Release works on Block or any of the dynamic shapes or text on path variants. 

The drop Capital is a cool idea and will bring this back to the team!

Cheers sir!

PG

I’ve worked out a workaround for the line spacing. Hit Enter at the end of the upper line, and add as many spaces as it takes to give the required spacing.  I’ve used full stops in the example below for the sake of clarity.  The more spaces you add, the tighter the line spacing.

I’m actually getting on OK editing the text while still in Dynamic mode, so not as big a deal as I was thinking.  I’d still love to know if there is a way of cancelling out of Dynamic text, and controlling line spacing without needing to trick it, if any has any answers.  ​@Pete.Green I love the look of Dynamic Text.  What would be really cool is an ability to have a dropped Capital like we can in InDesign.