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I am glad to remind all who voted for this feature that it is now possible to set a font size as x-height or cap height with Show Font Height Options toggle enabled in Character panel menu.
Some issues still remain, yes, like, wrong size calculation if a font has rounded stems that end below baseline (https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/44639661-font-height-options-misbehave-with-rounded-fonts), or inability to focus the dropdown with Tab (https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/41836618-font-height-options-tab-order), or calculating font height by measuring glyphs instead of reading the actual value within the font (https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/41615035-cap-height-setting-not-using-font-cap-height), but overall this is done, works, and super cool, don’t you think?
An error occurred while saving the comment Yeah, Bobby, you are right, the measuring is done by actual glyph measuring. This leads to the exact problem you assumed with the rounded stems with overshoots below the baseline — I learned it the hard way. Actually I hoped that Illustrator will grab the font data to set font height... but I now have doubts. If this information is available, why then the team decided to to the measuring instead? Only because these were the steps I demonstrated? I very much doubt. May be there is no such data in a font and I was wrong all along?
As for the alignment... There is a request for that, https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/41485519
You commented for it, but never voted. Please do, every voice matters. It’d be great if you also voted for other request.An error occurred while saving the comment Regarding previous comment, in recent version Illustrator does remember which part of a text had which option chosen. That is fixed.
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An error occurred while saving the comment The setting doesn’t stick to a text object. After the application is restarted (or even document is reopened), it falls back to Em Box for each one of them :( This is not convenient.
An error occurred while saving the comment Don’t forget to include these to Paragraph and Character Styles windows, please.
An error occurred while saving the comment The space is missing in the 'Default (Em Box)' option in the Font Height drop-down menu in Character panel
An error occurred while saving the comment Please add custom-assignable hotkeys for these commands (in 'Other Text' section, blank by default):
— Highlight font height using Default (Em Box)
— Highlight font height using Cap-Height
— Highlight font height using x-Height
— Highlight font height using ICF box
So pressing a hotkey would change the 'Font Height' option to the chosen one and then set the cursor to the 'Font Size' field.
This would allow to quickly set the height by the option needed from the keyboard, without changing it with the mouse.An error occurred while saving the comment There's a script that helps with setting both x-height and cap height.
http://illustrator.hilfdirselbst.ch/dokuwiki/en/skripte/javascript/uebersicht
Search for WR-capitalSize and then modify it to use any symbol you want.
Still it's much needed thing in AI from the box.An error occurred while saving the comment Sorry, I found your big comment in other request, you seem to already know about these scripts.
I totally agree about UPM and other dimensions all fonts already have, and AI's inability to give access to them.
I would also like to have these sizes to be visible as guides when using Smart guides for a live text.An error occurred while saving the comment Bobby, I can advise using scripts that set cap-height and x-height, based on measuring actual outlines of specified letters, by Wolfgang's Reszel.
Again :)
VotedAn error occurred while saving the comment I guess you have never these pictures:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/ntg5f.png
You seem to not knowing much about things you do. 'Print size'? What kind of ignoramus are you? Fonts are much more complicated than your understanding of it.
But the problem is still there. I have scripts, based on Wolfgang's Reszel scripts, to set x-height and cap-height (and digit size, which is frequently different from a cap-height), based on realtime measurement of height of 'z' and 'Z' outlines (as common 'flat-surfaced' letters), but there would be so much profit if AI could allow to measure and set these, based on values included into font itself.AdminEgor Chistyakov
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An error occurred while saving the comment A way to workaround this is to Rasterize a copy of the stacked stuff and then pick color from it
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An error occurred while saving the comment A user should be able to use predefined colors for new artboards, that is correct. I know people who prefer black, who hates yellow, who always stick to default blues, who would like to have inverse edges, relative to the artwork beneath (!).
Having a blue art in a blue colored layer forces me to switch it way to much :( -
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An error occurred while saving the comment AlexM, Lance, check out VectorFirstAid plugin by AstuteGraphics.
You can set a checkup there to clear all off-artboard art and run it in a several clicks.
VFA is incredibly powerful when it comes to this mundane operations.This seems like a work that actions can handle... if only Next/Previous Artboard commands could be recorded. So, alas, only scripts or plugins.
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An error occurred while saving the comment Josh, just tried, and was able to drag and drop the swatch from the opened Swatches panel to the Gradient panel behind it, just hovering the dragged swatch at the caption to let the other panel to open.
Does it work for you?
Hm. I am checking this in the fresh release, and yeah, pressing and holding Shift before clicking the object (no matter if it’s text or not) deselects it.
But when I check this in older versions, like 10, it is the same exact behavior. So it was never an option to do that. Shift+click always subtracted/added to selection.
Click and hold Shift after is the way to constraint, and it works — first drag then constrain.
Mark, you were the last who joined the report — can you shed more light on that, please?