Digitalwoodshop
03-25-2007, 08:26 PM
Interesting problem. Attached is a sample of 2 sets of centerline text from the Greybeard font boards.
I am having good luck working with them but I came up with an annoying problem. Case in point in the download. The top set of letters have a problem, the bottom set works fine.
The top set of letters I believe if you select ALL the letters you will be able to move the group of VALLEY Letters up and down but not left and right. The second "L" is CONSTRAINED. I made this condition by selecting a letter wrong and got a box with the location numbers in it. The only way I could make it go away is keep hitting enter. This changes the leader arm and numbers from green to yellow. This yellow is a "Constrained" condition causing the letter to be restrained in one axis. A GOOD thing if it is used properly, but a problem if I don't understand it.
I found a fix for the problem by accident. I selected the letters VALLEY and copied them. Opened a new board and pasted them. At that time I found that they worked properly and did not have any restraints or constrained condition. I went back into the first document and deleted the problem VALLEY and pasted back in the previously copied VALLEY and that fixed the problem.
The real fix would to understand how to correctly control the Constrain condition. Searched the help but did not find the magic fix or understanding in that.
Any help would be appreciated. During one attempt I was right clicking and got a menu to remove the restraint and selected it, but could not duplicate the fix again.
What am I missing?
AL
I am having good luck working with them but I came up with an annoying problem. Case in point in the download. The top set of letters have a problem, the bottom set works fine.
The top set of letters I believe if you select ALL the letters you will be able to move the group of VALLEY Letters up and down but not left and right. The second "L" is CONSTRAINED. I made this condition by selecting a letter wrong and got a box with the location numbers in it. The only way I could make it go away is keep hitting enter. This changes the leader arm and numbers from green to yellow. This yellow is a "Constrained" condition causing the letter to be restrained in one axis. A GOOD thing if it is used properly, but a problem if I don't understand it.
I found a fix for the problem by accident. I selected the letters VALLEY and copied them. Opened a new board and pasted them. At that time I found that they worked properly and did not have any restraints or constrained condition. I went back into the first document and deleted the problem VALLEY and pasted back in the previously copied VALLEY and that fixed the problem.
The real fix would to understand how to correctly control the Constrain condition. Searched the help but did not find the magic fix or understanding in that.
Any help would be appreciated. During one attempt I was right clicking and got a menu to remove the restraint and selected it, but could not duplicate the fix again.
What am I missing?
AL