<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><b> </b><span class="email">Peter Nermander" <peter@nermander.se></span><b></b><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="plainMail"><div class="forwardmsg"><div style="padding:5px;"><div class="forwardmsg">>
I just checked and this "problem" is also evident in 1.4.0-rc-6 so it
crept in between those two releases. I also checked the resulting PDF
file, and all the single lines are in the wrong place.<br>> Is this a
bug, or has something been changed with this setting from earlier
releases? If the latter, how am I now supposed to do this offset? I can
do a work-around (I guess), by setting the offset to<br><br>If I recall correct it was a bug in rc5 and earlier that was fixed.<br><br>It has been discussed on the list and I even think someone tried to<br>write a script to fix documents that were bade using the older buggy<br>version.<br><br>/Peter<br><br><div class="msgheader"><div class="subjectbar"><div><div id="message_view_date" class="date"><nobr>Tuesday, February 7, 2012 10:12 PM</nobr></div>
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</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="plainMail"><div class="forwardmsg"><div class="msgheader"><div class="vcard"><div class="row"><div class="details"><div class="abook"><span class="email">and "ale rimoldi" <ale.comp_06@xox.ch> wrote:<br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="plainMail"><div class="forwardmsg"><div style="padding: 5px;"><div style="overflow: visible; visibility: visible;" class="plainMail">hi murray,<br><br>just a notice for the next time: use the frame's top margin to center<br>the lines and not the line offset.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sorry, I do not understand what you mean by the above.<br></span><div class="plainMail"><div class="forwardmsg"><div style="padding: 5px;"><div style="overflow: visible; visibility:
visible;" class="plainMail"><br></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="plainMail"><div class="forwardmsg"><div style="padding: 5px;"><div style="overflow: visible; visibility: visible;" class="plainMail"><br>there's even a script in the wiki which does calculate the margin for<br>you...<br><br>ciao<br>a.l.e<br><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote>OK, now I am a bit confused. In earlier versions, this behaved the way I would have expected. Now I no longer know how to do what I want!<br><br>Let's say I have a text frame that is about two lines high (in my case, the height is 10.6 mm and my text is 12 pt Arial). Normally, the top of a single line of text would be at the top of the frame. With the current stable version (1.4.0), what do I do to make this single line appear near the centre (vertically), i.e. about half way down from the
top?<br><br>In the older versions (from at least 1.2 to 1.4.0 rc4), I would highlight the text in its frame, then in the Properties window, under "Text" > "Advanced Settings", the first control (the one with the red vertical line with a black horizontal one in the middle followed by an upper case "T" and labled "Offset to baseline of characters") to -52% which would result in the text being moved down to the centre of the box. Now, when I adjust this, the grey area around the highlighted text moves up or down, but the text itself does not move.<br><br>If it is now behaving "correctly", I don't understand what it is supposed to do.<br><br>Given that, what should I be doing to achieve my objective?<br><br>Thanks for any assistance.<br><br>Murray<br></td></tr></table>